About the event
This Westminster Conversations event looks at the development of plans by AIDS Memory UK to mark the impact of the AIDS epidemic with a London memorial. This event will be run in partnership with the University of Westminster LGBT Forum. It falls within LGBT History Month, but of course, the impact of HIV/AIDS was and still is being felt far beyond LGBT communities.
Unnoticed by most people in the Global North, AIDS is still killing hundreds of thousands of people every year. Over 105,000 people in Britain are living with HIV, dealing with continued stigmatization in a society in which awareness of the nature and effects of HIV/AIDS remains low among the general population. This creates a complicated range of memories, resonances and sensitivities that the AIDS memorial will need to address, encapsulate and do justice to.
To discuss how the challenge of this act of commemoration is being approached, this event will welcome Ash Kotak, the artistic director of AIDS Memory UK, in conversation with Professor Pippa Catterall, Chair of AIDS Memory UK.
To ensure you get a space, please book your ticket at least two days before the event.
