A Humanist Partnership For Social Change: The Arts, Technology, Medicine.

 Real Stories Gallery is a conversation created by our visual arts and stories, to shift perceptions surrounding HIV and AIDS. Today HIV affects the lives of men, women and children on all continents around the world. Artists, poets, writers and storytellers from across the breadth and depth of our communities, will share their experiences, reflections and life-saving knowledge. By working together we will inspire a culture of compassion and acceptance for our neighbours whose lives are affected.

We invite the Creative Arts to share with us their experiences and reflections, inspired by a life affected by HIV/AIDS within their community, or social and professional networks. We invite those working on the front line of HIV prevention and treatment to share their lifesaving knowledge. We invite the world of technology to help our stories and collective knowledge flow out of and into and between our communities around the world.

We invite all our visitors to actively participate, through sharing their own stories on , and through the telling and re-telling of everyone's stories, to spread awareness throughout the depth and breadth of our communities. Visitors will also have the opportunity to buy some of the artworks within the gallery to directly support visual artists and their families, and to make a donation to support the highly effective Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation's Mobile Tutu Tester Community Clinics.

Everyone's contribution to Real Stories Gallery will play an important role within this collaborative and community-led conversation. Together we can mobilize and harness humanity's immense creative capacity to heal and effect social change at the local level. Through the ingenuity of our global technologies, we can support each other, cross-fertilize lifesaving ideas and inspire those much needed ethical values, without which our human dignity and respect for each other would be under threat.

The World Is Changed By Individuals. You Are One of Them. The Power of Real Stories Gallery is the power of EVERYONE's professionalism and vision  Thank you for your friendship and support.