ACRIA 24th Annual Holiday Dinner
A highlight of each winter benefit season since 1995, ACRIA’s Holiday Dinner garners incomparable media attention and is truly unique in its ability to draw leaders from fashion, media, art, and design, alongside New York City’s downtown luminaries. Taking place each December, the evening includes a cocktail reception, dinner, and award presentation.
This year, ACRIA will present the the Artists Ending AIDS Award to renowned visual artist and longtime ACRIA supporter, Peter McGough.
Visit the Holiday Dinner page for more information or to purchase tickets or tables.
Past awardees include photographer and activist Nan Goldin, actor Alan Cumming, artists Anne Collier & Matthew Higgs, artist and ACRIA co-founder Ross Bleckner, actress Judith Light, photographers Inez and Vinoodh, actress Drew Barrymore, writer and activist Larry Kramer, ACRIA co-founders Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera, artists Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz, writer Bob Colacello, Spyros Niarchos and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, John Demsey, Chairman of Estée Lauder and MAC AIDS Fund, and many others. The inaugural Young Leadership Award was presented to long-time Young Friend of ACRIA and Executive Director of Art Production Fund Casey Fremont in 2016, ACRIA board member and fashion designer Jason Wu in 2017 and Out Magazine Editor-in-Chief Phillip Picardi in 2018.
Founded in 1991, ACRIA envisions a world where all people with HIV receive the treatment, care, and support they need to lead healthy, productive lives and where new transmissions of the virus have been eliminated. As pioneers of HIV research, prevention, and health education, created and funded by creative communities, we get lifesaving information to the people who need it the most. In 2018, ACRIA entered a strategic partnership with GMHC.
