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Hiroshima Remembered 2025

  • Tavistock Square gardens 33 Tavistock Square England, WC1H 9EZ United Kingdom (map)

On Wednesday 6th August, 80 years since the first Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, London Region CND will come together for our annual commemoration in Tavistock Square.

Programme

Choir - Raised Voices

Welcome 

  • Hannah Kemp-Welch, Vice-Chair London CND

  • Councillor Eddie Hanson - Mayor of Camden

Planting the tree

  • History of the cherry tree - Bernard Miller

Memorial

  • Laying of the wreath - Councillor Eddie Hanson

  • Chanting - Rev Nagase

Speeches

  • Councillor Emma Dent-Coad, London CND Vice-President

  • Murad Qureshi, London CND Vice-President

Cultural responses

  • Michael Mears, performance

  • Jan Woolf, reading

  • Hugh Goodacre, singing

Close

  • Carol Turner, Chair London CND - London CND announcements

  • Shigeo Kobayashi, Japanese Against Nuclear - Nagasaki Day announcement

  • Thanks - Hannah Kemp-Welch

Choir - Raised Voices