Julie Cunningham & Company: A Line Is Yoko Ono’s ‘Dance Pieces’ from her seminal collection of ‘Instruction Poems’ ACORN, are the starting point for a new site-specific dance performance by Julie Cunningham & Company. The work responds to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s galleries and collections on display. Taking visitors [...]
PEBBLE PEOPLE For International Women's Day, 8 March 2016 A butterfly is hopping from flower to flower. Oh, good, I think. The butterfly is busy-bodying as usual. We are like butterflies. We busybody ourselves every day for our survival as we think we know how. But the difference with us, is that we know we [...]
DAVID BOWIE John and David respected each other. They were well matched in intellect and talent. As John and I had very few friends we felt David was as close as family. After John died, David was always there for Sean and me. When Sean was at boarding school in Switzerland, David would pick him [...]
UNCOVER II - To My Soul Mates in Cambridge by Yoko Ono, Oct. 15th, 2015 Last night, I went to a restaurant after 11 p.m., hoping that I could get coffee and a biscuit. Instead I saw a vast crowd of men, all in grey, as if their suits were the only things that were [...]
The 9th IMAGINE PEACE TOWER by Yoko Ono, Oct 9th 2015 We have lit the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER every year, now, for 9 years straight. I did not miss one year. In the beginning, I felt like it was vaguely a duty for me to come to promote World Peace. But I realized quickly that [...]
YOKO ONO: LUMIÈRE France's first comprehensive retrospective of YOKO ONO's work will be presented by The Musée d'Art Contemporain in Lyon in the summer of 2016. This huge exhibition (3,000m² of artworks over 3 floors of the Museum) will span the period from 1952-2016 and will survey the full spectrum of Ono's vast and diverse [...]
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Yoko is a delicate wind, racing around the world and trying to keep from disappearing altogether. But she's met her mountain, and while still working in lofty conceptual pieces she is holding on well to her kite string by Jonathan Cott, Rolling Stone (Article | Archive), 18 March 1971. In December, 1970, John Lennon and [...]
In honor of Yoko Ono's 82nd birthday, the singer has collaborated with Antony and John Zorn on two new limited edition 10" vinyl releases. The first is called Antony & Yoko and features a duet on Ono's "I Love You Earth", along with Antony's solo rendition of Ono's "I'm Going Away Smiling". ANTONY & YOKO “I Love You Earth” “I’m Going Away [...]
Among the gems on Amazon’s All Is Bright playlist is Yoko Ono and Wayne Coyne’s cover of John Lennon’s "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)." The track, originally released in 1971 by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir, has grown into a Christmas classic over the past 43 years, entering the pantheon of “White Christmas,” “O [...]
ONO ASCENDS TO THE TOP OF THE BILLBOARD DANCE CLUB CHART WITH HER LATEST DANCEFLOOR REINVENTION "ANGEL" (THE REMIXES) FEATURING RADIANT REWORKS BY DAVE AUDÉ, TOM STEPHAN (SUPERCHUMBO), DJ LYNNWOOD, ROSABEL, MIKE CRUZ, DANK, FAGAULT & MARINA, EMJAE, SOUL CARTEL, JAMLIMMAT & MIGUEL PICASSO, THE CARRY NATION, AND BORDERTOWN THE SINGLE MARKS THE PIONEERING CULTURAL [...]
Yoko Ono message to Governor Cuomo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eph0kUgHUNg Yoko Ono visits Dimock PA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYRKvLGFFm8 IMAGINE NO FRACKING: ‘Let’s Give Clean Water a Chance’ by Yoko Ono http://imaginepeace.com/archives/19633 TV Ad: Gimme Some Truth about Fracking – Gov Cuomo – Don’t Frack New York http://imaginepeace.com/archives/19387 IMAGINE N.Y. WITHOUT FRACKING by Yoko Ono Lennon http://imaginepeace.com/archives/19236 Dimock: “I was there. [...]
On 7 August 2014, Yoko Ono Lennon requested Imagine Peace Tower be lit in remembrance of the children who have lost their lives in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, hoping that the ceasefire will continue indefinitely, and no more innocent children will be harmed. IMAGINE PEACE TOWER 3am, 8/8/2014 MESSAGE FROM YOKO ONO LENNON Dear Friends As [...]
This is fantastic! It was too cool then, I suppose. It's a favorite song of mine from 'It's Alright (I See Rainbows)'. Nobody told me about this version. Great that I was shown now! Thank you, guys, for doing such an incredible video! 'Wake Up' by Yoko Ono, performed by Trio Wake up, wake up [...]
UNCOVER by Yoko Ono Let's quickly assemble the knowledge we have. We ourselves must be peaceful to get peace. Once we follow that logic, and clear our minds of anger, hatred, fear and violence, we can see what we were doing wrong. We are being given the option of having a peaceful world or a [...]
Upload your mother’s photo to our Facebook group, Flickr group, Instagram or Twitter. Add the tag #mmib. Write her name, a note about her, to her and to yourself. If it gets to be a love letter, a poem or a very long message or as long as a novel (!) that’s fine. Make sure to squeeze her with big hugs and kisses in your mind and send it with a sprinkle of i ii iii Yoko Ono Lennon For UK Mothers Day: Sunday 30th March 2014
Ogilvy & Mather London has launched a powerful campaign for Amnesty International, a global movement for human rights. The campaign entitled “Freedom Candles” features 30 limited edition candles by an acknowledged artistic duo—Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk—known as ‘coarse’. The idea of the project is explained in a short film. When each candle is burned, [...]
Yoko: "Let's go back to the future, you know. That's why we're here. We want to talk mainly to the young people all over the world, because those are the people who are going to be the next generation. They're going to be the next world, you know, and we just want to say we are with them. We're not preaching or anything like that. We want to be with them and we're with them." Listen to John & Yoko on honeymoon spreading their peace message in Amsterdam.
This plaque to Emily Wilding Davison was put up in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft by Tony Benn MP. Tony Benn said in the House of Commons in 2001: 'I have put up several plaques—quite illegally, without permission; I screwed them up myself. One was in the broom cupboard to commemorate Emily Wilding Davison, [...]
To Elbow: Dear Guy, Craig, Mark, Pete and Richard, Yes. New York has been kind to me as your song says. Thank you. For John, he always wanted to come and live in this city, ever since he saw Bob Dylan on the famous album cover (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan). And I played the catalyst to [...]