Category: Arts & Media
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Birmingham creatives are joining forces to give voice to people living with HIV in time for this year’s World AIDS Day – and they want the wider public to pay attention. Dancers, actors and visual artists will be performing and exhibiting their work at venues across the city centre on December 1st. And in every…
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This week is National HIV Testing Week. Using creativity for the good of the community, Saving Lives has been proud to support Garry Jones, designer of the Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial South and a local artists, to work with City College Birmingham’s Art & Design students. The goal? To create stunning art that encourages…
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A symposium on opt-out testing was hosted with Andy Street in central Birmingham last week, with figures from government, the NHS and charities uniting to emphasise the importance of default testing for HIV among patients admitted to Accident & Emergency. Turnout alone was suggestive of how important the West Midlands HIV community believe opt-out testing…
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This month, our Arts Council England-funded Cover Up project has been exhibiting the quilts produced by its participants in both Birmingham’s Hippodrome and Jubilee Centre. What has been most rewarding about these public exhibitions are the conversations that the quilts have generated. From very young children to great-grandparents, the quilts spark questions about the history…
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As part of the Birmingham AIDS & HIV Memorial project, Saving Lives has been supported local artists, schools and craft groups to produce a range of quilts that chart the history of HIV in Birmingham and more widely. This Arts Council England-funded project has created a beautiful document of how HIV has been understood in…
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World AIDS Day was extra-special in Birmingham yesterday, as hundreds of people arrived in front of the city’s iconic Hippodrome Theatre to witness the unveiling of the UK’s largest memorial to those lost to HIV – and also its brightest beacon for those living with the virus today, and all we can achieve together in…
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The student arm of Saving Lives, based at the University of Birmingham’s Medical School, recently attended a production of Larry Kramer’s 1985 play, The Normal Heart, at the National Theatre in London – and they did so in full Saving Lives dress! Representing the charity at the performance couldn’t have been more fitting. The Normal Heart is an…
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Saving Lives Ambassador, Dr Naomi Sutton, is taking the message that “testing saves lives” to the nation as the star E4’s ‘The Sex Clinic’ on Monday nights. Dr Naomi Sutton joined Saving Lives as an ambassador back in November 2018 at the start of National HIV Testing Week. We were delighted to have such a…
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Saving Lives has produced a range of resources for organisations and individuals to use for free to help mark World AIDS Day 2017. At home in the UK there are approximately 100,000 people living with HIV today – but more than 10,000 of these don’t know that they have the virus. The need for continued…
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With just three days to go until National HIV Testing Week, why not test your knowledge of HIV against our sporting ambassadors in this fun video quiz? This year for NHTW, our poster campaign will focus on telling people to #gettested for #hiv – and we’re funding 1000 free tests via HIVTestUK.com to make sure…