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This event is presented by Adult Education Programme at the Unitarian Church
and Centre of Vancouver, co-sponsored by Peace Philosophy Centre, Vancouver
Save Article 9, and UBC's Museum of Anthropology.
This will start with a performance (mime and dance) of Maurice Ravel's
"Bolero" by Yayoi
Hirano, mime artist, with Sara Davis
Buechner and Chihiro Honma at the piano.
The title of the talk by Koko Kondo, the special speaker invited from Japan, is "Living
with Hiroshima: My memories of 66 years". She will share with the
audience her life history and how Hiroshima has changed her life and her
varied work for peace.
Ms. Kondo is the daughter of late Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto
of Hiroshima Nagarekawa Church who first revealed
first hand details of the tragedies of the A-bomb in Hiroshima to American
journalist John Hearsey who interviewed Rev. Tanimoto in 1946. What Hearsey
had learned from Rev. Tanimoto became the basis for
the famous book by Hearsey, "Hiroshima".
Koko Kondo was educated in Japan and the United States. She is active as
International Spokesperson for Survivors of Hiroshima A-Bomb, International
Adviser of Children as the Peacemakers Foundation, Member of the Board of
Directors of Hiroshima Peace Center Foundation, and Guest Instructor for
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Tour of American University and Ritsumeikan University, among others.
Reception will follow.
Admission by donation.
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