07 Aug. '10
- Peace Lantern Ceremony
- Time: 7:00 pm
- Event Description: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration
Saturday, August 7, 7:00 – 9:00 pm, REMEMBRANCE DAY, PEACE LANTERN CEREMONY. Lovers Point, Pacific Grove. Each August throughout Japan people gather to float lanterns the remembrance of the victims and survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all victims of war. This year marks the 65th anniversary of the nuclear devastation of two civilian cities in August, 1945. With this ceremony, we reaffirm our commitment to ending nuclear proliferation and all warfare.
7:00 pm Lantern making and program. All are welcome to create designs on paper memorial lanterns which will be placed on rafts.
7:45 Procession of thousands of cranes; brief program
8:15 Lighting of lanterns, launching of rafts into the sea
Please check www.peacecentral.org for details. All are welcome. Join us.
Sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and co-sponsored by the Peace Resource Center
- Location: Lovers Point
Pacific Grove
- More Information: http://www.peacecentral.org
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