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As part of this year’s Day With(Out) Art World AIDS Day 24 hour vigil we are inviting people to send us photos of loved ones they have lost, want to remember, or honor. 28 years ago we built the first installation to create a space to reflect, remember and grieve. Today the 24 hour vigil has become an enduring testimony to those who came before. We will print the photos on recycled plastic water bottles, filled with sea water, and suspend them from the grid of the Cyclorama, creating a constellation of stars.
We are also accepting recycled bottles with 16-17 oz with caps only
Please email your photos to info@mwproductions.org
CALLING ALL ARTISTS & WATER BEARERS
In 1987 a small group gathered in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives they feared history would forget. This action served as the beginning of the Names Project, Also known as the AIDS Memorial Quilt. On December 1, 1989 A Day Without Art began as a National Day of Mourning in response to the AIDS Crisis. The Medicine Wheel Vigil has become an enduring testimony to HIV/AIDS in our lives. In those early years we were being asked the unimaginable question,
Where would we be without art?
This year we invite the artistic community of Boston to give testimony and invite reflection on the power of art to help us navigate and facilitate who we are for ourselves and who we can be for one another.
For visual artists: Decorate a bucket with any medium. Work should be based on bearing witness, testimony, remembrance, love, loss, longing and survival
Buckets need to be returned to Medicine Wheel by November 22 or to the BCA by noon on November 25th, or call us at 617-268-6700 for pick up
We can facilitate a workshop for your groups on Thursdays between 9 and 5.
For performing artists:Help us sanctify Medicine Wheel by making an artistic of poetry, song, dance, music or performance. Each year we invite artists to offer a breathtaking experience to mark each hour of the 24-hour vigil.
For the spiritual community: Mark one of the 24 hours with a blessing, prayer, ritual or meditation. If your tradition has water ritual or blessing for water we would love you to share those during the vigil or one of the water walks.
For the public: Join us at the vigil, decorate a bucket or as a water bearer. Vigil begins at 11:30 pm, Saturday November 30th and goes for the full 24 hours of Sunday 12/01/19.
Send a photo of someone you love or loved and lost. We will we
Meet in front of the Cyclorama Building, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street.
Two of our most impactful programs at Medicine Wheel are; the Daniel Morrison Fellows Program, and the Roberto Valdez Scholarship Fund.The Daniel Morrison Fellows Program provides meaningful full-time employment to young people over the age of 18 who have “aged-out” of the youth services program. Endowed by Linda Zug in memory of her brother it offers a year of employment often necessary for a young person to navigate an educational or career path. read more
In 2011 Roberto Valdez, Poet, Youth Advocate, and Board Member of Medicine Wheel Founded the Roberto Valdez Scholarship Fund. The Fund Allows one of our fellows to accompany us on our annual artistic retreat to Italy. To fund this program we ask 300 donors to make a simple donation of just $10.00.
Please consider making a $10.00 or more donation, to the Valdez Scholarship Fund. Checks can be made payable to Medicine Wheel Productions, 100 K Street, South Boston, MA 02127. Or donate online at
Yours
Michael Dowling
Artistic Director
