JOHN & YOKO WEDDING
20 March 1969:
John & Yoko get married and begin their lifelong campaign for Peace.
“We decided that if we were going to do anything like get married that we would dedicate it to peace. And during that period, because we are what we are, it evolved that somehow we ended up [...]
Friday QandA day: Ask me an interesting question, tag it #yokoQandA and I’ll answer 10-15 every week on IMAGINEPEACE.com love, yoko
BabyBearHaruka
Is there any way to get rid of depressed feeling? lost my loved one 9 months ago, i don’t know how i start or what should do first.
As you know, I lost mine in a [...]
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 [...]
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…
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.”
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.”
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.
YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND (& Deerhoof) LIVE at
The Fox Theater, 1807 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, California [map] (Noise Pop Festival)
Tuesday 23rd Feb 2010 at 8pm. – US $39.50
STILL A FEW TICKETS REMAINING – ON SALE HERE.
YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND are YOKO ONO, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda and Cornelius: Keigo “Cornelius” Oyamada, Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu, Yuko “mi-gu” Araki & Shahzad Ismaily.
Last year, Yoko Ono revived the Plastic Ono Band for its first studio album in decades, “Between My Head and the Sky.” It’s hard to blame her for the delay; her time has been occupied by making art, campaigning for peace and handling the affairs of her late husband, John Lennon. Ono, 76, tells us it was their son, Sean, who suggested bringing back the group – which at points counted Eric Clapton, Keith Moon and Frank Zappa as members – with a new lineup that includes Japanese indie-rockers Cornelius and Yuka Honda. The Plastic Ono Band kicks off this year’s Noise Pop Festival with a performance Thursday at Oakland’s Fox Theater.
by Kimberly Chun, SF Bay Guardian
MUSIC The simplest, most singular words and images have always been Yoko Ono’s most potent artistic tools — depth charges designed for maximum impact, unexpected wit, and subtly change-inducing effect. And though words like “empowerment” feel too tapped-out to draw from the same power source as Ono-connected words like “yes” [...]
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.
BAM! Suddenly the audience started to sing Happy Birthday to me right in the middle of the sing along GIVE PEACE A CHANCE! That was such a nice surprise. I was so unprepared for it, I don’t even remember if I had thanked the audience or not. Did I? There was so much love circulating, it didn’t seem necessary to say anything… We were family. The curtain went down after GIVE PEACE A CHANCE. Sean and I looked at each other. Sean’s eyes were twinkling. “You were great.” said Sean. “So were you.” It was a grand moment. We knew we had been witnesses to something that was bigger than both of us.
SPECIAL ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME ‘DRESS REHEARSAL’ PERFORMANCE – FEBRUARY 15TH @ 8PM
JUST ANNOUNCED: Confirmed to play ‘Dress Rehearsal” BAM show so far are: KLAUS VOORMANN & JIM KELTNER from the original Plastic Ono Band, JAKE SHEARS & ANA MATRONIC from Scissor Sisters, THURSTON MOORE & KIM GORDON from Sonic Youth, JUSTIN BOND and HARUOMI HOSONO.
