ono to release give peace a chance 2004
Give Peace A Chance 2004 features a new set of verse lyrics, written post 9/11.

the imagine festival of arts in new york
"From August 28-September 2, The Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues & Ideas will present almost 200 performances, events, and exhibits aimed at exploring the critical issues facing the nation. Artists on board include marquee names from every corner of the arts world, including Margaret Cho, Cynthia Nixon, Richard Gere, Tony Kushner, Yoko Ono, John Sayles, Marisa Tomei, Moby, Chuck Close, The Welfare Poets, Lou Reed, Mark Anthony Thompson, Julie Atlas Muz, Gloria Steinem, Phillip Glass, E.L. Doctorow, Lewis Black, Tammy Faye Starlite, Joan Osborne and hundreds more."

converse launches peace chuck collection
just-style.com (Aug 23rd 2004): "The (Lennon) shoes, which are in the same style as those worn by Lennon on the cover of the infamous Abbey Road LP, will have lyrics from hit Imagine printed around the toe area, a self-portrait of the legendary musician on the side, and Lennon’s autograph on the heel. Profits from the sales of the shoe will go to charity."

wake up everybody to mobilize new voters
AP (August 11th 2004): "Putting a current spin on a 1975 hit, anti-Bush musicians Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott and Eve are remaking Wake Up Everybody to mobilize new voters. (--) Sales of the album, which also includes songs by Yoko Ono, Marvin Gaye and Linda Rondstadt, will benefit America Coming Together, a voter mobilization group opposed to President Bush."

the imagine peace times square event
Mos Def joined the Youth with a Purpose Choir from Essex County, New Jersey, to perform John Lennon’s, “Imagine.” In a modern day recreation of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s symbolic peace gesture delivered 36 years ago at the inauguration of Lennon’s, “You are Here” exhibit, 10,000 white balloons symbolizing peace were distributed in Times Square.

liverpool biennial 04
Yoko Ono will participate in Liverpool Biennial 04, which will take place between September 18th - November 28th 2004.

yoko ono's guide to the art world
Newsday.com (Aug 23, 2004): "I'm very proud that this is my hometown because what's going on here tops everything. I'm such a New York chauvinist!" says Yoko Ono, who was born in Tokyo in 1933 but moved here during college and never left. Active as an artist for the past four decades, Ono first became internationally known for her involvement in Fluxus, the avant-garde movement in the early 1960s that experimentally mixed art, language and music in exhibitions and performances, and then as the wife of John Lennon. Besides suggesting an early morning walk in Central Park -- with a visit to the Strawberry Fields memorial dedicated to Lennon -- Ono recommends New York's diverse museums. "The Metropolitan Museum has the most incredible presentation of art," she says. "I haven't seen anything as big and thorough in any other country." Further uptown on the East Side, Ono suggests two more intimate venues: the Jewish Museum and the Neue Galerie focused on German and Austrian art. And for lovers of the cutting edge, she suggests P.S. 1 in Long Island City."

yoko ono joins fight for gay marriages
AP (July 10th 2004): "I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed," she said. "I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married."