Play Smart IV

In it's fourth incarnation, PLAY SMART brings things...together.

Play Smart IV features:

• Artists working together - Benjamin Frederickson with Silvia Prada, and Carmine Santaniello with Jayson Keeling. Each artist produced their own card, and also produced one card as a pair. The idea was to have artists, play smart together.

• Organizations working together - This round of Play Smart includes four cards with information on the back, created in collaboration with the Sero Project and Streetwise and Safe. Topics include: “No Condoms as Evidence”, “Prevention Beyond Condoms”, “Testing” and “HIV is Not A Crime”.

• A chance for people to play together - Each pack contains a mad lib prompt card so people can discuss the topics together.

And Play Smart IV features many opportunities to bring people together:

• “Safety First” screening
  7pm, January 29, 2014
  Auditorium, New York Public Library
  5^th avenue at 42^nd street
  Visual AIDS Executive Director Nelson Santos will join director Jim Hubbard and performer Blane Charles, to give a sneak peek at PLAY SMART.

• “Creating Change” conference
  January 31-February 2,2014
  Houston, Texas
  PLAY SMART will be featured at a workshop on HIV Criminalization with the Sero Project and QUEEROCRACY.Be Part of the Action…Visual AIDS is hosting 3 events at our office, bringing together community, conversation and condom pack making With co-hosts:

• Condom Pack Making Nights
  Putting together the Play Smart Condom Packs at the Visual AIDS office (526 west 26th street) with weekly co-hosts!
  February 5 – Writer Ella Bodreau
  February 12 – Artist Zachary Frater
  February 19 – Poet Timothey DuWhite

• Play Smart - Artists Together
  7pm, February 20, 2014
  Rush Arts Gallery
  526 west 26th street, # 311
  Nelson Santos In Conversation With PLAY SMART Artists

For more information about PLAY SMART, visit the webpage.