Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace Screens Animation at Alphabet City
City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, located at 40 West North Avenue, is the permanent home for City of Asylum programming and the arts. It is a hub for Pittsburgh’s readers and writers, jazz and small-scale music and performance, and artistic experimentation. It is a home for diverse voices from around the globe – a place where Pittsburgh meets the world and the world meets Pittsburgh. To view a complete list of all scheduled events, visit the Alphabet City website.
In This Corner of the World
Sunday, August 5 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm
Enjoy a screening of In This Corner of the World, presented by Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace. In This Corner of the World is a beautifully animated Japanese film that tells the story of Suzu, a girl with a vivid imagination and a passion for drawing and painting who is growing up in Hiroshima. This powerful anti-war film encourages viewers to reflect on the personal costs of war. The audience will have the opportunity to engage in a live video exchange with the Popoki Peace Project and peace activists, and students from Japan and Guam.
