“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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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