We're partnering with Western North Carolina AIDS Project (WNCAP) and Visual AIDS for a Day With(out) Art 2025 presentation of Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.

Since its inception in America in 1989, Day Without Art has marked the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the artistic community and documented efforts in fighting AIDS. Artists and art institutions shut their doors, dim the lights, and shroud their works, replacing them with posters and facts about AIDS. Others screen films and documentaries for audiences online and in theaters.

Commissioned videos by artists in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Nigeria, Germany, and Vietnam journey across a range of spaces revealing the complexity of drug use. Several videos document the visible world of drugs—a harm reduction program in a Berlin park, a night out during Rio’s Carnival—while others reveal private, often hidden spaces where safety is found: bedrooms, underground clinics, and moments of connection between lovers.

As this is a program centering harm reduction it will contain depictions of sexual activity and drug use.

The Western North Carolina AIDS Project (WNCAP) is dedicated to preventing new cases of HIV/AIDS and promoting self-sufficiency in people living with HIV. WNCAP provides HIV-related client support, prevention, education and advocacy activities guided by the belief that all people are entitled to equal access to health care and disease prevention. Learn more at wncap.org

Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. Learn more at visualaids.org