Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began as a simple remembrance of those who have succumbed to the deadly disease. But the AIDS Memorial Quilt, unfolded in its entirety near the Washington Monument over Columbus Day, has become a vast and stirring memorial to HIV victims. Started in 1987 by the San Francisco-based Names Project, the quilt stretches over 15 acres. It contains 21,000 decorated panels from 29 countries, each bearing the name of an individual who died of AIDS. Altogether it represents 2% of all AIDS victims. Total worldwide deaths from the disease: 501,272, more than a third of them...
...WESTERN HEMIsphere may be skeptical about the benefits of the European discovery of America, but the Metropolitan Opera commemorated the 500th anniversary of that event last week anyway -- with the world premiere of The Voyage by Philip Glass. The opera takes no stand on whether the dead white male Columbus was a genocidal maniac or the civilizing harbinger of Christianity; instead it strikes out for the noble horizon of all human striving, daring and accomplishment. Despite the technological resources at its disposal, it never quite gets there...
...electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass of $325,000 (about half of which went for expenses), The Voyage already ranks as one of the Met's most extravagant epics...
While holding firm in his political stance, Alliger emphasizes that dance can be a completely unobtrusive form of activism. This past Columbus Day, for example, Dance Umbrella staged a two-day "Pow-wow" at the Hatch Shell in Boston. This festival brought together a variety of Native American and Latin music, dance, crafts, storytelling and theater to provide a different perspective of the 500th anniversary of the "discovery" of America. "This event was meant to be educational, not confrontational," claims Alliger. "We were celebrating 500 years of survival of the Native American people...
...during the visit, the best the Pope could come up with by way of denouncing the brutality, slavery and genocide initiated by Columbus--in many cases, in the name, and with the justification of the Church--was that the Vatican tried to restrain the troops' excesses...