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Installation of the First Traces – full video

The first of the hand-crafted bronze Traces are delivered and installed into the foundation of STORIES: The AIDS Monument.
- April 9, 2025

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Fabrication of The Monument’s Traces – Social Media cut

FAM Board Members and artist Daniel Tobin visit the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank, California, to watch the fabrication of the traces, an important component of STORIES: The AIDS Monument.
- February 16, 2025

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Fabrication of The Monument’s Traces – full video

FAM Board Members and artist Daniel Tobin visit the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank, California, to watch the fabrication of the traces, an important component of STORIES: The AIDS Monument.
- February 16, 2025

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A Journey Years in the Making

Story of The Monument: From collective idea to breaking ground.

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Why Now?

For The AIDS Monument, perspective is everything.

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The Unit: Lessons On Living & Dying

How Cedars-Sinai responded to earliest cases of HIV/AIDS.

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Jane Lynch on the Importance of the AIDS Monument

Actress Jane Lynch discusses The AIDS Monument's relevance in celebrating the traces left by the people we lost to the AIDS epidemic.

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Diane Abbitt: From the very beginning, I did think that this was something awful

AIDS activists fight to save populations marginalized by society.

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Conversation with AIDS Memorial Leaders

An event commemorating lives lost and acts of courage.

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STORIES Circle Event with the LA LGBT Center

The Foundation for The AIDS Monument (FAM) hosted an intergenerational STORIES Circle event with the Los Angeles LGBT Center on June 5, 2024. Watch a six-minute video of the event highlights.

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STORIES Circle Event with APAIT

The Foundation for The AIDS Monument (FAM) hosted a STORIES Circle event with Access to Prevention Advocacy Intervention & Training (APAIT) on May 18, 2024. Watch a seven-and-a-half-minute video of the event highlights.

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2023 World AIDS Day Commemoration

The Foundation for The AIDS Monument partnered with APLA Health to co-host a World AIDS Day commemoration in West Hollywood Park. The event, which was co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood, included a reception, candlelight procession and free screening of the AIDS documentary "Commitment to Life." Funding for this event was also provided by a generous grant from Gilead Sciences.

Watch a 3-minute video of the event highlights.

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