ACT UP/LA Reunion @ Highways — 2023

AIDSWatch has been at home on Highways.

On 1 December 2023, ACT UP/LA gathered at Highways, the performance space in Santa Monica, for a reunion in memory of Nancy McNeil and Mary Lucey — longtime companions and frontline activists. The evening was built around poetry, letters, and remembrance: people took the stage one after another to read, and AIDSWatch ran the whole time behind them, its roster of names streaming across the screen as the backdrop to everything being said.

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A reader at the podium at Highways, with a World AIDS Day title card on screen behind him.
Wide shot of the Highways audience and stage, with AIDSWatch running live on the screen.
A reader at the podium at Highways, with an AIDSWatch name on screen behind him.
Three people together on stage at Highways, with an AIDSWatch name on screen behind them.
A reader at the podium at Highways under purple lighting, with an AIDSWatch name on screen behind him.
AIDSWatch projected on the full screen at Highways, reading 'a midnight to midnight memorial to the lives and the love lost,' with an audience member seated below.