WILPF-ACT Hiroshima Day Remembrance Ceremony
Wednesday, 6 August 2008 5.15 for 5.30 start
Civic Square, London Circuit (in front of the ACT Legislative Assembly)
The ACT Branch of the Women??s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) invite the general public to a ceremony for peace to commemorate Hiroshima Day, tomorrow, 6 August 2008, at Civic Square, London Circuit. The event will take place around the Statue of Ethos in front of the Legislative Assembly building, and around the fountains, 5.30-6.30pm.
On 6th and 9th August 1945, about 200,000 Japanese civilians perished and many thousands more injured when the first atomic bombs was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The WILPF-ACT event will remember the victims and is aimed at reminding us of the horror and tragic costs of war, and of the need to press for world peace.
There will be singing and playing of peace music, featuring the well-known Chorus of Women, a poetry reading, and the laying of flowers and floating candles on the water. All welcome. Inquiries: Anni Didcott, WILPF-ACT Hiroshima Day Remembrance Convenor, ph 6282 4943.
