seeds in a dying colony

For Day With(out) Art 2026, Visual AIDS presents seeds in a dying colony, a program of four newly commissioned videos that move through the afterlives of colonialism and the ongoing HIV epidemic. Across fractured histories and landscapes marked by extraction, the works trace how systems of power shape the body, memory, and experiences of care.

Featuring work by:
Edgar Hudson (Tanzania)
Bruna Kury and Matheus Mello (Brazil/Spain)
Sido Lansari (Morocco/France)
Micaela Cyrino (Brazil)

The program responds to a moment marked by deepening neocolonialism and mass desensitization to violent, preventable death, including recent spikes in HIV cases and deaths. Driven by cuts to international aid programs like USAID and PEPFAR, this resurgence reveals how access to care remains shaped by broader systems of U.S. and Western power that determine whose lives are protected and whose deaths are allowed to pass in silence. Read more about the program here.

AIDS IS OVER, RIGHT? 

For Day With(out) Art 2026, Visual AIDS revisits our 1998 poster AIDS IS OVER, RIGHT? (OR, MAYBE YOU SHOULD READ THE FINE PRINT) at a moment of renewed crisis.

The poster was inspired by conversations among Visual AIDS staff and Board members about the rapidly worsening conditions surrounding HIV and AIDS. In the United States, HIV prevention, tracking, and research programs have been gutted, while cuts to U.S. funding are disrupting HIV treatment and services around the world. The consequences will unfold over years: preventable illness and death that may happen too slowly to make headlines, but are no less devastating. You can order a poster here to put on display at your institution. 

US Screenings:

New York

Queens Museum (Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, NY 11368), Dec 6, looping presentation accompanied by a hands-on artmaking workshop for reflection. (link)

El Museo del Barrio (1230 Fifth Ave, New York City, NY, 10029), Dec 1, 6:00 PM, screening event. (link)

Museum of Arts and Design (2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY, 10019), Dec 1, 3–5:30 pm, screening event. (link)

Grey Art Museum, NYU and the Center for Disability Studies, NYU (18 Cooper Square, Room 101, New York, NY, 10003) 

• December 1, 11am–5pm (In-Person): looping presentation, and drop-in seed-packet decoration workshop to connect the films' themes with native plants and gifting. 
• December 3, 12:30–2pm (via Zoom): Panel exploring linkages between HIV/AIDS, art, and disability organizing. (link)

Museum of Chinese in America (215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013), Dec 3, 6:30 PM, screening event. Additional potential conversation on sexual health and HIV/AIDS prevention. (link)

The NYC LGBT Community Center (208 W. 13th Street, New York, NY, 10011), Dec 1–Dec 2, looping presentation. 

Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Ave, New York, NY, 10003), Nov 30, 7:00 PM, screening event. (link)

Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College, Columbia University (525 W 120th St, New York, NY, 10027) Dec 1, 6:00PM, looping presentation in the atrium accompanied by public programming. (link) 

Allied Productions, Inc. (368 East 8th St. Storefront West, New York, NY, 10009), Dec 2, 6-8 PM, screening event and reception. In conjunction with the event, there will be an exhibition on view December 2-30 related to AIDS activism, agit-prop, ephemera, art and performance from the archives of Allied Productions, Inc., curated by Peter Cramer. (link)

Colgate University Picker Art Gallery (32 Lally Lane, Hamilton, NY, 13346) Dec 1, 6:00PM, screening event. (link)

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) (33 Garden Rd., Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 12504), Dec 4, 11:00 AM. Conversation/presentation and looping presentation.

California

Palm Springs Art Museum (101 N. Museum Dr. Palm Springs, Palm Springs, CA, 92262), Dec 3, 5:45 PM, screening event. (link)

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1717 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA, 90021), Nov 28, 11AM–6PM, looping presentation. Shown in conjunction with Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses; Zoe Walsh: Gathering; Amia Yokoyama: Our Strange Hollows; and Bookshelf Residency exhibition organized by Sming Sming Books and Kate Lester. (link)

HIV+ Aging Research Project Palm Springs (Mizell Center, 480 S Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA, 92262), Nov 30, 5:00 PM. Screening event in conjunction with the Timothy Ray Brown Community Cure & World AIDS Day. (link)

Rainbow Advocacy (4607 Prospect Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90027), Dec 1, 2:00 PM. OUR PRIDE will present a virtual screening hosted by Omary Baajun, joining from Tanzania. An introduction and a closing reflection will explore the intersections of colonial histories, HIV, human rights, cultural memory, and global solidarity. The event will be presented on the OUR PRIDE Global Events platform as part of OUR PRIDE’s second annual 40 Days of Solidarity (November 1–December 10, 2026). (link) 

Riverside City College (4800 Magnolia Blvd, Quad 216, Riverside, CA, 92501), Dec 1, 9:35-11AM, Screening event in conjunction with Dr. Keene’s ARTH 17: Gender and Sexuality in Art History course. (link)

Colorado

The Brakhage Center (1125 18th St, Atlas 311, Boulder, CO, 80302), Dec 1, 4:30 PM, screening event. Produced in partnership with the Queer and Trans Studies department. The screening will be followed by conversation with the audience. (link)

University of Colorado Colorado Springs - MOSAIC Department (1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Colorado Springs, CO, 80918), Dec 3, 12:00 PM, looping presentation with a wall display, free snacks and ribbons, the UCCS AIDS Quilt for public viewing, and selected educational books. Additional collaborations with the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art (GOCA) and Hey719, a local HIV and health nonprofit organization in the city. (link)

Connecticut

Yale University Public Humanities Program (Yale University Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street, Room 136, New Haven, CT, 06511), Dec 1, 6:00 PM, screening event with introduction by Christopher Valentine, a Yale Ph.D. Candidate in Black Studies and WGSS. (link)

Florida

Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida (3259 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611), Dec 10, 6:00 PM. Screening event followed by a conversation with members of the Southern HIV and Alcohol Research Consortium (SHARC) focusing on local concerns and challenging stigma. (link)

Iowa

Des Moines Art Center (4700 Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA, 50312), Nov 29, 1:30 PM-3:30 pm, a 20-minute performance by the Des Moines Gay Men’s Chorus followed by a screening of Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989; 79 minutes; not rated). Iowa-connected sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will also be on view November 16–29. (link)

Illinois

Riverside Arts Center (27 Riverside Rd, Riverside, IL, 60546), Dec 1, 6:00 PM. Screening event followed by a panel discussion featuring artists Saumitra Chandratreya, David Lozano, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, and Sam Kirk; HIV/AIDS scholar and historian Jennifer Brier; and Chris Balthazar of TaskForce Prevention and Community Services. The event also takes place in conjunction with two exhibitions, Perpetual Archives and Perpetual Desires, both on view through February 26, 2027. (link)

International Museum of Surgical Science (1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, 60610), Dec 1, looping presentation, as part of Free Winter Tuesdays. (link)

Kansas

UKSM-W Medical Practice Association (KUSM-W Roberts Amphitheater, 1001 N Minneapolis, Wichita, KS, 67214), Dec 1, 6:00 PM, screening event with provided refreshments as well as recontextualizing the artwork next to the event venue for the evening. 

Massachusetts

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115), Dec 1, 6:00 PM, screening event.

Michigan

College for Creative Studies (201 E Kirby St # C206A, Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium, first floor of the Walter B. Ford II Building, Detroit, MI, 48202-4048), Dec 1, 7:00 PM, screening event followed by light refreshments and conversation. (link)

Missouri

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63108), Dec 3, 10 AM-7 PM, looping presentation. Additional events starting at 5:00 PM include a community conversation, display of a portion of the AIDS Memorial quilt, film screenings, a response wall, and activist art making. (link)

Stray Cat Film Center (1662 Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri, 64108), Dec 3, 7:00 PM, screening event. (link)

North Carolina

Western North Carolina AIDS Project (WNCAP):

• (Firestorm Books, 1022 Haywood Rd, Asheville, 28801, NC, 28801), Dec 1, 6:00 PM, screening event followed by a post-screening conversation. (link)
• (REVOLVE Art Space, 821 Riverside Dr #179, Asheville, NC, 28801), Dec 2, 7:00 PM, screening event in collaboration with Campaign for Southern Equality. (link)
• (The Story Parlor, 227 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC, 28806), Dec 6, 7:30 PM, screening event followed by a conversation with a local HIV Prevention Educator. (link)
• (AmeriHealth Caritas, 216 Asheland Avenue, Asheville, NC, 28806 -lower lot), Dec 7, 2:30 PM, screening event followed by a conversation with local HIV organizations. (link)

New Hampshire

Dartmouth College Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life (29 N. Main Street, 246 Haldeman Hall, Hanover, NH, 03755), Jan 21, 12:30 PM. Looping presentation on view until February 5. Combines films commissioned by Visual AIDS, a memorial of the names of Black artists, performers and writers lost to AIDS, and the work of two featured artists. On December 1, IBICL will also publish a page with a short history of Day With(out) Art, data on HIV and AIDS in Black communities, and resources for testing, care and learning. (link)

New Mexico

New Mexico State University Art Museum (1308 E. University Ave., Las Cruces, NM, 88003), Dec 1, 5:30 PM, screening event with an introduction from NMSU professors, followed by a discussion with the audience. (link)

Ohio

Wexner Center for the Arts/Cineseries (1871 N High St, Columbus, OH, 43210), Dec 1, 7PM, screening event followed by a conversation facilitated by student organization Cineseries. (link) 

Pennsylvania 

Carnegie Museum of Art (4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213), Dec 3, 5:30 PM, screening event followed by a conversation with local HIV organizations. The museum will also recontextualize an artwork for the first week of December and publish a social media post on December 1 for awareness and advocacy. (link)

Texas

Spacy (1300 S Polk Street, Suite 160A, Dallas, TX, 75224), Dec 2, 7:00 PM, screening event in collaboration with The Oak Cliff Cultural Center. (link)

ENTRE Film Center and Regional Archive (415 W Jackson Ave, Harlingen, TX, 78550), Dec 2, 7:00 PM. In collaboration with Valley AIDS Council, ENTRE will be hosting an educational panel, screening event, and post-screening discussion. (link)

Vermont

University of Vermont School of the Arts (72 University Place, Room 301, Burlington, VT, 05403), Dec 2, 6:00 PM, screening event followed by a discussion panel of UVM community members. (link)

Washington DC

The Lily and Earle M. Pilgrim Art Foundation (David Bethuel Jamieson Studio House and Archives at Walbridge, 3229 Walbridge Pl, NW, Washington, DC, 20010), Dec 1, 12:00 PM, screening event in collaboration with the David Bethuel Jamieson Studio House and Archives at Walbridge. Additional special curator-led educational program highlighting artists in the foundation's collection impacted by HIV/AIDS, an official poster display, and an evening community reception and screening. (link)

Wisconsin

Cactus+ (Cactus Club, 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53207), Dec 1, 7:00 PM, screening event with additional community engagement led by local organizers. (link)

Wisconsin Union Directorate Art Committee (Memorial Union - Festival Room, 800 Langdon St, Madison, Wi, 53706), Dec 1, 5:00 PM. Discussion with local artist and activist living with HIV, Dickey Lee Stafford, and a group of panelists. The panel will focus on Dickey's commercial and personal work and life experience along with the greater art movement surrounding the HIV/AIDS Crisis. 

International Screenings

Argentina

Memoria en Movimiento (Av. 3 de Abril 71 (Espacio de Memoria, ex Regimiento de Infantería N9), Corrientes, Corrientes, 3400, Argentina), Dec 1, 7:30 PM, screening event.

Belgium

Beursschouwburg vzw (Beursschouwburg vzw, Auguste Ortsstraat 20-28, Brussel, 1000, Belgium), Dec 1–Dec 5, looping presentation. (link)

vzw Majestic (MHKA, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, 2000, Belgium), Dec 1, looping presentation. (link)

Brazil

Coletivo AMEM (Sesc Pinheiros, Rua Paes Leme, 195, Pinheiros, SÃO PAULO, SP,  05424-150, Brazil), Dec 1, 7:00 PM, screening followed by a panel discussion in partnership with Visual AIDS and Sesc São Paulo. Additional opening live performance, "Cura," by Artist Micaela Cyrino directly engages with body politics, care, and health justice. (link)

ONG Somos (Cinemateca Capitólio, Rua Demétrio Ribeiro, 1085,  Centro Histórico, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 90010140, Brazil), Dec 1, 7:00 PM, screening event followed by a conversation with local HIV/AIDS organizations. (link)

Canada 

AVI Health and Community Services Comox Valley (Comox Valley Art Gallery and Courtenay Library, 580 Duncan Ave, Courtenay, BC, V9N 2M7, Canada), Dec 1, 12-2pm: looping presentation outside gallery with outreach by AVI: Health and Community Services and volunteers, with coffee and treats. 3pm screening event in the Courtenay library, followed by a discussion with AVI workers, the Positive Wellness North Island nurse, and invited guests living with HIV. 

Concordia University (1455 de Maisonneuve W., Montreal, QC, H4G 1M8, Canada), Dec 4, 6:00 PM, screening event.

Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC Microcinema, 67 Nicholas St., Ottawa, ON, K1N 6E2, Canada), Dec 1, 6:00 PM, screening event. The following days until December 4th will feature looping screenings during the day. (link)

Esker Foundation Art Gallery (4th Floor, 1011 – 9th Avenue S.E. Inglewood, Calgary, AB, Canada T2G 0H7), December 5-6, 12-5 PM , looping presentation. (link)

Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, EV Building, 1.165, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Dec 1, 11:45 AM, screening event. (link)

NSCAD University (Carbon Arc Cinema, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3A6, Canada), Dec 3, 6:30 PM, screening event. (link)

Southwest Saskatchewan Pride (#201 234 1st Ave NE, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, S9H 2B9, Canada), Dec 1, 6:00 PM, screening event. 

Victoria Arts Council (Livery, 719 Johnson Street, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 1M8, Canada), Dec 1, 7:30 PM, screening event following the candlelight vigil, in partnership with AVI Health & Community Services, and Livery. A post-screening discussion will take place with community members from the Living Positively group. (link)

Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (Clarington Library, Museums & Archives, Courtice Library, 2950 Courtice Rd, Courtice, On, L1E 2R6, Canada), Dec 1, 6:30 PM, screening event. (link)

Vtape (401 Richmond St. West, suite 452, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8, Canada), Dec 1, 7:00 PM, screening event followed by a conversation with local artists and HIV activists. (link)

Chile

Fundación Savia (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Av. Matucana 464, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, 8350452, Chile), Dec 1, 11:00 AM, screening event. The event will also include artistic performances, workshops, and a talk on “Art and HIV” exploring culture as a space to influence public opinion and shape perceptions of risk regarding prevention. (link)

Colombia 

Cinemateca de Bogotá (Cinemateca de Bogotá, Cra 3 No 19-10, Bogota, Colombia), Dec 1, 7:30 PM, screening event with a presentation. (link)

Galería Santa Fe, Instituto Distrital de las artes - Idartes  (Carrera 1A entre calles 12C y 12D, Bogotá, Bogotá DC, Colombia), Dec 10–Dec 30, looping program of past Day With(out) Art films, "Los Amarillos" and "Hope Drops." (link)

Universidad del Valle (Universidad del Valle, Calle 13 #100-00, Auditorio Ángel Zapata, Biblioteca Mario Carvajal, Campus Meléndez, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia), Dec 1, 3:00 PM, screening event followed by a panel discussion. (Instagram) 

Costa Rica 

Positivs (Lado V Teorética, Calle 7 y Avenida 1 11, Barrio Amón, San José, Costa Rica), Nov 30, 6:00 PM, screening event and panel discussion. 

Finland 

PUBLICS (Sturenkatu 37-41 4b, Helsinki, 00550, Finland), Dec 2, 5:00 PM, screening event collaboration with Kenno Filmi. (link)

Germany

we are village | queer matters ggmbh (kurfürstenstraße 31-32, Berlin, Germany, 10785), Dec 1, 6:00 PM, screening event. (link)

Greece 

AMOQA Athens Museum of Queer Arts (AMOQA, Agiou Panteleimonos 7b, Athens, 10446, Greece), Dec 4, 7:00 PM, screening event. (link)

Ireland 

Golden Thread Gallery (23-29 Queen St, Belfast, BT1 6EA, United Kingdom), Dec 1–Dec 4, looping presentation.

Italy

Black Fags Union (DOPO, Via Carlo Boncompagni 51/10, Milan, Italy, 20139), Dec 4, 6:30 PM, screening event, followed by a talk and a recreational moment with music. (Instagram)

Japan 

Normal Screen (Tokyo, Japan), Dec 6, 4:00 PM, screening event. (link) 

Mexico

Coordinación de Género y Diversidades FA, UAQ (Facultad de Artes, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Hidalgo Poniente S/N C.U, Hidalgo, Las Campanas, 76017 Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., México, 76017), Dec 3, looping presentation. (link)

Philippines 

Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (Auditorium, 5/F, Taft Campus, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, 2544 Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines, 1004), Nov 21, 12:00 PM. The screening will have a discussion led by Raymond Cunanan, a Monitoring & Evaluation and Learning Officer under the Global Fund project PROTECTS Upscale, and a volunteer for LoveYourself, a leading HIV advocacy group in the Philippines. (link)

Poland 

QueerMuzeum Warszawa (Kinoteka, Pl. Defilad 1, Warszawa, 00-901, Poland), Dec 1, 7:00 PM, screening event followed by a conversation with local HIV organizations, activists, artists and scholars.

Spain

ASOCIACIÓN ACCIÓN TRIÁNGULO (CALLE EMBAJADORES 41, LOCAL SS1, Callejón de la calle Tribulete frente al 23, Callejón de la calle Tribulete 28-20, Madrid, Spain), Nov 21, 6:00 PM, screening event, along with "HIV Without Stigma: Art, Community, and Life," a cultural and community-focused program. Between November 21 and December 16, they are hosting a series of activities that use art, culture, and community participation to combat the stigma associated with HIV and promote the rights of people living with HIV.

Switzerland

Collectif Phosphènes (Cinématographe, All. Ernest-Ansermet, 3, Au rez inférieur gauche du Casino, 1003 Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland), Dec 1 & 5. In collaboration with the city of Lausanne. Multi-day observance starting with a screening of the film One Foot on a Banana Peel, The Other One in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room by Juan Botas, followed by a discussion with Lili Reynaud-Dewar on Dec 1 at 7:30pm. On December 5: a literary walk with Mathias Howald 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Pôle Sud. Followed by a screening of the film Deuiller, réparer, faire communauté by Pascal Lièvre and a Roundtable discussion with Les Amies du Patchwork des noms, Isabelle Sentis, Raphaël Depallens, Nayansaku Mufwankolo, and Sido Lansari. Ending with a screening of Day With(out) Art 2025: Meet Us Where We’re At and Day With(out) Art 2026: seeds in a dying colony from 2:00pm-5:30pm. (Instagram)

United Kingdom 

Growing U @ The Phoenix Garden (21 Stacey Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 8DG, United Kingdom), Dec 1, 3:30 PM, screening event with local HIV support group.

Uganda 

Kakyoproject (Kampala Uganda, Kenya and Capetown South Africa), Dec 1, 5:00 PM. Private in person screening in Uganda by kakyoproject. Online screening in Kenya by kakyoproject. Private in-person screening South Africa by Kakyoproject and QFF. (link) 

Linkedin - @kakyoproject