The 75th Memorial for Atomic Bombings
Aug 5 and aug 8, 2020
10th Annual
BON•ODORI DANCE
FESTIVAL FOR PEACE
Commemorating Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
75 YEARS LATER, A WEEK OF UNITY
Bon-odori Dance Festival For Peace Presents
The 75th Memorial for Atomic Bombings
Live, Streaming and Synchronized Prayer
Radio Kingston will Livestream. To Join Online, please visit
Bonodori Festival for Peace on Facebook
or
You can attend in person at Seed Song Farm and Center
160 Esopus Ave, Kingston, NY 12401
Please Wear Masks and Keep Social Distance
Attendance limited to 50 people
Phone (845) 853-8111 Youko Yamamoto
(only cancellations for lightning or heavy storm)
Admission FREE. Donations gratefully accepted on the DONATION tab
on this website and at the farm
WED. AUG 5th, 2020
HIROSHIMA
7 - 9 pm
SYNCHRONIZED SILENT PRAYER
@7:15 pm
(Thu. AUG 6th, 8:15 am, Japan Time)
7:00 pm
7:05 pm
7:10 pm
7:15 pm
7:16 pm
7:25 pm –
Opening: Ho’oponopono/Hallalujah, ( I Am Sorry, Forgive Me)
Performed by Prana, license courtesy of Woodstock Chimes
Interview with Youko Yamamoto by Radio Kingston
Japanese prayer: ごめんなさい & 南無阿弥陀仏
(Please listen in advance to join in this prayer)
Gomen'nasai (I'm sorry)
Namu Amida Butsu (taking refuge in the Buddha of infinite light & life)
1 minute silent prayer synchronized with prayers in Hiroshima
Reading from * Hiroshima by John Hersey, used by permission of the
American Audio Prose Library, Inc. All rights reserved.
Sing along songs of peace
Hand dance for Indian Poem of Peace by Rabindranath Tagore with
Song leaders: Barely Lace, Liana Gabel, Juma Sultan, Andriy Milavsky
All are invited to continue singing, meditating, praying on their own
*You can read the entire article for free in the New Yorker
SAT. AUG 8th, 2020
NAGASAKI
7 pm - 10:30 pm
SYNCHRONIZED SILENT PRAYER
@10:02 pm
(Sat. AUG 9th, 11:02 am, Japan Time)
Hand dance for Indian Poem of Peace by Rabindranath Tagore with
Sing along songs of peace
Song leaders: Barely Lace, Maiko Hata, Liana Gabel, Juma Sultan, Andriy Milavsky
Bon-odori on Zoom and Live
Taiko Performance by Stuart Paton, Burlington Taiko
Dance Practice with Momo Suzuki and Kevin Mooney, Minbuza Dance institute
Taiko Performance
Dance Together (Bon-odori Dance)
Interview with Youko Yamamoto by Radio Kingston
Book Reading from *Hiroshima by John Hersey, used by permission of the
American Audio Prose Library, Inc. All rights reserved.
Ho’oponopono/Hallalujah, ( I Am Sorry, Forgive Me)
Performed by Prana, license courtesy of Woodstock Chimes
Japanese prayer: ごめんなさい & 南無阿弥陀仏
1 minute silent prayer synchronized with prayers in Nagasaki
Screening the live streaming from Nagasaki
Closing
*You can read the entire article for free in the New Yorker
7:00 pm
7:10 pm
8:30 pm
9:30 pm
9:40 pm
9:50 pm
9:55 pm
10:02 pm
10:03 pm
10:30 pm
A message from Youko:
On the beautiful morning of August 6th, 1945, Enola Gay dropped the first Atomic Bomb called "Little Boy" which contained 64 kg of Uranium-235.
“Little Boy” exploded at 8:15 am at an altitude of 600 meters (1968.5 ft) over the city of Hiroshima. It detonated 15 kilotons of energy that caused the first effect of the explosion - blinding light, accompanied by radiant heat from the fireball. The fireball was 370 meters (1,200 ft) in diameter, with a surface temperature of 6,000°C (10,830°F) which is higher than the photosphere of the sun (5,500°C /10,000°F.)
Approximately 350,000 people were living in Hiroshima at that time, and 220,000 died by the end of 1945. Those who survived that year suffered acute radiation syndromes, severe burns, Leukemia, cancers and discrimination as HIBAKUSHA.
The bomb codenamed "Fat Man" exploded at 11:02am August 9th, 1945 over the city of Nagasaki three days after Hiroshima city was bombed.
It was made of only 6.4 kg of Plutonium, and detonated 21 kilotons of energy.
The Los Alamos Laboratory was a secret laboratory established by the Manhattan Project and operated by the University of California during World War ll.
Its mission was to design and build the first atomic bombs.
Robert Oppenheimer was its first director.
As he witnessed the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, a piece of Hindu scripture ran through his mind:
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
We Must Unite to Strive for Peace.
Thank you to all our partners for working together.
