Hooray for our family of Peace!
We are Top Ten now.
Keep IMAGINE PEACE in your heart.
We are together.
love, yoko
YOKO ONO continues her dance floor domination on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Charts with her contagious, chart climbing top 5 single GIVE ME SOMETHING (THE REMIXES) featuring mixes by RICHARD MOREL, DAVE AUDE, RALPHI ROSARIO, STONEBRIDGE, SPARKS, JUNIOR BOYS, ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ and more…
NEW YORK – YOKO ONO continues to keep her fingers [...]
Friday QandA day: Ask me an interesting question, tag it #yokoQandA and I’ll answer 10-15 every week on IMAGINEPEACE.com love, yoko
louis_louis_66
Hello Yoko, I’m so happy to see some sun this week, I was wondering what is your favourite season and why?
I love all seasons and all weather.
Sqrrrlgrrl68
how do you deal with hatred directed at you? [...]
A QUIET REVOLUTION by YOKO ONO
SPEECH FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY ON MARCH 10, 2010
A butterfly is hopping from flower to flower. Oh, good. I think. The butterfly is busybodying as usual. Peace reins. But what is the butterfly really doing?
When a tiny movement like the flapping of the wings of a butterfly brings about a big [...]
APPLE by Yoko Ono
APPLE, PLEXIGLASS WITH BRASS PLAQUE, 36″ X 10″ X 10″ (92CM X 25CM X 25CM) 1966
“One of the ‘Unfinished Objects’ shown at Indica Gallery in 1966, ‘Apple’ embodies the life cycle of birth, decay, death and rebirth. Placing the apple on a pedestal in a gallery foregrounded the beauty of that [...]
Yoko Ono is forever associated with the Beatles, yet her aristocratic family life in imperial Japan, long before she met John Lennon, was equally intriguing. For the first time, she opens up the Ono family album.
Yoko is back in Japan for a three-week trip and, for the first time, has agreed to a journalist accompanying her to write about this side of her multi-faceted life. This is also the first time she has agreed to open up in depth about her childhood, her awkward, distant upbringing in a quasi-aristocratic family in Tokyo, and Lennon’s relationship with her parents. Only now is she truly comfortable returning to Japan.
Karuizawa is an old summer resort in Japan very much like the Hamptons except it’s in the mountains. There is a coffee house in a pine forest near Karuizawa. John & I fell in love with the place, and found ourselves going there almost every day with Sean. To get there, you had to go cycling for about 30 minutes from the town of Karuizawa. But we loved going there. There was a big hammock in the backyard, and John, Sean and I used to spend the afternoon lying in it, giggling, singing, and watching the sky…
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All of the below efforts have been approved by the Mobile Giving Foundation, which organized text message relief for Haiti:
Text “CHILE” to 20222 = $10 to World Vision
Text “SAVE” to 20222 = $10 to Save the Children Federation, Inc.
Text “CHILE” to 45678 = $5 (In Canada Only in English) to UNICEF Canada
Text “CHILI” to 45678 = $5 (In Canada Only in French) to UNICEF Canada
Text “4CHILE” to 50555 = $10 to Convoy of Hope
Text “CHILE” to 50555 = $10 to Friends of the World Program
Text “REBUILD” to 50555 = $10 to Friends of the Operation USA
Text “CHILE” to 52000 = $10 to Salvation Army
Text “CHILE” to 85944 = $10 to International Medical Corp.
(Source: PRNewswire press release & Mobile Giving foundation.)
Google person finder for Chile here.
Many people believe that in this age, art is dead. They despise the artists who show in galleries and are caught up in the traditional art world. Artists themselves are beginning to lose their confidence. They don’t know whether they are doing something that still has value in this day and age where the social problems are so vital and critical. I wondered myself about this. Why am I still an artist? And why am I not joining the violent revolutionaries? Then I realized that destruction is not my game. Violent revolutionaries are trying to destroy the establishment. That is good. But how? By killing? Killing is such an artless thing….
Iain Macmillan Retrospective
Abbey Road, the Swinging 60’s, John & Yoko and Dundee
27th February until 3rd June 2010
Discovery Point Café Gallery, Discovery Quay, Dundee, DD1 4XA, Scotland.
FREE admission
Yoko says: “I am so glad that Iain is getting some recognition. He was a incredible photographer.”
by Randy Patterson, Boomerocity
Elvis. Aerosmith. Elton John. The Stones. Alice Cooper. Zeppelin. Lennon/Yoko. Dylan. Frampton.
These artists and icons dominated my mind (besides girls) in my youth. Photo’s torn from my favorite rock magazines and posters purchased in the store (for the astronomical price of $1!) hung on my bedroom walls.
The [...]
CHALK4PEACE is a Global chalk art project about PEACE.
How to organise a CHALK4PEACE Event: What young artists need from you: Chalk, Places to draw, Water, Nourishment, Buckets, Paper Towels, Ladders, Safety, Organizers, Photographers, Volunteers.
Chalk this event onto yout 2010 calendar today – September 2010!
For more info: www.chalk4peace.blogspot.com
Contact: chalk4peace@gmail.com
The Black Eyed Peas have announced their plans to take the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus (a non-profit mobile recording and multimedia studio) on the road for their upcoming trek in support of their multi-platinum album “The E.N.D.” on tour starting February 22 through April 10.
The facility, on which Peas’ member Fergie recorded her hit “Fergalicious” and other cuts from her solo album, will not only serve as the official recording studio for the Peas, but also for upcoming student projects in cities visited by the Peas’ while on tour.
The Other Rooms is a sequel to Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit, a now classic artist’s book that was first published in 1964 and became a cult classic following its wider distribution after 1970.
Matching the satisfyingly compact size of Grapefruit, and beautifully bound in white cloth, The Other Rooms is conceived as a series of rooms that unfold the story of, in the words of the artist, “the life of a woman seeing through the eyes of her son.”
The Spread peace Cafe will open May 1, 2010 in Reno, Nevada and will support and help expand the work of Spread Peace Reno. Inspired by the work of Spread Peace Reno this cafe will become a community. A community that will join us in proving to the world what a positive role business can play locally, nationally and internationally. For every meal purchased a meal will be given to a homeless friend. We call this the 2 for 1 Special. One for you and one for the homeless.
We seek to create exciting career opportunities for our employees and become an inspiration to other businesses to play a more positive role in their community by initiating new and innovative ways to improve the quality of life locally, nationally and internationally ourselves. We seek to have fun and make a differnece in the world! Welcome Friend and thanks so much for your support. Namaste.
Facebook Group here.
http://www.spreadpeacereno.org
Courtney Love: “I’d just had Frances and Kurt came into the hospital with a Yoko Ono boxset and I threw it at his head. I was so offended by it, because of what it meant. He thought that was cool, I did not at the time. He loved Yoko Ono and he loved her work. Then I got round to listening to it and I thought she was quite brilliant. Bizarre but brilliant. She sticks with her own thing. Why was I offended? Because she got so much shit – I wrote in the song: “You don’t fuck with the fabulous four, or you spend the rest of your life picking things up off the floor””.
Yoko Ono is one of the most polarizing figures in rock ‘n’ roll history. The people that love her LOVE her and the people who don’t love her never will. Aside from being married to John Lennon, she also created the blueprint for avant-punk and electronic music, and remixes of her songs have been regularly charting in the top ten of Billboard’s dance music chart for the last decade. Ono has an amazing new CD, Between My Head and the Sky, that continues her artistic progression and has to be the greatest rock record ever recorded by a 76-year-old.
Yoko Ono still wants to reconnect humanity with its long-lost id. From Fluxus to songstress, the 77-year-old has used every free-associative vocal, literary, and visual avant-garde tool at her disposal to help resuscitate the uncensored thoughts of audiences around the world. Born in 1933 in Japan, Ono was the first female artist to market experimental primal wails as legitimate music at a time when demure vulnerability was prized over a woman’s angst-ridden screams. Her proto-feminist punk, often orgasmic vocals were inspired by childbirth; musically, her spawn includes bands like Deerhoof, Animal Collective, Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill and the whole riot grrrl gang- who owe their flagrant embrace of the loud and the absurd to Ono’s radical displays of freedom.
GREEN SEEN Mail Art – The Wendell Free Library invites you to create an original postcard size art work for our mail art exhibit, GREEN SEEN.
GREEN – sustainability, conservation, freecycle, the color….. All techniques and media welcome.
Participants’ mail art works will be displayed until March 21st.
Participation is free. All are welcome, artists & non-artists.
Send original postcard size works to: GREEN SEEN Mail Art, Wendell Free Library, P.O. Box 236, Wendell, MA 01379 USA.
