yoko ono's oxford union speech june 15th 2005
"There are so many more good times we can have. Let's look forward to it, and not destroy our future, by holding on to our fear and confusion. That's old hat now."

yoko does the beatles
Femalefirst.co.uk (June 15th 2005): "Yoko Ono has confessed that she sang Beatles tracks in a karaoke bar while on holiday. (Yoko) admitted she performed a collection of hits in a Japanese venue while on the break with the couple's son, Sean. She said in an interview with Britain's Time Out magazine: "I've sung karaoke in Japan. "I went to this place with Sean and we sang songs that came up. "I can sing Beatles songs, why not?"

age becomes her
The Guardian (June 13th 2005): "Ono herself hopes to live for another 30 years. "I've tonnes of things to do," she says with evident glee."You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang."

horizontal memories to zürich, switzerland
This art exhibition will take place during June 4th - August 14th 2005. There will also be a special event by Yoko Ono at Schauspielhaus Zürich on June 2nd 2005.

Photos of Yoko Ono in Zürich

cut piece to be performed in new york on june 24th 2005
On Friday, June 24th at 7 pm, Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece will be performed by Xaviera Simmons, followed by a discussion on Yoko Ono by Chrissie Iles, film and video curator, Whitney Museum of American Art.

The event will take place in the Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. The event is free and open to the public.

Yoko Ono's Cut Piece: Critical Reception by Kevin Concannon
Basic information and Yoko Ono's instruction for the piece
Cut Piece performed in Paris in 2003

yoko ono in frankfurt: DREAM UNIVERSE
Frankfurt, Germany (AP / May 31st 2005): "Yoko Ono praised student artworks based on her own "Instruction Works" at the opening of an exhibit here Tuesday. Ono attended the opening of an exhibit on the project, involving 15 students from Frankfurt's Staedelschule art school. The students used "Instruction Works" - a series of ideas for realizing artworks ranging from photographing posters in toilets to handing a completed film to various directors to edit - as a starting point for their own work.

Ono thanked the school for choosing to highlight her work and stressed the importance of art in contemporary society. "There is so much confrontation and violence in the world, that art is increasingly important," she said.

The exhibit at the Portikus im Leinwandhaus in Frankfurt runs until June 26.

Yoko Ono at Patti Smith's Meltdown © AP