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The LennonOno Grant for Peace was created by Yoko Ono Lennon to honour her late husband John Lennon’s dedication to peace and commitment to the preservation of human rights.
Created in 2002, this biennial award has always been given to two recipients.
To mark this special anniversary year, Yoko Ono presented this award to four recipients who have been selected based on their courage and commitment to peace, truth and human rights.
The recipients are:
Filmmaker Josh Fox wrote and directed the documentary feature film Gasland in 2010. Josh’s work is known for its mix of gripping narrative, heightened imagery and its commitment to socially conscious themes and subjects.
Barbara Kowalcyk was propelled into food safety advocacy in 2001, when her two-year-old son, Kevin, died after suffering an E.coli infection from tainted food. Barbara and her mother Patricia Buck created the Center for Foodborne Illness & Prevention (CFI) a national non-profit organization committed to improving public health by preventing foodborne illness through research, education, advocacy and service.
Author Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment. He is the author of numerous best sellers, most recently Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.
Author, poet, and activist Alice Walker is known for her brave stance against racism, sexism, and human rights issues. In 2009, she traveled to Gaza along with a group of 60 other female activists from the anti-war group Code Pink to oppose the controversial blockade and violence against Gaza by Israel and Egypt. Her book Overcoming Speechlessness documents her experiences in Gaza and abroad.
'Love is all you need' - John and Yoko's Bed-In anti-war protest during their honeymoon in Amsterdam 25th March 1969.
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Attendant
I saw a dark hole in a shape of an arch. I saw my body being slid into it. It looked like the arch I came out at birth, I thought. I asked where it was going to take me to. The guy stood there looking at me without saying a word, as I lay down. It all seemed very familiar. What percentage of my life did I take it lying down? That was the last question I asked in my mind.
The Go-Betweens
Book :
Yoko Ono
Music Of The Mind
Hatje Cantz
2024
DVD :
Marcel Broodthaers
Glass Museum
MoMA
2017
Use Hearing Protection
For japanese forms
GMA
This is one of the last images ever taken of John Lennon. This was taken on the day of his murder at approximately 12PM in a photo session at apartment 72 (his main apartment) in The Dakota. The photographer was Annie Leibovitz.
Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE BILLBOARD
June 26
Downtown Youngstown
at the corner of Wick Avenue and Wood Street
sponsored by the The McDonough Museum of Art
Yoko Ono's IMAGINE PEACE BILLBOARD
NE PEACE BILLBOARD press release
A new version of Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE billboard is installed in downtown Youngstown at the corner of Wick Avenue and Wood Street. The McDonough Museum of Art on the Campus of Youngstown State University is the sponsor of this project.
During the past forty years, billboards urging peace have been an important component of Yoko Ono’s artwork. The initial use of billboard space as a medium to foster peace occurred in 1969 when Ono and John Lennon placed WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT billboards in several major cities across the United States and Europe. More recently, Yoko Ono transformed the WAR IS OVER! message of 1969 into the universally positive statement IMAGINE PEACE. Previous installations of this message featured the text in black Helvetica typeface on a stark white background. This past winter in Washington D.C., Ono unveiled a redesign of the IMAGINE PEACE billboard that places the white Helvetica typeface on a sky blue background with a cloud underneath the text on the left side. It is this design that is installed in downtown Youngstown.
This is the third Yoko Ono billboard sponsored by the McDonough, a continued commitment on the part of the Museum to the work and message of this important artist. Previous billboards appeared in 2007 IMAGINE PEACE in support of The University of Akron’s Emily Davis Gallery exhibit YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE: featuring John and Yoko’s Year of Peace and 2008 WAR IS OVER! as part of the McDonough exhibition AGENCY: Art and Advertising.
The McDonough Museum will be distributing pins that feature the design of the billboard. Pins will be available at the Museum beginning June 30th and during Youngstown State University’s Summer Festival of the Arts, July 11 & 12. Quantity is limited.
The McDonough Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00am until 4:00pm with extended evening hours on Wednesday night till 8:00pm. The Museum is free and open to the public. For further information please call 330.941.1400.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program or organization with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
BILLBOARD INSTALLATION IMAGES
Add Color (Refugee Boat) by YOKO ONO + Pavimento cosmatesco della Basilica di San Marco by ELISABETTA DI MAGGIO | DELLA MATERIA SPIRITUALE DELL’ARTE | MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo | a cura di Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
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(In Spanish at the bottom)
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 forgotten.
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree, a huge Cedar tree, was placed in the afternoon by a Lorry mounted crane in the main square of the city calling the attention of the old people there walking and chatting under a friendly winter sun.
As I put the tag with Yoko’s wish in the tree to take a photo, they came around and one of them asked me with an ironic smile “Are you selling this tree? Is the price written in the tag? I laughed for his humorous way of approaching me, and his funny way of asking without asking, that it was a pleasure for me telling them about the Wish Tree and the International Day for the elimination of violence against women.
They started to talk about women in Getafe killed by their husbands and asked to participate. Nothing was prepared yet, and the whole thing was supposed to start at 5 p.m., but I forgot all protocol and provided them some tags and pens still in the bags and boxes and they were the first ones to tie wishes to the tree.
That square is the main witness of the energy of the city and of all the movements of its people during the whole journey, because when old people returned to their houses about 3p.m. children started to flow from the surrounding streets. They were very interested about the whole thing.
Pens and tags seemed to fly through the table we had set for people to write their wishes. They asked their parents to help them to tie their wishes and encourage them to write their own. It was amazing seeing them running from the table to the tree again and again and again with that special and beautiful energy children have, calling their friends in the distance to come and write wishes.
At 5 p.m. people started to build a path of light leading to the Wish Tree and in the stages around the square started some circus, dance, theatre and music performances, all of them related to the issue of domestic violence.
The major of the city tied to the Wish Tree the message sent by Yoko Ono to erase domestic violence and the women of Getafe read a manifesto against domestic violence. The most moving moment of the whole evening was when a very young girl read a letter to her mother killed for her father last year in Getafe.
The path of light to the Wish Tree grew and grew and people placed candles at its feet as a symbol of the presence of the 53 women victims of domestic violence in Spain last year.
Jorge Artajo
Installation organiser
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message from Yoko Ono:
Hi, Jorge!
I see that you are working, as usual.
We are at the point where we can end all violence very soon, by the effort of people like you.
Thank you.
yoko
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We have just placed the WISH TREE in Getafe (Madrid). People will start tying wishes to erase domestic violence at 5 p.m (Madrid time) / 11 a.m (New York time) and will end at 9 p.m.(Madrid time) / 3 a.m. (New York time).
You can follow the event in real time in Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
We will upload photos of the people once they put their wishes in the tree.
The tree is a Cedrus (common name Cedar), an evergreen mystical tree with scented wood that I chose it because of its beauty and because I felt it as a shelter for victims of violence and a healing place for tormented souls.
Acabamos de colocar en Getafe el ÁRBOL DE LOS DESEOS contra la violencia de género,y hemos colgado el mensaje que envió Yoko Ono expresamente para esta ocasión:
Borremos la violencia doméstica en este planeta!
Ama, ten esperanza, sueña y borra
Amor,
Yoko 2011
El acto empezará a las 5 de la tarde y concluirá a la 9 de la noche. Puede seguirse casi en directo en Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
Vamos a ir colgando fotos de los eventos minuto aminuto durante toda la jornada.
El árbol es un Cedro (Cedrus) un árbol de hoja peremne y madera olorosa considerado místico que puede llegara vivir hasta dos mil años y que escogí por su belleza y porque lo vi como un refugio para las víctimas de la violencia doméstica y un lugar donde las almas atormentadas pueden llegar a encontrar la paz.
Animaos a venir.
Haris Epaminonda
Untitled #13 t/g
2019
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#johnarmleder #matildecassani #francescoclemente #enzocucchi #elisabettadimaggio #jimmiedurham #harisepaminonda #hassankhan #kimsooja #abdoulayekonaté #victorman #shirinneshat #yokoono #michalrovner #remosalvadori #tomássaraceno #seanscully #jeremyshaw #namsalsiedlecki
#BartolomeoPietromarchi
#maxxi #zahahadid #zaha #zahahadidarchitects #contemporaryart #contemporaryarts #architecture #roma #gazblanco
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" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE, San Antonio, Texas
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
Billboard Locations:
1 / Highway 78 ES 0.2mi. S/O Loop 1604 F/NE
2 / Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW
3 / Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE
4 / Austin highway ES 520ft. N/O Vandiver F/NE
5 / Rigsby NS 75ft. W/O Irwin F/W
6 / US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W
7 / Grissom SS 0.2mi. W/O Timber Path F/E
8 / Military SW NS 300ft. W/O new Laredo Highway F/W
9 / Babcock WS 250ft. S/O Springtime F/S "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NUTOPIA.
Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA.
NUTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people.
NUTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic.
All people of NUTOPIA are ambassadors of the country.
As two ambassadors of NUTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and its people.
Yoko Ono Lennon
John Ono Lennon
Nutopian Embassy
One White Street
New York, NY 10013
April 1st 1973
Nutopia is a country that exists in all of us.
John and I created this imaginary world.
We called a press conference and produced a white handkerchief from our pockets and said "This is a flag to Surrender to Peace."
Not fight for Peace, but *Surrender* to Peace was the important bit.
All of us represent Nutopia.
Yoko
(In Spanish at the bottom)
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 forgotten.
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree, a huge Cedar tree, was placed in the afternoon by a Lorry mounted crane in the main square of the city calling the attention of the old people there walking and chatting under a friendly winter sun.
As I put the tag with Yoko’s wish in the tree to take a photo, they came around and one of them asked me with an ironic smile “Are you selling this tree? Is the price written in the tag? I laughed for his humorous way of approaching me, and his funny way of asking without asking, that it was a pleasure for me telling them about the Wish Tree and the International Day for the elimination of violence against women.
They started to talk about women in Getafe killed by their husbands and asked to participate. Nothing was prepared yet, and the whole thing was supposed to start at 5 p.m., but I forgot all protocol and provided them some tags and pens still in the bags and boxes and they were the first ones to tie wishes to the tree.
That square is the main witness of the energy of the city and of all the movements of its people during the whole journey, because when old people returned to their houses about 3p.m. children started to flow from the surrounding streets. They were very interested about the whole thing.
Pens and tags seemed to fly through the table we had set for people to write their wishes. They asked their parents to help them to tie their wishes and encourage them to write their own. It was amazing seeing them running from the table to the tree again and again and again with that special and beautiful energy children have, calling their friends in the distance to come and write wishes.
At 5 p.m. people started to build a path of light leading to the Wish Tree and in the stages around the square started some circus, dance, theatre and music performances, all of them related to the issue of domestic violence.
The major of the city tied to the Wish Tree the message sent by Yoko Ono to erase domestic violence and the women of Getafe read a manifesto against domestic violence. The most moving moment of the whole evening was when a very young girl read a letter to her mother killed for her father last year in Getafe.
The path of light to the Wish Tree grew and grew and people placed candles at its feet as a symbol of the presence of the 53 women victims of domestic violence in Spain last year.
Jorge Artajo
Installation organiser
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message from Yoko Ono:
Hi, Jorge!
I see that you are working, as usual.
We are at the point where we can end all violence very soon, by the effort of people like you.
Thank you.
yoko
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We have just placed the WISH TREE in Getafe (Madrid). People will start tying wishes to erase domestic violence at 5 p.m (Madrid time) / 11 a.m (New York time) and will end at 9 p.m.(Madrid time) / 3 a.m. (New York time).
You can follow the event in real time in Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
We will upload photos of the people once they put their wishes in the tree.
The tree is a Cedrus (common name Cedar), an evergreen mystical tree with scented wood that I chose it because of its beauty and because I felt it as a shelter for victims of violence and a healing place for tormented souls.
Acabamos de colocar en Getafe el ÁRBOL DE LOS DESEOS contra la violencia de género,y hemos colgado el mensaje que envió Yoko Ono expresamente para esta ocasión:
Borremos la violencia doméstica en este planeta!
Ama, ten esperanza, sueña y borra
Amor,
Yoko 2011
El acto empezará a las 5 de la tarde y concluirá a la 9 de la noche. Puede seguirse casi en directo en Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
Vamos a ir colgando fotos de los eventos minuto aminuto durante toda la jornada.
El árbol es un Cedro (Cedrus) un árbol de hoja peremne y madera olorosa considerado místico que puede llegara vivir hasta dos mil años y que escogí por su belleza y porque lo vi como un refugio para las víctimas de la violencia doméstica y un lugar donde las almas atormentadas pueden llegar a encontrar la paz.
Animaos a venir.
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW, San Antonio, Texas
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
Billboard Locations:
1 / Highway 78 ES 0.2mi. S/O Loop 1604 F/NE
2 / Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW
3 / Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE
4 / Austin highway ES 520ft. N/O Vandiver F/NE
5 / Rigsby NS 75ft. W/O Irwin F/W
6 / US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W
7 / Grissom SS 0.2mi. W/O Timber Path F/E
8 / Military SW NS 300ft. W/O new Laredo Highway F/W
9 / Babcock WS 250ft. S/O Springtime F/S "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
★★★★
Between My Head And The Sky
(Chimera)
Carry on screaming
Quintessential divider of opinion returns with new band.
By Victoria Segal, Mojo
When it comes to topping the dance charts, septuagenarians are a poorly represented demographic. It was gladdening, then, to see Yoko Ono at Number 1 in Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play Songs chart in June with remixes of I'm Not Getting Enough, from 2001's Blueprint For A Sunrise. Maybe it's just a sad reflection of an ageist society that this is so remarkable; maybe there are hundreds of pensioners out there, unblessed/uncursed by Ono's public profile, making experimental musical in their sheds. More likely, however, is that Ono remains a startling one-off, a curiosity even after five decades in the public eye.
That she remains driven to make music - let alone music of this challenging calibre - is admirable in itself. After all, she can't be doing it to boost her pension or preserve the unequivocal love of an adoring public. Saying that, her stock is at a high: 2007's reputation-rejuvenating remix album Yes, I'm A Witch aligned her with the likes of The Flaming Lips, Cat Power and Antony Hegarty, while this year's appearance at Ornette Coleman's Meltdown was a scene-stealing event.
It's no longer iconoclastic to lionise Ono and Between My Head And The Sky - her first album to use the Plastic Ono Band name since 1973's Feeling The Space - offers abundant evidence of artistic possibility beyond the Fab-Foursquare history of rock.
With its finger on the pulse and an eye on the past, this record splits its personality into dreamy nocturnes and Janovian spasms, deadpan electro and rock frenzy. When Ono really unhinges her voicebox, there is a pleasing (although naturally distorted) echo of earlier work, especially in the wind-tunnel howl of Waiting For The D Train or the mariachi-Can of Hashire, Hashire. It's occasionally a bit self-satisfied - perhaps inevitably with a band, including Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda from Cibo Matto and members of Cornelius, that's the essence of late-'90s New York art scene - and for an artist capable of conceptual rigour, her more cosmic moments can seem feeble.
Healing, with its plea to change "negative energy", is a weak new-age infusion compared with the terse electro snap of The Sun Is Down! (Cornelius Mix) or the abstract funk wobble of Ask The Elephant! The opaque meditations that close the record, meanwhile, work all the better for guarding their mystery, especially the windborne piano spores of Higa Noboru, unfolding like a picnic blanket at Hanging Rock. Between My Head And The Sky is an intriguing record, crackling with an excitement that most new artists would struggle to generate, let alone any of Ono's rock-royalty peers. At 76, she is moving further into the zone - and there's nothing comfortable about it.
More info: www.YOPOB.com
The date on the album's jacket is May 1968, but it was released in both the U.K. and the U.S. in Nov. 1968. It was sold in a brown paper sleeve, and distributed by Track and Tetragrammaton in the United Kingdom and the United States respectively.
Yoko Ono
Yes TV Spots (Planet Propaganda for Walker Art Center):
Sphere, Water, and Yes, 2001.
Three 30-second television
advertisements.
Agency: Art and Advertising
September 19 – November 8, 2008
Kevin Concannon, PhD, and John Noga, curators
Sometimes puzzling, sometimes provocative, works in advertising media by artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp to Jeff Koons to 0100101110101101.ORG have both delighted and disturbed audiences that are sometimes left to wonder exactly what it is they’re seeing. Indeed, artists have used the media of advertising to communicate content that often defies viewers’ expectations and frequently challenges them. Agency: Art and Advertising is an exhibition that explores artists’ use of advertising media as sites for works of art (as opposed to the more conventional use of advertising for the promotion of work) as well as its subject. The exhibition, curated by Kevin Concannon, PhD, and John Noga, will focus on works of art in and about advertising media from the 1960s to the present.
Artists themselves, who were largely critical of commercial culture when this “ad art” phenomenon first flourished in the 1960s, are now often ambivalent about –or even embracing of –the commercialism they once critiqued. Others simply choose to use advertising media in order to extend their reach beyond conventional contemporary art audiences. Agency: Art and Advertising examines the history of art in advertising spaces –and art that addresses commodity culture through the appropriation of advertising –as it has evolved over the past 50 years.
Stop and Stare
In conjunction with the exhibition, AGENCY: Art and Advertising, shown inside
the McDonough Museum of Art there are nine captivating works that are on view
outside the Museum’s walls. Dotting the Youngstown metropolitan area are
billboards featuring gigantic images created by artists Geoffrey Hendricks,
Marilyn Minter, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. These
spectacular images line the sky, compelling the public to stop and stare.
Agency: Art and Advertising
Catalog is available in the museum office or through our gift shop.
Exhibition Sponsors
Anonymous
Frank and Pearl Gelbman Charitable Foundation
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
Lamar Advertising of Youngstown, Inc.
Toby Devan Lewis
Ohio Arts Council
Innis Maggiore
McDonough Museum of Art
Tuesday through Saturday, 11-4pm
Wednesday 11am-8pm
Free and open to the public.
call 330.941.1400
htttp://mcdonoughmuseum.ysu.edu
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE, San Antonio, Texas
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
Billboard Locations:
1 / Highway 78 ES 0.2mi. S/O Loop 1604 F/NE
2 / Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW
3 / Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE
4 / Austin highway ES 520ft. N/O Vandiver F/NE
5 / Rigsby NS 75ft. W/O Irwin F/W
6 / US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W
7 / Grissom SS 0.2mi. W/O Timber Path F/E
8 / Military SW NS 300ft. W/O new Laredo Highway F/W
9 / Babcock WS 250ft. S/O Springtime F/S "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
(In Spanish at the bottom)
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 forgotten.
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree, a huge Cedar tree, was placed in the afternoon by a Lorry mounted crane in the main square of the city calling the attention of the old people there walking and chatting under a friendly winter sun.
As I put the tag with Yoko’s wish in the tree to take a photo, they came around and one of them asked me with an ironic smile “Are you selling this tree? Is the price written in the tag? I laughed for his humorous way of approaching me, and his funny way of asking without asking, that it was a pleasure for me telling them about the Wish Tree and the International Day for the elimination of violence against women.
They started to talk about women in Getafe killed by their husbands and asked to participate. Nothing was prepared yet, and the whole thing was supposed to start at 5 p.m., but I forgot all protocol and provided them some tags and pens still in the bags and boxes and they were the first ones to tie wishes to the tree.
That square is the main witness of the energy of the city and of all the movements of its people during the whole journey, because when old people returned to their houses about 3p.m. children started to flow from the surrounding streets. They were very interested about the whole thing.
Pens and tags seemed to fly through the table we had set for people to write their wishes. They asked their parents to help them to tie their wishes and encourage them to write their own. It was amazing seeing them running from the table to the tree again and again and again with that special and beautiful energy children have, calling their friends in the distance to come and write wishes.
At 5 p.m. people started to build a path of light leading to the Wish Tree and in the stages around the square started some circus, dance, theatre and music performances, all of them related to the issue of domestic violence.
The major of the city tied to the Wish Tree the message sent by Yoko Ono to erase domestic violence and the women of Getafe read a manifesto against domestic violence. The most moving moment of the whole evening was when a very young girl read a letter to her mother killed for her father last year in Getafe.
The path of light to the Wish Tree grew and grew and people placed candles at its feet as a symbol of the presence of the 53 women victims of domestic violence in Spain last year.
Jorge Artajo
Installation organiser
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message from Yoko Ono:
Hi, Jorge!
I see that you are working, as usual.
We are at the point where we can end all violence very soon, by the effort of people like you.
Thank you.
yoko
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We have just placed the WISH TREE in Getafe (Madrid). People will start tying wishes to erase domestic violence at 5 p.m (Madrid time) / 11 a.m (New York time) and will end at 9 p.m.(Madrid time) / 3 a.m. (New York time).
You can follow the event in real time in Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
We will upload photos of the people once they put their wishes in the tree.
The tree is a Cedrus (common name Cedar), an evergreen mystical tree with scented wood that I chose it because of its beauty and because I felt it as a shelter for victims of violence and a healing place for tormented souls.
Acabamos de colocar en Getafe el ÁRBOL DE LOS DESEOS contra la violencia de género,y hemos colgado el mensaje que envió Yoko Ono expresamente para esta ocasión:
Borremos la violencia doméstica en este planeta!
Ama, ten esperanza, sueña y borra
Amor,
Yoko 2011
El acto empezará a las 5 de la tarde y concluirá a la 9 de la noche. Puede seguirse casi en directo en Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
Vamos a ir colgando fotos de los eventos minuto aminuto durante toda la jornada.
El árbol es un Cedro (Cedrus) un árbol de hoja peremne y madera olorosa considerado místico que puede llegara vivir hasta dos mil años y que escogí por su belleza y porque lo vi como un refugio para las víctimas de la violencia doméstica y un lugar donde las almas atormentadas pueden llegar a encontrar la paz.
Animaos a venir.
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE, San Antonio, Texas
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
Billboard Locations:
1 / Highway 78 ES 0.2mi. S/O Loop 1604 F/NE
2 / Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW
3 / Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE
4 / Austin highway ES 520ft. N/O Vandiver F/NE
5 / Rigsby NS 75ft. W/O Irwin F/W
6 / US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W
7 / Grissom SS 0.2mi. W/O Timber Path F/E
8 / Military SW NS 300ft. W/O new Laredo Highway F/W
9 / Babcock WS 250ft. S/O Springtime F/S "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
(In Spanish at the bottom)
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 forgotten.
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree, a huge Cedar tree, was placed in the afternoon by a Lorry mounted crane in the main square of the city calling the attention of the old people there walking and chatting under a friendly winter sun.
As I put the tag with Yoko’s wish in the tree to take a photo, they came around and one of them asked me with an ironic smile “Are you selling this tree? Is the price written in the tag? I laughed for his humorous way of approaching me, and his funny way of asking without asking, that it was a pleasure for me telling them about the Wish Tree and the International Day for the elimination of violence against women.
They started to talk about women in Getafe killed by their husbands and asked to participate. Nothing was prepared yet, and the whole thing was supposed to start at 5 p.m., but I forgot all protocol and provided them some tags and pens still in the bags and boxes and they were the first ones to tie wishes to the tree.
That square is the main witness of the energy of the city and of all the movements of its people during the whole journey, because when old people returned to their houses about 3p.m. children started to flow from the surrounding streets. They were very interested about the whole thing.
Pens and tags seemed to fly through the table we had set for people to write their wishes. They asked their parents to help them to tie their wishes and encourage them to write their own. It was amazing seeing them running from the table to the tree again and again and again with that special and beautiful energy children have, calling their friends in the distance to come and write wishes.
At 5 p.m. people started to build a path of light leading to the Wish Tree and in the stages around the square started some circus, dance, theatre and music performances, all of them related to the issue of domestic violence.
The major of the city tied to the Wish Tree the message sent by Yoko Ono to erase domestic violence and the women of Getafe read a manifesto against domestic violence. The most moving moment of the whole evening was when a very young girl read a letter to her mother killed for her father last year in Getafe.
The path of light to the Wish Tree grew and grew and people placed candles at its feet as a symbol of the presence of the 53 women victims of domestic violence in Spain last year.
Jorge Artajo
Installation organiser
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Message from Yoko Ono:
Hi, Jorge!
I see that you are working, as usual.
We are at the point where we can end all violence very soon, by the effort of people like you.
Thank you.
yoko
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We have just placed the WISH TREE in Getafe (Madrid). People will start tying wishes to erase domestic violence at 5 p.m (Madrid time) / 11 a.m (New York time) and will end at 9 p.m.(Madrid time) / 3 a.m. (New York time).
You can follow the event in real time in Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
We will upload photos of the people once they put their wishes in the tree.
The tree is a Cedrus (common name Cedar), an evergreen mystical tree with scented wood that I chose it because of its beauty and because I felt it as a shelter for victims of violence and a healing place for tormented souls.
Acabamos de colocar en Getafe el ÁRBOL DE LOS DESEOS contra la violencia de género,y hemos colgado el mensaje que envió Yoko Ono expresamente para esta ocasión:
Borremos la violencia doméstica en este planeta!
Ama, ten esperanza, sueña y borra
Amor,
Yoko 2011
El acto empezará a las 5 de la tarde y concluirá a la 9 de la noche. Puede seguirse casi en directo en Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
Vamos a ir colgando fotos de los eventos minuto aminuto durante toda la jornada.
El árbol es un Cedro (Cedrus) un árbol de hoja peremne y madera olorosa considerado místico que puede llegara vivir hasta dos mil años y que escogí por su belleza y porque lo vi como un refugio para las víctimas de la violencia doméstica y un lugar donde las almas atormentadas pueden llegar a encontrar la paz.
Animaos a venir.
Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE BILLBOARD
June 26
Downtown Youngstown
at the corner of Wick Avenue and Wood Street
sponsored by the The McDonough Museum of Art
Yoko Ono's IMAGINE PEACE BILLBOARD
NE PEACE BILLBOARD press release
A new version of Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE billboard is installed in downtown Youngstown at the corner of Wick Avenue and Wood Street. The McDonough Museum of Art on the Campus of Youngstown State University is the sponsor of this project.
During the past forty years, billboards urging peace have been an important component of Yoko Ono’s artwork. The initial use of billboard space as a medium to foster peace occurred in 1969 when Ono and John Lennon placed WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT billboards in several major cities across the United States and Europe. More recently, Yoko Ono transformed the WAR IS OVER! message of 1969 into the universally positive statement IMAGINE PEACE. Previous installations of this message featured the text in black Helvetica typeface on a stark white background. This past winter in Washington D.C., Ono unveiled a redesign of the IMAGINE PEACE billboard that places the white Helvetica typeface on a sky blue background with a cloud underneath the text on the left side. It is this design that is installed in downtown Youngstown.
This is the third Yoko Ono billboard sponsored by the McDonough, a continued commitment on the part of the Museum to the work and message of this important artist. Previous billboards appeared in 2007 IMAGINE PEACE in support of The University of Akron’s Emily Davis Gallery exhibit YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE: featuring John and Yoko’s Year of Peace and 2008 WAR IS OVER! as part of the McDonough exhibition AGENCY: Art and Advertising.
The McDonough Museum will be distributing pins that feature the design of the billboard. Pins will be available at the Museum beginning June 30th and during Youngstown State University’s Summer Festival of the Arts, July 11 & 12. Quantity is limited.
The McDonough Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00am until 4:00pm with extended evening hours on Wednesday night till 8:00pm. The Museum is free and open to the public. For further information please call 330.941.1400.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program or organization with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
BILLBOARD INSTALLATION IMAGES
The LennonOno Grant for Peace was created by Yoko Ono Lennon to honour her late husband John Lennon’s dedication to peace and commitment to the preservation of human rights.
Created in 2002, this biennial award has always been given to two recipients.
To mark this special anniversary year, Yoko Ono presented this award to four recipients who have been selected based on their courage and commitment to peace, truth and human rights.
The recipients are:
Filmmaker Josh Fox wrote and directed the documentary feature film Gasland in 2010. Josh’s work is known for its mix of gripping narrative, heightened imagery and its commitment to socially conscious themes and subjects.
Barbara Kowalcyk was propelled into food safety advocacy in 2001, when her two-year-old son, Kevin, died after suffering an E.coli infection from tainted food. Barbara and her mother Patricia Buck created the Center for Foodborne Illness & Prevention (CFI) a national non-profit organization committed to improving public health by preventing foodborne illness through research, education, advocacy and service.
Author Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment. He is the author of numerous best sellers, most recently Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.
Author, poet, and activist Alice Walker is known for her brave stance against racism, sexism, and human rights issues. In 2009, she traveled to Gaza along with a group of 60 other female activists from the anti-war group Code Pink to oppose the controversial blockade and violence against Gaza by Israel and Egypt. Her book Overcoming Speechlessness documents her experiences in Gaza and abroad.
(In Spanish at the bottom)
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 forgotten.
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree, a huge Cedar tree, was placed in the afternoon by a Lorry mounted crane in the main square of the city calling the attention of the old people there walking and chatting under a friendly winter sun.
As I put the tag with Yoko’s wish in the tree to take a photo, they came around and one of them asked me with an ironic smile “Are you selling this tree? Is the price written in the tag? I laughed for his humorous way of approaching me, and his funny way of asking without asking, that it was a pleasure for me telling them about the Wish Tree and the International Day for the elimination of violence against women.
They started to talk about women in Getafe killed by their husbands and asked to participate. Nothing was prepared yet, and the whole thing was supposed to start at 5 p.m., but I forgot all protocol and provided them some tags and pens still in the bags and boxes and they were the first ones to tie wishes to the tree.
That square is the main witness of the energy of the city and of all the movements of its people during the whole journey, because when old people returned to their houses about 3p.m. children started to flow from the surrounding streets. They were very interested about the whole thing.
Pens and tags seemed to fly through the table we had set for people to write their wishes. They asked their parents to help them to tie their wishes and encourage them to write their own. It was amazing seeing them running from the table to the tree again and again and again with that special and beautiful energy children have, calling their friends in the distance to come and write wishes.
At 5 p.m. people started to build a path of light leading to the Wish Tree and in the stages around the square started some circus, dance, theatre and music performances, all of them related to the issue of domestic violence.
The major of the city tied to the Wish Tree the message sent by Yoko Ono to erase domestic violence and the women of Getafe read a manifesto against domestic violence. The most moving moment of the whole evening was when a very young girl read a letter to her mother killed for her father last year in Getafe.
The path of light to the Wish Tree grew and grew and people placed candles at its feet as a symbol of the presence of the 53 women victims of domestic violence in Spain last year.
Jorge Artajo
Installation organiser
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message from Yoko Ono:
Hi, Jorge!
I see that you are working, as usual.
We are at the point where we can end all violence very soon, by the effort of people like you.
Thank you.
yoko
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We have just placed the WISH TREE in Getafe (Madrid). People will start tying wishes to erase domestic violence at 5 p.m (Madrid time) / 11 a.m (New York time) and will end at 9 p.m.(Madrid time) / 3 a.m. (New York time).
You can follow the event in real time in Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
We will upload photos of the people once they put their wishes in the tree.
The tree is a Cedrus (common name Cedar), an evergreen mystical tree with scented wood that I chose it because of its beauty and because I felt it as a shelter for victims of violence and a healing place for tormented souls.
Acabamos de colocar en Getafe el ÁRBOL DE LOS DESEOS contra la violencia de género,y hemos colgado el mensaje que envió Yoko Ono expresamente para esta ocasión:
Borremos la violencia doméstica en este planeta!
Ama, ten esperanza, sueña y borra
Amor,
Yoko 2011
El acto empezará a las 5 de la tarde y concluirá a la 9 de la noche. Puede seguirse casi en directo en Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
Vamos a ir colgando fotos de los eventos minuto aminuto durante toda la jornada.
El árbol es un Cedro (Cedrus) un árbol de hoja peremne y madera olorosa considerado místico que puede llegara vivir hasta dos mil años y que escogí por su belleza y porque lo vi como un refugio para las víctimas de la violencia doméstica y un lugar donde las almas atormentadas pueden llegar a encontrar la paz.
Animaos a venir.
(In Spanish at the bottom)
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 forgotten.
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree, a huge Cedar tree, was placed in the afternoon by a Lorry mounted crane in the main square of the city calling the attention of the old people there walking and chatting under a friendly winter sun.
As I put the tag with Yoko’s wish in the tree to take a photo, they came around and one of them asked me with an ironic smile “Are you selling this tree? Is the price written in the tag? I laughed for his humorous way of approaching me, and his funny way of asking without asking, that it was a pleasure for me telling them about the Wish Tree and the International Day for the elimination of violence against women.
They started to talk about women in Getafe killed by their husbands and asked to participate. Nothing was prepared yet, and the whole thing was supposed to start at 5 p.m., but I forgot all protocol and provided them some tags and pens still in the bags and boxes and they were the first ones to tie wishes to the tree.
That square is the main witness of the energy of the city and of all the movements of its people during the whole journey, because when old people returned to their houses about 3p.m. children started to flow from the surrounding streets. They were very interested about the whole thing.
Pens and tags seemed to fly through the table we had set for people to write their wishes. They asked their parents to help them to tie their wishes and encourage them to write their own. It was amazing seeing them running from the table to the tree again and again and again with that special and beautiful energy children have, calling their friends in the distance to come and write wishes.
At 5 p.m. people started to build a path of light leading to the Wish Tree and in the stages around the square started some circus, dance, theatre and music performances, all of them related to the issue of domestic violence.
The major of the city tied to the Wish Tree the message sent by Yoko Ono to erase domestic violence and the women of Getafe read a manifesto against domestic violence. The most moving moment of the whole evening was when a very young girl read a letter to her mother killed for her father last year in Getafe.
The path of light to the Wish Tree grew and grew and people placed candles at its feet as a symbol of the presence of the 53 women victims of domestic violence in Spain last year.
Jorge Artajo
Installation organiser
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message from Yoko Ono:
Hi, Jorge!
I see that you are working, as usual.
We are at the point where we can end all violence very soon, by the effort of people like you.
Thank you.
yoko
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We have just placed the WISH TREE in Getafe (Madrid). People will start tying wishes to erase domestic violence at 5 p.m (Madrid time) / 11 a.m (New York time) and will end at 9 p.m.(Madrid time) / 3 a.m. (New York time).
You can follow the event in real time in Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
We will upload photos of the people once they put their wishes in the tree.
The tree is a Cedrus (common name Cedar), an evergreen mystical tree with scented wood that I chose it because of its beauty and because I felt it as a shelter for victims of violence and a healing place for tormented souls.
Acabamos de colocar en Getafe el ÁRBOL DE LOS DESEOS contra la violencia de género,y hemos colgado el mensaje que envió Yoko Ono expresamente para esta ocasión:
Borremos la violencia doméstica en este planeta!
Ama, ten esperanza, sueña y borra
Amor,
Yoko 2011
El acto empezará a las 5 de la tarde y concluirá a la 9 de la noche. Puede seguirse casi en directo en Twitter twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles twitter.com/#!/gtfvisibles
Vamos a ir colgando fotos de los eventos minuto aminuto durante toda la jornada.
El árbol es un Cedro (Cedrus) un árbol de hoja peremne y madera olorosa considerado místico que puede llegara vivir hasta dos mil años y que escogí por su belleza y porque lo vi como un refugio para las víctimas de la violencia doméstica y un lugar donde las almas atormentadas pueden llegar a encontrar la paz.
Animaos a venir.
This is ALLEGEDLY Villa Undercliffe, but it is my understanding that the villa was torn down some years ago.
It would have been John Lennon's 68th birthday today, and Yoko Ono has bought him a celestial column of light dedicated to him in Iceland
Now 20:00 all Lennon fans in Iceland grouped up to listen to imagine when the celestial column was lid.
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
This photo is taken at Strawberry Fields, central park last month.
Print & display in your window, school, workplace, car & elsewhere over the holiday season, and send as postcards to your friends.
If you don't see your language here, then send us your translation of
WAR IS OVER!
IF YOU WANT IT
Happy Christmas from John & Yoko
so we can make a poster for your language.
Also, if we've made an error or omission, please also contact: admin@IMAGINEPEACE.com. Thankyou!
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW, San Antonio, Texas
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
Billboard Locations:
1 / Highway 78 ES 0.2mi. S/O Loop 1604 F/NE
2 / Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW
3 / Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE
4 / Austin highway ES 520ft. N/O Vandiver F/NE
5 / Rigsby NS 75ft. W/O Irwin F/W
6 / US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W
7 / Grissom SS 0.2mi. W/O Timber Path F/E
8 / Military SW NS 300ft. W/O new Laredo Highway F/W
9 / Babcock WS 250ft. S/O Springtime F/S "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio