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CFPA presents its annual
Commemoration of
the Atomic Bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
picnic and program
Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Institute for Advanced Study
Olden Lane, Princeton, NJ
Near the intersection of Olden Lane/Lovers Lane and Mercer St/Princeton Pike
(Signs will be posted)
Map
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Keynote Speaker
Ambassador Thomas Graham
will give a talk entitled:
Peace, Security and the Nuclear Test Ban
Graham led successful US efforts to permanently extend the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty in 1995
Also speaking:
Joan Wile
Grannies for Peace Leader and
Author of book Grannies Against the War
autographed copies of the book will be for sale
Janet Haag
Managing Director, Fellowship in Prayer
Ward Wilson
Winner of the Doreen and Jim McElvany Non Proliferation Challenge Essay Contest with his essay "The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence"
silent lotus
Poet who will read original works
Also featuring music by SiriOm Singh and Anahat
6:00 p.m. Bring your own picnic
No alcoholic beverages please. Do bring your own lawnchairs or blankets to sit on during the program.
7:00 to 8:45 p.m. Program
Children's Program
A simultaneous children's program will include folding paper cranes and listening to a reading of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, a story about an 11 year old girl in Hiroshima who got leukemia 10 years after the bombing.
Rain Site: In the event of rain, the picnic will be canceled and only the program will be held at West Building Lecture Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study in the main building.
The event is being cosponsored by Fellowship in Prayer, a group founded in 1949 in response to the bombings in Japan that calls upon people of all religious traditions to come together in prayer.
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