Timing 8pm Reykjavik / 9pm Liverpool & London / 4pm New York / 1pm Los Angeles / 5am Tokyo The IMAGINE PEACE TOWER by Yoko Ono on Viðey will be lit for the 18th time on Wednesday, October 9th at 8:00 PM. A peaceful ceremony will be held on the island to celebrate the event. [...]
Yoko Ono's artwork, a tower of light that houses a collection of over two million wishes from Wish Trees worldwide, is illuminated on October 9th in Iceland
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 [...]
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 [...]
Message from Yoko Ono: Don't give up on our beautiful planet. Use your healing power and make it well. World Peace is around the corner. I love you! yoko Tonight is Yoko Ono's birthday! IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is lit in tribute and the Northern Lights are shining bright! See it all LIVE & send in your [...]
Our story about the wish tree: BACKGROUND: We implemented this activity in our school: Preparatoria Emiliano Zapata which belongs to Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (a big public university en the state od Sinaloa in Mexico, our country). We did it before a festival we organize every year remembering John Lennon, where we refer to his [...]
To celebrate the first week of Spring and John & Yoko's 43rd wedding anniversary, The City of Reykjavík will be relighting Yoko Ono's artwork IMAGINE PEACE TOWER from 8pm until midnight, every night from 20th-27th March 2012.
Join us live at http://IMAGINEPEACETOWER.com where you can send your wishes & watch live at these times:
8pm - 12pm Liverpool & London
4pm - 8pm New York
1pm - 5pm Los Angeles
5am - 9am Tokyo
The City of Reykjavík has decided to light IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on Ms. Yoko Ono’s birthday February 18th, 2012. The Mayor Mr. Jon Gnarr, says that on behalf of the City he wishes to thank Ms. Ono for her dedication to peace and friendship to Reykjavik: “Reykjavík is honored that Ms. Yoko Ono chose [...]
Wish Tree for Zuccotti Park Make a wish. Ask the tree to send your wishes to all the trees in the world. For Truth, Justice and Peace. y.o. '11
Dear Ms. Ono Yoko, Hello! We are students at Hukuoka Senior High School in Iwate, Japan. Our school just celebrated its 110th anniversary this year! There are 521 students in our school at present. Some notable graduates of our school include graphic artist Fukuda Shigeo and physicist Tanakadate Aikitsu, who also invented [...]
Selkirk College Peace Studies students put on a display called ‘An Alternative Timeline of History’, on Nov 29, 2011. What made this timeline unique is that is showed historical events highlighting nonviolence. Many of the history books and traditional timelines we learn from feature wars, conquests and military heroes, whereas this timeline displayed history from [...]
Dear Yoko (and John), Today, your WAR IS OVER message has a very special meaning. In papers and on TV they are saying that this global economic crisis is our World War III, and maybe they are right because there’s a lot of people suffering due to the cuts in the welfare systems, the increasing [...]
by Jorge Artajo Yesterday Getafe, a working class populated city at the South of Madrid, wanted to pay homage to the victims of domestic violence and prepared several acts during the whole evening and night to people aware about this social problem and as a way of telling to the victims that they are not [...]
by Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times Yoko Ono’s shining Peace Tower, a column of unstoppable light high in the night sky, moves our writer in Reykjavik to tears. Nobody could disagree with the view that Iceland is a pulse-quickening destination for an adventure weekend. Glacier- hopping is an adventure. So is whitewater rafting. Or cycling [...]
Dear Friends, On Sunday, I was in Reykjavík with our son Sean to relight IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, and celebrate his and John's birthday - October the 9th. In a boat big enough for Sean and me and all our friends who came all the way from New York, Liverpool and Tokyo, we slowly sailed our [...]
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER will next be lit on October 9th 2011 at 8pm (see your local time here) until December 8th and then from December 21st to 31st. Tweet your wishes to @IPTower at http:/IMAGINEPEACETOWER.com.
From a Whisper to a Scream: Following Yoko Ono’s Instructions by Jason Persse, Inside Out I first heard about Yoko Ono’s so-called “instruction pieces” as a high school student, when a friend told me the (possibly apocryphal, certainly embellished) story of Ono’s first meeting with John Lennon. History according to the poorly fact-checked [...]
Dear Friends On October 9th, I will relight IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in Iceland in memory of my late husband John Lennon. Please ask all your friends to join us by Tweeting your wishes to IMAGINE PEACE TOWER. You can do this by going to http://IMAGINEPEACETOWER.com where you can also watch the lighting live with us at 7.45pm GMT = 8.45pm UK = 3.45pm NY = 12.45am LA = 4.45am Japan. Tell all your friends. Spread the word. Let's tweet a million wishes for peace for John's birthday! love, yoko
Would you like to win a trip for two to Reykjavík and experience a special event of peace and love? The winning trip includes: • Flight tickets for two from one of Icelandair's destinations. • Three nights in a comfy hotel in Reykjavík with breakfast. • Access to Yoko Ono Plastic Ono band concert. • Boat trip to the lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower in Videy island. • 48 hours Reykjavík Welcome Card that provides access to Public Transportation, museums and seven thermal pools in the city • An exclusive meal at the Sea Food Cellar in Reykjavík
When You Wish Upon a Tree at the Hirshhorn by Brandon Springer — Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden for Smithsonian.com Some wish for their mothers. Some wish for their fathers. Some wish for siblings or friends, children or partners. Some wishes are rather rude. Some wishes are earnest and sweet. Yoko Ono’s Washington D.C. Wish [...]