With the support of Crédac, Les Ami-e-s du Patchwork des Noms and the association Les ActupienNes are respectively organizing a patchwork display in the courtyard of the Manufacture des Œillets and the presentation of a study on the quality of life of HIV-positive people over 50 years of age, in the space of Crédac’s Public Office.

• 1:30 pm - with Les Ami-e-s du Patchwork des Noms
  Unfurling of patchworks.
  Reading of the names of people who died of AIDS during the year and observing a minute’s silence.
  
  
• 2:15 pm - with Les ActupienNes
  One of the Patchwork des Noms is installed in the space of the Crédac’s Public Office. Publications and information are displayed by the association.
  
  
• 4 pm - with Les Ami·e·s du Patchwork des Noms
  Second installation of Patchworks des Noms.
  Reading of the names of people who died of AIDS during the year and a minute’s silence.
  
  
• 6:30 pm - Les Ami-e-s du Patchwork des Noms on the square of the Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection
  Display of patchworks.
  Reading of the names of people who died of AIDS during the year and observing a minute’s silence.
  (Weather permitting.)
  
  

It has been 40 years since the HIV/AIDS epidemic was officially declared and 32 million people that we do not want to forget have died since 1981.
The deployment of patchworks is often the only way to commemorate and celebrate the lives of those lost.

This duty of remembrance, which encourages us to continue the fight, is also a reminder that the epidemic is far from having disappeared and that it still kills. Each year, 1.7 million new infections are reported worldwide. In 2018, 37.9 million people were living with HIV and 770,000 deaths from AIDS were reported.
Launched in France in 1988, the Patchwork des Noms has made it its mission to keep alive the memory of the deceased through creations made by their loved ones and disseminated as widely as possible during remembrance ceremonies with displays and readings of names. It has also chosen to accompany these celebrations with educational sequences with the younger generations, so as not to reinvisibilize an epidemic and its dead, since for a long time the public authorities have looked the other way and abandoned AIDS patients to their fate.