WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 1, 5 p.m.-midnight; Monday-Wednesday, Dec.
2-4, 9 a.m.-midnight; Thursday, Dec. 5, 9 a.m.-noon
WHERE: Centennial Room, Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 20, 2002--Panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display Dec. 1-5 at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus.
Sponsored by the University Program Council, the panels will be on display in the Centennial Room on the second floor from 5 p.m. to midnight on World AIDS Day Dec. 1, 9 a.m. to midnight Dec. 2-4 and 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 5. The display is free and open to the public.
Since 1987, The AIDS Memorial Quilt has been a way to provide healing, remembrance, education and prevention in the struggle to end AIDS. More than 42,000 individual 3-by-6-foot memorial panels have been sewn by friends and family to create a memorial for those who have died of AIDS. The quilt is the largest example of a community art project in the world and has redefined the tradition of quilt-making in response to contemporary circumstances.
The NAMES Project Foundation sponsors the quilt and has presented portions of it to more than 13 million people at tens of thousands of displays around the world.
The University Program Council is a volunteer student organization designed to address the co-curricular, social, recreational, cultural and educational needs of the UNL campus. Additional information about UPC is available online (www.unl.edu/upc).
For more information on the NAMES Project Foundation and The AIDS Memorial Quilt, visit www.aidsquilt.org on the World Wide Web.
CONTACT: Karen Wills, University Program Council, (402) 472-2454 (kwills2@unl.edu)
For questions regarding these releases, contact:
tsimons1@unl.edu
(402) 472-8514, Fax: (402) 472-7825