Alliance Peer Holiday Party 2024

Our Peer winter holiday party was held earlier this month at Alliance, with most of our 100 Peers, and Alliance’s senior leadership attending the merry communal event, featuring food, decorations, and smiles.

Photos: David Nager/Alliance

Alliance Staff Holiday Party 2024

We held our staff holiday party onsite this Wednesday, December 17. There was a great turnout, and prizes given out to our ugly sweater contest winners.

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25th Year Celebration of Creative Writing Workshop

On Tuesday, December 17, Alliance held a ceremony to mark the 25th Anniversary of our Creative Writing Workshop. The participants wrote collaborative group poems before breaking for lunch, then watching videos and slideshows about the poetry workshop’s rich history, and holding a poetry reading by participants and staff.

Speakers included Alliance CEO Sharen Duke, original workshop facilitator Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, and Allen Zwickler and Caren Levine—Trustees of the Phil Zwickler Memorial and Charitable Foundation Trust, which has generously supported the CWW for over 20 years.

The workshop has been a staple of Alliance’s holistic healing. In 1999, funders scoffed at Sharen’s suggestion that writing poetry and other forms of creative expression could be beneficial to people living with HIV/AIDS. But we have seen throughout the decades how poetry has transformed lives, and Tuesday was a celebration of our workshop, and poets past and present. Thank you to the Phil Zwickler Memorial and Charitable Foundation Trust for your amazing partnership.

Photos: David Nager/Alliance

Winter Holiday Party 2024

Alliance held our annual Winter Holiday Party Thursday, December 12 at St. Anthony of Padua in SOHO. Over 300 program participants came to enjoy the great food, music, and atmosphere during our extended lunch/dinner service. Everyone left with holiday gifts for adults or young kids. All photos: David Nager/Alliance