7th ANNIVERSARY OF FUKUSHIMA - Not just About Japan - Art, Music, Meditation

• What we'll do
Find out what it's like living near Fukushima after the disastrous meltdown 7 years ago.
See moving original art by Japanese anti-nuke power artists. Hear from Japanese speakers who oppose nuclear energy/war; learn about major problems with nuclear waste and how these issues relate to people everywhere, including us in the NYC area who are so close to Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. What does nuclear power have to do with the nuclear bomb??

There are some 440 nuclear reactors operating worldwide, 64 more under construction. A few of Japan's 54 have reopened since the Post-Fukushima shutdown in 2011. There are 99 in the US. One of the riskiest is the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant 50 miles up the Hudson River that stores more spent fuel than Fukushima and won't be closed for decommissioning until 2021.

ARTISTS AND SPEAKERS include:

YASUYO TANAKA - interdisciplinary artist who engaged social practice and education living NYC. She is a co-founding member of the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World. Her family was impacted by the disaster and continues to lives near Fukushima. Her hometown Yaita city and Shioya town became the candidates as sites for disposal of nuclear waste. She’s been researching nuclear issues, conveying information through her artwork. Since 2017, she has been organizing annual environmental festival with locals in her home prefecture Tochigi, Japan. www.yasuyoart.blogspot.com

REV. DR. T. KENJITSU NAKAGAKI - (also known to friends as "TK") Rev. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki was ordained as Jodoshinshu Buddhist priest. at the Nishi Hongwanji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, in 1980. He is a President and Founder of Heiwa Peace and Reconciliation Foundation of New York, a Hiroshima Peace Ambassador, a Nagasaki Peace Correspondent, former President and current Vice President of the Buddhist Council of New York, and Vice Chair of the Interfaith Center of New York. He also serves New York community as NYPD Clergy Liaison and FSCPP Advisory Board. His new book “The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler’s Cross” will be available in fall, 2018. The year 2018 makes the 25th year anniversary for him to organize annual Interfaith Peace Gathering for commemorating Hiroshima & Nagasaki Atomic Bombings. KEIKO KOSHIMITSU - is a visual artist who lives in NYC and is the founder of Anti-Nuke Power Artist Group. She has been showing her art in the US and in Japan and has organized exhibitions of Anti-Nuke Power art.

KEIKO KOSHIMITSU - Ms. Koshimitsu is a Japanese artist based in New York since 1984. Koshimitsu's art attempts to accuse and raise awareness against enormous risks of environmental destruction and nuclear contamination that " Modernity" would bring about.

ALICE SLATER - is on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War and is the UN NGO Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. She is on the Global Council of Abolition 2000, serves on its International Coordinating Committee and directs its Sustainable Energy Working Group. She is a member of the NYC Bar Association and serves on the Coordinating Committees of the People Climate Committee, NY working for 100% Green Energy by 2030. Ms. Slater serves on the Board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, is an Advisor to the Rideau Institute. She has written numerous articles and op-eds, with frequent appearances on local and national media.

• What to bring
Bring yourselves and friends. Please RSVP to this meet-up.

• Important to know
This event is free of charge. We appreciate donations to cover our costs.