Humanity First: Ban the Bomb!
Sunday, 6 August 2017
Toronto Peace Garden
& Nathan Phillips Square
Keynote speaker: The Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C.
Author, former Senator, MP, and Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament
Featured Performers:
Grammy-Nominated Flautist Ron Korb
Isshin Daiko of Toronto Musical Ensemble
Toronto Pax Christi Chorale
Toronto’s Raging Grannies
4:30-6:30 pm: Community & Craft Tables
6:30 pm: Commemoration Ceremony
8:30 pm: Lantern Ceremony
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Day Coalition
Member Groups:
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
- Pax Christi
- Toronto Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
- Toronto Area Interfaith Council
- Toronto Article 9
- Tao Sangha Global Community
- Science for Peace
- Physicians for Global Survival
- Toronto Buddhist Church
- Hiroshima Kenjin Kai
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance
Image: mural by Tatsuya Tomizawa, made with thousands of hand-folded paper cranes. Photo by Tim Wright