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October Issue
2008
UNC Asheville in Asheville, NC, Features
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Exhibit
UNC Asheville and the Center for Diversity Education in Asheville, NC, will host the national traveling exhibit, Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Images and Stories from Eyewitness Accounts, on view from Oct. 1 - 30, 2008, in UNC Asheville's Karpen Hall Lobby. The exhibition is free and open to the public. However, due to the graphic nature of the images in this educational exhibit, neither the exhibits nor the events are recommended for children.
The exhibition features 30 large posters depicting scenes of the US bombing of the cities in 1945. The exhibit, which includes graphic imagery from before and after the blasts, is an initiative of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The museum advocates for the peaceful disarmament of all nations possessing nuclear weapons by increasing citizen awareness of the effects of nuclear weapons. The exhibit is part of 101 exhibits on view across the nation.
Founded in 1995, the Center for Diversity Education encourages conversation along the lines that often separate communities by focusing on ethnic, cultural and religious diversity through exhibits, road shows and staff development programs. The Center has created 11 traveling exhibits about Buncombe County and Western North Carolina on such themes as desegregations, immigration, religious pilgrimage, World War II, genocide and globalization.
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Center for Diversity Education at 828/232-5024
or visit (www.diversityed.org).
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