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Day With(out) Art is held each year as an international day of action and awareness in response to the AIDS crisis. Founded in 1989 by a group of artists\, more than 800 arts organizations\, museums and galleries throughout the U.S. participated in the first itera tion by shrouding artworks and replacing them with information about HIV a nd safer sex\, locking their doors or dimming their lights\, and producing exhibitions\, programs\, readings\, memorials\, rituals\, and performance s. \;

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Experience a variety of activities and tours centered at the National Portrait Gallery\; along G Street NW\; and at the MLK Librar y.

This program is presented in partnership with the Smithsonia n&rsquo\;s National Portrait Gallery and Archives of American Art with par ticipation from the Humanities Truck\, Whitman-Walker Health\, and other c ommunity partners.

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Ongoing (all day\, 11:30-7:00 p.m.) | N ational Portrait Gallery

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11:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Nati onal Portrait Gallery

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&bull\; Film screening from V isual AIDS in McEvoy Auditorium
&bull\; Art activities\, Whitman Walk er table\, and the DC Public Library's Library on the Go-Go Book Bike in K ogod Courtyard
&bull\; Mobile clinics from Whitman Walker Health (in front of the National Portrait Gallery\, on G Street NW)
&bull\; Hum anities Truck (in front of the National Portrait Gallery\, on G Street NW)

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1:00 - 3:00 p.m. MLK Library\, Floor 1\, East (New Books)
Listening Session: Voices from the AIDS Crisis \;
Hear excerpts from oral history interviews devoted to the AIDS ep idemic\, AIDS activism\, and art\, selected from The People's Archive at D C Public Library and the Archives of American Art. Visitors are invited to drop in\, listen\, and discuss selected clips during this facilitated sma ll group session. Note: this program will take place near the MLK Libr ary's installation of a light string from the work "Untitled" (Americ a) by Felix Gonzalez Torres.

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3:30 - 4:30 p.m. | N ational Portrait Gallery\, McEvoy Auditorium
Pan el Discussion: A Collective Voice: A Conversation on Art\, Culture\, and D emocracy
Join a discussion between the co-curators of t he exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return\, Charlotte Ickes and Josh Franco\, with artists and former members of Group Material . The panelists will discuss how they\, along with their peer Felix Gonzal ez-Torres\, used art and community to shift perspectives around culture\, representation\, and power in attempt to re-position equity within democra cy. \;

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