Cactus Club is proud to partner with @visual_aids for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five new videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.

The program features new work by Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria, Dorothy Cheung, Beau Gomez, Kurt Weston, and Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento.

Annual screening of short films by queer filmmakers increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education for AIDS on World AIDS Day.

Film Program:

Beau Gomez, This Bed I Made, 2023. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Everyone I Know Is Sick

Dolissa Medina and Ananias P. Soria, Viejito/Enfermito/Grito (Old Man/Sick Man/Shout), 2023. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Everyone I Know Is Sick

Dorothy Cheung, Heart Murmurs, 2023. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Everyone I Know Is Sick

Hiura Fernandes and Lili Nascimento, Aquela criança com AID$ (That Child with AID$), 2023. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Everyone I Know Is Sick

Kurt Weston, Losing the Light, 2023. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Everyone I Know Is Sick

Organized by Visual Aids, Day Without Art is an international day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS Crisis. Visual Aids has coordinated screenings over 100 venues globally each year.

The community conversation following the program is presented by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin