48 Hours To Action / Campus World AIDS Day
48 HOURS TO ACTION Rocks a Sold Out Crowd to Honor World AIDS Day!
48 Hours to Action 2009
48 Hours to Action came back for World AIDS Day 2009 at 6pm on Dec. 1st in Kaufman Hall at UCLA with another dynamic evening of entertainment to raise awareness, and have a great time doing it. UCLA student artists had just 48 hours to create a new performance piece/art piece in response to the HIV-related theme "Through Positive Eyes" that intervenes in the epidemic. The urgency of the artist's work echoed the urgency needed in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
48 Hours 2009 featured HIV-positive speakers who shared their stories, the AIDS Performance Team (trained by South African artist Pieter-Dirk Uys) who use humor to fight HIV, Dance Marathon, and indie rock sensation The Jakes had the entire crowd on its feet dancing to close out the show. http://www.myspace.com/thejakes
Afterwards everyone went next door to the art gallery to see visual art pieces also created in just 48 hours.
This year's show was hosted by the amazing performance artist and AIDS-activist Noel Alumit!
Campus World AIDS Day - Tue. Nov. 24th
UCLA's Campus World AIDS Day took place on Tue, Nov. 24th, beginning at one of three locations for a march, and then continued with an awesome noon performance/rally in Bruin Plaza.
Processions began just after 11:30am at: De Neve Court & Dickson Court & Court of Sciences and converged at Bruin Plaza.
In Bruin Plaza
Performance by Indie rock band The Travelers, Camp Kindle, Hillel Wasserman, and the AIDS Performance Team.
Free Oral HIV Testing:
Monday, Testing van at Court of Sciences, 10am-4pm
Tuesday, Testing vans at Pauley Concourse, 10am-4pm
FREE T-shirts, condoms, wristbands, and drinks!
48 Hours to Action 2008>
On December 1, 2008 the UCLA Art|Global Health Center presented its annual “48 Hours to Action,” a dynamic evening of entertainment to observe World AIDS Day, a time to bring global awareness to HIV/AIDS. “48 hours to Action” rallied student artists from the UCLA campus to generate art (music, dance, spoken word, visual art) related to a theme revealed just 48 hours before the performance.
The artists responded to the high pressure request by creating inspired beautiful dances, engaging monologues, beautiful paintings and photographs, interactive experiences and awe-inspiring songs and poems.
Dance Marathon at UCLA, a student-run AIDS organization was on hand to get the audience on its feet by teaching them a morale dance from a past dance. A short new uplifting choreography is taught every year at Dance Marathon, a 26-Hour dance to raise money for pediatric AIDS.
2008 marked the third year for 48 Hours to Action, which began in 2006 in conjunction with the arrival of the Keiskamma altarpiece to UCLA. Each year the event has taken on a slightly different shape with the altarpiece in 2006, Anurupa Roy performing puppetry in 2007, and L.A. hip-hop group the Elevaters featuring Adam Stern in 2008. What endures is the sense of urgency the process creates, and that people leave the theater having been part of a creative activist community.
Plans for 2009 are well under way and include South African performance artist Pieter-Dirk Uys training a group of student performers to act as company for the show.
