Hawaii Forgiveness Project - From Suffering to Sacred Spaces - 70 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration

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From Suffering to Sacred Spaces

70 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Commemoration, Meditation and Peace Featuring Roy Tamashiro and Olivier Urbain

WHEN: Saturday, August 8, 2015, 10:00 AM - 12:00 noon

WHERE: Bodhi Tree Dharma Center, 654A Judd St, Honolulu, HI 96817 Map

REGISTRATION: Register online here (Limit: 40 participants)

COST: Free public event.

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Join the speakers in today's program in their respective Peace Pilgrimages to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Roy Tamashiro shares narratives of Hiroshima citizens, including several hibakusha (A-bomb survivor-witnesses). By listening to their profound suffering, unbearable pain, and never-to-be recovered losses, we paradoxically find healing for ourselves. We also discover genuine hope, endless compassion and growing peace co-residing their souls and ours.

Olivier Urbain focuses on the historical and cultural context of peacebuilding in Nagasaki, drawn largely from the famous song "The Bells of Nagasaki" that was inspired by the survivor and medical doctor Takashi Nagai's novel, and by Dr. Urbain's father-in-law's correspondence with Dr. Nagai. He shares new insights on the role of music in peacebuilding in the context of the commemorations in memory of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.

On this occasion to remember and reflect on 70 years following Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we participate in a meditation and communion to find and practice peace.

Roy Tamashiro is a sansei (third-generation Japanese-American) from Honolulu, and professor of multidisciplinary studies at Webster University (St. Louis, Missouri). His first visit to Hiroshima 50 years ago would spawn a lifetime of peace research and the cultivation of personal and global peace. His many projects and publications in peace research include: the educational role of peace museums; the oral history of Hiroshima A-bomb witnesses (hibakusha); and the rise of a global "peace consciousness."

Olivier Urbain is Senior Research Fellow at the Min-On Music Research Institute (Tokyo) and the director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research (Tokyo and Honolulu). He is the founder and director of the Transcend: Art & Peace Network. Publications related to music and peacebuilding include Music and Conflict Transformation (ed., 2008), Music and Solidarity (co-ed., 2011) and Music, Power and Liberty (co-ed, 2015).

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