KPFK PEACE AWARDS & 5Oth ANNIVERSARY & CONCERT CELEBRATION! A BENEFIT FOR KPFK RADIO 90.7 FM LOS ANGELES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009 5:30 P.M. (V.I.P. Reception) 7:00 P.M. (Concert & Awards) Ford Amphitheatre - Hollywood For VIP ticket reservations please call the Ford Box Office at (323) 461-3673 To reserve all other tickets online click here [...]
Yoko Ono is awarding £260,000 to Liverpool John Moores University to establish a new fund for disadvantaged students. Aimed at young people who have been in care or become estranged from their families, the John Lennon Imagine Awards will offer support to the students, both financial and practical, to ensure they benefit from their time [...]
Yoko Ono presents an award of recognition to La Monte Young at Ono's COURAGE AWARDS FOR THE ARTS at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Feb. 1, 2009 - Photo by Bob Gruen. Yoko Ono announces today, February 1st, 2009, the presentation of the first COURAGE AWARDS FOR THE ARTS from her at the [...]
The 2008 stamp of the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER has been awarded a Bronze by Stamp News. From StampNews.com Top 10 extraordinary stamps of the year 2008 We at StampNews.com want to strike the balance of the passing year. Plenty of new stamps have seen the light all over the world. No question all of them [...]
Yoko Ono granted both the Icelandic nation and Indian scientist Dr. Vandana Shiva with the LennonOno Peace Award at the relighting of the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy island off Reykjavík on the occasion of John Lennon’s birthday yesterday. “To my knowledge an entire nation has not been granted such an award before. I’m therefore [...]
Yoko Ono’s Speech LennonOno Grant for Peace Ceremony October 9, 2008 Hofdi House, Reykjavik, Iceland Dear Friends Here we are together at one of the most tumultuous periods not only in the history of Iceland, but in the recent history of the world. It is easy to think that everything we have been striving for [...]
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 [...]
Founded by Yoko Ono in honor of the peace activism of John Lennon, the $50,000 award is given to two recipients every two years. Past winners have included investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, Israeli artist Zvi Goldstein and Palestinian artist Khalil Rabah. The Center for Constitutional Rights will be honored alongside Doctors Without Borders, the first [...]
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono poses with Oasis's Liam Gallagher and a posthumous Q Special Award for John Lennon in the awards room at The Q Awards, the annual magazine's music awards, at Grosvenor House on October 10, 2005 in London, England. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images)