Iceland events to celebrate John Lennon’s 70th Birthday: 9th October 2010

NEW YORK, August 26, 2010 Legendary artist, musician and peace advocate, YOKO ONO, announced today she will be holding several events in Iceland on October 9th to promote peace throughout the world and to celebrate what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. The Lennon Ono Grant for Peace 2010 The LennonOno Grant for Peace [...]

Yoko Ono: Voice Piece for Soprano / Whisper Piece / Wish Tree at Group Show: Contemporary Art from the MoMA Collection [NY, USA]

The Museum of Modern Art has installed Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree” in the Sculpture Garden as part of the new exhibit, Contemporary Art from the Collection. The tree has been drawing attention from a steady stream of museum visitors from all over the world who write their wishes on white paper tags and tie them [...]

Yoko Ono: Wish Tree [Hirshhorn, Washington DC, USA]

When You Wish Upon a Tree at the Hirshhorn by Brandon Springer — Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden for Smithsonian.com Some wish for their mothers. Some wish for their fathers. Some wish for siblings or friends, children or partners. Some wishes are rather rude. Some wishes are earnest and sweet. Yoko Ono’s Washington D.C. Wish [...]

Yoko’s Wish Trees, Two Years Later

by Raven Jake, Raven Jake’s Observations A couple of years ago, Yoko Ono did one of her art installations in downtown Pasadena. Folks could write wishes on little pieces of paper and tie them to the branches of potted crepe myrtle trees in the plaza of One Colorado. As with most of Yoko’s “pieces,” you’ve [...]

Wish Tree at Lansdowne Middle School

Dear Yoko Ono, My students and I were inspired by your Wish Tree project, and as an end of the year art collaboration project, we decided to create one for our 8th Grade Farewell Ceremony. The students of my 8th grade art class worked together to make over 250 hand painted “wish tags” that were [...]

Wish Tree at Oakton Elementary School

by Christine Gray (Principal, Oakton Elementary School), Oakton Elementary’s Blog The Wish Tree Project, sponsored by OES Art Teacher, Sarah Brooks, began this week.  Students are welcome to write down their wishes and hang them on our wish tree.  Our Oakton wishes will be collected on International Peace Day and mailed to the Imagine Peace Tower in [...]

City of Reykjavik lit IMAGINE PEACE TOWER to celebrate Yoko’s 77th birthday. Send your wishes for PEACE to @IPTower!

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.

Wish Tree at NAMM with John Lennon Educational Tour Bus

Yoko kicked off John Lennon’s 70th birthday celebration year at the 2010 NAMM Show. Her appearance at the show inspired attendees to submit their wishes of hope and peace at a special Wish Tree set up in front of the Bus during the convention from January 14-17, 2010. Hundreds of wishes were collected and will [...]

Iles Elementary School: Me to We Wish Tree

The O Ambassadors at Iles, in cooperation with Free the Children and Imagine Peace (Yoko Ono), are creating our Iles Me to We Wish Tree.
Each student traced their hand and wrote their wish for the world. This is a voluntary activity and every student participated! That really shows a commitment to leadership, caring and growth! In February, a team from Free the Children will visit Iles to present an all school assembly and workshops for older students. In April, we will celebrate our O Ambassador activities at our Seventh Annual Iles Writer’s Conference entitled, “Me to We”. Stay tuned for our continuing adventures!

AFFIRMATION FOR 2010 by Yoko Ono

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER Viðey Island, Reykjavík, Iceland with stars, clouds and the Northern Lights. Christmas Day, 25 Dec 2009, 10:53pm AFFIRMATION FOR 2010 by Yoko Ono I would like you to share an affirmation with me. Think it, say it, with firm belief, knowing that we are all one. In the name of truth, peace and [...]

 

Wish Tree at Dalton High School, NYC

Here are photos of Dalton High School students and the Wish Tree they created. The students were studying Conceptual Art in their Advanced Painting class. The Wish Tree provided a hands on way to learn more about conceptual art and the art of Yoko Ono. It was exciting to study this artist who was such [...]

My Sweet Friends! by Yoko Ono

My Sweet Friends! I am so glad that Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Prizes are given to those in need. (I must have needed a lot this past July!) Obama needs all the encouragement he can get at this point. Let’s all send him the love and trust he could use as his [...]

Geothermal Power news

by Susan Kraemer, Clean Technica Every barrel of oil extracted in the US also produces ten barrels of hot fluids in addition to the oil. Why not use that potential energy in the waste heat? Rather than discard that “geothermal” resource created by the process of oil extraction, the DOE is going to show the [...]

Flying over Reykjavík Viðey on trike in sunset – ICELAND (Video)

by kpsphoto, August 17, 2009. Part-5 Gjástykki – Krafla – Leirhnjúkur – Mývatn Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland. Its latitude at 64°08′ N makes it the world’s most northern national capital with the exception of Nuuk, Greenland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay. With a population [...]

 

Glowing City Project Launched in Reykjavík

The City of Reykjavík launched the project “Glowing City” yesterday [09.10.09] in conjunction with the relighting of Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island, off Reykjavík’s coast, to commemorate her late husband John Lennon’s birthday, October 9. Reykjavík. The project involves white lights that will glow in different places in the city center and [...]

 

Happy Birthday, John: Tribute Events for 9 October 2009 at www.IMAGINEPEACE.com

Yoko Ono: about IMAGINE PEACE TOWER Tribute Events for 9 October 2009 REYKJAVIK, ICELAND IMAGINE PEACE TOWER lighting & Yoko RÁS2 radio interview was STREAMED LIVE here on www.IMAGINEPEACE.com from 8:30pm London / 7:30pm Reykjavík / 3:30pm NY / 12:30pm LA / 04:30am Tokyo [streaming audio broadcast is now over] NEW YORK, USA Rock & [...]

 

Oct 9th Reykjavík, Iceland: IMAGINE PEACE TOWER & John Lennon memorial concert

In honour of the lighting of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on 9th October 2009, Yoko Ono offers the general public free ferry crossings to Viðey on 9th, 10th and 11th October and invites them to attend a memorial concert for John Lennon at Hafnarhús (The Harbor House at The Reykjavík Art Museum) on 9th October at 22:00. [...]

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER unveiling ceremony in Second Life on 09 Oct 09

‘I dedicate this light tower to John Lennon. My love for you is forever.’ Yoko Ono ‘Imagine all the people living life in peace’ John Lennon ‘A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.’ Yoko Ono IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in Images from official IMAGINE PEACE TOWER Second [...]

Peace Crane Wish Tree by Jackie Mallan-King

I was inspired to do a variation of Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree Project with my Humanistic Traditions II class that I teach at the University of Central Florida in Orlando during a unit on 17th Century Japanese arts and culture.  Yoko’s message of peace and unity is too important to keep to one’s self, so [...]

WISH TREES in Mexico City

Dear Yoko On Thursday night September 17, we had in Mexico City the opening of the HISTORIAS DE AMOR  show  (Love Stories) with 53 new works selected from the VISIBLE COLLECTION, that will remain until October 16 at Academia de San Carlos. As you already know 45 other works from the collection will remain in exhibition in Asunción (Paraguay) until September 12. You [...]

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