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 [...]
Dear Family of Peace I would like you all to know how beautiful Iceland is, and how much I love the country and its people. Thank you, Iceland and Icelanders for being what you are – a family of wisdom, showing the world how we can protect our Earth and its spirits. I love you! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
location The IMAGINE PEACE TOWER address Viðey Island, Reykjavik, Iceland starts 2007-10-09 (repeats Annually on October 9) ends 2007-12-08 times dusk till dawn price tel fax email website reviews // Share|
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
