The Columbia Friends Meeting will host the 34th Annual Hiroshima Remembrance event on Tuesday, August 6, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at 120 Pisgah Church Road, Columbia, SC 29203. This interfaith peace vigil, organized by Simple Gifts, a local poetry and lyric verse group, brings together Midlands’ faith communities to create an energy of…
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Annual Hiroshima Remembrance Event
Featured Speaker: KathleenBurkinshaw, author of The Last CherryBlossom The daughter of a Hiroshima survivor, Kathleen will present via by zoom. Date: Sunday, August 6, 2023Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pmLocation: All Good Books, 743 Harden Street Each Year, members of Columbia Friends along with the greater Columbia Community organize an event that remembers Hiroshima and…
Cranes for Our Future
This weekend will mark 77 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Starting this Friday, we hope you will join the Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, as well as a broad coalition of institutions and individuals, in demonstrating growing public support for a world without nuclear weapons – by sharing a paper crane on…
32nd Annual Hiroshima Vigil/Remembrance
Saturday, August 6, 2022 – 5 pm to 6 pm Light refreshments and fellowship followingColumbia Friends Meetinghouse120 Pisgah Church Road, Columbia, SC 29203 Join with others to remember the 140,000 lives lost in the devastating atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, to remind ourselves of the continuing threat of nuclear weapons even today,…
Hiroshima August 8th Event
Standing in solidarity for peace and social concerns at the Hiroshima vigil on August 8th. Maintaining social distancing and wearing mask Quakers wanted to speak up and be heard in the community. Quakers not wanting history to repeat itself fighting the good fight for our environmental safety and the future of our children. If you…
“Hiroshima Remembrance” Events
Seventy-five years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, survivors are #StillHere speaking truth to power. Unfortunately, nuclear weapons are also #StillHere. That’s why Columbia’s Hiroshima Remembrance Committee and a national coalition of over 100 organizations are marking the 75th anniversary with calls to leaders to ensure that these weapons are never used again. Because of COVID-19,…