SHARE THE VISION OF PEACE
UNIVERSAL PEACE DAY - Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
NY BUDDHIST CHURCH – 331-332 Riverside Drive @ 105 St.
6:30pm
HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI COMMEMORATION CEREMONY
Opening Drum – members of Soh Daiko
Music Performance – Kumiko Yokoi, Ningen o kaese
Welcome
Nancy Okada, former board chair, New York Buddhist Church
Invocation by Rev. Robert Coleman, The Riverside Church
Messages from Hiroshima & Nagasaki,
read by Tak Furumoto and Masako London
Music Performance
Sayaka Kamizono, Tsubasa o Kudasai
Message by Japanese American Association – Gary Moriwaki
Music Performance
Shinji Harada, You are My Energy
Poetry Reading
Carletta Joy Walker
Buddhist Chanting
led by Rev. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki
Incense offering by Koji Kobayashi, Hiroshima survivor
Presentation of Thousand-Cranes
Trinity School children
7:15pm
CANDLE LIGHTING & PEACE BELL CEREMONY
– at exact moment of Hiroshima bombing -
7:20pm
SILENT PEACE WALK to THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH
THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH – 490 Riverside Drive @ 121 St.
8:00pm
INTERFAITH PEACE CEREMONY
with religious leaders
featuring
Robert Thurman as Keynote Speaker
Congressman Charles B. Rangel
and
Hiroshima survivor, Koji Kobayashi
Shinji Harada, rock star
Sean Harada
Sayaka Kamizono
Russell Daisey
The Peaceniks
Lew Tabackin
and others
COST: FREE