Missoula Friends Meeting (Quakers) is hosting an Interfaith Commemoration (open to the public) of the 80th Anniversary of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The event will be held on Saturday, August 9th (Nagasaki Day) at the Missoula Meetinghouse (1861 S. 12th Street W.) The Meetinghouse is an accessible building.
At 3 pm the doors will open for refreshments, origami peace crane folding led by Carel Schneider and short videos about the story of Sadako and the peace cranes will play downstairs. Upstairs a recent video of US Congress members introducing House and Senate Resolutions against nuclear weapons will play during this preliminary hour while people arrive. At 4 pm we will gather upstairs for a remembrance in silence, then shared reflections from those present in the Quaker Meeting tradition of our hopes, desires and actions for peace. At 5 pm we will close with refreshments and fellowship.
The Meetinghouse will be colorfully decorated with the flags of almost 100 countries who have already signed the International Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons and strings of folded peace cranes that highlight our hopes and positive actions in contrast with a series of enlarged photographs of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastation and a special memorial to the children of those cities that will also be displayed.
For more info call 617-959-4034.
