National AIDS Memorial Quilt at SUNY Oneonta

National AIDS Memorial Quilt at SUNY Oneonta
Experience the National AIDS Memorial Quilt and the Gilbert Baker Foundation’s Flag in the Map exhibit. Witness a part of American history that is being actively erased by this administration.
On display at Hunt Union Ballroom at SUNY Oneonta, March 21-23, 2025
Friday, March 21 Open viewing and school fieldtrips, 10am-8pm
Saturday, Mar 22 Open viewing 10am-10pm, 5pm Names Ceremony with Guest speakers.
Sunday, March 23 10am-5pm open viewing, 4 pm, closing ceremony.
*Exhibit Highlights*
- Reading of the Names
- Speakers
- Letters from the Quilt
- HIV resources/education
- Community Remembrance Table
- AIDS Memorial Quilt Books and memorabilia collection
- Community outreach
The AIDS Memorial Quilt honors more than 110,000 individuals, across nearly 50,000 panels. Each panel is 3 feet by 6 feet, the size of a grave. Come experience part of the largest community arts project in history and continue to honor the 700,000 US lives lost to the AIDS pandemic as we display 96 panels on 12 blocks of the quilt.
*Honoring Our Loved Ones*
The National AIDS Quilt is a community effort, and we would like to include you.
If you’d your loved one’s name to be read during our ceremony, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/6v8igPkTGo8rX3cf7
Please bring a photograph of someone you have lost to HIV/AIDS, to be shared on our table of remembrance. (Or if you’d like us to print a photo, please submit it using the form above.)
*Flag in the Map Exhibition*
The event will also include a special exhibit of the Gilbert Baker Foundation and’s Flag in the Map project. Flag in the Map, a collaboration between the Gilbert Baker Foundation and ReportOUT, is growing collection of photographs and stories that reaffirms the universal power of the Rainbow Flag to inspire LGBTQ+ people – especially in countries where their everyday existence is threatened. A growing collection of photographs and stories that reaffirms the universal power of the Rainbow Flag to inspire LGBTQ+ people – especially in countries where their everyday existence is threatened.
To learn more please visit: https://gilbertbaker.com/flaginthemap/