'You're not forgotten'; AIDS Memorial Quilt on display at Austin church

Austin (KXAN) brought the quilts of tears to the eyes of Dave Anderson on Friday. He was busy on that day, as he obtained the first Baptist Church in Austin for visitors who would come to see the quilt and pay their respect.

It is not just a quilt. It is the nationalHelps the Memorial quiltIt is considered the largest project for community arts in the world.

A full quilt is a texture of 54 tons that includes approximately 50,000 panels dedicated to more than 110,000 individuals, according toWebsite. Austin 34 blocks features more than 270 lost lives in front of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Cut Show in the church Until August 24, in line with Austin Pride’s celebration for this year.

The Church also hosts films nights throughout the show, as well as the HIV test and support for sexual contact with sexual communication, “creating a plate”, which is the “style change” initiative aimed at reducing the infection rate between black and Latin societies, documentaries, and the service of remembering and hope on the last day of the show.

Any community can host a quilt show. Anderson, a member of Austin’s first and volunteer coordinator at the generous clinic and healthy clinic, was behind his brought to Austin. He said he saw her shown in Houston in the late eighties, and a stuck experience with him, so he wanted to keep him alive and share with others.

It is the biggest quilt show in the history of Texas.

“He is moving. He is emotional,” Anderson said. “When you are here during the exhibition, you will hear people laugh.

Anderson explained that the message is a memory, but it also lives and goes forward.

Anderson said: “The bottom line is what is happening here, in the health exhibition, and what we do in that.” “This is certainly, HIV is no longer the death penalty.”

Leslie Moore, a long -term member of Austin Vers, helped Anderson to coordinate the exhibition.

“Our church is entrepreneurship, and if you have an idea and want to do so, they will help you know how to do this,” Moore said. “We strive to be a center of faith, justice and arts in the center of Austin, so we are a very progressive church.”

Moore said that Lahf was a passion for Erderson, and wanted to help him present him to teach young generations of HIV/AIDS, and the surrounding fear, and remember life. It also repeated the goal of sharing the message that the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS does not mean the death penalty.

Anderson said that people can create paintings that will be added to the quilt when the church sends them to its California storage facility. Anderson also said that some quilts were created by people who faced HIV/deadly HIV diagnoses and wanted to remember somehow after their death.

Anderson said: “Many have made their own board so that they were not forgotten. So tell them and I touched them, you do not forget,” Anderson said.

Anderson said that the exhibition, and the church in general, is a place for people to feel welcome and safe.

“There is the wonderful Bible, and a little reformulation is,” still and I know that I am here, “I mean God.” Watch as people … they will stand and read each of them [the names on the quilts]Then they exhale, and they move to the next. ”

When asked about the decision to display the quilt in the church, More and Anderson said that the part of the Austin’s first mission is to participate in society and part of social justice. In addition, the large building has a large area of it.

Anderson said: “This is what the church is,” Anderson said.

“We have the space, and I have been given free to us,” Moore said. “This is something our church feels important. The Church has always been at the forefront of justice.”

Anderson said that the priest, Grave Martin, was supportive and excited to width the quilt. Grave was at the event of cutting the tape that the church held for the exhibition on Saturday morning.

Austin First hosts many community organizations outside of service hours as well. There is a work between religions in the center of Texas, or Ict, as well as the Trinity Street players, which is a non -profit community theater group. Todos Jontosthe Austin Jay’s choir for menLaghum, fish and other organizations use the church space.