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The
AIDS benefit to feature art,
jazz
May
18, 2006: Jackson Sun
The
Dickson Gallery of Fine Art
and the West Tennessee Healthcare
Foundation will present "Fine
Art & Big Hearts" from
7 to 10 p.m. Friday as a benefit
event for St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital's Pediatric
AIDS Program.
The
public is invited to attend
the event, which will take place
in downtown Jackson. One hundred
percent of ticket proceeds will
be donated to the Pediatric
AIDS Program, according to a
news release.
The
benefit will feature fine art
by the Dickson Gallery of Fine
Art and Art Under a Hot Tin
Roof, live jazz by Southern
Comfort and heavy hors d'oeuvres
by Creative Catering.
East
Lafayette Street will be blocked
off between Highland Avenue
and Liberty Street to accommodate
those who attend. Tickets are
available now for a $30 donation
and can be picked up at the
Dickson Gallery, 118 E Lafayette
St.; the Celtic Moor, 31-B Wiley
Parker Road; Bella Mlange,
80 Innsdale Cove, Suite A-B;
and the Modern Stationer, 907
Vann Drive, Suite E. Tickets
also can be purchased online.
About
90 percent of children with
HIV are infected through their
HIV-positive mothers, either
before or during birth, the
release said.
The
best hope for treating HIV/AIDS
might be finding the right combination
of drugs to stop the mother-to-infant
transmission of the virus and
inhibit the replication of HIV
within an infected person's
body.
Discoveries
have been made at St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital that have
changed how the world treats
children with catastrophic diseases.
Friday's
fund-raiser is sponsored by
Allegra Print and Imaging, Bella
Mélange Int., Cadillac/Saab
of Memphis, le Diva's, Modern
Stationer, Robert's Jewelers,
Scott Chiropractic Clinic, and
the West Tennessee Healthcare
Foundation.
For
more information, visit www.dicksongallery.com
or call 423-9708.
Originally
published May 18, 2006
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