HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR SPEAKS AND PHOTO EXHIBIT IN NYC

HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR SPEAKS AND PHOTO EXHIBIT IN NYC

New York, NY - New York Peace Film Festival (NYPFF) and the Japanese American United Church (JAUC) will co-host the opening of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki photo poster exhibit on Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 7:00pm at JAUC, 255 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001. The exhibit runs from Monday, Oct. 26 through Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. Admission is free.

The opening ceremony will feature the testimony of Mrs. Emiko Okada, a Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor, along with Steven Leeper, the first foreign Chairperson of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, and peace educator Kathleen Sullivan. The schedule of the opening event is as follows:

7:00pm: Greetings from NYPFF & JAUC
7:15pm: Greetings from Steven Leeper
7:30pm-8:40pm: Survivor’s story by Mrs. Emiko Okada
8:40pm: Peace Workshop by Kathleen Sullivan
9:00pm-9:30pm: Reception

The exhibit is open to the public everyday for 2 weeks from 1pm to 5pm except Saturdays when it is open from 11am to 5 pm. Tuesdays the exhibit is closed. Poetry readings are held on weekends at 2pm and 3pm, with audience participation encouraged. A table of origami paper cranes (the universal symbol of peace and a nuclear-free world) will be set-up so viewers can take a paper crane as a keep-sake or make a paper crane themselves with origami paper provided.

JAUC is located on 7th Avenue between 23rd and 24th Street, convenient to the following Subway lines: 1, 9, F, E, N and R.

For more information:
Email: nypeacefilmfestival@gmail.com

The advertisement is made possible by donations collected by theHiroshima Peace Culture Foundation for 'A Hiroshima Survivor's Story & Photo Exhibit in US'.