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Hiroshima Day Commemoration and Lantern Floating, Seattle
August 6, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOPE
HIROSHIMA DAY COMMEMORATION AND LANTERN FLOATING
Sun Aug 6, evening, Green Lake Northwest Shore, just south of the Bathhouse, at West Green Lake Drive North and Stone Ave North, Seattle
78th Anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
Pre-program activities begin at 6 p.m., and a family program with music, poetry and speakers begins at 7 p.m.
The event begins at 6:00 PM with lantern preparation. The family program begins at 7:00 PM and includes the popular Japanese-American drum performance group, Seattle Kokon Taiko, with Stan Shikuma serving as emcee. This year features a dance performance by Gabrielle Nomura Gainor, a dancer/choreographer who will present a piece titled “Sadako and the Cranes.” Performers also include the Seattle Peace Chorus Action Ensemble, and poetry and prose from Seattle writers Carolee Okamoto, Dee Goto, and Liz Murata with the Omoide Project, a program of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington. Hatsune Matsudaira and Lauren Young, with Koto no WA, will play traditional and contemporary music on koto. The candle-lit lantern ceremony begins at 8:15 p.m., with lanterns floating on the lake at dusk. Patrick Johnson will play shakuhachi at the dock, the traditional flute music accompanying the floating lanterns.
Seattle Fellowship of Reconciliation is a sponsor of this event
Info coming at http://fromhiroshimatohope.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/FromHiroshimaToHope