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Monday, December 1, 2003
6:30 pm

SALAAM Theatre
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
invites you to to commemorate World AIDS Day
with a screening at The Asia Society.

“Of all those vulnerable to AIDS in the world, no single group is more at risk than women.”
–A Closer Walk

A Closer Walk
Directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Bilheimer.
Narrated by Glenn Close and Will Smith.

In 1997, 41 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide were women.  In 2000, 47 percent were women.  Today, that figure has reached 50 percent—and in Sub-Saharan Africa, home to 70 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, 57 percent of adults infected with HIV are women.  Unless we work together to address the reasons women are so disproportionately vulnerable to this epidemic, these numbers will continue to grow.  Please join us on World AIDS Day 2003 for a screening of A Closer Walk (Robert Bilheimer/2003/84 min./35mm), the first feature-length documentary on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: a film about AIDS in the world, and a story about the way the world is.

Special Offer for SALAAM Supporters
Regular Price $10
SALAAM Price $7 (mention SALAAM when making reservation)

VENUE
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue at 70th Street
New York, NY 10021

Reception follows.

Remarks by

    Kenneth Cole
    Vice Chairman of the Board, American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)

    Sarah Kambou
    Director, Program on HIV/AIDS, International Center for Research on Women

    Robert Bilheimer
    Director and President, Worldwide Documentaries

Advance registration or ticket purchase is highly recommended.
A credit card is REQUIRED to hold a reservation.
Please call the Box Office at 212-517-ASIA.
Or email: boxo@asiasoc.org

TICKETS - $10 Regular Price
$7 for SALAAM Supporters (must mention SALAAM)

Cosponsored by American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA), Council on Foreign Relations, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, International Center for Research on Women, International Women’s Health Coalition, Physicians for Human Rights - Health Action AIDS, SALAAM Theatre - South Asian League of Artists in AMerica, Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection in India (SAATHII).

Made possible with the generous support of
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and General Motors Corporation

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"We get arts and activism mixed up."
- Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director

SALAAM  Theatre (South Asian League of Artists in AMerica)
http://www.SALAAMtheatre.org