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The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, often abbreviated to AIDS Memorial Quilt or AIDS Quilt, is a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. Weighing an estimated 54 tons, [ 1 ] it is the largest piece of community folk art in the world, as of 2020.
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 American documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. [2] Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with ...
The Quilt consists of 16 blocks in total, most made up of eight panels measuring 3 by 6 feet stitched together. [4] In 2010 the Quilt was digitised and made available online through the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt website. [5] In 2012 a significant portion of the Quilt was gifted to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa for caretaking ...
Behind the Bidens, a giant red ribbon hung on the South Portico and the AIDS Memorial Quilt was placed across the South Lawn. The quilt now with 50,000 panels with 110,000 names and weighs 54 tons.
The event, marking World AIDS Day, featured remarks by the Bidens and Jeanne White-Ginder, whose teenage son Ryan White died of AIDS in 1990. White House hosts AIDS Memorial Quilt for first time ...
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