[Seattle Go Center] Looking for Volunteers for "From Hiroshima To Hope"

Hello Go players,

August 6th (Tuesday) will is the 79th anniversary of America dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Our generous benefactor, Kaoru Iwamoto 9p, was playing a Honinbo title match game with Utaro Hashimoto about 5 miles from the impact site. The blast disrupted the last day of their three-day game, and though windows were broken from the blast, nobody in the playing room was badly hurt. Later in the day, they restored the board state and finished the game. Only later, as they walked to their host’s house, did they get the terrible news of what happened as refugees were fleeing the center of Hiroshima.

There is an annual gathering at Green Lake to recognize this event with a beautiful floating lantern ceremony.  Seattle Go Center joins the activities prior to the lantern ceremony to replay the Atom Bomb Game.  For more info on the ceremony, go to https://fromhiroshimatohope.org.  If you're walking around Greenlake from roughly 4pm-6pm, a bit south of the theater on the west side of the lake, you might stop and say hey to the volunteers there today or place some game moves yourself.

I need 2-3 volunteer that are willing to play out the Atomic Bomb Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_games#Atomic_bomb_game) at the "From Hiroshima To Hope" event (https://fromhiroshimatohope.org/). This event is on August 6th (Tuesday) and lasts 90 mins to 2 hours of slowly placing stones. Its a more light outreach as it will be just slowly playing out the game and answering questions about the importance of the game and our history with it.

If you are interested in helping out, please email back