Hope for a Nuclear-Free World
6:30-9:00 pm, Toronto Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square
Featuring A-Bombing Survivors, Joe Ohori & Setsuko Thurlow.
Performances by the Children’s Choir, Yakudo Drummers, Northern Lights Chorus, Raging Grannies.
Paper Cranes & Lantern Craft Tables (starts at 4:30 pm).
With Keynote Speaker, Bruce Cox of Greenpeace: World Peace starts with the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Plus Hiroshima, Nagasaki Photo Exhibit & A-Bombing Survivors Artwork: Rotunda, Toronto City Hall (starting at 9:00 am)
Alternate Location (in case of continued city civic strike): Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square, behind Toronto Eaton Centre
Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition Special Presentation
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
6 Garamond Court, North York
Sunday 9 August 2009
2:00 - 4:30 pm
Veterans Against Nuclear War
With Director/Producer, Anton Wagner
Member of the Order of Canada, Setsuko Thurlow
and Peace Building Expert, Phyllis Creighton
No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki
With Director/Producer, Yuki Nakamura
A-Bombing Survivor, Joe Ohori and Peace Activist, Eryl Court
Award Winning Film: Best Canadian Documentary
National Film Board of Canada
Two Films. One Afternoon.
Not to be missed!
$10 suggested donation.
Plus meet the A-Bombing Survivors, Directors & Peace Experts.
Survivors of the nuclear atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known as Hibakusha. Hear their personal accounts of the a-bombs that devastated their lives and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people within minutes on August 6th and 9th, 1945. Plus hear first hand reports from the experts and activists dedicating their lives for the global abolition of nuclear weapons.