This is Our Age Peace Festival Programme
Seeds of Hope and Action Exhibition
The Seeds of Hope and Action Exhibition introduces a positive vision for sustainable living that can contribute to the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It includes panels portraying six individuals from South Sudan to Lebanon and Brazil who have successfully taken action for change.
Open from 10:00-16:00 in the Mead Gallery.
Peace Fayre
The Peace Fayre includes interactive and engaging activities for all ages, such as: conflict resolution based games; SDG/global citizenship based artwork activities; dialogues for peace; digital media resources; discussion on nuclear disarmament; music; and University of Warwick’s Politics and International Studies (PAIS) department are running a poetry workshop and will host a stall.
Open from 10:00-16:00 in the Mead Gallery.
Hiroshima Peace Day
The Hiroshima Peace Day Event will include a talk from SGI-UK General Director Justine Marchant on the SGI and nuclear abolition movement; a message from the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – the Nobel peace prize laureate; music performance; a panel discussion on the event’s theme I Disarm Myself with Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) Kyoko Gibson; nuclear disarmament academic Dr. Becky Alexis-Martin; nuclear disarmament policy thought leader Declan Penrose; engineering student and Buddhist youth representative Cameron Lee, and Sanya Rajpal from the SGI Office for UN Affairs who will chair the panel.
Open from 13:00 to be seated for 13:30 start in the Arts Theatre. The event is approx. 90 minutes in length.
The theme of this event is nuclear disarmament, which will be addressed from a humanistic perspective that affirms respect for the dignity of all life. Please be aware that some of the discussion will touch upon the impacts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and on the wider impacts of nuclear warfare. The event is designed to be hope-filled and inspirational, though some audience members may find the topic distressing.
