Join Kingston Peace Council/CND as we gather by the river in Canbury Gardens Kingston (near the bandstand) for a short candlelit commemoration, the Mayor is being invited.

Join Crawley CND and the Ifield Quakers for a vigil to mark Hiroshima Day. This will be at the Ginko tree near the main car park in Tilgate Park.

All welcome.

Join Peter Kennard, Britain’s most influential political artist, and CND General Secretary and historian Kate Hudson to discuss how art changes minds.
Booking: https://tinyurl.com/s33xduew

The Lord Mayor of Coventry’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation invites you to a Hiroshima Day 2021 ceremony at the Chapel of Unity in Coventry Cathedral.

Please gather at the south end of the Lune Millennium footbridge (where Damside Street meets the River Lune) at 7.30 pm.

Please gather at the peace pole in Abbott Hall Park at 7.30 pm.

Peace Picnic at Charlton House 6.30pm. Bring food and drink to share. They will adjourn to the Peace Garden at 7pm for a minute’s silence and poetry, and then finish the picnic with live music.

Peace activists from Didcot and Oxford will come together to remember and to call on the UK Government to sign up to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

Exeter CND will have a stall 11am to 2pm. We will be writing to our Lord Mayor, city councillors of all parties, and our MP Ben Bradshaw to invite them all to come along and sign the TPNW petition.

A socially distanced event with readings of prose and poetry and a period of quiet reflection. All welcome.

Peace picnic tea to remember the victims of all wars, everywhere.

Silent Vigil at the War Memorial in The Square, Abingdon to remember the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Meet by the commemorative cherry tree (next to the café) in Victoria Park to remember the victims of the nuclear bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

All welcome

Hiroshima Day Lantern Floating Ceremony.

Hiroshima Day Reflection.

Socially distanced Peace Picnic in the Archbishop Tutu Peace Garden, Chinbrook Meadows, Grove Park as part of the SE London Peace and Justice Coalition. Music, poetry and statements.

Socially distanced vigil opposite The Churchill Theatre and silent walk to the lake in Church House Gardens for the scattering of white flowers. Poems and statements.

75th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony broadcast live from the London Peace Pagoda. To sign up: https://tinyurl.com/y3522v32

PROGRAMME

Welcome & Introduction - Shigeo Kobayashi (MC), JAN UK

This year our event will be rather different.