Upcoming Events in the Phila Area

Summer 2009 Events from the Brandywine Peace Community

Friday, July 3, Noon — Independence Day eve, join with peace and anti-war activists, anti-violence and gun control advocates, justice seekers, community and earth partners, celebrating our freedom and independence, by making a declaration for justice and peace for today. "And Now, DECLARE PEACE!" Demonstration with speakers, music, and public declaration at Independence Mall, Market Street, between 5th & 6th Streets, followed by bell-tolling vigil to stop the wars and end the violence, handgun to H-Bomb.

Memory, Hope, Nonviolent Action at Lockheed Martin, and Peace...August 6 - 9, 2009, Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki (August 6 - 9, 1945).

Thursday, August 6, Hiroshima Day —- Lockheed Martin, Mall & Goddard Boulevards, Valley Forge, PA (behind the King of Prussia Mall).
8a.m. - Noon, Vigil for Peace;
Noon - Hiroshima Day Ceremony and Nonviolent Action, including civil disobedience. Those interested in participating in the civil disobedience, call the Brandywine Peace Community by July 25 for preparation and planning information.

Sunday, August 9 — Nagasaki Day, 7:30p.m. Candlelight Peace Dedication in front of SS Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Cathedral, 18th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, in memory of the Urakami Cathedral, ground zero of the Nagasaki bombing. Co-sponsored by Phila. Catholic Peace Fellowship.

In its 3rd decade...Join Us at the area's longest running on-going gathering for peace and justice, the Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Supper/Program, 4:30PM, 2nd Sunday of the month (except August), University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA (bring main dish, salad, or dessert to share). Programs begin at 5:30PM.

July 12 — Special showing of "The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (1980), the acclaimed and Oscar-nominated film documentary about Oppenheimer, the scientific head of the Manhattan Project and the first steps into the nuclear age.

First Fridays, 7 p.m., at the Peace Center of Delaware County/Springfield Friends Meetinghouse, 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, Delaware County, with light refreshments and after-film discussion. Co-sponsored by the Brandywine Peace Community. For more information or directions, www.delcopeacecenter.org, or call 610.544.1818

Skip the Independence Day blockbuster and spend an evening at the Peace Center of Delaware County with "THE VISITOR".

JULY 3 — "THE VISITOR", 103 minutes, rated PG - 13 for some profanity, Directed by Thomas McCarthy ("The Station Agent" ) and starring Richard Jenkins in his Best Actor Oscar nominate role, and Hiam Abbass.

"THE VISITOR" is a simple drama, both poignant and compellingly subtle, that focuses on a lonely man in late middle age whose life changes when he is forced to face issues relating to identity, immigration, and cross-cultural communication in post-9/11 New York City

(5p.m - Cook-out at the Peace Center of Delaware County, prior to the screening of The Visitor. RSVP by calling Brandywine Peace Community, 610-544-1818.)

As the world remembers the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 and 9, come to the Peace Center of Delaware County on August 7 to see where and how it all began.

AUGUST 7 — "FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY" (1989), 127 minutes, directed by Roland Joffee (The Killing Fields, The Mission). Starring Paul Newman as General Leslie R. Groves and Dwight Schultz as J.Robert Oppenheimer, with John Cusak, Laura Dern, and Natasshia Richardson. Rated PG -13

"FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY" dramatically and with precise historical detail tells the story of the Manhattan Project, which developed and built the world's first atomic bombs. In thematic narrative, the film introduces us to the project and people which developed the horror of nuclear weapons, from the inception of the Manhattan Project to the "Trinity" test blast. We are left to imagine at film's end the horror of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and the world of threatened nuclear annihilation in which we still live.

6pm, large pictorial display from Japan of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, their after-effects, and the continuing threat posed by nuclear weaponry.

Brandywine Peace Community
P.O. Box 81, Swarthmore, PA 19081
(610) 544-1818
brandywine@juno.com
www.brandywinepeace.com