We will convene at 6:30 PM in Cleveland Public Library’s Eastman Reading Garden (between the two buildings of the Cleveland Main Library and Stokes Wing, 525 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114 ). Some gathering activities, including paper crane folding, will help get us into a meditative space. At 7:30 we will walk in silence with  the slow heartbeat of a drum, to the Peace Memorial and then to Willard Park and the Free Stamp (Willard Park, E 9th and Lakeside). There we will join with words and music. At sunset, we will light candle lanterns, declaring our intention that there will never be another nuclear war. No more Hiroshimas! No more Nagasakis! No More Hibakusha.

We invite you to join in the Silent Peace Walk. Walkers are asked to dress in white (at least a white shirt/top). The walk route is less than one mile, and we will walk very slowly and meditatively and silently.  You can register here.

Sponsored by Cleveland Nonviolence Network, Cleveland Peace Action, InterReligious Task Force. We are actively engaging other groups who can be listed as co-sponsors, towards our goal of 80 walkers. 

P.S. Rain date. If the weather is bad on August 6, we will reschedule for same time, same place on Saturday, August 9. We realize that if you sign up for August 6 you might not necessarily be available on August 9. 

The exhibition offers photos and sketches by Japanese artists of the aftermath of the atomic bomb on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in1945. They illustrate civilians in fear and despair – with short text or Haiku. There are photos of the Atomic Bomb explosions, and survivors, Hibakusha, some working for change. One poster, “Suppression of Freedom of Press and Expression” about the bomb elaborates, ” the censorship by the Allied Forces “was so strict that… almost any violation would almost certainly lead to the death penalty.” A Japanese character print, “Call” translates into “It is not too late yet – Muster up your real strength – It is still not too late – To wipe the tears of those who wish for peace”…. Sankichi Toge 

Sponsored by Cleveland Nonviolence Network and Cleveland Peace Action Education Fund.