join ARISING and participate in yoko ono's new installation piece
Yoko Ono: "This is a call to women of all ages to participate in my latest crowdsourced art and awareness project, ARISING. For details go to www.imaginepowerarising.com and follow the instructions."
vote for yoko ono for "digital genius award"
O Music Awards is running a contest for different music awards and Yoko Ono is a nominee in the Digital Genius award category. You can vote for Yoko on their website almost as many times as you like each day. However you need to sign in first via Facebook or Twitter to be able to vote for nominees. The winners will be announced on June 19th. Let's vote for her to the top!
yoko ono to take part in the 12th biennale de lyon in september From the press release: "For the Biennale de Lyon 2013, curator Gunnar B. Kvaran has invited artists from all over the world who work in the narrative field and use art to experiment with the modalities and mechanisms of storytelling. The exhibition gives pride of place to the ingenuity and inventiveness of contemporary artists in undoing mainstream narrative codes and off-the-peg plotting devices in order to tell new stories differently."
12th biennale de lyon, france: september 12th 2013 - january 5th 2014
yoko ono to perform live with thurston moore in helsinki, finland
From press release: "She comes to Huvila in her musician's guise bringing with her a truly unique art-rock experience. Sonic Youth singer and guitarist, and long-time Yoko Ono fan, Thurston Moore has always been partial to experimental soundscapes. Moore first joined forces with Yoko on last year's YOKOKIMTHURSTON, for which they teamed up with Sonic Youth's other power figure Kim Gordon. At Huvila, Moore's instantly recognisable guitar loops meet Yoko's eccentric vocal performance, creating an unprecedented aural adventure."
Tickets are still available for both nights in Helsinki (August 18th & 19th), please see the website for details.
Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore will also visit Transatlantyk Poznan International Film & Music Festival in Poland in August. There Yoko will receive the Transatlantyk Glocal Hero Award 2013 "in honor of her activism for world peace and her dedication to environmental and social issues".
a new book by yoko ono: acorn
OR Books will publish Acorn in June 2013. It is available in paperback, (pictured above), ebook and a signed collector's edition hardcover (pictured below) editions. 216 pages with 100 black-and-white line drawings by Yoko Ono.
Yoko Ono in the book introduction: "It's nearly 50 years ago that my book of conceptual instructions Grapefruit was first published. In these pages I'm picking up where I left off. After each day of sharing the instructions you should feel free to question, discuss and/or report what your mind tells you. I'm just planting the seeds. Have fun."
Press release: "In Acorn, renowned artist and political activist Yoko Ono offers intriguing, enchanting exercises to open our eyes on better ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the planet we co-habit. Throughout the book are drawings by Yoko, many never before seen."
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band Friday 14 June
Royal Festival Hall
Siouxsie
Saturday 15 June
Royal Festival Hall
Cibo Matto
Saturday 15 June
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Immortal Technique
Sunday 16 June
Royal Festival Hall
Reggie Watts + Mac Lethal
Tuesday 18 June
Royal Festival Hall
Amadeus Leopold
Tuesday 18 June
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto
Wednesday 19 June
Royal Festival Hall
Thurston Moore
Wednesday 19 June
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Iggy & The Stooges + Savages
Thursday 20 June
Royal Festival Hall
Body/Head ft. Ikue Mori + Mystical Weapons
Thursday 20 June
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Deerhoof
Friday 21 June
Queen Elizabeth Hall
An Evening of Words and Music with Patti Smith
Friday 21 June
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Marianne Faithfull and Bill Frisell
Saturday 22 June
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Boy George
Sunday 23 June
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Double Fantasy Live With Special Guests
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's final album performed live
Sunday 23 June
Royal Festival Hall
"Plus... Activism and the Future: Two weekends of debate, workshops, films and performance. Yoko Ono curates a special film programme at BFI including rare films by John and Yoko. Yoko Ono's Sky Piece to Jesus Christ ...and much more to be announced".
yoko ono on mojo magazine The Mojo Magazine (22.3.2013) has four pages on Yoko Ono and the birthday gig in Berlin. The magazine scans kindly provided by Christ Devos.
tune-yards as yoko
exclaim.ca (February 2013): "The single is called tUnE-yArDs as Yoko, and it includes two tracks: a cover of "We're All Water" from 1972's Some Time in New York City (which was originally credited to John Lennon and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory & Invisible Strings) and a remix of "Warrior Woman" from 1973's Feeling the Space (which was credited to Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band). The release from tUnE-yArDs came out today (February 12) through Chimera Music. It's available on a limited edition 10-inch with an etching on the B-side, or as a digital download, right here. All proceeds from sales will go to Rockaway Waterfront Alliance to aid those affected by Hurricane Sandy."
From press release: "Yoko Ono celebrated her eightieth birthday with a sold-out performance to an energetic and hugely responsive crowd at the legendary Volksbühne in Berlin. Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band was led by her son, Sean Ono Lennon,and guests joining Yoko on stage included Peaches, Michael Stipe, Robyn Hitchcock and Rufus Wainwright & Martha Wainwright, who sang "Happy Birthday" in English and German. Jiga, Eva and Masumi, a local Berlin synth-pop trio, opened the show with their song "Hey, Yoko."
Musicians: Sean Lennon - guitar, piano, bass Yuka C. Honda- keyboard / laptop (Cibo Matto) Yuko Araki - drums (Cornelius) Nels Cline - guitar (Wilco) Michael Leonhart - trumpet (Steely Dan / Donald Fagen) Charlotte Kemp Muhl - bass, guitar (Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger) Jared Samuel -keyboard (Invisible Familiars)
Set list:
It Happened
Waiting For The D Train
Between My Head And The Sky
Moving Mountains
Calling
There's No Goodbye
Walking On Thin Ice
Rising
Yes, I'm A Witch
Cheshire Cat
Mindtrain
Higa Noboru
Give Peace A Chance
"Numerous projects are slated for 2013 including the reissue of Ono's albums from 1968-1985, a career-spanning art book, Infinite Universe At Dawn highlighting six decades of her work, and the curation of the 2013 Meltdown Festival at Southbank Centre in London in June."
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE FEB 18 2013 BERLIN
Peaches WITH yoko Ono & Sean Lennon FEB 18 2013 BERLIN
CHESHIRE CAT BY Plastic Ono band FEB 18 2013 BERLIN
yoko ono's birthday gig in berlin "To celebrate my 80th birthday, we are doing a Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band show, live at Volksbuehne in Berlin, Germany, on 17th Feb. See you there! love, yoko"
don't frack new york
Associated Press (January 17th 2013): "Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Susan Sarandon spoke out against fracking Thursday during a tour of natural-gas drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania, warning about what they view as the danger to air, water and human health. (--) Ono and her son formed a group called "Artists Against Fracking" to oppose drilling in New York state, where they own a farm and where drilling and hydraulic fracturing have been on hold for several years while officials there develop regulations for the industry. Local anti-drilling activists led Thursday's tour in Pennsylvania, where thousands of wells have been drilled and fracked in recent years. At one well pad, Lennon guided his 79-year-old mother over mud and ice so they could get a better look. "We hope that what's happened here will be a lesson for New Yorkers," he said. "I hope that New Yorkers will learn from this and tell Gov. (Andrew) Cuomo that it's not something we have to do." Ono accused the gas industry of disregarding residents' welfare. "They care about making money," she said."
Photo Associated Press/Richard Drew
From the campaign website: "Yoko and Sean were compelled into action by Governor Andrew Cuomo's announcement that fracking might soon begin in New York – directly impacting their home in upstate New York. In less than 10 days, they gathered nearly 150 fellow artists to join them in the founding of Artists Against Fracking in August 2012. Today, at nearly 200 members Artists Against Fracking works to expose and stop the harmful and contaminating practice of fracking for natural gas and oil through mass awareness and peaceful democratic action. At its core, we believe that fracking for shale gas is a danger to New Yorkers. Inevitably, the process leads to the release of toxic chemicals — many of which are unknown and unreported — into our air and water."
"hold me", a new song by yoko ono
MaxiPromotion: "The new song written by Yoko and Dave (Audé), is tailor-made for dancefloors, filled with Yoko's vivid, lyrical imagery, guided by the Audé midas touch for a solid, contemporary club anthem. The single also amazingly marks the first time Yoko has written music with anyone other than John and Sean Lennon placing Audé in a unique echelon of elite pop culture. The package features remixes by longtime Ono contributor, the legendary Ralphi Rosario, Boston's deep progressive maestro Emjae and Dave Audé's own, full-throttle, up-front, club takes.
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