• Hiroshima Day Commemoration

    Friends Meeting at Cambridge 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge

    Continuing our tradition of commemorating the dropping of two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we will gather for a community reading of Thomas Merton’s meditation "Original Child Bomb,” after which there’ll be a period of personal reflections.  We’ll then proceed to the Charles River to [...]

  • Dialogue Night: Wisdom | How Interconnected Are We, Really?

    The Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning and Dialogue 396 Harvard Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join us at our next Dialogue Night on Friday, August 7! This upcoming Dialogue Nights will be on wisdom, and it will be the second in a three-part series exploring what our Center founder Daisaku Ikeda described as the core attributes of global citizenship: courage, [...]

  • Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Watertown Square Main Street at Spring St, Watertown, MA, United States

    6:30 PM – Silent Vigil in Watertown Square 7:30 PM – Music/Testimonials at Charles River MDCR Dock Suzy Giroux, Singer, Songwriter, and Activist Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, Flutist, WCPJE President Ray Matsumiya, Executive Director, Oleander Initiative  and Grandson of a Hiroshima bombing victim Tod Gross and Jeanne Trubek, [...]