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Overview
New Zealand Quilt Project, An AIDS Memorial Protocols.
Included in this are the various policies regarding:
- Formal structure regarding the display and unveiling of the Quilt
- The mission statement of the organisation
- History of the quilt
- How to display the quilt
- How to plan for a display
- Forming a host committee
- Sale of merchandise
- Closing ceremony
- Unfolding ceremony
- Reading of the names
- Creation of a signature panel
- Creation of a quilt memorial panel
- Preparation of the quilt and unfolding of the quilt
- Protocols of the organisation such as travel, finances, pamphlets and media involvement.
This Archive is associated to the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt creation.The New Zealand Quilt Project dates from 1988 to 2002, and is part of a worldwide movement that grew from communities most affected by HIV and AIDS. Each quilt panel represents a person who died of AIDS, and was made by family members, partners and/or friends.
The Quilt concept originated in San Francisco in 1987 in response to the devastating impact of AIDS. Its intention was to raise awareness and enable loved ones to express feelings of love, loss and regret in a permanent and tangible way.
The quilt panels are moving, creative and positive memorials to those who died, and testaments to love and community support. Their presence and endurance reminds both of the need for remembrance and compassion, but also the need for continued awareness and education in response to HIV and AIDS. AIDS deaths have dropped in New Zealand because of medication, but HIV infections have risen due to complacency brought about by the medication.