San Francisco: Organize AIDS Benefit

SoMARTS AGAINST AIDS, a group of South of Market galleries and businesses, has organized a series of benefits in August, including:

* Gran Fury representative Tom Kalin speaks on August 6; admission is free to this event. Gran Fury, a collective of artists in all fields, has done outstanding work with ACT UP in New York. Kalin will discuss options for organizing similar
projects here.

* Other events include photographic exhibitions on kissing (Bruce Velick Gallery), on monuments and memorials (New Langton Arts), and on women with AIDS (The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery). Performances include a work in progress by Ellen Sebastian (August 20), a reading "Eros and Writing" (August 5), and a wrap-up party on a ship at Fort Mason (September 4).

Beneficiaries include AIDS Treatment News, the San Francisco Suicide Prevention Hotline, the AIDS Emergency Fund, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation Food Bank.

For more information about any event, call the information line, 621-0208.
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