**Booking for this event is essential**
Before booking please be aware that some of the videos contain sexually explicit content and drug use which some viewers may find triggering and/or offensive.
No admission without prior booking.
No under 18s.
**Content warning: The videos contain graphic depictions of sexual acts and drug taking.**

Book here – Day With(out) Art 2025: Film Screening 18+ Tickets, Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM | Eventbrite

Golden Thread Gallery is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 by presenting Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.

Meet Us Where We’re At… will feature newly commissioned videos by Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria), Hoàng Thái Anh (Vietnam), Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal), Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil), Camila Flores-Fernández (Peru/Germany), and José Luis Cortés (Puerto Rico)

Commissioned videos by artists in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Nigeria, Germany, and Vietnam journey across a range of spaces revealing the complexity of drug use. Several videos document the visible world of drugs—a harm reduction program in a Berlin park, a night out during Rio’s Carnival—while others reveal private, often hidden spaces where safety is found: bedrooms, underground clinics, and moments of connection between lovers.

Meet Us Where We’re At speaks not only to the variety of physical locations where contemporary harm reduction is practiced, but also to a broader shift: centering drug users as authors of their own experiences. Rooted in the philosophy of meeting people at their personal reality without judgment, the program affirms the full context of drug use—its pleasures, its risks, and its role in how people survive, care, and connect.

Harm reduction has long been central to the AIDS movement through practices like needle exchange and safe injection sites, and people who use drugs have been affected by HIV since the earliest days of the epidemic. This program brings their perspectives to the forefront, amplifying the voices of drug users as storytellers, cultural producers, and essential participants in the global response to HIV.

Golden Thread Gallery will be screening the selected videos in our projection room in the Lower Gallery during a special event on Tuesday 2^nd December 2025 at 4pm. Booking is essential via our Eventbrite page.

Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

www.visualaids.org

Accessibility 

The Projection Room is accessed via the ground floor, which is step-free.

Please let us know if you have any questions or additional requirements, we are working hard to make the gallery as accessible as possible for everyone.

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