Project Report
| Jun 22, 2020
We Are Moving Forward Despite Choral Event Being Cancelled Due to Covid-19
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Organisers of 24-hour Peace & Art & Music
No one can underestimate the disappointment felt by us all at the cancellation of 80,000 Voices to Save Our Planet that was due to happen in Hiroshima during the first week of August this year. We had all worked so hard up to the point when it became clear we would not be able to achieve our great aim to get our peace message out to the world.
However, there is some good news. in order to keep some kind of momentum going and not lose out on the opportunity of contributing in some way to the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in March I began keeping in touch with peace-builders on a weekly Zoom call - with Steve and Keiko (Peace & Art & Music) in Hiroshima, with peace-builder and musician Dixie from Alaska, and Roslyn from CND in the UK and they've been going on ever since.
Recently we've been joined on the weekly call by some artists from London and the organising members of the Youth Assembly - and we've been discussing and listening to them to see how we can support young people build a new future by creating a cultural movement that includes not only the challenge to ban nuclear weapons but to highlight the need for climate change and social justice as well. That also includes the very relevant BLM movement for justice and equality and we all agree that this needs to be very much included.
Steve announced last week that he's been given the go-ahead to host a global broadcast on 6th August for Peace & Art & Music from the Former Imperial Bank of Japan. 80,000 Voices has agreed to help with the task of coordinating the young artists and musicians who would like to participate from the UK and be part of the chain of participants from all over the world that want to broadcast something loving, beautiful and peaceful from their community.
The broadcast will start out at 7 am in Hiroshima and will include the Peace Prayer and the Memorial ceremony before starting the live broadcast from the Bank which will then go around the globe going from East to West linking up with partners in countries like Australia, Hawai, South Koria, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, UK and US. It will end the following day at 7 am.
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