Join the memorial event in Aberdeen for a mixture of prayers, speeches, music and poetry, as well as two minutes’ silence honouring those who died and suffered due to the bombings.
The programme for the memorial will be as follows.
• Introduction and Welcome Felix Mensah
• Yu Aoki from Hiroshima or Jonathan reading Yu’s script
• ‘Message of support from Buddhist organisation SGI’ – Sinde Astraea
• Two minutes silence
• Charlie Abel words from Ronnie Watt Japan Scotland Society and commissioned music
• Kirsty Blackman SNP MP
• Gwyn Hinton Poems
• Wes Gibson two songs with Nigel and Mark Lammas
• Jim McWhirter two poems
• Kirsty Potts two songs
• Maggie Chapman Scottish Greens MSP
• Iona Macdonald two songs
• Tommy Campbell poems
• Mercedes Villalba Scottish Labour MSP
• Javier Dominguez two songs with Nigel and Mark Lammas
• Food not Bombs will be providing food during event
Broad Street
Aberdeen
AB10 1AB