The NAMES Project Northern New England Chapter would like to extend its appreciation to everyone who helped in their recent fund raiser.  Generously donated by Ogunquit photographer Jack Duford, his copyrighted photographic print Fair Winds and Following Seas, depicts a ship within the bow of another ship on a foggy morning in Perkin’s Cove.  The raffle winner, Mr. John Desrochers of North Attleboro Massachusetts, was picked on December 8, 2007 at Maine Street Video Lounge and Night Club in Ogunquit Maine. 

The print was awarded second place in a national contest sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb in association with the HIV drug Reyataz.  Fair Winds and Following Seas toured the country and was displayed in Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Station NYC. 

The Northern New England Chapter is a non-profit organization supporting the NAMES Project Foundation in Atlanta, GA.  Hosting the AIDS Quilt throughout the year, NPNNE’s mission is to preserve and care for the quilts.  These quilts provide a creative means for remembrance, awareness, and education, raise funds, foster healing and inspire action within others.  For more information about the AIDS Quilt and NPNNE, visit www.newenglandaidsquilt.org.  For information about the artist Jack Duford and his photos visit www.jaxrealmaine.com.

Date 10/11/07

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT ON DISPLAY IN PORTLAND RECOGNIZING 20 YEARS

Portland, Maine—A World AIDS Day collaboration between Blackstones, University of Southern Maine, and Frannie Peabody Center will bring panels of The AIDS Memorial Quilt to Portland from November 30-December 2, 2007. 2007 marks the 20^th anniversary of the Names Project, the organization created to support the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The display in Portland will feature several handmade panels made in memory of men, women and children who died from AIDS.
 
Panels of the Quilt will be displayed in the Casco Bay Room at the Holiday Inn by the Bay at 88 Spring Street in Portland.  At 7pm on Thursday, November 29th sponsors will host an opening ceremony with a reading of the names of individuals who have died from AIDS while their respective panels are opened and laid out by teams of students, community members and staff and faculty from USM. The Gay Men’s Chorus will perform during this ceremony.

*To volunteer please contact:  Christopher Tripp at 878-8045

*School groups or other groups welcome:
Please contact: Jeannemarie Celentano at Frannie Peabody Center: 774-6877 ext.116

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