Much of the conference's extensive cultural program took place here. Art groups, community groups, individual artists and singers performed daily here and on stages throughout the conference facilities. There were poetry readings, community parades, a fashion show of AIDS costumes and T-shirts, art workshops, sex worker performances and lots of dance and music. Plus, part of the AIDS Film Festival was shown here.

The conference committee wanted this cultural part to provide opportunities to explore expressions, feelings and being part of the solution in living and fighting with HIV/AIDS. There were booths for many groups -- from a group for the elderly, where mostly older Thai women hung out, to a Mexican booth selling tequila, to a youth booth with a host of activities and a separate GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered) booth also brimming with projects. Although this was a bustling place, few physicians or policy leaders seem to find there way here. It was as if, in this space, there was a separate conference occuring.

Because there were so many HIV-positive people present, and many hadn't disclosed widely, no photographs of people could be taken.