Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just six months ago Gutwillig, the chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Aids Benefit Committee, conceived of the festival. As he worked, the plans grew from a one-night event to a whole week's production--adding doctors, celebrities and Harvard administrators to what was originally an undergraduate effort...
...benefit opens on February 17, with a $25 show called "Ovations--Women United for AIDS Research and Care" in the Loeb Drama Center. Other events throughout the week include a poetry reading, film festival, dance and music concerts, educational discussions, and theater performances, Admission varies--some shows are free--and tickets are available at the door...
Myra Mayman, director of the Office of the Arts and master of South House, advises the AIDS Benefit Committee. "[Stephen]'s grounded conceptually and once you have definition, it's just a matter of logistics," Mayman says. "Working with him is great because he does everything...
...recalls Gutwillig, "I decided that I was going to have a very simple and easy senior year. I was going to enjoy my last eight classes. Then I became very disturbed over the way [the AIDS] crisis was being handled and very excited about the potential of an AIDS benefit at Harvard...
Peter D. Gadol '86, president of the Harvard Advocate, has coordinated literary events for the festival. Gadol, one of 15 undergraduate organizers on the AIDS Benefit Committee, says Gutwillig has "been very inspirational in pulling together different people from different areas. It's required managerial finesse and the ability to let people go off in their own way and be as crazy and creative as they want...