Programs

This December, in recognition of World AIDS Awareness Month, the New York State Museum presents a staged reading of Night Turns to Day, an original play by Toni Lester. Blending music, memory, and heartfelt storytelling, the play follows the relationship between a young Black gay man living with HIV and his beloved grandmother. Moving between her coming-of-age during the Great Depression and his life many decades later at the height of the AIDS epidemic, the story explores themes of love, identity, resilience, and the strength of intergenerational connection in communities of color.