imagine peace with john lennon & yoko ono
Rikhardinkatu library, Helsinki, Finland: March 1st - April 30th 2005

My personal homage to the peace events and activism by John&Yoko: art/artist books by Yoko Ono, recordings by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, rare photographs, art objects and other related artist ephemera from a personal collection. There's a Wish Tree where exhibition visitors can hang their personal wishes. The exhibition has been extended until the end of April because of a great audience and media enthusiasm. Several newspapers and radio stations have reported about it already, so come and see it and make a wish!

yoko to headline all tomorrow’s parties in britain
Press release (April 15th 2005): "Yoko Ono has been asked to headline Vincent Gallo’s ATP. She joins her son Sean Lennon, DJ Ellen Allien, John Frusciante, Polly Jean Harvey (solo), Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Merzbow, Olivia Tremor Control, James Chance and The Contortions, Prefuse 73, Buck 65, Lydia Lunch, I am Kloot, Vitamin B-12, Kid Koala, Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto), Jayne County, Magik Markers, Afrirampo, Women and Children, The Tints, Suicide, John Foxx (Ultravox), Ted Curson, Peaches, Trapist, Nikolai Haas, Thread Pulls, Gang Gang Dance, Autolux and The Zombies + more to be announced. Vincent Gallo himself has also agreed to play at event on April 22nd – 24th, 2005."

ono named hon. chairman of portsmouth art competition
AP: "One of the world’s most famous people has lent her name to this year’s 100th anniversary celebration of the Peace of Portsmouth. Yoko Ono will serve as Honorary Co-chair of an art competition celebrating the historic agreement between Japan and Russia that was signed in Portsmouth in 1905. According to Mark Bodi, a member of the Art of Peace Program Committee and a partner at Griffin Bodi & Krause in Manchester, Ono embodies so many elements of the Peace Treaty celebration: she’s been a peace activist, is a renowned artist in her own right and she is also Japanese." (--) "Commenting on The Art of Peace exhibition and competition, Yoko Ono said in a statement released by the program committee, “It is my pleasure to serve with Susan Lynch as honorary co-chairs of The Art of Peace competition and exhibition. The Portsmouth Peace Treaty is a very important and enduring symbol of peace that is worthy of honoring and celebrating with this visual arts competition and exhibition.”

a letter from yoko / ageism
The Globe And Mail (April 2nd 2005): "...People over 50. There are so many of us on our planet. In fact, statistically, there are more of us than people under 50 now. We are the ones who toiled, held up the sky, and waited for you to appear on the scene to join us. We are the ones who have some knowledge acquired through our experience to give you, so you don't have to make the same mistakes we made. I think you still need us, darlings! Just know that we want to feel good, as well. Just like you do. There is no difference between us, except you will get where we are after us and not before. Give us the respect and freedom you expect to get when you are at our stage of life."

IMAJINÉ 2005 celebrates yoko
Yoko Ono will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at IMAJINÉ 2005, the Japan Society Arts & Culture Gala Benefit, on April 6th 2005. Congratulations!

sean and coin locker babies
Time Out (March 9th 2005): "Sean 'son of John' Lennon has co-written a script that is set to go into production later this year. 'Coin Locker Babies' (which is based on the Japanese bestseller of the same name by Ryu Murakami) tells the tale of two unwanted infants abandoned in adjacent train station lockers at birth."

jl museum commemorates the wedding anniversary
Press release: "The John Lennon Museum will be exhibiting a silk screen "Mona Yoko" from March 20, 2005 to May 9, 2005 in commemoration of John and Yoko's wedding anniversary." See the image on the left ( copyright The John Lennon Museum).

john and i, we were rebels
PA News (March 15th 2005): "If I was born in New York I would have been even bigger," Ono remembers him saying. "He always felt he was not really big," she explained. "John and I, we were rebels, both of us. We came here and we realised there was nothing to rebel against."