All Souls Unitarian (DC) and EngageAsia Hiroshima & Nagasaki commemoration events

All Souls Heiwa Peace Project will be hosting a vigil on the steps of All Souls on Wednesday evening.  This will require face coverings with social distancing.  We will begin to gather at 6:30 and mark a moment of silence at 7:15.  All Souls new interim minister Rev. Kathleen Rolenz will join us.

For those not able to come to All Souls please Wednesday evening, there is also a special webinar that same evening on Zoom featuring the Hiroshima Children’s Drawings with All Souls panelists (Judith Bauer, Mel Hardy, and Gretchen Jones).

EngageAsia + Aligned Center Film+Makers Series Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard:  Turning Horror into Hope Presented in Partnership with MIT Japan U.S.: Wednesday, August 5 - 7:00 to 8:00 PM Japan:  Thursday, August 6 - 8:00 to 9:00 AM On the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Japan, join EngageAsia for a discussion of the documentary film, Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard and a ceremony to remember and honor this event. Panelists include Producer Shizumi Shigeto Manale, Director Bryan Reichhardt, Gretchen Jones, Judith Bauer, and Melvin Hardy.  Register Here U.S.: August 5, 2020 (Wednesday) - 7:00 to 8:00 pm Japan: August 6, 2020 (Thursday) - 8:00 to 9:00 am On the 75th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, join EngageAsia, MIT Japan Program, and the Aligned Center, for a live interactive discussion with Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard Producer Shizumi Shigeto Manale, Director Bryan Reichhardt, and Colleagues. We encourage you to watch the film for free prior to the webinar. Link here. All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington, DC is also hosting a free screening on the evening of 7/31. Details here. About the Film: A collection of surprisingly joyful drawings created by school children living among the ruins of Hiroshima in 1947 becomes the heart and soul of this true, inspiring story about an exchange of gifts between Americans and Japanese after a devastating war. This powerful documentary about reconciliation and the power of gift, introduces the children artists (now in their late 70s) who reflect on their early lives amidst the rubble of their destroyed city and the hope they shared through their art. In 2010, the newly restored drawings, buried for decades deep inside All Souls Church in Washington DC, are taken back to Japan where they are reunited with the artists and exhibited in the very building where they were created. Running With Cosmos Flowers Filmmaker Shizumi Shigeto Manale is also the author of Running with Cosmos Flowers: The Children of Hiroshima, which will be available on August 3, 2020. This webinar will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, August 5 @ 7:00 PM EDT (Thursday, August 6 @ 8:00 AM Japan Standard Time) for one hour and is free (suggested donation of $10). Register Now

EngageAsia is Co-Sponsoring The Heiwa Peace and Reconciliation Foundation of New York's Interfaith Peace Gatherings on the 75th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings. Details and registration is here.