Metro TeenAIDS is pleased to announce the HIV Capacity Building Symposium!  Join us for this exciting two-day event on Wednesday, September 23 and Thursday, September 24, 2009, 9:00 – 5:00 PM. This training event offers youth-serving providers, educators, and advocates the opportunity to expand their knowledge, build skills and network among leaders in the fields of HIV/AIDS prevention, youth development, reproductive and social justice.

Symposium topics will include HIV Prevention in DCPS, Wellness for Providers, and Prevention for Young Heterosexual Men. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided both days.  The Symposium will take place at the Courtyard Marriott, Located at 1325 2nd Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 (next to the New York Ave. Metro).

Space is limited! For more information or to register contact Katrina Higgins at register@metroteenaids.org or call Angel Brown at 202-543-0094 ext. 16.

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Performances, prizes, giveaways and free HIV/STD testing. Come out and have some fun!

REALtalkDC, the social marketing campaign of Metro TeenAIDS, is hosting Supreme Teen Nights in partnership with the Department of Parks and Recreation. The events are every first and last Friday of the month from 6 – 9 PM at a DC recreation center (see schedule above for locations). We will have fun, prizes, giveaways and free HIV/STD testing. Come out and have some fun!

With Kidd Kannon and special guests, testing, raffle and more.

Metro TeenAIDS Co-sponsors East Coast Premiere Screenings of DARLING: THE PIETER-DIRK UYS STORY
presented by the Washington Jewish Film Festival December 11 & 12
With Special Guest Director Julian Shaw

The 19th Washington Jewish Film Festival: An Exhibition of International Cinema presents 59 features, documentaries and shorts from 10 countries, in seven venues, during the December 4 – 14, 11-day Festival.  This year, Metro TeenAIDS is co-sponsoring the East Coast Premiere of the powerful documentary Darling: The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story, (Thursday, December 11, 7:45 pm, Washington DCJCC’s Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater & Friday, December 12, 1 pm, Goethe-Institut Washington), with director Julian Shaw in attendance.

DARLING: THE PIETER-DIRK UYS STORY (Australia, 2007, video, 54 minutes, English. Director: Julian Shaw)  “I am an Afrikaner Jew!” declares one of the film’s stars, social reformer and satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys. The other star is the director, Australian Julian Shaw, who, at age 15, saw a performance by Uys that changed his life. Uys, the well-known and outspoken opponent of apartheid, has taken up the fight against AIDS—calling it South Africa’s “new” apartheid—and polarized the country. After that fateful show, Shaw asked the entertainer if he would be the subject of a documentary, and Uys agreed, although he never really thought he’d hear from the teenager again. The result is this intimate and captivating portrait of a man with enormous talent, heart and dedication. Uys has presented his “AIDS awareness entertainment” to over a million schoolchildren in his country, demonstrating that with honesty and a good dose of humor, youth can, in fact, get them the life-saving information about AIDS that they desperately need. The Embassy of Australia is also a co-sponsor of this film.

For Festival Catalog: The festival catalog will be available at the Washington DCJCC and other fest venues and around the DC Metro area. The catalog can also be downloaded from the web site wjff.org.

Ticket prices: Opening and Closing Nights: $20 – film plus party; $10 evenings & weekends; $6 weekdays (before 6 p.m.); Seniors & Students receive $1 discount off regular ticket price except for opening and closing night tickets.   Tickets go on sale November 19. No service charge; $1.50 per film handling fee.

To Order Tickets: visit boxofficetickets.com or call 800-494-8497.
For information: wjff.org or call 202-777-3231.

The 19th Washington Jewish Film Festival: An Exhibition of International Cinema (Dec 4 - 14) is presented by the Washington DCJCC’s Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts; co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel and Washington Jewish Week; and supported in part by grants from the United Jewish Endowment Fund and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

19th Washington Jewish Film Festival: December 4 – 14
59 Films * 10 Countries * 7 Venues * 11 Days

The Southern AIDS Coalition & Test for Life in Partnership with Metro TeenAIDS and The Women’s Collective Cordially Invite You to the  Washington, D.C. Regional Launch of the Southern AIDS Living Quilt

A forum discussing the state of HIV/AIDS in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm 

George Washington University Multicultural Student Services Center 

2127 G Street, NW Room 209

Washington, D.C. 20004  

Refreshments will be served.  Metro Station (Foggy Bottom Station) nearby. Click here for map.

RSVP to info@livingquilt.org or call 800.461.6946

The Southern AIDS Living Quilt, www.livingquilt.org, is a new media collection of personal stories highlighting the face of the HIV epidemic today and its disproportionate impact on women in the South. Through the stories of women on the frontlines of the disease, the quilt aims to educate, empower and engage policymakers, healthcare providers, and communities most directly impacted by HIV/AIDS to recognize that the status quo must change. HIV/AIDS prevention must be modernized to reach the estimated 240,000 people who are living with the disease but undiagnosed – many of whom are minority women in the South. Together, we can make a difference in reducing stigma and empowering women to know their status to help prevent the further spread of HIV.