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IMAGINE PEACE TOWER at Viðey Island, 9 October 2016
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in Viðey Island will be illuminated for the 10th time in a beautiful ceremony on Sunday October 9th at 8 pm. The programme starts at 5:15 pm and lasts until 9:30 pm.
Ferry ride and City Bus
Yoko Ono invites everyone to sail free of charge to Viðey Island for the ceremony of the Illumination of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER with the Viðey Island Ferry.
4:45 – 7:10 pm: The City Bus runs from Hlemmur bus terminal to Skarfabakki Pier every 20 minutes. The City Bus is free of charge from Hlemmur bus terminal to Skarfabakki Pier and back again.
5:00- 7:30 pm: The ferry sails from Skarfabakki Pier to Viðey Island.
9:00 pm: After the ceremony the ferry sails from Viðey Island to Skarfabakki Pier until the island has been evacuated. The City Bus will run to Hlemmur bus terminal from Skarfabakki Pier until the last ferry has arrived.
Programme
For people who come early, there will be a choice of various events.
5:30 pm-7:30 pm: Family Lab hosted by Reykjavík Art Museum at Viðeyjarstofa.
5:15-6:30 pm: Guided tours on the history of Viðey and the works of Richard Serra.
6:30 pm: Music performance by Soffía Björg.
7:40 pm: The choir Söngfjelagið performs by the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER.
8 pm: The illumination of the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER.
8:30- 9:30 pm: Music performance by Snorri Helgason at Viðeyjarnaust.
The ceremony‘s host is Eva María Jónsdóttir.
Refreshments can be bought in Viðeyjarnaust and Viðeyjarstofa.
ATTENTION – WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO DRESS APPROPRIATELY ACCORDING TO WEATHER. For further information visit www.videy.com
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is an outdoor work of art conceived by Yoko Ono, located at Viðey Island, honouring the memory of her late husband, John Lennon. Each year, on his birthday, IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is re-lit in a ceremony and beams with a stream of lights high into the sky until it is turned off on the day he died, 8 December. The art piece is a symbol for John and Yoko’s fight for peace. IMAGINE PEACE TOWER has the shape of a wishing well where the words “Imagine Peace” are written in 24 languages all around the art piece, and refer to the song “Imagine” by John Lennon. Yoko Ono invites all guest of the lighting of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER to write their wishes on a piece of paper and hang it on one of the four wish trees, which will be located at Viðeyjarstofa and Viðeyjarnaust at Viðey Island and at the Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús.
More than one million wishes for peace have been delivered from all over the world concerning the Imagine Peace project and the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER