ONO LOOKS FORWARD TO McCARTNEY SHOWS
Yoko Ono has said she was looking forward to watching a special show headlined by Sir Paul McCartney this weekend and Stella McCartney's unveiling of her latest fashion range on Sunday.
Speaking about the Liverpool Sound event at Liverpool FC's Anfield stadium where Sir Paul will perform, she said: "Of course I am going to be there. I'm looking forward to it. It's a very special weekend".
More here & here.
Saturday 31 May 2008
I CHOKED WHEN I SAW THE PICTURE OF JOHN by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo
YOKO ONO visited the exhibition of her late husband John Lennon’s drawings on display in the ECHO’s Old Hall Street atrium.
The artist said she felt "choked" when she arrived yesterday and saw a giant image of the former Beatle. The display, on show until Monday, is the biggest of its type ever seen in the UK.
Yoko said: "The building is incredible and has beautiful natural light. I’m so glad they selected this place to show the exhibition. Liverpool is John’s home town and he had an incredible love for it. He was always talking about Liverpool as if it was part of us - which it was. I'm very, very proud it's being done here in Liverpool. The moment I came in and saw the big photo of John it choked me."
Many of the drawings have a humorous feel, and Yoko added: "I don't think any artist has so much of a sense of humour in their work." She revealed her favourite image was that of the couple and young son Sean drawn on a visit to Japan.
More here and here.
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Liverpool Daily Post Beatle expert Peter Grant gives his take on the free John Lennon exhibiton that has opened in the atrium of the Daily Post and Echo building on Old Hall Street.
Video by Samantha Parker. More here.
Saturday 31 May 2008
CHANEL MOBILE ART EXHIBITION IN TOKYO
A 'Mobile Art' exhibition by fashion giant Chanel, featuring a giant replica handbag, was launched in Tokyo's Shibuya-ku on Saturday. The exhibition, being held in a special Olympic plaza facility at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, features art objects and video works by 20 artist groups including Yoko Ono.
The exhibition started in Hong Kong in February, and is touring six cities across the world until 2010. Entry to the exhibition in Tokyo, which will run until July 4, is free, but reservations are required.
Telephone inquiries (weekdays only): 0120-74-5119.
Wednesday 28 May 2008
AARON VOLDMAN - PEACE PIONEER Ben & Jerry's, the Vermont-based socially conscious ice-cream maker, announced today at its NY Shop that Aaron Voldman, Executive Director of the Student Peace Alliance (SPA) and Board Member of The Peace Alliance, is one of two nationwide winners of its "Peace Pioneer" contest. The ceremony was part of Ben & Jerry's joint effort with The Lennon Estate and Peace One Day, a nonprofit global peace organization, to encourage people to work for peace every day. More here.
Tuesday 27 May 2008
YOKO ON BALTIMORE'S LITE FM MORNING SHOW
Yoko is the guest of Greg & Diane on the Lite FM Morning show on Wed 28th May at 7.20am to promote 'Come Together' - The Artwork of John Lennon, an exhibition shown between 30 May - 1 June at the Maryland Inn, Annapolis, Maryland.
For more info, call 888-ART-1969. The event benefits the Chesapeake Children's Museum of Maryland.
Listen in LIVE here for the chance of winning a John Lennon prize! Read more here.
Wednesday 21 May 2008
DEATH AND THE ARTIST
by Michèle C. Cone, Artnet Magazine
Yoko Ono’s current exhibition at Galerie Lelong in Chelsea, "Touch Me," may be regarded as a signal event. Though the exhibition may assuage some of her critics, the manipulative aspect of the interactive works remains a contentious issue. The timing of her show, which coincides with the commemorations of the revolutionary month of May ’68, is probably not accidental.
More here.
Wednesday 21 May 2008
JOHN LENNON ARTWORKS IN LIVERPOOL
Artworks by John Lennon go on show this month at the offices of the Liverpool Echo newspaper, Liverpool, England.
15 original drawings, plus 140 printed works by the ex-Beatle, are coming to his home city, by special arrangement with Yoko Ono. The free exhibition will feature some never before seen art from Lennon’s own private collection – some of it with a humorous twist.
The art dates from 1968 up until the time of John Lennon’s killing in 1980. The exhibition was set up in association with Yoko Ono’s company Bag One. It shows – together for the first time – the complete range of styles used by Lennon. Liverpool Echo Atrium, Old Hall Street Liverpool, L69 3EB, UK. Open midday till 8pm., 23 May to 2 June 2008.
Facebook event here. More info here. Map here.
Tuesday 20 May 2008
YOKO ONO ACCEPTS VISUAL AIDS VANGUARD AWARD
Artists Yoko Ono and Tony Feher were honored at STRIKE II, the Third Annual Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards, a bowling event at 300 New York at Chelsea Piers, NYC. Yoko's award was presented by Jeffrey Deitch.
STRIKE was created to honor individuals who exemplify the mission of Visual AIDS through their commitment to HIV/AIDS advocacy, education, prevention, and their support of artists with HIV/AIDS.
For more info, log on to www.visualAIDS.org.
More wireimage stills here.
Wednesday 14 May 2008
YOKO ONO ACCEPTS SEEDS OF PEACE AWARD by Yoko Ono I cherished being given an award from an organization called Seeds of Peace. They are doing very important work - bringing kids from different, warring countries to a beautiful summer camp to let them get to know each other. It's working! At the Seeds of Peace ceremony, I heard so many kids speak about how they think differently now about people from so-called enemy territories.
More here.
Wednesday 14 May 2008
MYSTERY PROPOSAL ON YOKO"S ARTWORK (2) by Yoko Ono
When I heard the avalanche of expressions of love pinned on my work by so many people of Newcastle, I was in tears. Yes. You proved to me and the world that LOVE IS STILL ALIVE! I enjoyed every love story pinned on the canvas that I've read. This story of the proposal on the canvas is really amazing, isn't it? I'd love to hear what happened, and I'm sure you would, too. In such a strange time we live in, it's nice that we are talking about love, instead of fear, confusion and hate. Thank you, people of Newcastle. I love you! yoko
Tuesday 13 May 2008
JOHN & YOKO MEMORABILIA AT HARD ROCK Amongst the 257 items on display at the new Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia website are a few John Lennon & Yoko Ono items, including the 'Remember Love' sign from the Montreal Bed-In, lyrics to Imagine, glasses and a Kawlabo keyboard (amongst other things). Other exhibited artists include The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix &The Stones.
The site requires downloading Microsoft Silverlight first.
Monday 12 May 2008
MYSTERY PROPOSAL ON YOKO"S ARTWORK (1)
LOVE is in the air at a Newcastle gallery after a mystery man proposed to his girlfriend on a canvas. Yoko Ono instructed visitors to the Laing Art Gallery to contribute to her work by leaving photos or messages to someone they love. And among scores of messages on Yoko's work, called Secret Piece III, was a message saying: 'Jen, will you marry me? Tor xxx.' It is unknown if Jen has seen the proposal or if she has agreed. More here.
Sunday 4 May 2008
ART ASIA PACIFIC MAGAZINE - MAY/JUNE ISSUE
News and profiles editor HG Masters reflects on the innovative concoctions of Yoko Ono, the conceptual artist and early member of the global avant-garde collective Fluxus, who based her early performances and sculptures on simple written instructions collected in her 1964 book, Grapefruit. Recently honored by the US-based College Art Association with the 2008 Distinguished Body of Work Award, Ono marries political idealism to a vanguard sensibility in her diverse projects, which include experimental films, poetry, performances, activism and music. More.
SECURITY GUARD FROM MONTREAL 'BED-IN' George Urquhart remembers it "like it was yesterday".
The retired security guard says he was the one on duty when John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their "bed-in for peace" at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel from May 26 to June 1, 1969. Urquhart says he was asked to sit outside suite 1742, where the "Bed-In" and the recording of Lennon's hit "Give Peace a Chance" took place, because he was the only fluently bilingual security guard at the hotel. "I figured, 'My God, 12 hours, what a boring day that's going to be, for a full week', but it was anything but", he recalled in a telephone interview from Calgary, where he now lives.
More here.
View a slide show from Yoko's New York 'touch me' exhibition.
Tuesday 29th April 2008
GAIL RENARD AT THE 1969 BED-IN by Luke Leitch, Times Online
At the age of 16, Gail Renard gatecrashed the hotel room in Montreal where John Lennon was recording Give Peace a Chance and stayed a week. Nearly 40 years later - as the photographs that she took are shown for the first time - she reveals how it all happened. More here.
Tuesday 22nd April 2008
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE
at JEMA, Belfast, U.K.: April, 2008
For the month of April, the John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) is in Belfast, U.K. and we are proud to travel Yoko Ono's IMAGINE PEACE exhibition to Golden Thread Gallery, Flaxart Studios, and other venues in Belfast. Yoko Ono's exhibition at JEMA includes her text-based work IMAGINE PEACE (2007) as well as WISH PIECE (1996).
Viewers are invited to attend JEMA's new outdoor sculpture garden & contribute to 2 of Ono's Wish Trees by writing wishes on provided pieces of paper, adding them to the branches of the trees. In time, all wishes will be gathered and sent to The IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Videy Island, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Sunday 6th April 2008
KELLUM HALL 6-LOW LADIES
by Kelly Angelina
Dear Yoko,
My name is Kelly Angelina. I am a Resident Assistant for Kellum Hall at Florida State University. Each month I create a bulletin board for my hallway (the 6th floor). For March 2008, my residents and I created an Imagine Peace bulletin board which contained information on the Peace Tower as well as the 6th floor's very own Imagine Peace Tree. The ladies of Kellum Hall's 6th floor wrote their peace wishes on the leaves of the Peace Tree which will be sent to Iceland to be placed at the Peace Tower. We are very excited to send a part of ourselves from Tallahassee, FL all the way to Iceland. Thank you for the inspiration that has lead to our best bulletin board of the year!
Peace, Love, & Seminole Pride, Kellum Hall 6-Low Ladies.
Sunday 6th April 2008
YOKO ONO SHOW REVIVES LENNON"S PLEA FOR US ALL TO GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post
"I'm 75 and I'm alive and very thankful to be here every day, and to still be in love with life, and with you" - so began Yoko Ono at the start of her live performance at the Bluecoat last night.
It was 41 years since the avant-garde icon appeared at the very same Liverpool venue, and it had clearly given the artist cause to reflect. What the audience got was less the "wacky Yoko" of caricature and more an uplifting journey that showed her at her very best.
She started off standing in front of a large screen showing footage of her 1967 Bluecoat performance where she requested the audience wrap her from head to foot in bandages.
Footage of Ono and John Lennon from their "Bed-In" days followed; she later danced and wailed along to the video for her song Walking on Thin Ice, and showed a short documentary on her 2004 work Onochord.
When she called the audience up to dance with her to a lengthy remix of Give Peace a Chance, from children to Culture Company head honchos, they didn't need to be asked twice.
This mini-retrospective was clearly a deeply personal show.
It might be considered mawkish to be raking over her life with Lennon in such a way. As it was in Liverpool, it seemed appropriate and completely genuine to share it. More here. Bluecoat review here.
Sunday 6th April 2008
YOKO ONO's SO PROUD OF CAPITAL OF CULTURE by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo
"I hope it will be a contribution to Capital of Culture in the sense that I wanted to give some love and encouragement and inspiration to people while doing this. I think Capital of Culture is so grand and just the thing to make the next generation very different." More here.
Saturday 5th April 2008
YOKO ONO AT MENDIPS IN LIVERPOOL
YOKO ONO gave a special guided tour of John Lennon's childhood home to patients from Alder Hey Children's Hospital and pupils of his former primary school yesterday.
She was visiting Mendips, on Menlove Avenue in Woolton, to mark the fifth anniversary of her buying and immediately donating it to the National Trust. "When I come here and see John's tiny bedroom it just chokes me up because that's where his grand dream began - and he finally realised what he was dreaming here," she said. Yoko, 75, showed Dovedale pupils the bedroom and told them: "You don't need a great deal of things, all you need is a great idea."
Trenton Tomlinson, 11, a Dovedale School pupil, described Ono's visit "as an amazing experience". Lennon lived at Mendips with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George from 1945 to 1963. He left home aged 23. More than 30,000 people have visited the house since the National Trust opened it to the public five years ago. Yoko, who supports Alder Hey Children's Hospital, said she hoped Mendips would become a "really powerful museum for people all over the world" and saidLennon's legacy lived on: "I just know that he's going to be an incredibly good energy for the longest time." More here.
Saturday 5th April 2008
BOB GRUEN: ROCKERS
The Morrison Hotel Gallery is proud to present 'Rockers,' the largest-ever installation by one of the most respected photographers in rock & roll, Bob Gruen.
Totaling some 280 photographs, many of them never before exhibited in the U.S. - from John Lennon [the famous photo of John in the NYC t-shirt] to John Lydon, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley - 'Rockers' opens April 24 at the Morrison's new 313 Bowery space, former home to CBGB's Gallery. The exhibit will have as its centerpiece a recreation of a punk-obsessed teenager's bedroom from the 1970s. Bob Gruen's Rockers book here.
Wednesday 2nd April 2008
YOKO AT THE BLUECOAT STARTS AT 6PM - LIVE SCREENING DETAILS
Please be advised that on Friday April 4th, Yoko Ono's sold-out performance at the Bluecoat in Liverpool will begin at 6pm.
The event will screened live at Big Screen Liverpool, Clayton Square (opposite Lime Street Station), and on screens at The Hub at the Bluecoat. Look forward to seeing you there!
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 Peace', but 'Surrender to Peace' was the important bit. All of us represent Nutopia.
More here.
Saturday 29th March 2008
YOKO ONO: touch me: 18 April 2008 - 31 May 2008
Galerie Lelong, 528 West 26th Street, New York, NY Yoko Ono's first solo New York exhibition since 2003.
In touch me, Yoko will present an interactive painting, film, conceptual photography & sculptures that comment on different facets of the female experience, calling upon the viewers to make direct and deeply personal connections.
The centerpiece of the exhibition will be a large canvas covering the entire width of the gallery. Openings will be cut into the canvas, and viewers are invited to insert body parts through. The viewer will have the option to photograph themselves with supplied cameras; these photos will be displayed together on another canvas with the participant's own comments and thoughts written underneath the photos, furthering the inclusive nature of this new work. More here.
Saturday 29th March 2008
JOHN & YOKO - A NEW YORK LOVE STORY
Lecture by Allan Tannenbaum: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave (at 103rd St) [Subway: 6 to 103rd St], NY NY
Photojournalist Allan Tannenbaum was granted rare access to John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono prior to the musician's murder in 1980. Tannenbaum will discuss his experiences with the pair and his photographs from the book John & Yoko: A New York Love Story (Insight Editions, 2007) in this special illustrated lecture. Joining him will be Jack Crager, Managing Editor of American Photo, and Joe Crupi, who was lead guitarist in 1975 for Lennon's band BOMF.
For more information please call 212.534.1672, ext. 3395. Website.
Friday 28th March 2008
Yoko Ono: FEMAIL - Jan/Feb 2008
Excerpts from Yoko's fanmail replies.
You will find what you want to do, when the time comes.
Meanwhile, you should make sure that you are in good health, and know as much as possible about the world we live in.
For that, you should listen a lot and read a lot.
Don't make your world small by not opening yourself to learning about what we, humans did in history, and are doing now.
John and I were able to do things for the world because we were learners, first. Both of us read a lot before and after we've met each other. Words are power. You should be exposed to powerful words to become spiritually powerful. Meanwhile, Think Peace, Act Peace, and Spread Peace. Be a powerful person. I wish you all the best. More here.
Friday 28th March 2008
HAS SCIENCE FOUND A WAY TO END ALL WARS?
Given adequate food, fuel, and gender equality, mass conflict just might disappear. by John Horgan
Frans de Waal stands in a watchtower at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center north of Atlanta, talking about war. As three hulking male chimpanzees and a dozen females loll below him, the renowned primatologist rejects the idea that war stems from "some sort of blind aggressive drive." Observations of lethal fighting among chimpanzees, our close genetic relatives, have persuaded many people that war has deep biological roots. But de Waal says that primates, and especially humans, are "very calculating" and will abandon aggressive strategies that no longer serve their interests. "War is evitable," de Waal says, "if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits." More at Discover Magazine here.
Monday 24th March 2008
OUR FRIEND NEIL ASPINALL HAS DIED
Neil Aspinall, longtime friend & business associate of The Beatles, died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
A statement released by Yoko Ono Lennon, Paul McCartney, Olivia Harrison, Ringo Starr & Apple Corps Ltd. says: "All his friends and loved ones will greatly miss him and will always retain the fondest memories of a great man."
A Liverpool school friend of McCartney and Harrison, Aspinall was The Beatles' first road manager and would drive them to gigs in his van. He later became their personal assistant, and in 1968 was given a management role at Apple Records, the band's own record label. As head of Apple Corps, Aspinall was executive producer of the hugely successful "Beatles Anthology" & 'One' album. "As a loyal friend, confidant and chief executive, Neil's trusting stewardship and guidance has left a far-reaching legacy for generations to come."
Yoko adds: "Neil was an important member of the Beatles' family. John loved him. I continued to treasure his wisdom and support in the years after John's passing. My love and deepest sympathy go to Neil's wife Suzy, and to his children.
with love,
Yoko Ono Lennon "
Thursday 20th March 2008
JOHN & YOKO WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
20 March 1969 "We decided that if we were going to do anything like get married that we would dedicate it to peace. And during that period, because we are what we are, it evolved that somehow we ended up being responsible to produce peace." (John Lennon, Rolling Stone interview 1971)
IMAGINE PEACE Special Feature here.
Wednesday 19th March 2008
IMAGINE PEACE at DC protests today....
by Nora Halpern, 19 March 2008
Dearest Yoko:
It has been a very inspiring day in DC...lots of protests and acts of civil disobedience...commemorating the 5th anniversary of the beginning of this dreadful war. The numbers have been smaller than the marches I've participated in in the past (but I think that is because it is a weekday) but not even a downpour of rain has diminished the crowds. It has been a very moving day...and you were here in both form and spirit. I hung an IMAGINE PEACE poster on the central meeting place for the event...and there were also a number of bed pieces which, no doubt, you and John inspired. Also GIVE PEACE A CHANCE seems to be the anthem of the day! Thought you would want to know that you were a powerful presence down here today!
lots of love and see you soon, Nora
Wednesday 19th March 2008
JOHN LENNON NORTHERN LIGHTS FESTIVAL
(28-30 Sep 2007 at The Sago Sands Oasis) Won Best New Festival at the UK Festival Awards 2007 Dear Mike Merritt,
Thank you for your lovely note. I'm so happy that the Festival has proved to be such a success and that you won the award for 'Best New Festival', especially in the face of so much competition. I have friends in Scotland who always tell me when people are writing nice things about John, and I'd like to thank the villagers of Durness and the people of Scotland for the warmth they have shown and the love and respect they have given to John's memory.
Please enjoy the ceilidh on Friday. I think dancing is a great way to celebrate both the success of your venture and also to remember such a great artistic and humanitarian spirit as John.
With love,
Yoko Ono Lennon
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
by John Hoyland, The Guardian
The year was 1968 and, worldwide, there was revolution in the air. But when John Hoyland attacked John Lennon's politics in a radical paper, he didn't expect the fiery Beatle to rise to the bait.
Read the article here.
Friday 14th March 2008
MY LAI PEACE PARK
by Janet Kinosian
Dear Yoko & Imagine Peace Community,
For much of the past 40 years, the violent events at My Lai have evoked horror, grief, anger and recrimination. On March 16, 2008 -- the 40th anniversary -- I send a different thought & wish.
The Madison Quakers have built the MY LAI PEACE PARK as a memorial to meditate and hope and wish for peace. A delegation of Hibakusha, survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan, will unite with the survivors of the My Lai massacre on March 16 in a plea for the end of weapons of mass destruction and peace in the world. More here.
MESSAGE FROM ANNA FROM POLAND
Dear Yoko! We (the children and their parents, too) were very touched by your responses to my "letters". I wish to thank you for those words and assure you that you can always...count on me - I belong to that "army of dreamers..."
More here.
Saturday 8th March 2008
MARTIAN MUSEUM OF TERRESTRIAL ART Barbican Art Gallery: 6 March 2008 - 18 May 2008
Richard Hamilton's Polaroid Portraits are in the group Kinship and Descent: Kinship Diagrams. This is an incredible archive of portraits of the artist taken by a range of the artistic community from 1968 to the present day. Many artists and personalities from Yoko Ono to Henri Cartier-Bresson had taken a Polaroid of Hamilton in their own style. Each photograph spoke volumes about the subject, the photographer and the era. These are documents that seemingly would be of genuine interest and value to an alien wanting to understand art and the community from where it came. Barbican ArtGallery: Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8DS
Open daily 11am-8pm , Tue & Thu 11am-6pm.
Box office (Tel) : 0845 121 6828. Enquiries. Website.
FROM MY WINDOW (LA FORTUNA)
by Yoko Ono
The sad news today was that La Fortuna was closing.
I see the winter sky of N.Y. today from my window: sleet and snow. It reminds me of those hurried days of Double Fantasy. More here.
Monday 3rd March 2008
IMAGINE WHIRLED PEACE!
Caramel & Sweet Cream, Ice Creams Swirled with Fudge Peace Signs & Toffee Cookie Pieces.
When Ben & Jerry's wanted to talk about peace, they couldn't think of a better person to exemplify the message than John Lennon. Through his art and lyrics he imagined a world without war and asked us all to 'Give Peace a Chance'. Ben & Jerry's hope this whirly mixture of toffee cookies and fudge peace signs enlightens your bellies and souls and makes you ask what you can do to promote peace in your lives.
Sunday 2nd March 2008
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE
interviewed by Forrest Reda: www.JamBase.com
"People are saying, "Isn't there more to do than just imagining peace?" But look what's happening now. Think about it, even on a logical level, when you are imagining peace, you can't be angry or you can't be violent. I think [the idea] "Imagine Peace" is pretty strong. Also, you can't be sad or resentful or attacking somebody when you are just imagining peace."
From:
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Store Hours: Tues to Wed: 11am - 6pm, Thurs to Sat: 11am - 7pm. Closed Sundays & Mondays
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Yoko has kindly donated these sets to Printed Matter.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists' books and other artists' publications.
Wednesday 27th February 2008
IMAGINE: David Archuleta on American Idol
David Archuleta performs John Lennon's ''Imagine'' on American Idol - 27 Feb 2008.
Photos by Bob Gruen added:
Yoko & Sean on stage Yoko with B52s: Fred Schnieder & Kate Pierson (right) Rufus Wainwright & Sean Lennon.
Photos bt Allan Tannenbaum added: Yoko makes an entrance! Yoko playing live (x2)
Yoko and the cake (right) (x2)
Yoko and Kate Pierson from the B-52s on vocals
POP'T ART: ART AT NOISE POP 2008 Park Life, 220 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
Incredible visual art has always been an important part of Noise Pop. Pop't Art features several shows that explore the intersection of Art and Music. Our two gallery shows last year at Park Life Store and Triple Base Gallery went so well that we decided to do it again - and make it a little bigger!
Building on the enormous success from last year, Noise Pop is proud to present our second annual group show featuring orignal fine art created by members of the music community. This year's show features an eclectic line up of photographers, painters, illustrators and a very special "Wish Tree" installation by Yoko Ono.
Other artists presenting work in the show include Jim Jocoy (punk rock photography), Wesley Willis (Wesley Willis Fiasco), Alissa Anderson (Vetiver), Terri Lowenthal (Rubies), Simone Rubi (Rubies), Alex Tehrani , Peter Ellenby (Noise Pop photography), Andrew Paynter, Tuffy (fine rock poster art), and several Daytrotter illustrators - Brendan Kiefer, Amanda Walker, Ally Trigg and Johnnie Cluney.
Sights of Sounds:Works of Art from the Music Community
Opening February 27, 7-10 pm
Show runs through March 25, 2008
Tel: 415-386-7275.
11th ABINGDON ARTS FESTIVAL
1-15 March 2008, Abingdon, Oxford, UK
At various locations around Abingdon, there is music, theatre, Roger McGough, exhibitions, Yoko Ono Wish Tree, jazz, concerts, workshops, literature, children's events and the creation of a 9 metre square copy of Holbein's 'The Ambassadors'!
The Wish Tree, inspired and endorsed by Yoko Ono, has been a part of many exhibitions since the 1990s. You are invited to write your wish on a piece of paper and hang it on a tree branch. It's like a collective prayer in a way. Some wishes are deeply personal, some global wishes for peace and better future for humankind.
Presented By: Abingdon Arts Festival Committee
Venue: Abingdon Charter (outside Library)
Date & Time: Sat 1st - Sat 15th, Anytime
For more information visit their website
or email: info@abingdonartsfestival.org.uk
Mobile Art is a snap-together mobile gallery that will tour the world showing works inspired by Chanel SA's padded bag. It gathers the works of 20 artists, including Yoko Ono in a flying-saucer-shaped pavilion comissioned by Karl Lagerfeld and designed by Pritzker-Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid.
Mobile Art is not so much an exhibition to be visited as a landscape to wander through in a completely new way: to experience the artists' installations, visitors equipped with a MP3 player must let themselves be guided mentally and physically by a soundtrack created by the label "Soundwalk" in collaboration with each of the artists. This soundtrack mixes the original music of a diverse range of artists with voice and ambient sound effects.
Mobile Art is above all a new form of artistic expression, an unique experience, combining architecture, art, sound creation and fashion.
Other artists at the show include Nobuyoshi Araki, Pierre & Gilles, Loris Cecchini, Stephen Shore (of Andy Warhol's Factory), David Levinthal; Russia's Blue Noses; Sylvie Fleury of Switzerland; Y.Z. Kami from Iran and Argentina's Leandro Erlich.
Star Ferry Car Park, 9 Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong
27 Feb 2008 - 5 April 2008 before travelling
to Tokyo, New York, London, Moscow and finally Paris in 2010.
Official website here. Reserve tickets here.
All the wishes will be eventually collected from the Wish Trees and sent to the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Videy Island, Reykjavik, Iceland.
It is a giddy feeling
like being on a mountain
looking down
many little houses
many little streets
I was once in them
how little they were!
The cars are driving
like soldiers
like cockroaches
like dots
I look up
there are many trees
leading me to...
is that the top of the mountain?
I see that I have
much more to go
Then I see
that I am still in my kitchen
In one of the little apartment buildings
which looked like a pebble from the mountain!
making my morning coffee
sitting at my computer
looking over the park
Sunrises.
Yes!
Seventy five
and I'm alive
My body is filled with
many people
many cities,
many countries
many laughters,
many loves
many, many spaces and
oh, many, many times...
Is that what it is
to be omnipresent?
to experience all your
senses and feelings
of all times and space at once?
With no limitations
of the human world
Freed from time
Freed from space?
Are we all getting there?
I am full of thankfulness
for being alive
I am full of love
for knowing you
knowing life
Your beauty
Life's amazements
still unfolding
it's mystery
Thank you, thank you, thank you
For a very rich experience
Yes. I'm seventy five!
I'm alive
still dancing
in love with life.
Now, I'm suddenly
at the top of the mountain
Seeing the other side -
The Future!
It's so magical
I'm speechless.
It's so beautiful
We're smiling!
You are there
We are there
Yes. we are all there!
We are all there.
Still dancing
In love with life.....
