"Yoko Ono to Address The UN's General..."
U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Yoko Ono to Address The UN's General...": "Yoko Ono to Address The UN's General Assembly About Landmark 'Back to the Garden' Global Arts Initiative
5/3/2005 5:06:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Christine Kaculis of Susan Blond, Inc., 212-333-7728 ext. 130 or christinek@susanblondinc.com
NEW YORK, May 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -– Yoko Ono will speak to the General Assembly of the United Nations tomorrow, May 4, regarding the launch of the Back to the Garden arts initiative, a program designed to support the Mayors for Peace '2020 Vision' campaign, which seeks the elimination of nuclear weapons by the year 2020. To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mayors for Peace, an organization that consists of 942 Mayors from 110 countries led by Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, partnered with EPOP International, a company solely dedicated to creating cause-related initiatives, to develop Back to the Garden. This arts initiative will comprise of an unprecedented benefit concert and five-year traveling art exhibit to support the '2020 Vision' campaign and call for a true global liberation from the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Ono, who will speak during the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the UN, is a fitting representative for the Back to the Garden initiative given that she is a survivor of the Tokyo fire bombings during World War II and witnessed the terror of modern warfare first-hand. As a result of that harrowing experience, Ono has spent much of her life fighting for peace, often expressing herself though art.
'EPOP is honored to be a part of this campaign and firmly believes that artists from around the world will help Mayor Akiba shine a spotlight on the complex problem of nuclear weapons, and show the public how they can help affect a solution through his '2020 Vision' campaign,' stated EPOP CEO David Clark. The name of the initiative, Back to the Garden, is borrowed fom music luminary Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock" and refers to the Garden of Eden and a time before weapons of mass destruction existed.
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5/3/2005 5:06:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Christine Kaculis of Susan Blond, Inc., 212-333-7728 ext. 130 or christinek@susanblondinc.com
NEW YORK, May 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -– Yoko Ono will speak to the General Assembly of the United Nations tomorrow, May 4, regarding the launch of the Back to the Garden arts initiative, a program designed to support the Mayors for Peace '2020 Vision' campaign, which seeks the elimination of nuclear weapons by the year 2020. To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mayors for Peace, an organization that consists of 942 Mayors from 110 countries led by Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, partnered with EPOP International, a company solely dedicated to creating cause-related initiatives, to develop Back to the Garden. This arts initiative will comprise of an unprecedented benefit concert and five-year traveling art exhibit to support the '2020 Vision' campaign and call for a true global liberation from the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Ono, who will speak during the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the UN, is a fitting representative for the Back to the Garden initiative given that she is a survivor of the Tokyo fire bombings during World War II and witnessed the terror of modern warfare first-hand. As a result of that harrowing experience, Ono has spent much of her life fighting for peace, often expressing herself though art.
'EPOP is honored to be a part of this campaign and firmly believes that artists from around the world will help Mayor Akiba shine a spotlight on the complex problem of nuclear weapons, and show the public how they can help affect a solution through his '2020 Vision' campaign,' stated EPOP CEO David Clark. The name of the initiative, Back to the Garden, is borrowed fom music luminary Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock" and refers to the Garden of Eden and a time before weapons of mass destruction existed.
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