WORLD AIDS DAY SCREENING AND HOLIDAY FELLOWSHIP MIXER!

WORLD AIDS DAY 2013

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1ST

GET DOWN Campaign, Maysles Cinema, and Global Network of Black Pride

Invite You To An Evening of Film and Fellowship
In partnership with BE Life Media and Until There's A Cure

"WORLD AIDS DAY 2013"

NO MORE STIGMA FILM SERIES

and DBGM, Inc.

presents
You Are Not Alone
the film by Antoine Craigwell

Sunday, December 1st, 2013
World Aids Day

5:00pm Meet and Greet Reception
6:00pm Screening

7:30pm - 9:30pm Holiday Fellowship Potluck Mixer

at

Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Avenue, Harlem, NY
Between 128th and 129th Streets

GET YOUR TICKETS!!!
$25 GET DOWN/Until There’s A Cure Ticket Includes
Screening, Until There's A Cure fundraising red bracelet, potluck dinner mixer and beverages

$10 Regular Donation Admission

Screening, dinner mixer and beverages

SPACE IS LIMITED. GET ADVANCED TICKETS HERE: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/525216

OFFICIAL PARTNERS

GLOBAL NETWORK OF BLACK PRIDE

BE LIFE MEDIA

Celebrating Ballroom History With Harlem Pride!

On Thursday, June 27th, the GET DOWN Campaign’s No More Stigma Film Series kicked off NY Pride with Global Network of Black Pride at Maysles Cinema, Harlem, NY.  In conjunction with partner organizations GMAD, SWERV Magazine, Harlem Pride, Anti Violence Project and Until There's A Cure, there was a special Harlem Pride and NYC Pride Week screening of the feature documentary film T.V. Transvestite. The film was preceded by the short "The Show Must Go On: The Story Of Snookie Lanore".

The event was hosted by Tamara Williams who plays Danielle from the hit Youtube web series, No Shade and Destiny DuMure Pucci (Nashid Corbin), and Executive member of Gay Men of African Descent Youth Advisory Board.  The feature was preceded by the short film The Show Must Go On: The Story Of Snookie Lanore by director Zachary Kussin, who was in attendance for the post-screening Q&A.  The guests were then treated to a Mini-Ball (three categories) featuring The Paragon House of GianMarco Lorenzi and hosted by Iconic Father Kamari Lorenzi – Miyake Mugler. 

To see more images, check out our Facebook album here:  https://www.facebook.com/getdownpsa/media_set?set=a.10200135801268706.1073741826.1561001943&type=1

Photos From "The Other City" at No More Stigma Film Series

The GET DOWN Campaign, Maysles Cinema, and partners Global Network of Black Pride, GMAD, MEGA Personalities and A-Marketing/Be Life Media screening of “The Other City” by director Susan Koch.

(From Left to Right) Kim J. Ford, founder GET DOWN campaign and No More Stigma Film Series; Ulysses Williams, VP Operations, Global Network of Black Pride and Ksisay of Maysles Cinema.

(From Left to Right) Romeo So-Leng Milan, GMAD and Kim J. Ford

Kim J. Ford kicking off the evening

Check out more photos from the event here:  http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4362063500693.2147927.1561001943&type=1&notif_t=like

NO STIGMA FILM SERIES: "25 TO LIFE"

GET DOWN understands that there is a need for more HIV, AIDS, and overall sexual health awareness. Additionally, more education is required around gender and sexual identity.  Cultural mores and spiritual beliefs, which are often reinforced at home and among peers, are often a barrier to gender identity studies or acceptance of alternative lifestyles outside of the home.   Thirty years later, we still have to reinforce the fact that HIV and AIDS does not discriminate.  It is not a “gay disease”.  Stigma is still a huge barrier to testing.  The NO MORE STIGMA FILM SERIES seeks to use the filmed medium to “edu-tain”, and encourage dialogue around all things sexual identity and HIV/AIDS.  The NO MORE STIGMA FILM SERIES will show conversation worthy films followed by Q&A panels.  

 

Kicking off Thursday, June 21st at the renown Maysles Cinema in Harlem, NY, the NO MORE STIGMA FILM SERIES will highlight an excerpt from "25 To Life", the buzz-worthy documentary by Mike Brown about William Brawner, a young man who kept his HIV status a secret for over twenty-five years, since he was two years old.  Now he seeks redemption from his promiscuous past, and embarks on a new phase of life with his wife who is HIV negative.  

William Brawner, subject of documentary "25 To Life"

Immediately following, the critically acclaimed feature length documentary "The Carrier" by Maggie Betts.   When 28-year-old Mutinta Mweemba first shares all the hopes and dreams she once nurtured as a child, her aspirations seem no different from those of many other young women around the world. She dreams of meeting and falling in love with a handsome man, being married and raising children and hopefully one day providing those children with a better life than her own.  But Mutinta's dreams were never realized. Her soft-spoken husband came with two other wives, and the remote Zambian village that she calls home is being ravaged by a deadly new epidemic -- a mysterious disease called AIDS.  Set against the backdrop of today's most urgent plague, Maggie Betts's "The Carrier" is a stunning portrait of both a family and a community, caught in a desperate struggle to emancipate their next generation from AIDS.

The NO MORE STIGMA FILM SERIES is inconjunction with GET DOWN, Maysles Cinema and Bleu Magazine.  The Maysles Cinema is a non-profit organization and there is a suggested donation at the door.

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