Chernobyl Remembered
Atomic Mirror joins in worldwide commemorations of the 20th Anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident.
Just after midnight on 26 April 1986, at 1:24 a.m, the reactor core of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded. Twenty years later people are still suffering the after effects. In 1996 the Atomic Mirror organised a commemorative pilgrimage around the nuclear and sacred sites of the British Isles. In 2006 we will be joining with people around the world to remember and mourn and commit to working for a world free of the dangers of nuclear technology.
In this section:
Commemoration Activities in the USA
Commemoration Activities in the UK
Other Events
Further Information on Chernobyl
Chernobyl 20th Anniversary Commemoration Activities in the USA
10 April
The Atomic Mirror sponsors:
Photographs by Yuriy Kossin — A Private Viewing
New York City
Please join us for wine and light fare, and meet this incredible person, once a technician at Chernobyl, now an artist who seeks to expose real life in the fallout zone.
On Monday evening, 10th April from 6-8 PM, the noted Ukrainian-born photographer, Yuriy Kossin, will show and discuss his work about Chernobyl. Many of his incredible photographs were taken as the accident happened around him. Kossin uses his photographs as starting-points, producing a unique and individual aspect of the image as it emerges in the printing process and takes the subject into the areas of symbolism and universality. He also develops visual textures that speak to the permeability of radiation in the environment, moving invisibly and boldly.
Kossin's
vision of the world through the lens of Chernobyl is profoundly moving.
A review of his solo show in the UK, describes the work as “somber
and disturbing. Seen against the background of Chernobyl and the abuse of
technology for the sake of power and control, many of his pictures comment
on the dehumanization that follows… These images are deeply considered
and serious. We cannot simply glance at them and know what they are saying:
we have to engage with them and think about them…”
On this first trip to the US, Kossin would like to meet artists, curators
and gallery owners who work in New York and might be interested in helping
to organise an exhibition of his work.
www.yuriykosin.com
MONDAY 10 April 2006 6-8 PM
33 Flatbush Ave, 7th Floor
(4/5, 2/3 to Nevins Street in Brooklyn, cross the street to 33, between
Fulton and Lafayette on Flatbush Avenue)
please RSVP Kathleen Sullivan, United Nations and New
York Atomic Mirror Representative
— edna@bestweb.net 718 855 6216
sponsored by the
Atomic Mirror
19 April
Transgression The Consequences of Chernobyl
- A Presentation of Photographs by Yuriy Kossin.
New York City
This evening, the noted Ukrainian-born photographer, Yuriy Kossin, will show and discuss his work about Chernobyl. Following a presentation with slides of Kossin's work, local activists will discuss plans for sustainable energy production, the shutdown and conversion of Indian Point, and the US and other governments' proposed expansion of nuclear power. The human toll of one accident at one power station continues to mount. On this 20th anniversary of Chernobyl, let's meet together to be inspired to act for change.
Wednesday, 19 April 7:30 pm Co-sponsors: Educators for Social Responsibility
Metro Area & GRACE Policy Institute Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No
One Turned Away
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - mail@brechtforum.org
1 May
Students Against Nuclear Insanity for Tomorrow's
Youth
MAY 1st SANITY YOUTH CAUCUS for nuclear awareness
New York City
9-3 @ the InterChurch Center, Manhattan
475 Riverside Drive (at 120th Street), NYC
Please join us for SANITY's annual nuclear awareness Youth Caucus this year focusing on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. The day long event will be arts based, using photography and film to convey the terrible reality of the world's largest industrial accident. The conference is FREE, including lunch, and will be entirely faciliated by youth.
We are very pleased to welcome Maryann DeLeo, Academy Award winning filmmaker, who will be screening her film Chernobyl Heart, and Magnum photographer Paul Fusco who will be showing his powerful work which features children in the fallout zones. New York's own Urban Word will join SANITY for a slam poetry shout out for environmental justice to close our program. We will end the day with an action: encouraging students to raise money to buy hand held radiation monitors through support of the VIOLA Project — http://www.livingearthgatherings.org/novozybkov_reports_info.html
For more information and to register, contact
Kathleen Sullivan / United Nations and New York Atomic Mirror Representative
/
Coordinator, NWEAP / Educators for Social Responsibility Metro Area
Phone: 212-870-3318 x73 / Email: ksullivan@esrmetro.org
Register early! Space is limited!
The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
is supporting a number of Chernobyl Commemorative events in California.
21 April 2006
Raspad
- Chernobyl Twenty Years Later
San Luis Obispo, California
23 April 2006
Chernobyl - Twenty Years Later
Los Angeles, California
26 April 2006
Chernobyl
Twenty Years Later -- A Public Health and Environmental Assessment
and
Remembering
the Children of Chernobyl – It Could Happen Here
San Diego, California
Chernobyl 20th Anniversary Commemoration Activities in the UK
18 April to 14 May
Fallout:
The Human Cost of Nuclear Catastrophe
Photographic exhibition by Dutch photographer Robert Knoth
London
Exhibition of photographs by Dutch photographer Robert Knoth documents
the toxic human legacy of Chernobyl and other nuclear accident sites of
the former Soviet Union.
the.gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bragehouse
Street, South Bank. London SE1 9PH.
Open daily 11am to 6pm. Admission free.
22 April
20th
Anniversary of Chernobyl - The True Health & Environmental Legacy
MEDACT Conference
London
Twenty years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, this conference
will reveal the lasting effects on humans, animals and the environment.
It will show how previous reports have underestimated the disaster's true
impact and how its legacy continues today…
Health professionals and scientists, some who live and work in the contaminated
area, will describe the physical and psychosocial costs. They will explain
how many of those affected are still in need of care, and what participants
can do to help.
Chernobyl is, by a considerable margin, the world’s worst industrial
catastrophe. This conference will provide an opportunity to find out about
Chernobyl’s true health, psychosocial and environmental impacts.
26 April
Remember Chernobyl
A public meeting and commemoration organised by CND and supported by Chernobyl
Children’s Project (UK) and MEDACT.
Speakers will be:
Michael Meacher MP
Norman Baker MP
Professor Inna Merculova, International Sakharov Environmental University,
Minsk
Jenny Jones London AM
Linda Walker, Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK)
Kate Hudson, CND
7pm, Wednesday 26th April
Committee Room 10, Houses of Parliament
For more information on this event, please ring the CND office on 0207 700
2393
www.cnduk.org
Other Events
Chernobyl::20 Photo
Exhibition & Music CD
The Chernobyl::20 project that brings top international photographers
and musicians together to refocus attention on the Chernobyl disaster’s
continuing consequences.
Chernobyl+20 –
Remembrance for the Future
International conference to take place in Kyiv/Ukraine on April 23-25 bringing
analysts and activists and a broad public audience together for a new examination
of the 1986 Chornobyl accident’s continuing health, social and economic
consequences and to draw new attention to the promise and need to implement
sustainable energy technologies.
Chernobyl,
20 Years - 20 Lives
A photo documentary journey through the lives of 20 people whose lives were
forever altered by the devastating nuclear explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear
power plant on April 26th, 1986. Exhibitions takes place in London –
UK, Kiev – Ukraine, Basel – Switzerland, Melbourne – Australia
and Madison, WI – USA.
More information and events can be found on the Abolition Now website
at
www.abolitionnow.org/c.lmK0JcNSJrF/b.1316345/k.57AF/CHERNOBYL_REMEMBERED.htm
Further
Information on Chernobyl
The
Chernobyl Catastrophe: Consequences on Human Health
This report from Greenpeace involves 52 respected scientists and
includes information never before published in English. It challenges the
International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report, which predicted
4,000 additional deaths attributable to the accident as a gross simplification
of the real breadth of human suffering.
The report can be downloaded from the Greenpeace website as a PDF
(1.8mb):
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/chernobylhealthreport.pdf
