This year, the AIDS Memorial Quilt returned to San Francisco, where it was created more than 30 years ago. The 48,000 panels of the Quilt are now under the stewardship and care of the National AIDS Memorial. This beautiful aerial video shows the first official ceremonial unfolding of the Quilt in the heart of the National AIDS Memorial Grove. It is a powerful display of two symbols of the AIDS pandemic coming together as one to ensure the story of AIDS – the lives lost, the pain, the activism, the fear and the hope -- are never forgotten.

This audio performance focuses on the manifold practices of discrimination encountered by transgender (TG) youth existing with HIV. The show is performed by transgender community members, intending to create a pathway for inclusion of young PLHIV in both transgender communities and wider society. The eight participants are from the transgender-Kothi-Hijra community in small-town and rural areas of West Bengal, India. The show illustrates a young transgender woman who has been facing continuous physical assaults by her cis-gendered male partner. She also has also faced unremitting ostracization by her family and society upon her disclosure of being HIV positive. As the drama unfolds, she gets support and moral encouragement from others in her TG community, seven of whom unite and resist the violence against her in order to protect her. Through their solidarity, they succeed in reintegrating the victimized transgender person with her family and neighbors. The program concludes with a celebratory dance on the song of poet Rabindranath Tagore’s mellifluous lines, “pothe ebar nabo sathi”, which means "let's come together and realize our shared struggles".

This performance will demonstrate how hip hop music, led and driven by the affected population of youth (male and female) including adolescent girls and young women and adolescent boys and young men, propels and drive messages about HIV prevention in the era of social media with a focus on health as a human right.

Whoever said HIV positive people can't rock the world? The next big thing since Bowie and Queen, the Southern Time Band aims to do just that! Enjoy songs from T's rock opera as he and Justin Anantawan share their stories of overcoming HIV and surviving AIDS. For instance, "We'll never be the only ones alone, take this bone, take it home, Neville." T explains this lyric in the show. The Southern Time Band also wants to use music to help meet UNAIDS's goal to end AIDS by 2030. United, we can end AIDS and cure HIV once and for all.

Drag Queens have historically played an important role in the HIV response in many communities. They challenge gender norms, push understandings about sexuality and share valuable information about HIV and STIs, harm reduction, sex work and working your sex. House of Hopelezz is the oldest and most populated group of Drag Queens in the Netherlands, working to spread a sex and body positive message to the world. House of Hopelezz organizes weekly queer parties at Club Church in Amsterdam, which include political and gender asylum seekers, friends with the virus, misfits, and party monsters from all gender, sexualities and paths of life.

Education through puppetry among primary school going children has proven to engage more kids with facts, myths and misconceptions of HIV and AIDS through humor. This age appropriate non-lecture session equips kids with knowledge and skills that will enable them to contribute to 90 90 90 UNAIDS agenda in their current and future lives. This performance is done in schools and open community space through enhancing discussions and as an avenue of recruiting young boys and girls into U-Tena, SIDAREC and Slum Child projects that advocates for child protection through amplifying their rights and responsibilities.

DALLIANCES explores the crossroads between HIV stigma, LGBT discrimination and their resultant mental health issues. It is a riveting story of love, regret and desire; striking empathy, to evoke advocacy for people living with HIV/AIDs. The story has been adopted and filmed in quarantine, set in Kampala and New York.

RagaMenco is a collaboration of Spanish and Indian musicians (including two HIV research scientists) from the Bay Area. They explore exciting new territory combining haunting Indian melodies with exciting gypsy, flamenco, and jazz traditions from Spain. In their music you will hear ancient traditions from the Old World finding a new voice in California.

The Medea Project Theatre for Incarcerated Women/ HIV Circle is a performance workshop rooted in storytelling . The Medea Project founded in !989 at San Francisco County Jail encouraged the female inmate to examine her participation in her own incarceration! The workshop utilizes the medium of autobiographical theater, movement, literature. music and visual arts increases self and social awareness. The Medea Project is a transformative program mining personal stories rooted in the "culture of women" utilizing self exploration to build an public performances. Planned Parenthood Northern California has collaborated with The Medea Project to explored women rights and choices! The Medea Project in the past four decades have embraced the life and times of women living with HIV to live out loud!

The Hard Bop Collective is a San Francisco-based jazz quartet featuring Daniel Casares (tenor saxophone), Jordan Samuels (Guitar), Tomoko Funaki (bass), and Austin Harris (drums). They are joined for this “virtual” concert by Peter Hunt (trumpet), an HIV researcher at UCSF. They will perform five standards spanning several different styles, but all reflecting the conference themes of resilience, partnership, and collaboration. They will perform: Smile; Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; Meditation; Social Call; and Bourbon Street Parade.

A short documentary film following the unlikely journey of a suburban Aussie boy, Tobin Saunders, who after being inspired by his mother's 1970's patio parties in Sydney's Northern Beaches, gave birth to drag identity and political activist, Vanessa Wagner. "Undressing Vanessa" deconstructs Australia's most unorthodox HIV positive drag-queen, Vanessa Wagner. Courtesy of the Australian Film Television and Radio School – aftrs.edu.au

Sunshine Cinema has released a series of virtual reality films (VR) focusing on HIV education. Using the latest technology, the films highlight stigma free life saving information regarding disclosure, treatment & adherence and prevention methods. You can “choose your own adventure” in this immersive media film. #360HIVChoice, is the world’s first attempt to address stigma towards those living with HIV using immersive VR media.