Hitomi Kamanaka Tour

Tour Coordinator: Ms. Chiho Kaneko

Lead Sponsors: Ms. Kaneko, Upper Valley Sierra Club

Lecture: Nuclear Disaster to Sustainable Future by  Ms. Hitomi Kamanaka Post-disaster Fukushima display  by Ms. Keiko Kokubun Update on Nihonmatsu by Ms. Chiho Kaneko

 

movie: “Ashes to Honey: Toward a Sustainable Future” (produced in 2010) 2 hrs, 15 mins

 

                                            Times/Locations

Montpelier, VT Movie - November 1 - time: 6 pm Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street Lecture- November 1 - Time: 8:30 pm  (post-movie talk and Q&A) Savoy Theater, 26 Main Street	Hanover, NH                                   Lecture - November 2 - time: 11:00 am Howe Library, 13 South Main Street Movie - November 30 - time:  6:30 pm Howe Library, 13 South Main Street
Brattleboro, VT Lecture - November 2 - time: 7:00 pm Latchis Theater, 50 Main Street Movie- November 6 - time: 7:00 pm New England Youth Theater, 100 Flat Street	Northampton, MA Lecture- November 3 - time: 6:00 pm: Supper, 7:00 pm Unitarian-Universalist Church, 220 Main Street Movie- November 10 - time:  7:00 pm Unitarian-Universalist Church, 220 Main Street

Lecture:

Ms. Hitomi Kamanaka, an award-winning documentary film director from Japan, is on tour and will give this lecture. She first witnessed the terrible effects of radiation when she went to Iraq in 1998. Many Iraqi children were dying from leukemia after the Gulf War (1990) and the suspected cause was radiation exposure from depleted uranium warheads used during the war. She has studied the decades-long suffering of Hiroshima atomic bomb victims from internal radiation exposure, the nuclear contamination at the Hanford nuclear facilities on the Columbia River in Washington State in the 1980s, and the small northern Japanese village of Rokkasho, whose citizens are fiercely divided over the construction of a nuclear recycling facility. Ms. Kamanaka will discuss this history of nuclear contamination, update us on the aftermath of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accidents, and suggest options for sustainable energy in the future. Please welcome Ms. Kamanaka. 

Movie Screening: “Ashes to Honey: Toward a Sustainable Future” (2010):

This film, directed by Hitomi Kamanaka, chronicles the lives of people in Iwaishima, a small island community in southern Japan. For thirty years this fishing hamlet has been protesting the government’s plan to build nuclear reactors across the bay. Can a small community fight the political and economic might of the nuclear power industry? The film also takes us to Sweden, to show how the collective determination of citizens can lead to a way out of reliance on fossil and nuclear fuel. Real people, real lives, exquisite cinematography. Enjoy Ms. Kamanaka's acclaimed film. (2hrs. 15min)

Sponsors: Upper Valley Sierra Club | The Safe and Green Campaign | The Citizens Awareness Network.| The Savoy Theater |Chelsea Green Publishing,  The Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, Dartmouth Japan Society