Hiroshima Nagasaki Remembrance Day & Peace Lantern Ceremony

Annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance Day and Floating Peace Lantern Ceremony

Saturday, August 6, 2022,  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Lovers Point Beach Cove, Ocean View Blvd., at 17^th Street, Pacific Grove, CA

The public is invited to gather to remember and honor those who suffered and still suffer, from the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on August 6th and 9th, 1945. This year’s commemoration marks the 77^th anniversary of the bombings and reaffirms the imperative for global nuclear abolition and prohibition so that such a tragedy is never repeated. This free event will be respectful, inclusive, and free of cultural appropriation.

Sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Monterey County Branch in partnership with Monterey Peace and Justice Center (MPJC), Monterey Peninsula Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Peace Coalition of Monterey County (PCMC), and Veterans For Peace, Chapter 46.

Speakers:  Dr. Chris Hasegawa (Professor Emeritus, College of Science @ CSUMB), Patrice Vecchione  (poet/writer), Dr, Jennifer Lagier Fellguth (poet/writer), Alison Kerr (Del Rey Oaks Mayor, representing Mayors for Peace), Carole Erickson (Monterey Peninsula Friends Meeting, Quakers), Sylvia Shih (peace activist), Michael Dempsey (president, Veterans For Peace Chapter 46), and Sharat G. Lin, PhD. (research fellow with Human Agenda).  Emcee:  Beverly Bean, Chair of WILPF Monterey County Branch

Program:

7:00 pm: Lantern making and performance of Monterey’s Taiko Drumming group, Shinsho-Mugen Daiko.

7:45 pm: Music, poetry, and brief stories and messages of hope and peace.

8:15 pm: Launching of the peace lanterns.  Tai Chi Master Jim Scott-Behrends will play Japanese shakuhachi flute while the lanterns float across the cove waters, pulled by kayaks.

Photos courtesy of Margret Maria Cordts:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cordts/36530044991/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cordts/36648782745/in/photostream/

Facebook Event:      https://www.facebook.com/events/387860520077949/
Event flyer:               https://tinyurl.com/Peace-Lantern-2022
Photos from prior years: 2018, 2019, 2021