IMAGINE PEACE

What is the relationship between The World and The Artist? (Yoko Ono, May 1971)

2010-03-01T12:43:45Z

Many people believe that in this age, art is dead. They despise the artists who show in galleries and are caught up in the traditional art world. Artists themselves are beginning to lose their confidence. They don't know whether they are doing something that still has value in this day and age where the social problems are so vital and critical. I wondered myself about this. Why am I still an artist? And why am I not joining the violent revolutionaries? Then I realized that destruction is not my game. Violent revolutionaries are trying to destroy the establishment. That is good. But how? By killing? Killing is such an artless thing....

From Dundee to Abbey Road – The Photographs of Iain Macmillan [Dundee, Scotland]

2010-03-01T14:37:47Z

Iain Macmillan Retrospective Abbey Road, the Swinging 60's, John & Yoko and Dundee 27th February until 3rd June 2010 Discovery Point Café Gallery, Discovery Quay, Dundee, DD1 4XA, Scotland. FREE admission Yoko says: "I am so glad that Iain is getting some recognition. He was a incredible photographer."

Help CHILE

2010-03-01T18:01:10Z

All of the below efforts have been approved by the Mobile Giving Foundation, which organized text message relief for Haiti: Text "CHILE" to 20222 = $10 to World Vision Text "SAVE" to 20222 = $10 to Save the Children Federation, Inc. Text "CHILE" to 45678 = $5 (In Canada Only in English) to UNICEF Canada Text "CHILI" to 45678 = $5 (In Canada Only in French) to UNICEF Canada Text "4CHILE" to 50555 = $10 to Convoy of Hope Text "CHILE" to 50555 = $10 to Friends of the World Program Text "REBUILD" to 50555 = $10 to Friends of the Operation USA Text "CHILE" to 52000 = $10 to Salvation Army Text "CHILE" to 85944 = $10 to International Medical Corp. (Source: PRNewswire press release & Mobile Giving foundation.) Google person finder for Chile here. DONATE - CLICK HERE

Final Round: VOTE NOW for a US Department of PEACE

2010-03-03T11:25:11Z

FINAL ROUND OF VOTING MARCH 1-12 Go to http://bit.ly/votePEACE Click on the blue VOTE NOW button Fill in the details. You have voted only when the blue button says VOTED. Hi. This is yoko ono. I fully support the idea of voting for a DEPARTMENT OF PEACE. It’s so exciting to see the family of peace working to keep ourselves up in the top ten! Every bit helps to make World Peace a reality. I didn’t know that we are getting so strong in numbers, as well! Lots of love, yoko

Unisex Plastic Ono Band Shirt: $30

2010-03-06T12:29:32Z

Unisex v-neck. Vintage-washed, ultra soft cotton. Designed and illustrated by Sean Lennon. Available from the Chimera Music store here.

Yoko QandA day – Fridays on Twitter

2010-03-06T14:22:06Z

Friday QandA day: Ask me an interesting question, tag it #yokoQandA and I’ll answer 10-15 every week on IMAGINEPEACE.com love, yoko marcuschown If you could donate one thing to an impossible and imaginary museum that exists all our minds, what would it be and why? A smile. To relieve you from your seriousness. motsmusicaux Dear Yoko, what would you say [...]

Yoko Ono: Back to where she once belonged (Times Online)

2010-03-07T00:47:00Z

Yoko Ono is forever associated with the Beatles, yet her aristocratic family life in imperial Japan, long before she met John Lennon, was equally intriguing. For the first time, she opens up the Ono family album. Yoko is back in Japan for a three-week trip and, for the first time, has agreed to a journalist accompanying her to write about this side of her multi-faceted life. This is also the first time she has agreed to open up in depth about her childhood, her awkward, distant upbringing in a quasi-aristocratic family in Tokyo, and Lennon’s relationship with her parents. Only now is she truly comfortable returning to Japan.

The Lighter by Yoko Ono

2010-03-07T01:11:13Z

Karuizawa is an old summer resort in Japan very much like the Hamptons except it’s in the mountains. There is a coffee house in a pine forest near Karuizawa. John & I fell in love with the place, and found ourselves going there almost every day with Sean. To get there, you had to go cycling for about 30 minutes from the town of Karuizawa. But we loved going there. There was a big hammock in the backyard, and John, Sean and I used to spend the afternoon lying in it, giggling, singing, and watching the sky...

Group show: Imaging the Apple [NY, USA]

2010-03-08T00:10:45Z

APPLE by Yoko Ono Apple, plexiglas pedestal with brass plaque. “One of the ‘Unfinished Objects’ shown at Indica Gallery in 1966, ‘Apple’ embodies the life cycle of birth, decay, death and rebirth. Placing the apple on a pedestal in a gallery foregrounded the beauty of that cycle and encouraged viewers to imagine the fruit’s [...]

A QUIET REVOLUTION by YOKO ONO – speech for Oxford University, March 10, 2010

2010-03-11T00:06:57Z

A QUIET REVOLUTION by YOKO ONO SPEECH FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY ON MARCH 10, 2010 A butterfly is hopping from flower to flower. Oh, good. I think. The butterfly is busybodying as usual. Peace reins. But what is the butterfly really doing? When a tiny movement like the flapping of the wings of a butterfly brings about a big [...]