Hiroshima Day August 6 2009
The City of Toronto declares August 6th "Hiroshima Day". Hiroshima Day Peace Commemorations & Lantern Ceremony
Hope for a Nuclear Free World. World Peace starts with the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Join us for an evening of inspiring entertainment and speakers. Toronto Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square. (Alternate location in case of continued strike: Church of the Holy Trinity, behind Eaton Centre)
- Paper Cranes & Lantern Craft Tables at 4:30 pm.
- Peace Commemorations at 6:30 pm. Lantern Ceremony at 8:30 pm.
- With Keynote Speaker, Bruce Cox of Greenpeace.
- Featuring A-Bombing Survivors, Joe Ohori & Setsuko Thurlow.
- Performances by the Children's Choir, Yakudo Drummers,
- Northern Lights Chorus, Raging Grannies, Shakuhachi Flutist Keizan Nobuhara.
- "Hiroshima, Nagasaki Photo Exhibit and Survivors Artwork", Rotunda, Toronto City Hall (all day/evening).
Toronto Hiroshima Coalition Online: http://www.hiroshimadaycoalition.ca Details & media, contact Helen Chilas [email protected] or 416-473-8238. For table bookings: Barbara Birkett [email protected]
Nagasaki Day, August 9 2009
On August 9, the Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition presents Yuki Nakamura's award-winning documentary No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki and Anton Wagner's Veterans Against Nuclear War at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Court, North York, at 2 pm.
A panel with A-Bombing survivors Setsuko Thurlow and Joe Ohori, the filmmakers and peace activists follows the screenings.
Suggested donation $10.00
Media Advisory - Mayor David Miller to Speak Today at Toronto Hiroshima Day Peace Commemorations
TORONTO, Aug. 6 /CNW/ - City of Toronto proclaims August 6th Hiroshima Day on the 64th anniversary of the 1945 nuclear bombing.
"Today the threat of another use of nuclear weapons remains all too real and in solidarity with Mayors and citizens around the world, Toronto joins in supporting the Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign and the commitment to peace and a world free from nuclear weapons," reads the Toronto Hiroshima Day Proclamation to be presented by Mayor David Miller in a speech today at 7:00pm, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto.
"We, the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, learned with our bodies and souls that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot co-exist," says Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima a-bombing survivor.
A-Bombing Survivors Artwork and Hiroshima, Nagasaki Photo Exhibit will also be on display at Toronto City Hall. Event concludes with an evening Lantern Ceremony.
WHAT: "Hope for a Nuclear Free World" Toronto event
WHEN: Thursday August 6, 2009
Artwork / Photo Exhibit: 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Peace Commemorations: 6:30 p.m.
Lantern Ceremony: 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Rotunda, Toronto City Hall (Exhibit)
Nathan Phillips Square (Commemoration)
Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square (Lantern Ceremony)
All events are free. Evening speakers include Mayor David Miller, a-bombing survivors Setsuko Thurlow, Joe Ohori, and Bruce Cox of Greenpeace, plus children's choir, Japanese Yakudo Drummers, fifty-person Northern Lights Chorus, and Raging Grannies. Origami paper cranes / lantern craft tables. Presented by Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition: http://www.hiroshimadaycoalition.ca.
For further information: & INTERVIEWS Contact Helen Chilas, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, Email: , Telephone: (416) 473-8238
Proclamation 2009
Hiroshima Day
August 6, 2009
WHEREAS on this day sixty-four years ago, the City of Hiroshima was devastated by an atomic explosion causing the deaths of 140,000 people that year, severe illnesses in many and the subsequent deaths of tens of thousands more.
Today the threat of another use of nuclear weapons remains all too real and in solidarity with Mayors and citizens around the world, Toronto joins in supporting the Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign and the commitment to peace and a world free from nuclear weapons.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor David Miller, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim August 6, 2009 as "Hiroshima Day" to acknowledge those who work tirelessly to ensure that nuclear weapons will never be used again and to ensure that our cities remain safe for us and future generations.
Mayor David Miller
Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Events, 2008
The Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition (THDC) cordially invites you to attend the unveiling of the powerful exhibition of photographs from the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Rotunda inside Toronto City Hall on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 5:30 pm.
THDC is honoured to announce that the City of Toronto has been selected to host the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Photo Exhibit to be held concurrently with 101 cities across the United States. THDC is also very pleased to present Setsuko Thurlow, Member of the Order of Canada and Hibakusha (Hiroshima survivor), who will introduce the exhibition.
Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba of Hiroshima will also offer a personal video greeting to the citizens of Toronto in mutual respect for the decades of work done by the citizens of Toronto and Hiroshima on global peacebuilding and the Mayors for Peace campaign pressing together in solidarity for the abolition of nuclear weapons. "Our goal is to create awareness of the destructive power of nuclear weapons," says Setsuko Thurlow, "and the 25,000 armed nuclear weapons of which are still threatening humanity today."
The Hiroshima & Nagasaki Photo Exhibit features pictures and educational facts about the devastation of nuclear war. The exhibit also displays dramatic drawings and paintings from dozens of Hibakusha survivors of their painful memories during the first moments on the ground after the 1945 atomic bombings in Japan with the urgent message "never again".
The exhibit runs from August 6th-11th, 2008 in conjunction with the "Paths to Hope" Peace Commemoration and Lantern Ceremony on Saturday, August 9th, 2008 at the Toronto Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square beginning at 6:30 pm.
To RSVP for the August 6th, 2008 unveiling of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Photo Exhibition at the Rotunda, Toronto City Hall, please contact Helen Chilas, National Coordinator of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, via email h-chilas-at-rogers.com or cell at 416-473-8238
Note: If you would like to reserve a table at the Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Annual Peace Commemoration and Lantern Ceremony (August 9th at the Toronto Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square), please contact Dr. Barbara Birkett with Physicians for Global Survival at bbirkett-at-interlog.com.
http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/HiroshimaDayCoalition.htm http://www.HiroshimaDay.TYO.ca/
