AIDS Mural Handbook: Beyond Awareness Campaign

This illustrated booklet provides information on mural painting with a focus on experiences and images from the 1995-1996 seven-city mural project in South Africa, and is a guide for people interested in developing an AIDS mural. The Beyond Awareness Campaign (BAC)focuses on developing murals at and around South African tertiary institutions. The booklet breaks down the nine basic steps to consider when initiating a mural painting program: :

• a synopsis of AIDS Murals in South Africa
• approaches to participatory mural development
• funding and budgets
• site location and permission
• choosing the group
• workshops
• materials and equipment
• the painting process
• documentation

The steps are reinforced with detailed descriptions and photographs of the seven murals completed in the BAC. The murals were completed in East London, Durban, Johannesburg, Gugulethu, Bloemfontein, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth.

BAC was a multimedia communications campaign conducted by a consortium of organizations on behalf of the HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Directorate of the National Department of Health.