Peace – 75th Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing
6th August 2020 – 24 hour broadcast
THE 24 HOUR HIROSHIMA BROADCAST
6TH AUGUST 2020
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Putney Rotary members and friends at 57:59 in the video below
Peace Art & Music Gathered International Artists for a Live, 24-hour Global Broadcast on 6th August to mark the 75th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
The broadcast was live-streamed from Hiroshima and New York and linked people around the world via YouTube.
The Challenge
Rotarian Sree from the Peace Club approached us to help get involved with a wonderful Peace Project in London.
“I am with an international group of producers who have been asked by the Peace, Art & Music organisation at the behest of Mayor Kazumi Matsui of Hiroshima to produce a 24-hour live-streamed broadcast that will be transmitted from Hiroshima on August 6th to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the atomic bombing.
This broadcast will follow the rising of the sun from east to west travelling from country to country promoting the importance of hearing each other across all political, racial, religious borders and learning to value and appreciate our common humanity. We will do this through art, music, song and dance.
We want to demonstrate that together we can build a global society that truly cares about its future – to show that we yearn for unity, equality – a planet and environment that is safe for us to live in with social justice for everyone. People everywhere are hungry for hope – and inspiration. Music and art is a very good way to transcend our anger and connect with each other and fill our hearts with hope again.”
Gina Langton – CEO 80,000 voices
The Solution
Members and friends from our Rotary Club wanted to contribute to the Hiroshima 75th Anniversary, showing out support for creating lasting peace in the world.
Peace and Understanding is one of Rotary International’s Areas of Focus.
Huge thanks to our Putney Rotary members, family and friends who contributed:
- Pauline, Ozge, Dee, Stefan, Ati, Angela, Lu, Chris, Reagan, George, Mladen and Marko.
- Tammy Marlar, a very talented professional photographer living in Wandsworth provided some beautiful photos for this event at 44:54 in the video.
The 75th Anniversary event kicked off in Hiroshima with the live-streamed Peace Memorial Ceremony and Lantern Floating festival, to promote a new foundation for interactive peace on a global scale. The first virtual event of its kind for the committee included artists from: United Kingdom, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Germany (Hannover), France (Paris), South Africa (Cape Town), India (Bangalore), Ukraine (Kiev), Cyprus, Austria (Vienna), Argentina, Palestine (Bethlehem), Spain (Guernica), Rwanda, USA (Phoenix and New York).
On August 6, 1945, the world entered the atomic age
Without warning, a single nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killed about 90,000 people instantly and injured many others – who then died from radiation sickness.
Three days later, a second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki killed some 37,000 people and injured another 43,000. Together the two bombs eventually killed an estimated 200,000 Japanese civilians.