Join AIDS Action on Saturday, December 1, to commemorate World AIDS Day by lighting the Prudential Center red!

World AIDS Day is held on December 1st of each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV/AIDS, show their support for people living with HIV, and remember those we have lost to the epidemic.

With our partners at Eastern Bank, we will be hosting a Flip the Switch Ceremony in the Belvidere Pavillion at the Prudential Center to raise awareness throughout the city by turning the top of the most recognizable building in Boston's skyline red. Special guest Mayor Menino will be speaking, along with AIDS Action's President and CEO, Rebecca Haag.

We'd like to thank the following organizations who will be joining us in commemorating World AIDS Day 2012:

• Hispanic Black Gay Coalition
• JRI Health
• Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
• Victory Programs and Boston Living Center

Events across Massachusetts

World AIDS Day at AIDS Action Committee
Thursday, November 29, 2012 | 12:00pm - 3:00pm
AIDS Action Committee | 75 Amory Street, Boston, MA 02119
Join AIDS Action Committee in a celebration of life. Attendees will have the opportunity to hang a red ribbon on the Tree of Life in honor of a loved one. There will be a moment of silence for those who have passed followed by the lighting of the Tree of Life and a presentation about advocacy and policy as well as the LEAP program. Light refreshments will be served.

Film Screening: How to Survive a Plague
Monday, November 26, 2012 | Reception at 7pm. Screening at 7:30pm
Waters Edge Cinema | 237 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA
In commemoration of World AIDS Day the AIDS Support group will be showing this powerful documentary film that tells the story of ACT UP! and the gay community's early response to the AIDS epidemic. Tickets for the event are $10.00

Upham's Corner Health Center World AIDS Day Event
Thursday, November 29th, 2012 | 12:00pm - 4:00pm
415 Columbia Road, Dorchester, MA

Clients and their families will be able to place the names of their loved one who've passed from HIV/AIDS and their wishes inside of helium ballons and release the balloons into the world. There will be food, information, and giveaways.

Thursday, November 29th, 2012 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Starting at Lynn City Hall, 3 City Hall Square, Lynn, MA 01901
Ending at the Lynn Museum, 590 Washington Street, Lynn, MA 01901
Join us to honor World AIDS Day with a candlelight vigil march starting at City Hall and going through downtown Lynn. The march will end at the Lynn Museum with a small but meaningful ceremony and light reception. This event is free and open to the public. Coffee, hot cocoa, and donuts will be provided.

Fenway Health's Living Well Presents a World AIDS Day Reading and Reception
Thursday, November 29, 2012 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Club Café, Napoleon Room | 209 Columbus Avenue, in Boston's historic South End
Readings from Skip Warren’s Invisible Man and other works. Skip along with 2 other survivors presented this program for Desert AIDS Project in Palm Springs California, to develop community awareness and education. The acclaimed program now comes to Boston and Fenway Health.

This program is part of Fenway Health’s remembrance for World AIDS Day honoring those lost to AIDS and for others who still struggle. This event is free and open to the public. Food will be served.

Boston Medical Center Community Health Fair
Friday, November 30, 2012 | 10:00am - 2:00pm
Boston Medical Center, Shapiro Ambulatory Care Center, 9th Floor | 725 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118
It is my pleasure to invite you to BMC's tenth annual celebration of World AIDS Day. We will be hosting a community agency health fair on the 9th floor of the Shapiro Ambulatory Care Center from 10am – 2pm on Friday, November 30, 2012. If you have any questions, call Sophia Boulas at 414-7059. Please join us Friday, November 30th for this event!

The II World AIDS Day Multicultural Dinner
Friday, November 30, 2012 | 7:00pm -11:00pm
The HIV prevention and services program cordially invites you to celebrate Cambridge Health Alliance work in the HIV/AIDS community. Donation of $25 toward our patient care fund. Dinner & Dancing included.

World AIDS Day at The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
Saturday, December 1, 2012 | 12:00pm
ICA | 100 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210
Join us to honor World AIDS Day with spotlight talks in the galleries that commemorate works on view in This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, and in the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, we present two award-winning films held in collaboration with the Boston LGBT Festival.

Prudential Center Lighting Ceremony
Saturday, December 1, 2012 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Prudential Center, Belvidere Pavilion | 800 Boylston St, Prudential Center, Boston, MA 02199
Join AIDS Action Committee on Saturday, December 1, to commemorate World AIDS Day by lighting the Prudential Center red! With our partners at Eastern Bank, we will be hosting a Flip the Switch Ceremony in the Belvidere Pavillion at the Prudential Center to raise awareness throughout the city.

World AIDS Day Gather, hosted by the AIDS Foundation of Western Massachusetts and the Western New England University School of Law's Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies
Date/Time: Saturday, December 1, 2012 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm (Free and confidential HIV testing from 3:00pm-4:00pm)
Western New England University School of Law, 1215 Wilbraham Road, Springfield MA, 01119
Our World AIDS Day gathering is a celebration of life and a time to remember those we have lost to HIV/AIDS over the course of the epidemic. The event will include a presentation by the AIDS kNOw More Project, an open mic, a candlelight vigil, and musical presentations. For more information, check back regularly or call (413)301-0955.

First Annual BU Soccer Club Tournament In association Grassroots Soccer and World AIDS Day
Sunday, December 2, 2012 | 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Boston University Track and Tennis Center | 100 Ashford St. Boston, MA 02215
The Boston Univerisity  Soccer Club is planning a 3v3 tournament  (up to 5 people to register) in order to raise money for Grassroots Soccer, a charitable organization that uses the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize communities to stop the spread of HIV. We are capping the number of teams that can register at 32. Prices: 40$/team for BU affiliates; 50$/team for non-BU affiliates and $10 for every individual "free agents" that will be placed on teams. Come out for a fun day of soccer and AIDS awareness!

31 Nights of Light at the Prudential Center
Monday, December 3, 2012 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm
The Prudential Center Shops, Center Court | Boston, MA 02199
Victory Programs' Boston Living Center, New England's largest community resource center for people living with HIV/AIDS, will light up the Prudential Center tower in honor of World AIDS Day on December 3. Join us for a brief ceremony at the Prudential Center followed by Monday night dinner at the BLC on Stanhope Street, just a short walk away.

Fenway Health’s Living Well Presents a World AIDS Day Screening ofHow to  Survive a Plague
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 | Reception at 6:00pm on the 9th floor, followed by a screening and discussion at 7:00pm
Fenway Health’s Ansin Building | 1340 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Blisteringly powerful, How to Survive a Plague brings us back to a vital time of unbridled death, political indifference and staggering resilience; and constructs a commanding archetype for activism today. This  event is free and open to the public.  Food will be served.  For more information, call 617.927.6218

World AIDS Day at the State House
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 | 1:30 PM
Massachusetts State House, Nurses Hall | 24 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02133
The focus of this year's State House World AIDS Day event will be youth at risk for or living with HIV. There will be food as well as health resources available to attendees. Speakers include members from the State House, AIDS Action Committee, and BAGLY.

World AIDS Day at Casa Esperanza
Thursday, December 6, 2012 | 11:00am - 3:00pm
Casa Esperanza | 291 Eustis Street  Roxbury, MA 02119
Casa Esperanza will provide HIV counseling & testing, lunch and a short presentation commemorating World AIDS Day.