FrEE RIDE: Positive(in)Life+

An open discussion with Logan Bellew

How is it really to be positively creative, to think positive, to lead a positive life? How does a moment feel like, when you first find out you are HIV positive? How do you deal with it and come to realise it? How is your life different when you become positive?

The photographer Logan Bellew is introducing in a very special and personal FrEE RIDE this time, entitled “Positive(in)Life+”. Logan is a photographer, an activist and an HIV positive man. He lives and works in the US and has a special connection to Cyprus. We invited him to initiate a discussion at FrEE RIDE, and talk about his love for photography, his personal moments connected to HIV, his first reactions, his activities and who he is today.

Language: English
This is an open event to everyone. No fees apply.

This FrEE RIDE is a part of Cyprus PRIDE 2015, and is organised by the HIV/AIDS Solidarity Movement Cyprus, Accept LGBT Cyprus and Veramand.com

info: Christos Krasidis, Tel. 70.000.625
Public Relations Officer - HIV/AIDS Solidarity Movement

Logan Bellew
Logan Bellew was born in Mesa, Arizona (1988) and resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in photography, a Bachelors of Arts in art history from Arizona State University and is currently pursuing his Masters of Fine Arts in photography at the University of New Mexico. Logan's work has been included in exhibitions at the Princeton University Art Museum, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Photographic Center Northwest, the Tamarind Institute, the Scottsdale Public Art program, as well as galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Phoenix, Arizona, and Negev, Israel. Logan is currently an Instructor of Record in photography at the University of New Mexico. He has worked on photo archiving, curatorial, and catalog publication projects with the Princeton University archeological excavations in Polis Chrysochous, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the University of New Mexico Art Museum. His photographic work currently brings him to Cyprus where he works with LGBTQ and HIV advocacy organizations. His work at present addresses the acts of hiding, revealing, and notions of connection within the LGBTQ community of Cyprus.

HIV/AIDS Solidarity Movement, Cyprus
The movement aims to provide support to HIV positive people, people whos lives have been affected from HIV/AIDS and their families. We promote awareness and education for the virus and we stand against the stigma, as well as and any kind of discrimination these people face.
You can contact us by calling (+357) 99 60 90 70.

Accept LGBT Cyprus
Accept is a group of people comprising and relating to people regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic, cultural background, religious background, language, health condition, physical condition or other features and we demand constantly, and dynamically, the acceptance, the mutual acceptance, the empowerment and the support for each other, bringing on an equal footing with the Cypriot society, issues that concern the LGBT community.

FrEE RIDE and Veramànd
FrEE RIDE is the open discussion platform by Veramànd, hosting people and specific topics, in order to initiate personal discussion, aiming to self-development. Numerous artists have taken part in FrEE RIDE up to now, such as the choreographer Antigone Gyra from Athens, the composer Panos Kolias from Germany, the academic rapper Stereo Mike, BBC Director Susannah Tresilian from London, CyBC director Klitos Klitou and the choreographer Jake Athanasiades.

Veramand aims to give the opportunity to young and creative people, to express themselves through art, realise their projects using cutting-edge technologies, implement and promote their works, through the development of their own creative business thinking. We invest in the people’s dynamics, in unique personalities that seek for a platform which will allow them to grow, through method and knowledge development.