World AIDS Day 2007

Saturday 1st December: World AIDS Day in James Town. 70 young people aged from seven to twenty seven parade through the community, singing, banging drums, dancing. Every now and then they stop, spread out and form an impromptu acting space where, from nothing, a performance (and an audience) appears.

This video was made while walking, dancing and drumming with the guys from the James Town Community Theatre Centre as they took the message of HIV prevention back to the community from where their performances, their stories originate. The dusty streets and stifling heat was no match for their unbelievable enthusiasm, although, by the end, back at CTC drinking Malta and eating biscuits, there were two words on everyone's lips: "I'm tired".

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