Arizona Paint and Pop on World AIDS Day

HEAL International, "a nonprofit organization that provides healthcare, microfinance, and health education to resource limited communities," and local electro pop band Peachcake have teamed up for the fourth Annual World AIDS Day Paint for Peace, where attendees may come and paint canvas artworks that will be sewn into the AIDS Quilt. Peachcake and local dance crew Elektrolytes will perform at the free event on December 1 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Old Main lawn on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe, Arizona

In honor of the event, Peachcake singer Stefan Pruett put together a nine-song mix of tracks he says were chosen after he put himself in an AIDS patient's shoes—of someone who desires love and doesn't want to be judged. Pruett, who conceived the Paint for Peace event and has been coordinating it with HEAL International for the past four years, says, "I think the biggest revelation for me through all this was, really, the power of hope and love is great, and that's something that I think in the long run no disease will be able to defeat."

The Friends of AIDS Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.

TOGETHER WE REMAIN STRONG!