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 If you have some news or an event you'd like us to consider sharing, please contact the ReShape coordinator. For reports and videos of past events, please click here.

The VITO Project took place on the 28th November with a screening of Common Thread: Stories from the Quilt as part of the ENDAIDS2030 Festival. 

The VITO Project took place on Thursday12th of July with a screening of All About My Mother, a 1999 Spanish film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The screening was part of the #AIDSFestival2018.

The VITO Project took place on Wednesday 27th of June with a screening of Bolesno, a documentary by Hrvoje Mabic (Croatia, 2015).

This month VITO took place on the 25th of April, with a screening of TINTA BRUTA, winner of the Teddy Award at the 2018 Berlinale, directed by Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon.

The film was followed by an open discussion with 2 members of the community.

This month VITO took place on Wednesday 28th March with a screening of

The screening was followed by an open discussion

This month VITO took place on Wednesday 28th February with of The Living End, a 1992 film by underground filmmaker Gregg Araki.

The screening was followed by an open discussion with Alexis Gregory, writer, performer, director and Mark Ravenhill, playwright and director.

This month VITO took place on Wednesday 31st January with a screening of Valencia, a collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers, to adapt Michelle Tea's underground classic memoir

The screening was followed by an open discussion with Bonnie Rae Brickman, the film editor and Angela Bryan-Brown, LGBT campaigner and activist and part of the Wotever DIY Film Festival team.

This month VITO was a little bit special. We were celebrating our third year, the holiday season and the end of the year all rolled into one with a screening of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. 

This month VITO took place on Wednesday 29th November with a screening of Women He's Undressed, a 2015 Australian documentary film, directed by Gillian Amstrong about costume designer Orry-Kelly.

The screening was followed by an open discussion with James Gardiner and Sean McGovern

The Vito Project, Cinema Museum & Outings in Art Plus presented a special day-long Autumn Sunday of LGBTQ film screenings and conversations looking at how far we have come as a community – and where we might be heading next. What did London looked and felt like before all our lives were changed by the idea of liberation?

This month VITO took place on Wednesday 25th October with a screening of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, a 1972 German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 

The screening was followed by an open discussion with Sue George, Dr Leila Mukhida and Annie Ring.

This month VITO will took place on Wednesday 27th September with a screening of Dog Day Afternoon, a 1975 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino and John Cazale. 

The screening was followed by an open discussion with Michelle Ross, co-founder of CliniQ, and Seán McGovern, ardent cinephile and one of VITO programmers.

This month VITO took place on Wednesday 30th July with an evening of an evening of some of the best, uplifting, insightful, flirtatious and joyous women-centred short fiction and non-fiction films: Female Stories. 

The screening was followed by a Q&A.

This month VITO took place on Wednesday 26th July with a screening of Go Fish, a 1994 American film written by Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche and directed by Rose Troche.

The screening was followed by an open discussion with Marguerite McLaughlin, film freak and feminist and Joanne Garwood, Stonewall Digital Manager and penknives collector.

The report and video of this session are available here.

This month VITO took place on Wednesday 28th June with a screening of Tongues Untied, Marlon Riggs, directed by preceded by The Homecoming: A short film about Ajamu by Topher Campbell. 

The screening was followed by an open discussion with Topher Campbell, filmmaker and writer and Jacob V Joyce, non binary interdisciplinary artist

28th June at 7pm, Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), London SE11 4TH

This month VITO took place on Wednesday 31st May with a screening of Johnny Guitar.

The screening was followed by an open discussion with Robert Chevara and La JohnJoseph.

31st May at 7pm, Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), London SE11 4TH

This month VITO took take place on Wednesday 26th April with a screening of The Slippers.

The screening was followed by an open discussion with Susie Boyt.

26th April at 7pm, Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), London SE11 4TH

The report and video of this session are available here.

The series launched on Thursday 23rd March 2017 at 7pm with Sean Strub from the US, writer, activist and director of the SERO Project, introducing the series with a explorative look at the GIPA principles for the 21st Century: Can these principles be reconfigured to jump start more effective, more community-engaged advocacy for PrEP, HCV, testing and sexual health and social wellbeing? A report and a video of the session are available here.

The 25th screening of the VITO project took place on Wed 25th January: Theorem. The screening was followed by an open discussion with Robert Chevara, director and writer, and Simon McCallum, archive projects curator for the BFI. Seán McGovern, ardent cinephile and VITO team member, will be our MC for the evening. 

The 22nd screening of the VITO project took place on Wed 26th October: Stranger by the Lake. The screening was followed by an open discussion with Stephen Pelton, dancer and choreographer, and Damien Hughes, actor, writer. Neil Bartlett was our MC for the night. 

The 20th screening of the VITO project took place on Wed 31st August: Bette Bourne: It goes with the Shoes. The screening was followed by an open discussion with Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw. Neil Bartlett was our MC for the night. 

The 19th screening of the VITO Project, took place on Wed 27th July: Strangers on a Train. The screening was followed by an open discussion with Brian Mullin and Stephane Duckett and Sean McGovern was our MC for the night. 

The 12th screening of the VITO Project, took place on Wed 30th december with a screening of Cabaret. To celebrate our first year of screenings, as well as the holiday season and the end of the year, the screening was followed by a party rather than a discussion. The night proved to be a success with a full capacity crowd. Photos of the night are available on our Tumblr page.

The seventh screening of the VITO Project, a series of free monthly screenings bringing generations of LGBTs together to provide an alternative space to mix, watch films and share ideas, took place on Wed 29th July: The Killing of Sister George. The screening was followed by an open discussion led by Stella Duffy and Amie Taylor. CLICK HERE to access videos of the discussion.

For information on speakers at the event, please click here. To access the video documentary please click here. For a list of resources on Prophylaxis Pre-exposition (PrEP), please click here.

This roundtable on self-stigma was supported by International HIV Partnerships and ViiV Healthcare and coordinated by ReShape. 

A video of the roundtable is available on our youtube channel. To view the speakers' presentations please click here. 

The Positive Pub Crawl is a monthly event borne from ReShape's HIV Prevention Lab, and in partnership with GMFA; read more about the event HERE.

'Let's Talk About Gay Sex and Drugs': A communication forum open to all gay men living in London, to come talk about their experience of sex and drugs in the modern capital. Do you think there are still lingering elements of shame around gay sex? Do you think there is a problem with sexualised drug use on the gay scene, such as mephedrone, G and crystal meth? Or do you think the matter has been blown out of proportion? 

Come and have your say - everyone gets five minutes in front of the mic, and there's no interrupting. This is not a public debate, it's a platform designed to express and listen to different voices, with each voice as valid as the next. Discussion afterwards is encouraged, though. 

Speak in whichever format you feel most comfortable with, be it the telling of a story that's happened to you, spoken word poetics or simply getting stuff off your chest. To sign up for a slot leave a message on the event wall or send a private message.

From 6-8pm at Manbar, 79 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0NE.

Hosted by Pat Cash of QX Magazine, in association with David Stuart of 56 Dean Street. 56 Dean Street will also be on site offering free sexual health testing and advice upstairs.

READ MORE HERE   SEE VIDEO HERE

Dear Colleagues,

 HIV/AIDS Reporters’ Meeting 2014

We are pleased to invite you to our annual HIV Reporters’ Meeting. To be held at Public Health England, Colindale, London on 14th April, 2014. (see Agenda).

 

The meeting attracts many participants each year and is an opportunity for us to thank those who are directly involved with reporting HIV & STI surveillance data. Please do forward this invitation to other colleagues who may also be interested in attending.

 

The meeting is CPD accredited. If you would like to book a place please email me with your name and organisation as you prefer to see on the badge. We will be providing free lunch to all but we cannot reimburse travel cost. Please confirm your attendance before the 7th April 2014.

 

We look forward to seeing you in April.

Yours sincerely,

Janice Morgan

HIV/STI Information Assistant

Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control (CIDSC) | Public Health England

61 Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5EQ I 0208 3277005

[email protected]

Dear Colleagues, 

Sigma Research is undertaking an evaluation of HIV Prevention England campaign materials and online interventions among those populations that these materials target (Black African people of all sexualities and MSM of all ethnicities). If you want to take part, CLICK HERE.

And if you're in a position to circulate the fliers/posters and let other interested people know about the focus groups we will be holding in the coming weeks, it would be MUCH appreciated!
Regards, 

Dr Catherine Dodds
Lecturer and Deputy Director of Distance Learning in Global Health Policy
Sigma Research 
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Room 234, 15-17 Tavistock Place
London. WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom