Dear Kevin,

All told, some two dozen events in solidarity with "global Peace Wave 2021" are taking place this coming week for the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan. Find an event close to you here! Tell us about your own event here!

Join any of these diverse commemorations: there will be vigils in Andover, Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester, Waltham, Walpole, Martha’s Vineyard and beyond. To mark the time the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Day, the First Baptist Church in Bedford will toll their church bell, and there will be a street theater performance in neighboring Rhode Island. Still others will hold peace walks, and  film screenings, picnics and family activities such as folding and stringing origami cranes.

Attend an online event: one virtual gathering will focus on the campaign to ratify the 2021 Nuclear Ban Treaty here in the U.S. and another will feature Alicia Sanders-Zakre of the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (ICANW). 

Update: the Arlington screening of "The War Game" is now a hybrid event!

Share art, storytelling and messages of peace directly with viewers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A very special pair of memorial ceremonies by the Artists Refuge Repertory Theatre will take place in Jamaica Plain on the eve of Hiroshima Day and via Zoom on the eve of Nagasaki Day.