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 energy [...]
The 2008 stamp of the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER has been awarded a Bronze by Stamp News.
From StampNews.com
Top 10 extraordinary stamps of the year 2008
We at StampNews.com want to strike the balance of the passing year.
Plenty of new stamps have seen the light all over the world.
No question all of them are different and it is [...]
22 January 2009 – 13 April 2009
32 Pieces: The Art of Chess
The Reykjavik Art Museum: Kjarvalsstadir
Flokagata, 105 Reykjavik, Iceland
Tel: +354 590-1200
Fax: +354 590-1201
website: www.artmuseum.is
email: artmuseum@rvk.is / listasafn@reykjavik.is
The museums are open every day from 10:00 – 17:00.
Admission is free.
Cafeteria
The cafeteria at Kjarvalsstadir has a view of the Miklatun park and the Pearl. Refreshments and light meals are served at a reasonable price. The [...]
Nuclear power is a gift from nature. It can be harnessed cleanly and safely but an accident of history got us started down a path that is dangerous and unnecessarily complicated. Today’s nuclear power plants were adapted from reactor designs originally intended for production of plutonium for bombs. In the 1950’s this plutonium output was considered a [...]
The economy may just have imploded, taking huge amounts of Britons’ savings with it, but don’t let that put you off visiting, says Raymond Whitaker
“There has never been a cheaper time to visit colourful Reykjavik,” proclaims an opportunistic press release from Icelandic Express, the island’s answer to easyJet. With the krona down 40 per cent [...]
Yoko Ono granted both the Icelandic nation and Indian scientist Dr. Vandana Shiva with the LennonOno Peace Award at the relighting of the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy island off Reykjavík on the occasion of John Lennon’s birthday yesterday.
“To my knowledge an entire nation has not been granted such an award before. I’m therefore rather [...]
Yoko Ono’s Speech
LennonOno Grant for Peace Ceremony
October 9, 2008
Hofdi House, Reykjavik, Iceland
Dear Friends
Here we are together at one of the most tumultuous periods not only in the history of Iceland, but in the recent history of the world. It is easy to think that everything we have been striving for is at best in a [...]
Friðarsúlan í Viðey er myndefni á frímerki sem Pósturinn gefur út 9. október.
Friðarsúlan
Ljós Friðarsúlunnar í Viðey verður tendrað þann 9. október að viðstaddri listakonunni Yoko Ono. Pósturinn gefur út frímerki sama dag tileinkað Friðarsúlunni og þeim friðarboðskap sem hún er tákn um.
Útilistaverkið var reist í Viðey í Kollafirði á síðasta ári til að heiðra minningu [...]
The stamp is printed by Joh. Enschedé Security Print in Haarlem Holland.
The size of the stamp is 48.00 x 30.00. 10 stamps in a sheet .
Printing process of stamp: 4 colour offset and UV ink (John Lennon image) and phosphorus
(glow in the dark effect) on the light column (Imagine Peace Tower).
Additional printing colurs are Pantone [...]
click here to send your wish to the Tower by email
or post your handwritten wishes on a postcard to: IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, PO Box 1009, 121 Reykjavík, Iceland.
To the People of Iceland,
Today, on the birthday of John Lennon, please join me in praying for peace
and stability for our planet. At 8:00 pm, as IMAGINE PEACE [...]
location
The IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
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Viðey Island, Reykjavik, Iceland
starts
2007-10-09 (repeats Annually on October 9)
ends
2007-12-08
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dusk till dawn
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IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
Viðey Island, Reykjavik, Iceland
2008-10-09 to 2008-10-09
8pm every night
On 9 Oct 2008, John Lennon’s birthday, Yoko Ono asks the people of Iceland to join her and many others across the rest of the world in praying for peace and stability.
At 8pm, as IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is illuminated on the island of Viðey, she asks everyone [...]
Yoko Ono
9th Oct 2007
All spirits of goodness of this magical land, of the planet, and of the universe. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for witnessing our humble gathering for the unveiling of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER.
They say if all the people in China were to jump up and down at the same time, the axis [...]
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER – LIVE
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is an outdoor work of art conceived by Yoko Ono in memory of John Lennon.
It is situated on Viðey Island in Reykjavík, Iceland [map], powered entirely by Geothermal Energy.
The artwork was dedicated to John by Yoko at its unveiling on 9 Oct 2007, Lennon’s 67th birthday.
IMAGINE [...]
