Pittsburgh Hiroshima Day Flash Mob Shadow Project
Wednesday, August 6. Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Imagining Peace Flashmob/shadow project: A public art event recognizing the victims of the bombings Hiroshima and Nagasaki by tracing their outlines or shadows along with the message Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace. We will gather at noon at the Federal Building, dressed in black, and carrying umbrellas, where possible. We will walk down Liberty and across the Sixth St. bridge, fanning out on the sidewalk below PNC Park where we will trace the shadows of participants. The Flash Mob/Shadow Project is a city-wide remembrance of the human shadows burnt into the sidewalks of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The goal of this collective political art is to help people understand, in vivid and terrible detail, what the use of nuclear weapons would really mean. Today, nations seek nuclear superiority and the protection they think it brings. These shadows will remind us that despite having the world’s biggest stockpile of WMDs, they have not made us safe. It is time for the U.S. to join the rest of the world and demand global peace and justice as a safer, surer path to security than more, bigger, and newer bombs. We make these shadows so that they may never be cast again. Sponsors include Women in Black and Pittsburgh WILPF Branch.
