Wednesday 21st September – Twice Bombed. The Legacy of Yamaguchi Tsutomu. 7.30pm, Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Mancehster

 

This is an event re-scheduled because of the riots in Manchester last month.

This 1 hour documentary highlights the experience and testimony of Mr Tsutomu, one of 30 people who witnessed both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and his talks to the UN and to schoolchildren prior to his death in 2010 at the age of 93 after considerable health issues.

Introduced by Councillor Mark Hackett, Mayors for Peace

A free event. Organised by Mayors for Peace and Greater Manchester & District CND

 

20th September (originally listed as 21st Sept) @ 7pm, Working Class Movement Library, Jubilee House, The Crescent, Salford

Words for Peace with Maxine Peake. (

How does a person like Betty Tebbs (93) successfully combine the roles of mother, wife, grandmother, worker and peace activist for 60 years?

Maxine Peake (Silk, Shameless) will be reading excerpts from Betty’s autobiography, aided by Betty herself, of course.

Tickets: £5 available from the Box office – 0161 273 8283

17-25 September 2011

17th September – Walk for Peace

Walk the beautiful Cown Edge Way. Hazel Grove to Gee Cross. Join this sponsored walk and raise money for Greater Manchester & District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Campaign Against Depleted Uranium.

Walkers can do the whole route (CND T-shirt for everyone completing the whole walk) or walk solidarity sections.

Registration packs are available from Jacqui on 0161 273 8283 

18th – 19th September – Working for Peace Expo, Imperial War Museum North 

Peace and social justice stalls and an opportunity to meet and talk to campaigners and activists.

19th September –  Film “Imagine Rainbow In Katmandu”,  Cross Street Chapel

7.15 p.m.  Pay what you can – guide line price £5

Singer/Song-writer Carole Isis will open this film event about IRIK, an amazing children’s music project in Katmandu Nepal. The Swiss film maker Thomas Bertschi will visit the UK to introduce this wonderful film made between November 2005 and April 2006 under turbulent political circumstances.  Experienced and well known Nepali musicians working with very varied groups of children throughout the Katmandu valley  created a unique and diverse musical performance which represented the dreams and wishes of the children.  Fusing visual arts and music, the project gave the children the opportunity to express themselves in colour and music, creating a collage showing the rich heritage of the Kathmandu valley guided by sound and colour- from the past to the present into the future.  The music project is a unifying and continuing peace legacy to the region and donations will go to support future work of the Rainbow project www.rainbow-project.ch

21st September – Music for Peace, Cross St Chapel 

International Day of Peace. 12 noon-3pm. Cross St Chapel, Cross St.
A varied programme of tuneful classical music.  Interval refreshments.

Tickets £10, £5 conc. available from 0161 273 8283

23rd September – Concert for Peace, The Saffron Restaurant, Cheetham Hill Rd 

David Ferrard returns to the Saffron for another wonderful evening of great music and gorgeous food.
Tickets are £20 and £15 (conc) and include food and soft drinks. Bring your own wine and beer
Tickets available now from 0161 273 8283 or email gmdcnd@gn.apc.org
All proceeds to GM&D CND and Manchester PSC

25th September – Peace and Social Justice History Walk

Meet 10.45am at Robert Owen statue, Corporation St

This walk will visit sites in Manchester city centre associated with the movement for peace and social justice. It will last 2 hours and be led by Michael Herbert (Red Flag Walks)

Booking essential.  Tickets : £10, £5 (conc)

25th September – Musicians Without Borders, Imperial War Museum North

12 noon and 2pm.  An exciting live musical performance by a team of musicians involved in Musicians Without Borders, an international network organisation that uses the power of music to connect communities and heal the wounds of war and conflict.