The quilt contained 1,920 panels memorializing people lost to HIV/AIDS and covered a space larger than a football field. 11, 1987, on the National Mall in Washington. The theater's planned quilt is inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was displayed on Oct. Blocks can be made using hot glue, permanent markers or other material as long as it will stay intact and preferably appear to be sewn, according to the theater's website. No special sewing skills are needed, by the way. "I know there is going to be a lot of people who will want to see it." "We want it to hang in different places," Insalaco says. After the quilt is used in the production, there are plans to add backing and display it at the theater and perhaps around the state. Once the blocks are gathered, they will be sewn into a 20-by-40 foot curtain that will be unveiled at the end of the show. "We're asking community members to come together to submit a block - a two-feet-by-three-feet rectangle is the ideal size - in honor of a loved one who has passed away from AIDS," says Box-Higdem one afternoon in late March in a conference room on the second floor of the theater. Even nonactors can have a role in Argenta Community Theater's production of the rock musical "Rent."ĭirector Brandon Box-Higdem and producer Vincent Insalaco are asking the public to contribute blocks to an AIDS quilt that will be used in the show, which runs July 26-Aug.
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