Peace Resource Center to Host Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration

Program Dedicated to a Peaceful, Nonviolent Future The Peace Resource Center is observing the 73^rd anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a program dedicated to creating a peaceful future Aug. 9, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., in Harcum Art Gallery in Boyd Cultural Arts Center. “Never Again: A Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration” will feature dance, music and poetry as a backdrop for reflecting upon the cruelty and suffering of war and make claims to a nonviolent future. Program highlights include original dance choreography by Carley Wilson, a senior at the College; the poetry of Toge Sankichi read by Bonnie Erwin and Naoko Sotobayashi; music by singer/songwriter Hillary Hahn from Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood; and a performance by the Dayton-based choral group, Harmonies of Japan. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, undoubtedly hastened the end of World War II, but at an exceptionally high cost to Japanese civilians, as an estimated 250,000 persons perished within four months of the blasts. The event is free of charge.