Day With(out) Art 2025: Meet Us Where We’re At (Online)
When:
Monday, Dec 01, 2025 12:00a -
11:59p
Monday, Dec 01, 2025 12:00a -
11:59p
Where:
Online event
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art, LGBTQ+, Virtual
Event website:
https://bit.ly/4r4xTR7
The Harvard Art Museums are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025, by presenting a daylong online screening of Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.
Meet Us Where We’re At will feature newly commissioned videos by Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria), Hoàng Thái Anh (Vietnam), Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal), Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil), Camila Flores-Fernández (Peru/Germany), and José Luis Cortés (Puerto Rico).
The videos journey across a range of spaces and reveal the complexity of drug use. Several videos document the visible world of drugs—a harm reduction program in a Berlin park, a night out during Rio’s Carnival—while others reveal private, often hidden spaces where safety is found: bedrooms, underground clinics, and moments of connection between lovers.
Meet Us Where We’re At speaks not only to the variety of physical locations where contemporary harm reduction is practiced, but also to a broader shift: centering drug users as authors of their own experiences. Rooted in the philosophy of meeting people at their personal reality without judgment, the program affirms the full context of drug use—its pleasures, its risks, and its role in how people survive, care, and connect.
Harm reduction has long been central to the AIDS movement through practices like needle exchange and safe injection sites, and people who use drugs have been affected by HIV since the earliest days of the epidemic. This program brings their perspectives to the forefront, amplifying the voices of drug users as storytellers, cultural producers, and essential participants in the global response to HIV.
On December 1, the videos will be available to stream for free throughout the day at https://visualaids.org/dwa2025.
For resources related to safer substance use or recovery—whether you’re looking for support now or just want information—Boston Recovery Services and Cambridge Prevention Coalition can help.
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