ON THE DAY OF THE BIRTH OF NUTOPIA – 1 April 2019 Nutopia is a country that exists in all of us. John and I created this imaginary world. We called a press conference and produced a white handkerchief from our pockets and said "This is a flag to Surrender to Peace." Not Fight for [...]
Secretly Canadian is honored to partner with Chimera Music in releasing Yoko Ono’s musical output from 1968 to 1985. Pre-Order Now Today, 18 Feb 2019, on Yoko Ono’s 86th birthday, Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music announce the latest release in the project: Unfinished Music No. 3: Wedding Album (1969) will be [...]
Message from Yoko Ono Dear Friends I'm very pleased to be back with you, doing our weekly Q&A together. If you would like to join in, ask me a question on Thursday (either by tagging your question #yokoqanda on Twitter, or Commenting in the Q&A post on Facebook) and I'll answer a selection on IMAGINEPEACE.com [...]
Message from Yoko Ono Dear Friends Every night hundreds of millions of women and children around the world go to bed hungry. In the United States alone, more than 40 million Americans and 12 million children do not have enough to eat. But it doesn’t have to be this way. My husband, John Lennon, and [...]
Yoko Ono announces the recipients of the 2018 Lennon-Ono Grant For Peace, the biennial award she inaugurated in 2002. Make The Road NY and The Wounded Warrior Fund at Walter Reed National Military Centre will each receive $101,000. Yoko will present the awards at a private function in her apartment in New York on October [...]
To celebrate the release of Imagine — The Ultimate Collection, the GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to host a special pre-release listening experience and discussion of the incredible new box set that explores the making of John Lennon’s classic 1971 album, Imagine, featuring a panel discussion with Paul Hicks, Jim Keltner, Elliot Mintz and Andrew Solt. [...]
How a famous love match inspired a landmark album - in the couple’s own words - and photographs John and Yoko in the master bedroom at Tittenhurst Park, Berkshire, July 17 1971 © Yoko Ono Lennon He was a world-famous pop star, she was an avant-garde artist. The only Beatle she knew by name was [...]
Explore & enjoy the IMAGINE album & 1971 Ascot Sound Studios Sessions like you’ve never heard them before. Join us on 23rd August 2018 at http://imaginejohnyoko.com/the-music for The Ultimate Deep Listening Experience.
Imagine & Gimme Some Truth restored remixed & remastered on Blu-Ray & DVD
Yoko Ono and Thames & Hudson publish the inside story of the making of 'Imagine' Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, 'Imagine John Yoko' is the definitive inside story – told in revelatory detail – of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, [...]
Come Together NYC starts 13 Sept, 10am at NY City Hall with a 'Bed-In' featuring Ringo Starr, Jeff Bridges, Henry Diltz, Bill de Blasio & Corey Johnson. Come Together NYC 2018 Presented by Other World Computing, the Lennon Bus’ annual NYC residency will celebrate student activism and peace with Bed-In at City Hall co-hosted by [...]
Embodying her visionary philosophy, Yoko Ono's latest artist's book is a companion for life. This new publication by Yoko Ono combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016-18 with drawings from the Franklin Summer series Ono started in 1994. For Ono, words, artworks and books still have the power to change the world we [...]
Imagine, the ground-breaking music film directed by John & Yoko, is coming to cinemas this September. Remastered frame-by-frame from the original film negative and completely remixed from the ground up from the original audio multi-tracks in stunning Dolby Atmos and 7.1 Surround Sound, this collage of colour, sound, dream and reality stars John Lennon and [...]
Yoko Ono pays tribute and lays flowers at the Hiroshima Memorial, August 2011. Dear Friends, The 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a tragedy of the greatest magnitude. Even now, 73 years later, many victims of the violence of atomic weapons are still suffering, physically, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People make a point [...]
Message from Yoko Ono Dear Friends Reading this today, there’s so much meaning for our situation now. Please read every line. Peace, Yoko Ono New York, 4 July 2018 The Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events [...]
In a world first, the Museum of Liverpool is hosting this ground-breaking exhibition telling John Lennon and Yoko Ono's story in their own words. The exhibition explores the personal and creative chemistry of this iconic couple and their ongoing Imagine Peace campaign.
At the Women’s March, I was surprised that things were happening even better than I wished in 1971. It’s never too late to start from the start. love, THE FEMINIZATION OF SOCIETY by Yoko Ono, February 1972 The aim of the [...]