event calendar 2025
Rain or Shine, check each event for details
All locations take place at Kingston Point Beach
53 Delaware Ave, Kingston, NY12401
MAIN STAGE
12:00 Spirit of Thunderheart / Opening Drumming
12:10 Tinya Seeger / speech "Pete & Toshi Seeger"
12:30 Memorial for Bill Vanaver
12:45 The Vanaver Caravan, SummerDance Tour / dance performance
1:15 Uptown Lowdown / vintage jazz dance performance
1:30 Ubaka Hill and DrumSong Orchestra / women's drum performance
1:50 Youko Yamamoto / greetings
2:00 Dr. Diane Swords, Nuclear Free World Committee of Syracuse Peace Council/
speech “How do we step back from the brink?”
2:15 Spirit of Thunderheart / native American women’s drum performance
2:45 Dr. Larry Wittner, PANYS / speech "Ending the menace of nuclear war"
3:00 Stephen Johnson & Lee Odom ‘Nu Bossa’ / music “Playing for Peace”
3:20 Sohrab Saadat Ladjevadi / Saxophone music performance
4:00 Last call for Raffle Tickets sales
4:30 Stuart Paton, Burlington Taiko/ taiko drum performance
5:00 Minbuza Dance Company / Japanese folk dance performance
Pavilion
4:00 Squaretable Discussion / "A prposal for a new nuclear power plant in upstate NY ?"
GRASS FIELD
1:25 Suika-wari (busting watermelon) for young children
2:30 Brush Spirits / sumi & brush performance by Barbara Bash and Youko Yamamoto
3:00 CCE Rhythm Generation Drum Ensemble / African drumming by Drew and Company
3:30- Free Range/ free form music performance
5:00 Raffle Drawing at Japan Stop
5:45 Raffle Prize Winner Announcement
6:00 Bon-odori Loop Dance for All, around Yagura Stage
6:45 Peace Ceremony by Yuzan Toyoda / Heart Sutra Chant
Prayer for the victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
the victims of the nuclear meltdown disaster of Chernobyl and Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and all the other victims from nuclear disasters
BEACH
7:15 Elizabeth Clark / acoustic spiritual music performance
7:15 Buddhist monk Jun Yasuda, Grafton Peace Pagoda / spiral peace walk to the past
7:30 Buddhist monk Yuzan Toyoda, Jodoshinshu / luminary service of prayers with
“The Flame of Hope from Hiroshima”
8:00 Closing
Flame of Hiroshima, Kingston Point Beach, 2023
ADMISSION FREE
Bring your parasols, chairs, and bug repellent.
Looking forward to dancing, eating and learning with you!
