About the #BEACRANE Campaign
In the last year of her life, 11 year-old Sadako Sasaki was given origami paper as a gift with a letter, explaining an old Japanese legend that one wish would be granted to the folder of a thousand origami cranes. When Sadako got her friends in the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital to fold cranes with her, she said, “I will write peace on your wings, and you will fly all over the world. Though Sadako died at age 12, she continues to live on in our hearts, and her message still unites us in our desire for world peace.
What is your wish? The #beacrane Campaign is designed to fly your wish around the world full circle back to Hiroshima where Sadako unknowingly started a movement. Our “Peace On Your Wings” cast will fold a crane in your honor with your wish for the world written inside, and will take it with hundreds of others to Hiroshima and deliver it to the children’s memorial which was built in Sadako’s honor. Our goal is to take a thousand cranes back with us to Hiroshima in August 2025 where we will perform the show in accordance with Mayor Matsui’s wish and personal invitation to be a central event of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Your donations will make it possible for us to tell Sadako’s story to more than 10,000 people in Honolulu, Fukuoka, and Hiroshima this year, thereby allowing us to continue the work that Sadako began.
About the “Peace On Your Wings” the Musical
"Peace On Your Wings” is an Ohana Arts original Broadway-caliber musical based on the true story of 12 year old Hiroshima atomic bomb victim Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was only two years old when the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima. Though she and her family survived, Sadako was diagnosed with Leukemia ten years later resulting from the a-bomb's radiation. Sadako folded over a thousand cranes in hopes of getting one wish. After her death, Sadako's middle school friends raised the money from youth, teachers, and peace activists around Japan to get a monument in Sadako's honor built to remember all the child victims of the a-bomb. The monument has become world famous and stands outside the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima.
"Peace On Your Wings" was written by two local writers, Ohana Arts executive and co-artistic director Jenny Taira and Ohana Arts co-artistic director Laurie Rubin. The musical’s three city tour to Honolulu, Fukuoka, and Hiroshima is produced by Ohana Arts, and co-sponsored by Fukuoka and Hiroshima City. After its successful debut in Hiroshima in 2023, "Peace On Your Wings” has been invited back to Hiroshima by Mayor Matsui to be a central commemoration event of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing in August 2025. A cast of 32 Oahu based youth has been assembled to perform the show in Honolulu, Fukuoka, and Hiroshima in July/August 2025. The Honolulu performances taking place at the Kennedy Theatre at the University of Hawaii, honor the historic sister partnership between Honolulu and Hiroshima City, as well as the sister partnership between the State of Hawaii and Hiroshima Prefecture.
To learn more about the show, please visit: www.peaceonyourwings.com
CHECKS MAY ALSO BE MADE PAYABLE TO:
Ohana Arts
P.O. Box 894755
Mililani, HI 96789
(Please write in the MEMO: Be a Crane)
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Ohana Arts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (Tax ID 27-2668775). All contributions to Ohana Arts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.