Dance, music and poetry for world peace

PRESS RELEASE 07.22.2015

Dance, music and poetry for world peace

Finnish performance group leaves Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 anniversary commemoration and anti-nuclear conference to appear.
PAND Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament Group has been invited to perform in Japan at the beginning of August, when the 6th and 9th will be the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropping, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Performance Group presents in Japan tableau "Sadako cranes", which consists of music, dance art, poetry and drama as well as origami-art. Presentations will be organized several workshops during the conference, both cities.

The performance is directed and composed by musician Merikukka Kiviharju, other participating performers are dance artist and choreographer Antti Seppänen, actor Arja Pekurinen, origami-artist and poet Eeva-Helena Inomaa and author, poet Jukka-Pekka Wuorikoski.
E-H Inomaa poem "Sadako cranes" and author J-P Wuorikoski, writer of poem series of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, form the draft text content.

Sadako's story is amazing anyway! He is in addition to the Anne Frank II World War, the most important "child witnesses"!

Sadako Sasaki was two years old when his hometown was dropped on Hiroshima atomic bomb 06.08.1945

The girl survived the destruction, but was exposed to intense radiation. As a result, Sadako fell ill ten years later ofleukemia, which was found in early 1955.

Sadako had to because of illness, hospitalization, and he was expected to die within a year. At the hospital visited her best friend, which made her a gift origami , folded paper crane.

Japanese legend says that anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes, wish will come true.
Inspired by this, Sadako began to fold cranes to heal herself, and according to legend, he managed to fold 644 paper cranes before perishing disease. His friend folded the rest of the cranes up to a thousand, and the event was significant for children and the core anti-war peace movement of young people. Sadako Sasaki statues are Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Seattle, USA.

PAND group of artists will perform, after the visit in Japan, and organize origami workshops the fall of Helsinki-based schools, as well as cultural events, among others Night of the Arts in Helsinki, Diana Park on 20.8.2015


Jukka-Pekka Wuorikoski
author
PAND Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament
358+ (0))402518929

wuorikoski@gmail.com

For more information:

President Eeva-Helena Inomaa 0505554932 pandtalo@hotmail.fi
Information Jukka-Pekka Wuorikoski 0402518929 wuorikoski@gmail.com

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