Please join us for the following events from Remembering Hiroshima Imagining Peace:
August 5, 6:00 pm: Please join us for an amazing new film , Nuclear Savage, at the Melwood Screening Room (Adam Jonas Horowitz: November 2011, 87 minutes. Ethnographic expose of the peoples of the Marshall Islands who struggle for dignity and survival after decades of intentional radiation poising at the hands of the U.S. government.
Prior to the film, starting at 5:30, shadows will be created by Pittsburghers who will replicate the haunting aftermath of a nuclear explosion by outlining bodies in chalk outside the theater. Following the film, patrons will be able to skype with peace activists from Kobe, Japan at the hour the bomb was dropped.
August 6: Shadow Project The creation of shadows on sidewalks in the city will continue (check our web site if you want to join a group or simply chalk a shadow and leave a message about peace on a sidewalk in your own neighborhood)! 11AM at Stanton and Negley
7:00-9:00 pm Shadows of War: Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace. Spoken word, readings, and music along with Pittsburgh shadows and images from Japan at the Shadow Lounge, 126 S. Highland Ave, Pittsburgh 15206 Please let us know if you would like to contribute!
Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace, is a loose alliance of diverse labor, peace, educational, environmental, and cultural organizations and individuals. Check us out at: rememberinghiroshima.wordpress.com or email us for more information at: againstnukes@gmail.com