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MusicForOccupy: Occupy This Album: benefitting OWS

2012-05-12T18:45:40Z

Occupy Wall Street now has an A-list soundtrack: the compilation Occupy This Album, which was announced today and will be released sometime this spring. The record will feature music from Debbie Harry, Jackson Browne, Yoko Ono, Third Eye Blind, Crosby and Nash and many more. Several of the contributors, including Joan Baez and Crosby and Nash, performed at the New York OWS site while it was still active.

Happy Mother’s Day! love, yoko

2012-05-13T12:28:23Z

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! Dear Friends I would like to give an accolade to our mothers who passed away, without being acknowledged of the beautiful thing they did. They could have died trying to give birth to us. Giving birth was a very serious, uncomfortable, and dangerous matter. But nobody told our mothers that. She was [...]

MY MOMMY IS BEAUTIFUL is a tribute to all Mothers of the World from each of your children

2012-05-13T12:38:30Z

MY MOMMY IS BEAUTIFUL is a tribute to all Mothers of the World from each of your children; a celebration of the love that nurtures us all.

Upload your mother's photo to one of these groups: Facebook, Flickr 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

Tag an Instagram with #mmib, write your tribute & see the gallery here.

Yoko Ono: ADD COLOUR (TheMuseum, Kitchener, ON, Canada)

2012-05-13T21:50:43Z

ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada will feature 10 pieces hand selected by the artist and will run throughout the summer months. The interactive pieces encourage visitors to participate- from hanging a personal wish on Wish Trees for Kitchener to proclaiming your love via a special code to mending broken pottery. Each piece allows the visitor to reflect on the message and make a contribution together to a larger work. “Think peace. Act Peace. Spread Peace. I love you!” - y.o. spring 2012.

Coming June 2012 – Yoko Ono: To The Light & #smilesfilm (Serpentine Gallery, London, UK)

2012-05-13T21:52:53Z

Yoko Ono (born 1933, Tokyo) is a pioneering artist, film-maker, poet, musician, writer, performance artist and peace activist. Her prolific career has spanned five decades – she has embraced a wide range of media, defying traditional boundaries and creating new forms of artistic expression. The Serpentine is delighted to present the work of artist Yoko Ono. [...]

Yoko Ono Lennon & Sean Lennon on WNYC 93.9FM – ‘Spinning On Air’ on Mothers Day, 13 May 2012 at 7-9pmET

2012-05-14T19:53:41Z

WNYC Spinning On Air – 2 hours of David Garland with Yoko Ono Lennon & Sean Ono Lennon Listen to the show above. It aired live on Mothers Day, 13 May 2012 at 7-9pm ET Yoko Ono: Affirmations Why do people keep laughing at desert island jokes? That is because, secretively, we are [...]

Group Show: Teatr życia (Theatre Of Life) (Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, Poland)

2012-05-15T01:58:15Z

Exhibition opening: Friday, 18th May 2012 at 7pm Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu 87 – 100 Toruń, Waly gen. Sikorskiego 13, Poland tel.: + 00 48 56 610 97 00 fax: + 00 48 56 621 07 24 info@csw.torun.pl Saturday 19th of May from 12 am to 12 pm for European Night of Museums, [...]

Yoko QandA day – Fridays on Twitter & Facebook – latest answers here:

2012-05-19T22:57:44Z

Every Friday is Q&A day. On Twitter, ask me a question about anything, tag it #yokoQandA (so I can find it) & I'll answer the best 10 or so every week here on IMAGINEPEACE.com. love, yoko. View the answers as several pages here, or one big long page here.

Group Show: Invisible (Hayward Gallery, London, UK)

2012-05-20T13:21:57Z

Invisible Art brings together works from the past half century that explore ideas related to the invisible and the hidden. The exhibition includes work by some of the most important artists of our time as well as younger artists who have expanded on their legacy. From the amusing to the philosophical, there are works you [...]

Mothers Day – photos of Yoko Ono Lennon by Sean Ono Lennon

2012-05-20T18:21:45Z

MOTHERS DAY Sean took these photos when he took me for a walk in Central Park. He used his newly acquired camera, which was a Leica (german camera) that came out about 80 years ago. I was amazed how Sean operated the old camera smoothly and did a good job! Well, it was a nice Mother’s Day. yoko