Watch: Nagasaki Day commemorations

London CND supported the London Peace Pagoda’s annual event, held this year via Zoom.

Programme

Welcome & Introduction - Shigeo Kobayashi (MC), JAN UK 

Water Sprinkling & Blessing - Rev. Nagase Shonin, London Peace Pagoda 

Chanting - Rev. Nagase Shonin

Chapter 16 Lotus Sutra - Rev. Nagase Shonin

Tibetan Traditional Chanting  - Jamyang Buddhist Sangha －Geshe Tenzin Namdak  

Christian Prayer  - Rev. Alan Gadd, South London Interfaith Group 

Speech - Bruce Kent, Vice-President of CND

Speech - Shigeo Kobayashi

Speech on Bradwell -  Yuko Moriyama-Wiffen 

Song for Peace - Brigette Bennett

Conclusion & Thanks - Shigeo Kobayashi

The ceremony ended with the live image of lanterns at the London Peace Pagoda. 

Watch: Hiroshima Day commemorations

This year, we held our annual Hiroshima Day commemorations online, as we were unable to meet in Tavistock Square. The event was recorded and can be viewed below.

Download the event programme here.

Feedback from our guests:

Sonoda : I am a Fukushima nuclear victim. Thank you to all.

Syeda : Thank you all, 本当にありがとうございます。Great songs!

Frank: Thanks to all, from Leicester.

Min O'R: Thanks to all, from Belfast

Iliyana: Thanks from Scotland and our Peace Cranes exhibition at the Edinburgh Peace & Justice Centre

Symon, Peace Pledge Union: Many thanks to all organisers and participants.

Ziba, Raised Voices Choir in London : Thank you Hugh for all these excellent songs.

Katrina A: Thank you everyone who organised and contributed to this great event.

Tim O: Thanks very much to everyone involved.

Cordelia: Thank you to everyone who organised this important event

Gerri: Today is so important to me and this has been a wonderful, spiritual way to remember. With love

Mahzad : Thank you for commemorating this very important historical and humanitarian event

Julie S: Thank you everyone for this event!

Mariette and Jai : Thank you London CND for this event.

Paula S: Thank you for an excellent Zoom x

Ivan R: Thank you for holding this !

Time, Memory and Nuclear Weapons

To commemorate Nagasaki day, we have launched an online exhibition 08:15 - 11.02, Time, Memory and Nuclear Weapons.

The exhibition will be live from 9am on 9th August 2020, with works by Graham Ashton, Peter Barton, Steven Feld, Hannah Kemp-Welch, Peter Kennard, Martyl Langsdorf, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti.

This exhibition considers our relationship to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki today, as we mark the 75th anniversary. Drawing together artists’ responses that hold time and remembrance as central themes, works in film, photography, sound and performance invite the visitor to pause for reflection and connect with these experiences through our everyday encounters with time.