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# Birmingham to commemorate 35th World AIDS Day
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/birmingham-to-commemorate-35th-world-aids-day/
- Published: 2023-11-17T12:26:12.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-17T12:26:12.000Z
- Description: Birmingham will mark the 35th World AIDS Day with a vigil at the ‘Ribbons’ HIV and AIDS Memorial, Hippodrome Square on Friday, December 1. The event, designed to “remember, educate and celebrate”, will feature music, speeches, candles and lanterns, and a minute’s silence. Those who wish to join the
- Author: Catherine Muxworthy
- Tags: Birmingham, Garry Jones, WAD 2023, World Aids Day

**Birmingham** will mark the 35th **World AIDS Day** with a vigil at the **‘Ribbons’ HIV and AIDS Memorial**, **Hippodrome Square** on **Friday, December 1**. The event, designed to “remember, educate and celebrate”, will feature music, speeches, candles and lanterns, and a minute’s silence. Those who wish to join the vigil can arrive at the memorial – which was unveiled on World AIDS Day last year – from **6.15pm**, with the vigil itself commencing at **6.30pm**.

Following the vigil, which finishes at **7.30pm**, LGBTQ+ village venues will be marking the occasion with a ‘red’ theme to symbolise the AIDS ribbon, and they will be offering entertainment, drinks and companionship to those that need it.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/400596404_254790497250195_5446180183017005146_n-e1700223956651.jpg)

In the lead up to World AIDS Day, from November 15 to **January 13**, 2024, some of **HIV Cover-Up Quilts**, which were first showcased at the unveiling of the Ribbons Memorial, will be on display in the **Library of Birmingham**, Centenary Square. On World AIDS Day, the library will also have HIV information available in their wellbeing centre; this information will also be available on **Saturday, November 25** and **Saturday, December 2**. Additionally, art workshops will be held on these Saturdays from **11am**.

Elsewhere in Birmingham, a selection of the HIV Cover-Up Quilts will also be on display at **Birmingham’s Back to Backs** from **November 24** until **December 3**. Alongside this, artist **Garry Jones** and **Positive Peers**’ **Rachel Greaves** from the **Ribbons BAHM Education Legacy** will be running a free craft workshop.

Those attending will use wooden clothes pegs to create **Angels for World AIDS Day** and use other materials to form part of a large garland that will be placed on the memorial during the vigil. The workshop will also provide a space to discuss HIV. [Free spaces can be booked](https://www.nationaltrust-tickets.org.uk/event-tickets/35012?catID=33184&ref=scenemag.co.uk) online now for the workshop that will be held **Tuesday, November 21** at **6pm**, space limited.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/396666124_896208925478987_8061064901225514282_n-1-scaled-e1700223923149.jpg)