May 2009
Forty years ago, on May 26, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, surrounded by a crowd of journalists and supporters, kicked off their famous Bed-in for peace.
As part of its exhibition IMAGINE: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will celebrate the Bed-in’s anniversary week.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank our forty partners for their outstanding contribution, which helped bring this altruist project to fruition."
"Through their involvement, this exhibition has become a gift to Montrealers, truly a happening, a collective work that is quintessentially John and Yoko."
"By commemorating their Bed-in and sharing their message of peace through their powerful words and music, we are helping to bring hope to a world that is at times heavy hearted."
"We were truly amazed by the generosity of our sponsors, whose contributions total over $1 million, proof of the power of John and Yoko’s message, which is as meaningful today as it was forty years ago”, said Nathalie Bondil, director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
To mark this historic week, the Museum will host a number of performers, including Coral Egan, Mara Tremblay, Catherine Major, Édith Butler and Sylvie Paquette, all members of the association Artistes pour la Paix.
As part of the series of films being shown in association with the exhibition IMAGINE, Claude Chamberlan, founder of Montreal’s Cinéma Parallèle, co-founder of the Festival du nouveau cinéma and himself a participant in the 1969 Bed-in, will present two films about John et Yoko, both directed by Jonas Mekas: Happy Birthday to John (1995) and Gimme some Truth: The Making of John Lennon’s Imagine Album (2000).
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