On the evening of 18 February 2010, The City of Reykjavik was proud to illuminate IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in honor and celebration of Yoko Ono’s 77th birthday.
You can Twitter your birthday messages for Yoko to @yokoono or write them in the comments on this web page, where you can read all the comments and Tweets from friends and fans.
You can also Twitter your own personal wishes for peace to IMAGINE PEACE TOWER @IPTower or via email to wish@imaginepeace.com.
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SEND YOUR PEACEFUL WISHES TO IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
Since 1981, Yoko Ono has collected nearly a million PEACE WISHES from people worldwide as part of her interactive Wish Tree exhibits, and also via email and conventional mail. The wishes will be installed around the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER. If you have not had the chance to hang your wishes on one of Yoko’s Wish Trees yet, you can make your own Wish Tree, and/or send your wishes to the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER from this page.
You can send as many wishes as you like, at any time.
SEND A WISH by email to: wish@IMAGINEPEACE.com
SEND YOUR WISH by Twitter to @IPTower
Visit our virtual IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in Second Life, here.
From Amnesty International, 18 February 2010:
Amnesty International is delighted to salute Yoko Ono on her 77th birthday – and to publicly thank her for her outstanding generosity and support of Amnesty International over the past 8 years.
In 2002, she donated Amnesty the valuable use of John Lennon’s song “Imagine” to help us promote peace and human rights throughout the world – a message that has been heard in over 50 countries. Yoko also works with us to help raise funds and awareness on behalf of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and the thousands of other political prisoners in Myanmar/Burma
In 2007, she donated the music publishing rights to John Lennon’s catalogue of solo songs to help us raise much needed funds for Amnesty International’s work on the human rights crisis in Darfur. Her contribution helped us raise over $4.5 million from the “Instant Karma” CD and digital downloads – featuring over 60 artists including U2, Green Day, the Black Eyed Peas, Christina Aguilera, Ben Harper, Aerosmith, R.E.M., Avril Lavigne, Duran Duran, Willie Nelson, Regina Spektor, the Flaming Lips, Jackson Browne.
It is typical of Yoko that she made her contributions to Amnesty International quietly without seeking special attention for her gifts. Amnesty International wants to take the occasion of her birthday to publicly express its deep gratitude to Yoko Ono for her generosity, continual support and great spirit. HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOKO!
Dear Yoko, This is a belated Birthday message. Two weeks ago I tried this free service from Skype in which some artists perform in video the messages you send on the phone. I thought it was a funny and new thing of telling you Happy Birthday so I tried and I forgot about it because deep inside I thought they were not gonna do it, that it was just a hook to make people use Skype.
http://outside.skype.com/gonzalo-fernandez/special-message/page/1/25/
I have been very surprised this morning when I received a message from sweet Richard Joly who as you already know he quickly finds everything published about you in the net.
And …Oh! I blushed, because I didn’t know they were going to include my own voice in the message, so please, instead of this loud high pitched stressed silly rebounding voice, can you imagine a velvet softer nicer relaxed one?
I’ve said belated Happy Birthday, but maybe it’s not that belated in another Planet in another Galaxy where maybe we are still living on Thursday 18 February 2010.
¡ ¡¡ ¡¡¡
Jorge
PS. I can see that this video has been done in Barcelona, so I hope that these flowers will have a wonderful and amazing journey through the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the Hudson in their way home. I hope the artist advised them about taking the Gulf Stream that it is a fast and warm seaway.
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please say YES! and please dance with me. #love #dance #peace
happy birthday princess,lady,a goddes of this infinitely dancing universe!
i bring a gift for you! it makes you smile again,love!
it can not be possible for
you are ageless
Happy Birthday, Yoko! I hope it is a wonderful one!
Yoko you’re such a super star!! Amazing performance at BAM!! Happy Birthday and wishes for infinite peace and love on your 77th. X-se
Hello,
Happy birthday Yoko! Keep doing what you do. You are an inspiration for my art. Check it out at http://christianandrew.com! Email me a mailing address and I’ll send you a special House in a Box!
Warmest regards,
Christian
Happy Birthday Yoko!
May your dream come true…
RomiT
[...] Send your own birthday wishes to Yoko through her website, or by replying to @yokoono on Twitter. Also, please feel free to leave your own favorite Yoko tracks in the comments — as I said, I’m just starting out, so I could use the recommendations! [...]
Happy Birthday.But I am falling out of love.
Happy Birthday, Yoko! Thank you for showing me Life is Art, Art is Love. I love you!
Happy Birthday! May each day be like a poem.
Hold on to your clouds…
Lots and lots of love Anna from poland
Congratulations.
The birthday concert review in the New York Times was another jewel in your royal crown.Wish i were there. A circle of old-time and young friends, playing, enjoying. I can’t wait to share in the experience of the concerts!
A magical number 77, and you are as fresh as ever: unpredictable yet the director of your life and all aspects of it. Making and spreading and promoting peace everywhere. With your own son as collaborator and initiator. You are a light tower in a dark universe. i ii iii
When will the Plastic Ono videos be ready?
I wish that you may surprise and inspire and show new horizons again and again.
洋子さん、お誕生日、おめでとうございます！
これからもますます世界の平和へむけた活動、頑張ってください！
ジョンという人がこの世に生まれてくれて、しかも、同時代を共有できて、本当に良かったと思っています。
Happy Birthday, Yoko – just yesterday, an old high school friend who I reunited with at our 30 year reunion in 2008 (and who shares with me the love of Beatles) sent me an MP3 recording of John’s last interview (I believe the day before he died) with the BBC. I have not listened to it yet, but thought its arrival was quite timely considering your birthday! Have a wonderful birthday and know I will be thinking of you and your family….
Happy birthday, Yoko-san!!! Love you!!!
Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, filled with Love and Peace!
Yours
Ken
ヨーコさん、お誕生日おめでとうございます！
これからも応援しています。
Happy Birthday Yoko!
Dear Yoko,
Happy Birthday this year and many more to come. I hope this year brings you much peace and love.
xo uncle aimee
Happy birthday Yoko san! My name is Akira from Japan.
I am always wishing a lot of good inspiration comming to you.
My birthday is 20th March, 1973.
I wish the 3rd anniversary was good and peaceful one.
If not, after then 4th, 5th …might be a good one I believe.
I studied hard to impress my feeling in English for a long time.
Then I realize that you’re Japanese and It’s honorable thing for me.
I got John’s Japanese Studying book at JLM in Saitama.
I felt full of love existing around you.
Thank you.
Tanjobi Omedeto Gozaimasu
Happy birthday yoko!! You’re a wonderful woman,I look up to everything you have done and to your love story with John.The best wishes for you!!
Happy birthday Yoko! You are an inspiration!
Happy Birthday Yoko – One Love – from Rave On Studio, Vancouver BC, Canada!
Happy Birthday Yoko!
<3 <3 <3
Happy Birthday Yoko!! May it be a smiley one.
)))