Luchador and celebrated El Paso/Ciudad Juárez icon Cassandro El Exotico will be the special guest of the Border AIDS Partnership (BAP) Red Gala Fashion Show at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 14th in the El Paso Foundation Room, 333 N. Oregon Street.

Presented in collaboration with Lijuro Productions, the Red Gala Fashion Show opens El Paso Fashion Week. The event will feature a runway highlighting local designers and boutiques from El Paso in efforts to raise awareness and funding for local AIDS/HIV support.

The celebrated wrestler is the subject of the new Amazon feature film, Cassandro, which opened in theater on September 15th, and is streaming on Amazon Prime. Tickets are $25 general admission, $50 VIP (which includes front-row seating and a drink) and are on sale at https://epcf.org/BorderAIDS.

The El Paso Community Foundation and the US/Mexico Border Health Association created a local HIV/AIDS partnership in 1994 to provide assistance to nonprofit organizations in the region working on this critical health problem. With support from AIDS United, the collaboration became the Border AIDS Partnership, a bi-national and tri-state collaborative that provides funding for HIV/AIDS education and prevention activities in El Paso, southern New Mexico, and Ciudad Juárez. BAP now operates as an independent 501c3 nonprofit.

Since 1996, the Border AIDS Partnership has distributed more than $2.3 million to support innovative HIV prevention and education programs. Previous grantees include Centro Caritativo Para Atención de Enfermos de SIDA, University Medical Center of El Paso’s Teen Advisory Board, Programa Compañeros, HIVida support group, Actúa y Toma El Control, Opportunity Center for the Homeless, and Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, Families & Youth, Inc.

Please follow BAP on Facebook and Instagram. For more information, call: (915) 533-4020

Contact: Wayne Hilton – President, Border AIDS Partnership, whilton.bap@gmail.com Daniel Hernandez – nanohernandez@msn.com