Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens! Saturday, October 15

Honor the work of the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont! Purchase your tickets NOW for a one-night-only performance of Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, the first show written about the AIDS pandemic. Originally performed off-Broadway in 1989, Elegies is a song cycle with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and additional text by lyricist Bill Russell.

Each of the monologues is written from the perspective of characters who’ve died from AIDS, and the songs represent the feelings of friends and family members dealing with the loss. The piece was developed in the late 1980s and was originally titled “The Quilt” to acknowledge the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Special opening performance by Jody Sperling, founder of Time Lapse Dance.

• Balcony Seating: $20
• Orchestra Seating $40
• VIP Seating: Includes preferred seating and pre-show reception $75

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The reception will feature remarks by Richard Wizansky, Advisory Committee, The Samara Fund; Christopher Kaufman, Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Vermont Community Foundation; Patrick Brown, AIDS Project of Southern Vermont Board Chair and Karen Peterson, Executive Director, who will present the Lifetime Volunteer Achievement Award to Shirley Squires.

Increase your donation by adding $35 to any ticket in recognition of the 35th year of the AIDS pandemic.

Lead sponsor The Samara Fund, helping to create a vibrant Vermont LGBTQ community and ensure that LGBTQ Vermonters are connected, healthy, appreciated, safe, and empowered.

Net proceeds benefit the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont, a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded in 1988.

Special thanks to Time Lapse Dance!

JOIN US SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 – 2pm
ROCK HUDSON in “All That Heaven Allows.” Hudson was the first major Hollywood star to go public with an AIDS diagnosis.

“There was something about Hudson’s diagnosis that seemed to strike an archetypal chord in the American consciousness. For decades, Hudson had been among the handful of screen actors who personified wholesome American masculinity; now, in one stroke, he was revealed as both gay and suffering from the affliction of pariahs,” the late Randy Shilts wrote in his best-selling chronicle of the crisis, “And the Band Played On.”

In 1995, All That Heaven Allows was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Hudson was only 30 when he starred in this film with Jane Wyman.

There is no set cost to attend this film. Donations gratefully accepted online or at the door. Give what you can! Also accepting contributions of food and personal items for to support the clients served by the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont.