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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening - Past Advocacy\, Future Change: HIV/AIDS Campaigns Transforming Dementia Narratives
DESCRIPTION:\n"If there’s less stigma [around dementia] and people get 
 diagnosed earlier\, there could be a movement. So\, we need to look to AIDS 
 and HIV\, to ACT UP\, for the ways they increased visibility that led to 
 something larger."\n\n- Sara Langer\, MD\, collaborator and former 
 neurologist living with Lewy body dementia\n\n\nJoin us for the opening 
 reception of Past Advocacy\, Future Change: HIV/AIDS Campaigns Transforming 
 Dementia Narratives\, an exhibition by 2025 UCSF Library Artist in 
 Residence Michelle Memran. Opening during the convergence of World 
 Alzheimer’s Month and Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) Awareness Month\, this 
 exhibition invites visitors to consider how lessons from one movement can 
 help reframe another.\n\nThe opening reception will take place on the main 
 floor of the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library on the Parnassus Heights campus and 
 will include an introduction to the exhibition\, a conversation with the 
 artist\, and special guests. \n\nPast Advocacy\, Future Change explores how 
 the bold visual language and community-led messaging of early HIV/AIDS 
 activism can inspire more humanizing\, solutions-oriented narratives around 
 Alzheimer's disease and related dementias today. Drawing on archival 
 HIV/AIDS posters\, flyers\, and activist graphics\, the exhibition 
 reimagines these materials within the contemporary dementia landscape. 
 Striking black-and-white imagery is punctuated by selective use of color\, 
 serving as a visual metaphor for the gaps\, silences\, and oversimplified 
 narratives that continue to shape public understanding of changing 
 cognitive abilities. Visitors can also explore a glossary of 
 dementia-related terms and interactive 3D brain visualizations\, offering 
 additional context that bridges the science of dementia with its human 
 experience.\n\nThe exhibition opening is available to UCSF ID badge 
 holders\, and admission is FREE. \n\nUCSF welcomes all participants to our 
 events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event 
 because of a disability\, please contact Dylan Romero at 
 dylan.romero@ucsf.edu as soon as possible.\n\nQuestions?\n\nEmail 
 dylan.romero@ucsf.edu if you have questions about this event.\n\nImage 
 source: This is the Way Many People Deal with HIV poster\, AIDS History 
 Project – Ephemera\, MSS 2000-31\, box 7\, folder 3\, item 18. UCSF 
 Archives and Special Collections.
LOCATION:Living Room - Main Floor\, Parnassus
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CATEGORIES:Archives and Special Collections, Artist in Residence, Makers Lab, ZSFG
CONTACT;CN="UCSF Library Special Events":MAILTO:librarynews@ucsf.edu
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