THE WORKSHOP

The artist-led workshop following the performance serves as an extension of the music and poetry that awakened students to the urgent need for change.

The engaging and highly interactive session empowers students with the knowledge and resources to activate and lead change on an individual, community and global level.

Through the power of art as social activism, the Fight Apathy Tour seeks to leave students with concrete ways they can influence their future.

Some of the topics discussed during the workshop include:

Treatment and Prevention. In the political as well as public health arena, there is a dichotomy that is constructed with regards to prioritizing treatment or prevention. The session seeks to deconstruct the dichotomy and reveal a holistic approach that includes treatment and prevention methods.

Stigma and Discrimination. HIV/AIDS is not GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency) as it was thought in the early 1980s. It is not Africa as it is thought in 2005. Misconceptions are dispelled and the different faces of HIV/AIDS are discussed with the aim of understanding that we are all vital parts of the problem and solution.

Living with HIV/AIDS: Self Esteem and Identity.  Clara Sala speaks more of her HIV experience in the context of identity evaluation and reaffirmation.

Grassroots Initiatives. The topic frames HIV/AIDS as a social movement where the catalysts of change are today’s youth. More specifically, students use knowledge gained in the session to develop new approaches to carry both themselves and their peers from education to mobilization.