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July 11, 2009 Prayer for Peace
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Prayer in Preparation for the Commemoration of the Bombing of Nagasaki on August 9th
Reflection: Jim Scheibel, Former Mayor of St. Paul
Our Lady of the Presentation Chapel
1880 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul Minnesota
Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration Events August 2009
Event Details
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Wednesday, August 5
6:00p.m.
The commemoration begins with a formal tea ceremony performed by Yukimakai tea study group at the Lyndale Park Peace Garden in Minneapolis. This meditative event occurs at the exact moment that people in Hiroshima are remembering the dropping of the first atomic bomb.
Thursday, August 6
7:30a.m.
The centerpiece of the commemoration events at the Lyndale Park Peace Garden is the Ceremony of the Cranes, which begins at 7:30 a.m. and ends with a moment of silence at 8:15 a.m., the time the bomb was dropped. Roger Hale, chair of the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund, is the keynote speaker. Retired CEO of Tennant, Roger speaks eloquently of a nuclear-free world. Featured as part of Minneapolis Mosaic, Renee Weeks-Wynne and her grandparents will tell the story of Sadako Sasaki, who came down with the ‘radiation sickness’ ten years after the bombing and who tried to fold 1,000 cranes to restore her health.
11:00a.m.
Veterans for Peace and the Women in Black are planning an 11 Bells ceremony. First begun in 1918 to mark ‘The War to End All Wars,” Veterans for Peace is bringing this to the Peace Garden for the first time.
7:30p.m.
Kairos will perform an original dance, commissioned by the HNCC, to the song A Thousand Paper Cranes recorded by the Junshin singers from Nagasaki. Barbara McAfee will be headlining the concert.
Sunday, August 9
10:30 a.m.
Nagasaki Commemoration at the Global Harmony Labyrinth at Como Park in St. Paul. Greetings from Mayor Taue of Nagasaki, other readings and music. Moment of silence at 11:02, the time of the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki.
Where is the Global Harmony Labyrinth at Como Park?
The roads at Como have been redesigned and the map of Como which is online at
www.ci.stpaul.mn.us or linked to the www.wilpfmn.org/hn website does not show the labyrinth.
It is near the south end of the 'pedestrian bridge' on the map.
Take Lexington Parkway to Estabrook and bear right
on Nason Place and then turn into the parking lot (Butterfly Lot) and go all the way in.
There are several accessible pathways to the labyrinth from the turn-around circle in the parking lot.
For further information:
JoAnn Blatchley
952.922.0308
msphncc@gmail.com
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