Outstanding AIDS awareness event Tuesday
As part of AIDS Awareness Month, the Oshkosh Campus Greens have organized an outstanding evening of films and discussions this Tuesday, December 5 in Reeve Union Theater starting at 6:00pm. All events free.
6:00-7:00 pm Reeve Union Theater (room 307)
Colin Crowley, a local documentary film maker, will be discussing his recent trip to Kenya to produce a documentary for the American Foundation for Children with AIDS (AFCA). The fifteen minute documentary includes: interviews with doctors, HIV/AIDS counselors and patients with the disease. Colin will be discussing the nature of the problem as well as some possible solutions, and how the AFCA is helping to be a part of the solution. http://www.helpchildrenwithaids.org/index.html
7:10-8:10 pm Reeve Union Theater (room 307)
The Age of AIDS is an epic PBS/Frontline documentary that deals with the discovery, science, treatment and politics of a disease that has infected over 70,000,000 people worldwide. We will be screening the first hour of the documentary which illustrates the first cases of the disease seen in 1981 in the US male homosexual population. Within that same year it was seen in Europe, Africa and Haiti in nearly all races, and in heterosexual men and women. The film discusses the science leading up to the description of the AIDS virus in 1984 and looks back to the first transmission of the disease from Chimpanzees to humans in West Central Africa sometime in the 1930’s. Our screening of the Age of AIDS also deals with the politics of the early years, and its implications for healthcare, science and prevention of the disease.
The entire documentary is four hours, it is thorough, current (first aired May 2006) and amazingly powerful. Because we believe that this is an important topic for everyone to learn about, the Campus Greens will be donating our DVD to Polk Library after the screening for those who wish to see more of the documentary.
"… It's unlikely you'll find a more complete, compelling or authoritative version of the story anywhere. …" Joanne Weintraub Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
To learn more and preview the documentary in its entirety go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids
This event is part of the Oshkosh Campus Greens' movie and speakers series, which brings to the campus and community engaging and informative programs on challenging and controversial topics. Look for the Spring Semester calendar soon!!
6:00-7:00 pm Reeve Union Theater (room 307)
Colin Crowley, a local documentary film maker, will be discussing his recent trip to Kenya to produce a documentary for the American Foundation for Children with AIDS (AFCA). The fifteen minute documentary includes: interviews with doctors, HIV/AIDS counselors and patients with the disease. Colin will be discussing the nature of the problem as well as some possible solutions, and how the AFCA is helping to be a part of the solution. http://www.helpchildrenwithaids.org/index.html
7:10-8:10 pm Reeve Union Theater (room 307)
The Age of AIDS is an epic PBS/Frontline documentary that deals with the discovery, science, treatment and politics of a disease that has infected over 70,000,000 people worldwide. We will be screening the first hour of the documentary which illustrates the first cases of the disease seen in 1981 in the US male homosexual population. Within that same year it was seen in Europe, Africa and Haiti in nearly all races, and in heterosexual men and women. The film discusses the science leading up to the description of the AIDS virus in 1984 and looks back to the first transmission of the disease from Chimpanzees to humans in West Central Africa sometime in the 1930’s. Our screening of the Age of AIDS also deals with the politics of the early years, and its implications for healthcare, science and prevention of the disease.
The entire documentary is four hours, it is thorough, current (first aired May 2006) and amazingly powerful. Because we believe that this is an important topic for everyone to learn about, the Campus Greens will be donating our DVD to Polk Library after the screening for those who wish to see more of the documentary.
"… It's unlikely you'll find a more complete, compelling or authoritative version of the story anywhere. …" Joanne Weintraub Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
To learn more and preview the documentary in its entirety go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids
This event is part of the Oshkosh Campus Greens' movie and speakers series, which brings to the campus and community engaging and informative programs on challenging and controversial topics. Look for the Spring Semester calendar soon!!
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