ONOCHORD
Boston Herald (September 3, 2004): "Venice, Italy - Yoko Ono is not at the 61st Venice Film Festival, but her presence is pervasive on a large Jumbotron screen outside the Excelsior Hotel. Ono continually mouths silently three words, each shown individually in large letters on the screen: "I love you.''

Read the ONOCHORD instruction
Watch Yoko Ono's ONOCHORD documentary

madcat women’s international film festival
Program "Art of Performance" on September 23rd / Yerba Buena 7pm Movies: films by Yoko Ono are Cut Piece and Freedom.

yoko ono to perform ONOCHORD in munich in september
Wilhelm Eder informed me that Yoko Ono will perform Onochord at the terrace of Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany. This performance had its world-premiere in Venice on September 9th, where it was shown as part (special projects) of the Openasia 2004.

adopt-a-minefield
Undercover Music News (September 21st 2004): "Paul McCartney and wife Heather Mills will hold an auction to support the Adopt-A-Minefield Charity' and some of their closest friends have donated to the appeal. The auction will feature a drum skin autographed by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, Sting has donated a signed bass guitar and even Yoko Ono is helping the cause by giving away her "70th Birthday Bag" which she has inscribed "Imagine Peace! Love, Yoko Summer of 2004" and contains her book Grapefruit, War Is Over postcards and the Orange Factory remix of Open Your Box." Yoko's bag to be auctioned also contains Box of Smile (self-published in 2003 in celebration of 70th birthday. The edition size is 300.), From My Window (printed cards in cardboard box. Published by Gallery 360 in Tokyo, Japan in 2002), and Fortune Cookie containing instructions by Yoko Ono (created in 2003 for her birthday).

yoko ono gives £10,000 to echo fund
Liverpool Echo (September 20th 2004): "She agreed to be a patron of our appeal and urged readers to get involved in raising money for this year's chosen charity, Barnardo's Keeping Children Safe project. The charity helps young people deal with family break-ups, sexual abuse, depression and the death of relatives. Today she said: "Helping children and families is such an important thing that I would like to put my own money into it. John and I were family people with family values."

lennonono peace prize to vanunu and hersh
Reuters (September 17th 2004): "Ono said she hoped Vanunu could collect the award in person at a New York ceremony next month, to be held in the week her late husband, John Lennon, would have turned 64. "Hopefully he can come and receive the award himself. He did complete his sentence, it's not as though he's a criminal," Ono said of Vanunu. Ono also gave a $50,000 award to New Yorker magazine correspondent and author Seymour Hersh, whom she described as "a staunch seeker of truth" with his investigative journalism." Yoko Ono added that "People power is stronger than the power of institutions".

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my mommy was beautiful 2004 in liverpool biennial
PA News (September 17th 2004): "The project, entitled My Mummy Was Beautiful 2004, is one of 40 new artworks by 40 artists commissioned for the Liverpool Biennial International exhibition. Yoko said: “This work was initially about my mother. But when I decided to do it in Liverpool, suddenly I remembered how John loved his mother, and it choked me up. So this one in Liverpool will be my tribute to John. I think it will look very beautiful spread over this highly energised, beautiful city, the one John loved so much, and the one I’ve grown to love.”

this is not shocking, it's your mother / "my mommy"
Liverpool Echo (September 17th 2004): "Despite the title of her latest offering, Yoko, however, admits her own relationship with her mother was not perfect. "I was not very nice to my mother," she says.. "I am sure everybody has the same experience. Much later, when I made the Onobox and I was making this in the studio going through all my music, about 150 songs. I thought how great it was that I had made all this music and I thought well really this has a lot to do with my mother who first put me into this school for early education of music. So I called her completely out of the blue and said 'mummy I just want to thank you for letting me go to that school and giving me a musical education'. She started crying. I think really that that was the only nice thing I did for my mother."

lennon musical to broadway in july 2005
Playbill: "I was after something that was very theatrical and that would, for the audience, really bring forward the real living idea of John Lennon," director Don Scardino previously told Playbill On-Line about his upcoming piece."

genocide in sudan
Chart Attack (September 9th 2004): A charity album dedicated to the war torn city of Darfur in Western Sudan includes a new ONO remix, "Shiranakatta (I Didn’t Know)" Craig Armstrong remix.

ONOCHORD in Venice. Photos Franco Origlia / Getty Images