ATOMIC BOMB AWARENESS DAY - 2014 GENBAKU-NO-HI Celebration

August 8^th 2014, UN Vienna International Centre, Rotunda

This is an initiative to establish an official Atomic Bomb Memorial Day – GENBAKU NO HI to be celebrated on August 8th, in order to commemorate the victims of Hiroshima (August 6th) and Nagasaki (August 9th 1945) and to call for a prohibition of all nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.

Rev. Gyosei Masunaga, Vienna Peace Pagoda

Painting-Installation: Claudia Hirtl

Yuko Gulda, Founder GENBAKU-NO-HI

MC: Mr. Peter Haider, UPF Austria

Welcome Messages:

Mrs. Yuko Gulda, Founder, GENBAKU-NO-HI

Mr. Pericles Gasparini, Chief of the Vienna Office, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

Mr. Thomas Mützelburg, CTBTO Public Information

Dr. Michael Platzer, ACUNS Vienna

Pericles Gasparini, UNODA

Thomas Mützelburg, CTBTO

Michael Platzer, ACUNS

Peter Haider, UPF

Sogetsu Ikebana; Herbert Gruensteidl　　　Ruiko Friesacher

Aseo Friesacher Jazz Trio: Aseo Friesacher, Stefan Kemminger, Paora Garcia Sobreira

Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki

Outdoor Dance-Installation

Artistic Program:

Painting-Installation: Claudia Hirtl (6.-8. August 2014, VIC Rotunda)

Jazz with “Aseo Friesacher Trio”

Outdoor Dance-Installation: Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki

Origami Corner: Ikebana: Herbert Gruensteidl, Ruiko Friesacher

Peace Bell

Photo credit: http://gekkanwien.blog14.fc2.com/blog-entry-898.html