question: Who was both a long time AIDS activist and prominent of innovative ways to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience? 
answer: John Giorno
context: Title: Fig Trees
  Passage: Fig Trees is a 2009 Canadian operatic documentary film written and directed by John Greyson.  It follows South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat and Canadian AIDS activist Tim McCaskell as they fight for access to treatment for HIV/AIDS.  It was also inspired by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts".  The film premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary.
  Title: John Giorno
  Passage: John Giorno (born December 4, 1936) is an American poet and performance artist.  He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including "Dial-A-Poem".  He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film "Sleep" (1963).  He is also an AIDS activist and fundraiser, and a long-time practitioner of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
  Title: Tata Theatre
  Passage: The Tata Theatre is a 1010-seat premier staging facility for music, dance and drama at the NCPA complex in downtown Mumbai, and is the brainchild of Dr. J.J. Bhabha.  It is India’s first theatre designed and built keeping in mind the unique acoustic and visual requirements for the staging of Indian music, dance and related art forms, and was constructed by Larsen & Toubro Limited.
  Title: SoundEye Festival
  Passage: The SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word is an annual festival of poetry and other related art forms.  It is held annually in Cork City over several days in either late-June to mid-July, with over 20 poets reading at the 2017 event.  Events take place in venues such as the Guesthouse and Firkin Crane within the city.
  Title: Giorno Poetry Systems
  Passage: Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and techniques.
  Title: Chinese opera
  Passage: Traditional Chinese opera (), or Xiqu, is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China.  It is a composite performance art that is an amalgamation of various art forms that existed in ancient China, and evolved gradually over more than a thousand years, reaching its mature form in the 13th century during the Song Dynasty.  Early forms of Chinese theater are simple, but over time they incorporated various art forms, such as music, song and dance, martial arts, acrobatics, as well as literary art forms to become traditional Chinese opera.
  Title: Gregg Gonsalves
  Passage: Gregg Gonsalves is an HIV/AIDS activist and advocate.  He began working with ACT UP in 1990, going on to found Treatment Action Group.  He found out he was HIV+ in 1995.  He has authored three reports of HIV and written many publications including the 1992 critical review "AIDS research at the NIH" and a report from the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition in 2006.  In 1992 one of his reports resulted in the Clinton Administration reorganising of AIDS research, and he continued to lobby the administration in his role as policy director of the Treatment Action Group in New York.  At the International AIDS Conference, held in Toronto, Gonsalves gave a powerful speech on the 25 years of AIDS.  Gregg Gonsalves has completed studies at Yale University.  In 2008, he received $100,000 as the first recipient of the AIDS Leadership Award
  Title: Simon Watney
  Passage: Simon Watney is a British writer, art historian, and AIDS activist.  His 1987 article, "The Spectacle of AIDS", was included in "The Gay and Lesbian Studies Reader".  He published " Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media" in 1987 and "Imagine Hope: AIDS and the Gay Identity" in 2002.  His latest book is "Twenty Sussex Churches".
  Title: KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival
  Passage: KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival is an annual festival in Amsterdam for all things animated, first held in 2007.  KLIK likes to showcase animation in all of its shapes and sizes and related art forms, giving a platform to animated feature films, shorts, commercials, video games, music videos, comics, and installations.
  Title: Art of the AIDS Crisis
  Passage: A common ideology in AIDS activist organizations was that art may be able to deliver a message, but could never save lives as science could.  Art of the AIDS crisis typically sought to: make a sociopolitical statement, stress the medical impact of the disease, or express feelings of longing and loss.  These ideologies were present in conceptions of art in the 1980s, but are pertinent to reception of art today as well.  More specifically, Elizabeth Taylor spoke at a benefit for AIDS involving artwork, emphasizing its importance to activism in that, "art lives on forever."  This comment articulates the ability of artwork from this time to teach and impact contemporary audiences, post-crisis.  This page examines the efforts of artists, art collectives, and art movements to make sense of such an urgent pandemic in American society.
citations: John Giorno Giorno Poetry Systems