World AIDS Day- "Rethink, Rebuild, Rise" at Bloomington Public Library

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World AIDS Day - "Rethink, Rebuild, Rise"
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Bloomington Public Library, Community Rooms 2 and 3
On Monday, December 1, 2025, the community of Bloomington will gather for a special event to mark World AIDS Day. Organized by Prairie Pride Coalition, McLean County Health Department, Positive Health Solutions, Central Illinois Friends, Carle Health, and McLean County Museum of History, the event will bring together people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, healthcare and social services providers, advocacy groups, community leaders, and caring citizens.

This year’s global theme for World AIDS Day is “Rethink. Rebuild. Rise.” Locally, McLean County's theme is “40 Years Later, Remembering Mclean County's first loss to AIDS.”

As part of this commemoration, six quilt blocks from the AIDS Memorial Quilt, each one containing a quilt with a local connection to McLean County, will be on display. The quilt blocks will remain on display during library hours Dec. 1 - 5. Additionally, an AIDS Awareness Ribbon afghan, made by local knitters and crocheters, will also be displayed. The afghan was created to honor of long-term survivors of AIDS in honor of World AIDS Day. The squares created (using an Awareness Ribbon pattern) will not only remember those we have lost, the squares will also lift up those currently living with AIDS.

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