On 1 December, World AIDS Day, the City of Strasbourg organized a series of events to mark the renewed commitment on the part of everyone in the fight against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

The hosts at Ciarus played their part by creating a collective work of dense chalk on canvas.

For a whole week, no less than 50 students and backpackers, French, Italian, English, German, and Scottish, passing through our area, contributed their ideas to the canvases, with the power of their imagination and their reactions to AIDS.

The themes which came up over and over again were love, death, and pleasure. As well as the choice of colours or forms, we also engaged with them on more profound subjects such as the nature of commitment or confidence in their partner.
Some of the discussions which livened up the evenings in the bar in the course of a week:
- At what stage can an embryo be considered to be a human being?
- At what age should schoolchildren be made aware?
- Why don’t we have a condom dispenser at Ciarus? and so on and so on.....

The canvases are on display in the reception hall of the Administration Centre, 1 Place de l’Etoile, Strasbourg, until 29 December 2007.