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Hiroshima/Nagasaki Day Events

Oakville

The International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN - Oakville) is organizing two events to commemorate the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan

We encourage Oakville citizens and students to attend a candlelight vigil for peace at the Central Library on Tuesday, August 9 at 8 pm and to also visit a poster art exhibit at Town Hall from August 2 to August 12

On Tuesday, August 9 which is Nagasaki Day, a commemorative candlelight ceremony will be held at 8 pm in the square in front of the Central Library. The featured speaker is Hiroshima survivor and Order of Canada recipient, Setsuko Thurlow.

For more information about ICAN - Oakville, please contact the organization at (905) 849-5501 or (905) 849-7167 and learn more about the campaign by visiting www.icanw.org.

Co-sponsored by Physicians for Global Survival and the Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights

St Catherines

Annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki Lantern Service

The Annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki Lantern Service presented by Project Ploughshares Niagara will be held at the:
Peace Garden in Rennie Park Port Dalhousie
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Gather at 7:30 PM. Presentations start at 8:00 PM
Lanterns will be set out at 8:30 PM

Please join us in this important commemorative event. You are invited to take part in the setting out of the lanterns.

If you wish to speak or contribute in other ways to the service (read a poem, tell a story for example) please let me know.

Timothy Healey 905 341 3415

Toronto

The Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition is organizing the 66th commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th, 2011. This year, the annual Peace Commemoration will be held at 6:30 pm at the Church of the Holy Trinity (10 Trinity Square, behind the Eaton Centre), due to the reconstruction of our regular venue at the Nathan Phillips Square Peace Garden. With the theme, “Faith and Abolition: No Nuclear Weapons, No Nuclear Power,” this year’s interfaith commemoration will also address the nuclear disaster continuing to unfold in Fukushima, Japan, connecting our growing concern about nuclear power and its relationship to nuclear weapons proliferation.

North York Civic Centre Survivors Artwork Exhibit, August 2-5:

An exhibition of photographs and paintings by Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bomb survivors will have an official opening at the North York Civic Centre on August 2 at 5:30 hosted by Toronto City Councillor John Filion. The exhibition is in the upstairs corridor of the North York Civic Centre. The opening reception is in the Members' Lounge one floor below. The exhibition is free of charge and runs until August 5. For further information, please consult our website http://www.myspace.com/hiroshimaday

Victoria

Nagasaki - Hiroshima Remembered
Aug. 9, 1945 - the day the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki

Tuesday August 9 7:30 pm

Craigflower Park / Kosapsom corner of Admirals Road and Gorge Road

This is the annual lantern ceremony,marking the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. To remember this date and those who died, we make origami cranes and lanterns and offer words of peace.

Lantern making starts at 7 pm, with words and songs of peace at 7:30 pm, followed by floating the lanterns in the Gorge. Lanterns with battery candles may be placed on the lawn.

Bring a blanket and/or chair to sit on and a battery candle if you wish. Floating lantern supplies will be provided.

All welcome.

Sponsored by - The Victoria Raging Grannies, Physicians for Global Survival, Victoria Nikkei Cultural Society, Victoria Peace Coalition, The Council of Canadians - Victoria.

For more information, call Virginia 778-433-3535
Victoria Peace Coalition dolcla-at-islandnet.com

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