NATIONAL AIDS MEMORIAL GROVE

Join us in the Grove!

World AIDS Day 2008
December 1st, 2008
More info coming soon.

Mad Hatter Tea Party
in the National AIDS Memorial
May 17, 2008
1pm-4pm

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party will include a fashion show of one-of-a-kind hats created especially for our event by students enrolled in the prestigious millenary classes at the Academy of Art University. Our celebrity auctioneer will auction off these designer hats. All guests are encouraged to wear a hat of their choice or design, as a panel of local celebrity judges will award a prize for Best Creative Hat. In our own way, we can pay tribute to the many creative artists in America who have has lost their fight to AIDS. Entertainment, music, fashion, food and fun will be featured at this exciting event.

Special thanks to our Presenting Sponsor:

and to our Queen of Hearts sponsor:

We would also like to extend our heartfelt thanks to AT&T and the Academy of Art University for their support.
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World AIDS Day 2007

"The Many Faces of AIDS"

Ruth Brinker and Charles King to be honored for Efforts to Assist Those Afflicted

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – This year's World AIDS Day will mark the 26th anniversary of the fight against AIDS. The observance will be held at the National AIDS Memorial on Saturday, December 1st, from noon to 2:00 p.m. The San Francisco Bay Area’s largest World AIDS Day remembrance ceremony has been held at the Memorial for the last 14 years. This year’s theme is "The Many Faces of AIDS.”

The keynote speaker is Charles King, president of New York’s Housing Works, the largest community-based AIDS Service Organization in the U.S. Housing Works is a minority-controlled, not-for-profit organization that provides a full range of services including housing, health care, mental health services, chemical dependency services, legal advocacy, and job training and placement for homeless men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS. Housing Works serves over 5,000 people every year.

For over a decade, Charles has traveled North America encouraging the development of social enterprise as a vehicle for social change. More recently, Charles has traveled to various states, meeting with activists, providers and people living with HIV/AIDS in over 100 cities on the behalf of the Campaign to End AIDS.

This year's program will also include a guided meditation of hope, renewal and remembrance with Reverend Maureene Bass, minister for 11 years at Unity Church of San Francisco. San Francisco vocalist, Shannon Day, accompanied on piano by Naomi Sanchez, will provide music.

The 2007 Grove Award and Donor Appreciation Award will be presented at the World AIDS Day ceremony.
This year, the National AIDS Memorial Grove's HIV/AIDS Service Award is presented to Ruth Brinker, founder of San Francisco’s Project Open Hand, the country’s first food service organization for people living with AIDS. In 1985, Ruth started making dinner in her own kitchen for seven neighbors with AIDS.

Demand for Ruth’s meals grew, and with volunteer help, Ruth started Project Open Hand. For Ruth, it was always about love. “I did what any decent person would have done under these circumstances,” she says. From Ruth’s original act of compassion evolved an organization that today feeds over 6,000 people a year in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Donor Appreciation Award is presented to Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo has been in the forefront of funding AIDS service organizations in the Bay Area and beyond. In the early days of the epidemic, the bank took a brave step forward in the corporate world by becoming a leader in providing funding to a number of AIDS causes. Wells Fargo has also funded the National AIDS Memorial over the years, most notably the annual World AIDS Day observance as well as other special events.

World AIDS Day 2006

"AIDS at 25: A Retrospect," by Hank Plante, CBS 5 Political Editor

Plante has spent more than two decades in journalism, both print and
broadcast. His awards have included several local and national Emmys, as well as the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award -- broadcasting's equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize -- as part of CBS 5's "AIDS Lifeline" reporting team. In 2005 he received the Pioneer Award at the GLAAD Media Awards. In addition, his work has been singled out for praise by The New York Times and other media.

Please come rain or shine to commemorate the 13th annual World AIDS Day event at the National AIDS Memorial. This year's theme allows us to relfect on 25 years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the National AIDS Memorial.

Presentation of ninth annual HIV/AIDS Community Service Award:
Dr. Abraham Verghese, Doctor and Author

The observance and the light lunch that follows are free and open to the public.

Media Celebs Throw Down in Fierce Croquet Face-off

"Mad Hatter's Tea Party" September 9, 2006 to benefit the National AIDS Memorial

Design Competition Winner Announced - Public unveiling scheduled at annual Grove fundraising event, April 1, 2005.

For more information about the winning entry and our unveiling at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, click here.

Click the links below to download images of the winning design by Janette Kim and Chloe Town:

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11th Annual World AIDS Day Commemoration in the National AIDS Memorial

For more information and a complete press kit, click here.

National AIDS Memorial Design Competition

The National AIDS Memorial has launched an international Design Competition. To obtain more information and a press release, click here.