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GENBAKU NO HI

Atomic Bomb Memorial day –
an initiative of Yuko Gulda

COMEMMORATION

The commemorative ceremony
for the Atomic Bomb Memorial Day 2010 took place on the
9th of August 2010 at the main building of the UNO in Vienna.

As part of the ceremony Yuko Gulda performed a Japanese tea ceremony. The tea ceremony is meant as a symbol for
»peace, even in times of war«.

 


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.
 
Logodesign / painting
»The In or Whisper, Quiet, Deep«
and artistic organization for the
Atomic Bomb Memorial Day celebration
by painter C. Hirtl