Event Spotlight: World AIDS Day Medicine Wheel Vigil At The Cyclorama

Article info and text provided by the organizer. 

Medicine Wheel, a public art installation and vigil run by artist Michael Dowling and held annually at the Boston Center for the Arts, is the longest running Boston Area World AIDS Day event. 

Medicine Wheel provides a safe place to gather and reflect on the impact of the pandemic, while artists offer their gifts of music, dance and poetry. 

The exhibit runs midnight-to-midnight, and it's free and open to the public.

The schedule of artists and performers at the vigil is as follows:

Midnight:  Deanna Pellechia & Ingrid Schatz
 1 aM:
 2 aM: Glass Ensemble
 3 aM:
 5 aM: Cambridge Zen Center chant
 6 aM: Faith Johnson
 7 aM: Robert & Sheila Frankel: Kaddish
 8 aM:
 9 aM: Alice Vogler:
10 aM: Jane Wang
11 aM: Kurt Winnika
11:30 aM: Nancy Armstrong
 noon: 
 1 pM: Sam Ou, cellist.
 2 pM: Kurt Reynolds
 3 pM: Lewis Gesner and Huang Min-Chi, Deejay Robinson acapella
 4 pM: Donna Folan/ Until Tomorrow Prod.
 4 pM: Book of Hope, Raw Art Works, Teen Center at St. Peters, Zumix, The Theater Offensive (True Colors), Teen Empowerment, Artovation, Hyde Square Task Force (Ritmo en Accion)
 5 pM: Philip Robin
 6 pM:
 6:30 pM: Nebula String Quartet
 7 pM: Julie Judson and Greg Storella
 7 pM: Paula Plum and Kerry Dowling
 7:30 pM: SpeakEasy Stage
 8 pM: Anne Rookey/ Brandeis dance
 8:30 pM: Starving Artists
 9 pM: Marlene Tholl
10 pM: Bruce Baldwin Pagan Community Offering
11 pM:
Midnight: Michael Dowling