Gold Sponsors will receive 8 tickets to the Research In Action Awards on December 11,2011; An acknowledgment in the invitation and the RIAA journal; and one TAG Limited Edition print by Bill Jacobson.
Silver Sponsors will receive 4 tickets to the Research In Action Awards on December 11,2011; An acknowledgment in the invitation and the RIAA journal; and one TAG Limited Edition print by Bill Jacobson.
Bronze Sponsors will receive 2 tickets to the Research In Action Awards on December 11,2011; An acknowledgment in the invitation and the RIAA journal; and one TAG Limited Edition print by Bill Jacobson.
TAG Champions will receive 6 tickets to the Research In Action Awards on December 11,2011, and an acknowledgment in the invitation and the RIAA journal.
Half Price single ticket for friends under 30 or NGO staff [+]
$75.00
Attention pre-botox folks and NGO friends! TAG is pleased to offer a special ticket price of $75 per person for our friends who are under 30 or work for an NGO.
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EVENT DETAILS
Treatment Action Group's annual Research in Action Awards (RIAA) event honors activists, scientists,
philanthropists, and creative artists who have made extraordinary contributions
in the fight against AIDS. RIAA is a fundraiser to support TAG’s programs, and provides a forum to honor
heroes of the epidemic.
Now in its fifteenth year, this year’s
awards will be held on Sunday, December 11th, at the elegant MidTown
Loft, located at 267 Fifth Avenue (at East 29th Street) in New York
City. Again this year, our host for the 2011
awards presentations is Jenna Wolfe, weekend anchor
on NBC’s “Today Show.”
TAG
is proud to present its 2011 RIAA Awards to:
John Benjamin Hickey won the 2011 Tony Award for best featured actor in a play for his performance in the revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart. He made his Broadway debut in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! and reprised his part in the film version. He has also appeared on Broadway in The Crucible,Mary Stuart, and the Tony Award winning revival of Cabaret, opposite Natasha Richardson. His film work includes Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, The Ice Storm, The Anniversary Party, and has appeared on televsion in Me and My Shadows: Life with Judy Garland, Sex and the City, the Good Wife, and many more.He is about to start shooting the third season of Showtime's The Big C, playing Laura Linney's crazy brother.
Dr. Polly Harrison,Founder of the Alliance for Microbicide Development, whose trail-blazing
advocacy for woman-controlled prevention methods led to the discovery last year
of an effective topical vaginal gel which reduced HIV acquisition by 44% among
sexually active women in South Africa.
Dr. Robert F. Siliciano, Medical Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
who made groundbreaking discoveries in the late 1990s which demonstrated the
size and location of the reservoir of latently infected CD4 T cells which
present the main target for HIV cure research. Currently his lab is leading the
search for new curative approaches.
2011 TAG Limited Edition: Acclaimed artist and photographer Bill Jacobson has generously donated a
limited edition of 20 original framed images: New Year’s Day #5090 [2003] is a 12”x10” archival pigment print, especially printed by the artist for TAG. Gold,
Silver and Bronze patrons of RIAA 2011 will receive one of these Limited
Editions as available. Jacobson has exhibited widely throughout the US and
Europe and is in major museum collections, including the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim
Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco MoMA, the Victoria and
Albert, and many others. A solo exhibit, Into
the Loving Nowhere (1989-now)
opens October 20th at Julie Saul Gallery in New York
City. Jacobson’s work is also included in the groundbreaking exhibit
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the
Brooklyn Museum. An
overview of Jacobson's work is available at his website: billjacobsonstudio.com.
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Treatment Action Group's annual Research in Action Awards (RIAA) event honors activists, scientists,
philanthropists, and creative artists who have made extraordinary contributions
in the fight against AIDS. RIAA is a fundraiser to support TAG’s programs, and provides a forum to honor
heroes of the epidemic.
