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A Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration will be held at 7 p.m. Aug. 11 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 901 Cleveland St. in Fayetteville.

Professor Nicholas Radan will share a flute piece he wrote along with a video he created to accompany it. The work is called “Hiroshima: Clash of Civilizations.” The Omni Center will also honor Iranian culture by inviting a wonderful Iranian musician and professor at the University of Arkansas, Mahshid Iranipravast, to perform songs from her culture. Speaker Faith Laudon will talk about “The Nuclear Burden of Marshall Islands: The Plight of the Rongelapese People in the Aftermath of Nuclear Testing,” and Jean Gordon, founder of WAND Chapter Little Rock, Women Acting for Nuclear Disarmament (now Women Acting for New Directions) will speak. Finally keynote speaker, Sydney Burris, University of Arkansas Department of English and Omni Peace Prize Awardee 2017, will lead a “Meditation on Hiroshima.”

Other traditional elements of the ceremony will include a proclamation of the day by Fayetteville Mayor Lioneld Jordan, reading of names of the dead, the original “May Peace Prevail on Earth” chant by Still on the Hill, and the Obon Lights ceremony modeled after the practice in Hiroshima.

The OMNI Center is an action incubator and policy advocacy organization working for issues of peace, justice and environmental sustainability. Everyone is welcome to join the Omni action team. Information: (479) 9354422 omnicenter.org.