2011 Research In Action Awards

TAG's annual Research in Action Awards (RIAA) honors activists, scientists, philanthropists, and creative artists who have made extraordinary contributions in the fight against AIDS. RIAA is a fundraiser to support TAG’s programs, and provides a forum to honor heroes of the epidemic.

To purchase tickets or to sponsor this year's RIAA, please click HERE.

To place an advertisement in the RIAA Journal, please click HERE.

To download a sponsorship form and send it by mail, please click HERE.

Now in its fifteenth year, the 2011 RIAA will be held on:

Sunday, December 11, from 6 to 8pm
At the MidTown Loft
267 Fifth Avenue at E. 29 St.
New York City

Again this year, our host for the 2011 awards presentations is Jenna Wolfe, weekend anchor on NBC’s “Today Show.”

TAG is proud to present its 2011 RIAA Awards to:

  • John Benjamin Hickey won the 2011 Tony Award for best featured actor in a play for his performance in the revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart. He made his Broadway debut in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! and reprised his part in the film version. He has also appeared on Broadway in The Crucible, Mary Stuart, and the Tony Award winning revival of Cabaret, opposite Natasha Richardson. His film work includes Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, The Ice Storm, The Anniversary Party, and has appeared on televsion in Me and My Shadows: Life with Judy Garland, Sex and the City, the Good Wife, and many more. He is about to start shooting the third season of Showtime's The Big C, playing Laura Linney's crazy brother.
     
  • Dr. Polly Harrison, Founder of the Alliance for Microbicide Development, whose trail-blazing advocacy for woman-controlled prevention methods led to the discovery last year of an effective topical vaginal gel which reduced HIV acquisition by 44% among sexually active women in South Africa.
  • Dr. Robert F. Siliciano, Medical Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who made groundbreaking discoveries in the late 1990s which demonstrated the size and location of the reservoir of latently infected CD4 T cells which present the main target for HIV cure research. Currently his lab is leading the search for new curative approaches.

 

Presenters:

Andy Cohen, Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development at Bravo Television Network

Mark Harrington, TAG Executive Director

TAG Limited Editions: Acclaimed artist and photographer Bill Jacobson has generously donated a limited edition of 20 original framed images: New Year’s Day #5090 [2003] is a 12”x10” archival pigment print, especially printed by the artist for TAG.

Gold, Silver and Bronze patrons of RIAA 2011 will receive one of these Limited Editions as available.

Jacobson has exhibited widely throughout the US and Europe and is in major museum collections, including the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco MoMA, the Victoria and Albert, and many others. A solo exhibit, Into the Loving Nowhere (1989-now) opens October 20th at Julie Saul Gallery in New York City. Jacobson’s work is also included in the groundbreaking exhibit Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum. An overview of Jacobson's work is available at his website: billjacobsonstudio.com.

To purchase tickets or to sponsor this year's RIAA, please click HERE.

Sponsorship Levels

  • $10,000 - Gold (8 tickets to RIAA, acknowledgement in invitation and journal, and limited art edition)
     
  • $5,000 - Silver (4 tickets to RIAA, acknowledgement in invitation and journal, and limited art edition)
     
  • $3,500 - Bronze (2 tickets to RIAA, acknowledgement in invitation and journal, and limited art edition)
     
  • $1,500 - Champion (6 tickets to RIAA and acknowledgement in invitation and journal)
     
  • $600 - Supporter (2 tickets to RIAA and acknowledgement in invitation and journal)
     
  • $300 - Friend (1 ticket to RIAA and acknowledgement in invitation and journal)
     
  • $150 - Single ticket to attend RIAA

 

To place an advertisement in the RIAA Journal, please click HERE.

Journal Advertisement Rates

  • $10,000 - Two-Page Journal Advertisement + 10 tickets to RIAA
     
  • $5,000 - Full-Page Journal Advertisement + 8 tickets to RIAA
     
  • $3,000 - Half-Page Journal Advertisement + 4 tickets to RIAA
     
  • $1,500 - Quarter-Page Journal Advertisement + 2 tickets to RIAA
     
  • $750 - Eighth-Page Journal Advertisement + 1 ticket to RIAA

 

NOTE:  Journal advertisers will be contacted by the TAG office to secure artwork and/or provide assistance in designing the advertisement.

To download a sponsorship form and send it by mail, please click HERE.

2011 SPONSORS

 

SILVER
David Corkery
Richard Lynn & Joseph Evall

BRONZE
Alby P. Maccarone, Jr.
Robert Monteleone

CHAMPION
Benjamin, Christine & Darius Anagnos
Bickerstaff Family Foundation
Barbara Hughes & Andrea Benzacar Dailey
Jason Osher & Richard Schubel
Mario J. Palumbo Jr. & Stefan Gargiulo
Frank Rappa
Bruce Schackman & Ed Sikov

SUPORTER
Jeanne Bergman & Anna Kramarsky
Scott P. Campbell
Edward J. Davis & Thomas D. Phillips
Kevin & Neil Goetz
Rene Gonzalez
Jacquelyn Grimm
Trip Gulick M.D. & Tom Beckett
Mark Harrington
Mirla & George Morrison
Jamie Saakvitne & Daniel Chow
David Sigal & Brad Hoylman
Monte Steinman

FRIEND
Denise B. Dailey
Joy Episalla
Michael Longacre
Joseph McConnell & Erik Haagensen
Laura Morrison
Andrew & Andrea Potash
Margie & Mort Steinberg
Forrest Williams

Special thanks to Armani Exchange, Bill Jacobson, J.Lohr Vineyards & Wines, and the watsons.