Thu Aug 14, 2008
PEACE QUEST HOLDS 7th ANNUAL HIROSHIMA DAY COMMEMORATION
On August 6, 2008, at Cape Breton University, Peace Quest Cape Breton held its 7th Annual Commemoration of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Entitled Atomic Desert, the ceremony featured a talk by Peace Quest member Sean Howard, the presentation (with accompanying text) of four Hiroshima Panels, by the Japanese artists Iri and Toshi Maruki, an excerpt from the Hiroshima Symphony by Masao Ohki, and the reading of a Litany of Remembrance for the Nuclear Age. More...
Fri Sep 28, 2007
Mayors for Peace Campaign Re-Launched
On September 21 – United Nations International Day of Peace – Peace Quest officially re-launched its bid to persuade John Morgan, Mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM), to join the international Mayors for Peace campaign for a world without nuclear weapons. At a public information session held at Cape Breton University, a petition was opened for signature, noting that “over 1,700 towns and cities from 122 countries, including 57 municipalities across Canada” have so joined ‘Mayors for Peace,’ and urging Mayor Morgan and CBRM to lend their voice to this fast-growing “global chorus of protest against the obscenity and waste of nuclear weapons and the growing threat of their proliferation and use in the 21st Century.”
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Mon Sep 17, 2007
UN International Day of Peace at CBU on Friday September 21
Mon Aug 06, 2007
PEACE QUESTS HOLDS 6th ANNUAL HIROSHIMA DAY CEREMONY
On Monday, August 6, 2007, Peace Quest Cape Breton held its sixth annual ceremony mourning the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The event, well attended by the public and reported by local media, featured a presentation by Peace Quest Member Sean Howard and readings from ‘Poems of the Atomic Bomb,’ by Tōge Sankichi, followed by reflection and discussion.
To read the full text of the presentation, ‘Extinguishing the Flame: The Search for Peace in the Nuclear Age,’ click HERE.
To read an article previewing the event, published in the Cape Breton Post on August 4, click HERE..
To read a letter from Peace Quest on the Mayors for Peace campaign, published in the Cape Breton Post on August 11, click HERE.