Peace • The
Multicultural Center presents the Hiroshima-Nagasaki
Exhibit until Thursday in the Design
Gallery 101 to promote world peace.
The exhibit showcases photos from the
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Museums
in Japan, showing the devastating effects
of the World War II nuclear bombs on
Japanese civilians. Erika Jones / Online
Forty-Niner
Art
promotes peace, shows dangers of nuclear
arms
By
Allison Baldwin
Online Forty-Niner
Editorial Assistant
An exhibit featuring photographs from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
will be on display in Design Gallery 101 until Thursday.
The exhibit, coordinated by the Multicultural Center, is intended to open a
dialogue on world peace. The display is an international attempt, and the mayors
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were in direct contact with the person who worked
on the exhibit.
Visitors to the exhibit can see photographs and a video showing damage from
nuclear bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The exhibit also shows other
areas affected by nuclear warfare. One table displays the effects of uranium
bombs used during the Gulf War.
“
I think it’s extremely powerful and emotional,” said Cynthia Azarcon,
a teaching English as a second language certificate student, who was hired
to help with the exhibit. “It is hard to look at but it is necessary
at the same time.”
The opening presentation for the exhibit was Friday. Cal State Long Beach invited
students from the Personal Success Through Empowerment, Academic Achievemen
and Ethics in Action (PEACE) Academy at Robert A. Millikan High School to attend
the presentation. The students heard from speakers, including a Hiroshima survivor,
before attending the gallery.
“
It’s good to have a dialogue opened with younger kids,” Azarcon
said.
Those attending the exhibit also have a chance to send out their own messages
of peace. The Multicultural Center has set up an area where guests can write
a message on pieces of paper shaped like hands. After the exhibit, those handprints
will be used as leaves on a peace tree that will be on display in the Multicultural
Center.
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