Miami Herald (MH) - Sunday, November 30, 1997
Herald Staff

Florida International University will have Arts for Life: AIDS Awareness Project from noon to night, including The Faces of AIDS, an exhibition depicting AIDS patients by retired oncologist Dr. Wilma Bulkin Siegel.

Siegel's art will be on display Monday through Dec. 30 in the Graham Center Gallery at Florida International University, Southwest Eighth Street and 107th Avenue. The gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

Other events include a lecture on relationships by Dr. Raysa Richardson at 2 p.m. in Room 140 of the Graham Center, a speaker from Mother's Voices on Losing Children to HIV/AIDS, at 5 p.m. in Room 140, and a candlelight vigil at 7:30 p.m. by the lake near the Health and Wellness Center.

All events are free and sponsored by the FIU HIV/AIDS Prevention Program and Honors College.

Baptist Hospital also will have a candlelight vigil from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the pavilion by the lake in front of the hospital at 8900 North Kendall Dr.

Hospital Chaplain Renato Santos will deliver a prayer of remembrance at 6:30 p.m. Several speakers will follow. Participants will be invited to draw or write messages on an AIDS mural that will be donated to an AIDS hospital unit for children.

Reggae music will be performed by Kymani Marley, Lavern Morgan and Hardcore Movements. Refreshments will be provided. The event is free.

The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Center will sponsor an AIDS awareness program at 6:30 p.m. Monday by forming a human chain starting at Southwest 59th Place and 64th Street and ending at Murray Park, 6700 SW 58th Pl.

Several AIDS patients and a representative from the South Miami Immunology program will speak. Prevention and education information on AIDS will be available, and a voter registration drive will take place.

For more information, call Kalenthia Capers Nunnally at 441-4006 or 638-6329.

In two related programs, FIU will also have a special dance performance at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Several South Florida choreographers will present nine performance pieces at the Black Box Theater on the University Park Campus. The free performances will include some partial nudity and adult material.

And Dr. Siegel will discuss her Faces of AIDS watercolors and her inspiration at a reception at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the FIU art gallery.

Siegel, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, started one of the pioneer AIDS hospices in New York.

Admission to the exhibit and to the discussion with the artist is free.

FACES OF AIDS: Thanniel, by watercolor artist Dr. Wilma Siegel, will be discussed Thursday at FIU.

CAPTION: photo: Thanniel by Wilma Siegel
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