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CALIFORNIA: Grace Cathedral to display AIDS Memorial Quilt, mark 20th anniversary of The NAMES Project
The exhibit at the Episcopal Diocese of California's cathedral will also recognize World AIDS Day, December 1, and is the capstone event of Grace Cathedral's Centennial Celebration.
The Ven. Anthony Turney, the diocese's archdeacon, will be the exhibit's "on-site source." Turney was the executive director of The NAMES Project before he entered divinity school in the mid-1990s.
Grace Cathedral will display 28 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The cathedral has been at the forefront of AIDS awareness and response since 1981. To honor the victims of the epidemic, the cathedral opened its AIDS Interfaith Chapel in 2000, featuring an altarpiece, the last work by world-renowned New York artist Keith Haring (1958-1990). The chapel also houses The Book of Remembrance, a hand-bound volume in which are inscribed the names of people who have died of AIDS. In cooperation with the NAMES Project, a block of the AIDS quilt is displayed and is rotated on a regular basis.
In connection with the exhibit and in honor of World AIDS Day and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's (SFAF) 20th anniversary, SFAF executive director Mark Cloutier will be featured in the cathedral's Sunday Forum on December 2.
Cloutier leads one of the oldest and largest community-based AIDS service organizations in the United States and serves as president of SFAF's international affiliate, the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation. In addition to more than 20 years of public policy and legislative affairs work in the health arena in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Washington D.C., Cloutier has extensive training and work experience as a bioethicist.
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