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Reminder: 2010 From Hiroshima to Hope ceremony is Friday evening at Green Lake Park

What do you think? (10 Comments) August 5, 2010 at 9:03AM

This year’s From Hiroshima to Hope ceremony takes place tomorrow (Friday, August 6, 2010), 6:00 – 9:30 p.m.

The event will be on the northwest shore of Green Lake, south of the Bathhouse Theater (7312 West Green Lake Dr N).

6 p.m. Gathering
Lantern preparation, meditation space, music

7 p.m. Family Program – Storytelling, music, speakers:
Maryam Borghey, National Iranian American Council
Gene Tagaban, storyteller
Seattle Kokan Taiko drum performance group
Youth creative writing group Hope for Youth from El Centro de la Raza
Keynote speaker Mona Akmal, co-founder of Dreamfly

9 p.m. Toro Nagashi lantern floating ceremony
Kanjin Cederman, Seattle Nichiren Buddhist Church
Marcia Takamura, koto musician
James Jennings, shakuhatchi musician

Event organizers says that they are still “desperately” seeking volunteers for the event, which is soley organized and run by volunteers. Help will be needed throughout the day and evening on Friday. Please email fhthvolunteers[at]gmail.com, call 206-453-4471, or leave a comment on the From Hiroshima to Hope facebook page if you are available.

 

Greg Wright shepherds lanterns to deeper water during the Hiroshima to Hope event, Aug. 5, 2007. Photo credit: Mike Urban, seattlepi.com. Used with permission.

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What do you think? (10 Comments)
  • David

    I'll be there to honor the 20 million killed by Imperial Japan.

  • Jeff

    I'll be there to honor the innocent civilians killed by both Axis and Allied forces.

  • Bill

    David, you should honor those millions. But do try to remember that, by and large, the victims of Hiroshima were innocent civilians who had no more to do with the death of those millions than I had with the recent deaths of 200,000 Iraqis.

  • David

    The victims in Nanjing were innocent too. Go talk to some Chinese or Koreans who experienced Japanese fascism, see if they mourn the a-bombs freeing them from genocide, slaughter and slavery. Funny how that never gets mentioned at the Hiroshima peace events.

    If the Japanese didn't want to be bombed, maybe they shouldn't have started by bombing civilians in Shanghai in the 30s and maybe their prime ministers should stop paying respect to the Class A war criminals enshrined at Yasukuni shrine.

    But again, never mentioned at he Hiroshima Peace activities, who's sole purpose to to make Japan look like the victim.

  • David

    THat's good, because even today the officials in Hiroshima refuse to add the names of Korean slave laborers killed in the bombing to the official list of names of victims. Japanese only.