Half Kenneth – a Ken Ochiai film

“In a country divided, only together can they survive.”
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, forcing tens of thousands of United States citizens of Japanese ancestry out of their homes and into internment camps isolated in the austere terrain of the American desert.

Kenneth Handa is an adolescent Japanese-American, and has [...]

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Dream Power: John Lennon Super Live: Building Schools in Asia & Africa

Let’s donate schools to the deprived children of Asia and Africa!
Imagine a wave of Dream Power spreading across the world.
Starting in 2001 in Japan, the Dream Power concerts have now helped build 85 schools in some 22 countries across Asia and Africa. If you stop to think about it, the children who were in first [...]

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The Quietus pt 1: Yoko Oh Yes! Ms Ono Speaks About Peace, Pop And Computer Games

by Carol Clerk, The Quietus
Some of us may be surprised at just how good Between My Head And The Sky, the new album by the Plastic Ono Band, actually is. Not Carol Clerk, who met up with Yoko to talk about her music and peace projects . . .

It’s a beautiful September morning, and things [...]

Yoko Ono: This Much I Know (The Observer, UK)

THIS MUCH I KNOW
Yoko Ono
Artist, 76, London
Interview: Alice Fishes, The Observer
Photograph: Albert Watson
When I think of Japan I think of food. I miss the Japanese spirit, the culture and civilisation that we had and lost. I know that most parents don’t like the culture of their children, but I do miss that old culture.
Marriage is [...]

Yoko Ono: In Her Life / Shining On (Daily Telegraph, UK)

Yoko Ono: In Her Life / Shining On
After 40 years of being unfairly accused of breaking up the Beatles and harshly mocked for her avant garde art and pop music, Yoko Ono is finally being recognised as a true pioneer.
By Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph
Soon after I sit down to talk with Yoko Ono, I knock [...]

Yoko Ono: The Stanford Lecture 2009

Part 1/4: Childhood

Part 2/4: Passages For Light

Part 3/4: Five Films & Chair Piece

Part 4/4: Q&A

Yoko Ono’s lecture at Stanford University on 14 Jan 2009
Courtesy of Yoko Ono, Stanford University & www.IMAGINEPEACE.com
Lectures & Films ©2009 Yoko Ono
Video Footage ©2009 Stanford University
All Rights Reserved.

Yoko Ono reflects on her life, work and public perception

History Professor Gordon Chang and [...]

Blue Velvet at Patisserie Clover, Japan

This is a patisserie which existed from the time John and I were in
Tokyo. We use to walk to it from the hotel we stayed in. It was quite a
walk, but we liked that. We were getting some exercise as well that way.
It had a nice after the war elegance, spiral staircase to go upstairs,
blue [...]

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Yoko Ono: Add Color Painting: GLOBE – Gallery 360 Degrees [Tokyo, Japan]

Yoko Ono  “Colours of the Globe”
December 3rd (Wednesday) to December 25th (Thursday), 2008
12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Closed on Sundays and holidays
“Add Color Painting”, which was released in the sixties, is a spectator participatory work. It is a painting piece to be completed by spectators by painting the colours as they wish on a canvas [...]

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Group Show: Dissonances – Six Japanese Artists [Aichi, Japan]

location
 Toyota Municipal Museum of Art

address
 5-1 Kozakahonmachi, 8-chome,Toyota City, Aichi 471-0035, Japan

starts
 2008-09-30

ends
 2008-12-25

times
 10:00 – 17:30, closed Mondays

price
 

tel
 0565-34-6610

fax
 

email
 

website
 http://www.museum.toyota.aichi.jp/exhibition/2008/special/000358.html

reviews
 

 
 

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Group Show: The 3rd Blue Sky Project [Niigata, Japan]

Blue Sky Project

location
 Takada Library Civic Gallery

address
 Takada Park, Honjomachi, Joetsu, Niigata, Japan

starts
 2008-08-23

ends
 2008-08-31

times
 

price
 

tel
 +81-25-521-2725

fax
 

email
 michio26@agate.plala.or.jp

website
 

reviews
 

 
 An International Exhibition – Love, Blue Sky, and Peace

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