Create Your Own Wish Tree
The Wish Tree is a lovely concept to create for your family at the holidays or anyday. Everyone writes down their wishes and then hangs the wishes on the Wish Tree.
Since the 1990's the Wish Tree has been a part of many peace-promoting art exhibitions staged by Yoko Ono. With the Wish Tree, people are invited to write their wish on a piece of paper and hang it to a tree branch. Some wishes of the wishes are deeply personal, others global wishes for peace and better future for all of humankind.
Yoko sees the Wish Tree like a collective prayer in a way. People are encouraged to keep wishing as they participate.
As a child in Japan, I used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. Trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people's wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar.
She had been collecting Wish Tree Wishes for years. This year the wishes were all place in the Imagine Peace Tower that was unveiled in October on Videy Island in Reykjavik, Iceland in memory of John Lennon.
Image Source:
Mosieur J. Wish Tree / Arbre a souhait. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved. Public Photo.
Quote Source: Yoko Ono. Imagine Peace. Wish Tree.
Make Your Own Wish Tree
You can make an Imagine Peace Wish Tree in your your school, workplace or community.You will need:
- *Tree (or bush)
* Pencils
* Wish tags
* IMAGINE PEACE sign
* Wish Tree Instructions - next section
Let people write their wishes and add them to the tree by tying or hanging the wish tags.
If you want when the tree is full of wishes, you can put all the wishes in an envelope and send them to:
- IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
PO Box 1009,
121 Reykjavík, Iceland
You can also send the wishes by email:
Modified Microsoft Clipart. Imagine Peace. 2007. Send Your Wishes.
Write Your Own Wish
Wish Piece- Make a wish
Write it down on a piece of paper
Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree
Ask your friends to do the same
Keep wishing
Until the branches are covered with wishes
Yoko Ono
1996 / 2007
Photo Source:
Joshin Yamada. 2007. Sample Wish. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved. Public Photo.
- Make an Imagine Peace Wish Tree
- Instructions for Making an Imagine Peace wish tree from the Imagine Peace website.
- IMAGINE PEACE - Send Wishes
- More Information for send your wishes to the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is available from this page.
The Wishing Tree on Amazon
The Wishing Tree
Amazon Price: $13.73 (as of 10/11/2008)
The Wishing Tree tells the story of one family's tradition of writing wishes on special paper, tying them to an orange and tossing up into the branches of the tree each Lunar New Year.
Ming learns an important message when he finally realizes all of his wishes had been granted except for one: that his grandmother recover from a grave illness.
Yoko Ono's Wish Trees
- Wishing in Yoko Ono's Art
- About the Wish Tree from aiu: a yoko ono website.
- Wish Tree 1996
- Photo of a Wish Tree from 1996.
- Wish Tree in Detroit - 2000
- In front of a small tree, a boulder bears a plaque stating: "Wish Tree for Detroit/ Whisper your wish/ to the bark of the tree/ yoko ono/ 2000 spring." Yoko Ono has dedicated Wish Trees to cities all over the world.
- Wish Tree in Helsinki, Finland March-April 2005
- A series of Photographs by by Chris Gurney from the 2005 Wish Tree exhibit at the Rikhardinkatu Library in Helsinki, Finland.
- Oklahoma City Wish Tree
- A wish tree created at the 21st annual Peace Festival in Oklahoma City, sponsored by the Peace Education Institute.
- Peace tree at Minnesauke Elementary School
- A Peace Tree created by two elementary students for their Elementary School., Minnesauke, in Setauket, New York.
What is Your Wish?
These are some of the wishes that have been left on the Wishing Trees.
If you could add any wish to the Wish Tree, what wish would you add?
#1
No more War
4 points
#2
Peace in the Family
3 points
#3
Imagine Peace
2 points
#4
Peace on Earth
2 points
#5
Love
2 points
#6
Everybody don't fight!
1 point
#7
Listen to Each other
1 point
#8
Peace in Relations
0 points
Best Christmas Wish Ever Lens
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The Best Christmas Wish Ever
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Washington Wish Tree on Flickr
Images from the Washington D.C. Wish Trees exhibit from Spring 2007.
The Washington Wish Tree Exhibit
Yoko Ono exhibited 10 trees around Washington, D.C. for the 2007 Cherry Blossom Festival.
- Yoko Ono's Peaceful Message Takes Root
- Yes, that was Yoko Ono whispering into the bark of a cherry tree at the Tidal Basin yesterday morning. The artist, performer and widow of John Lennon visited Washington on Sunday and Monday to bring her "Imagine Peace" project to the city. From the Washington Post.com
- Yoko Ono's wish tree
- Yoko Ono presented her interactive "Wish Tree" exhibit to the annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC. Watch Video Footage of the event.
- Recent Acquisitions
- Website with information from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Yoko Ono on Amazon
The Wish Tree at the Getty Center on Flickr
This piece is kindly presented by Yoko Ono in collaboration with PoNJA-GenKon as part of the Rajikaru! Experimentations in Japanese Art 1950 - 1975 conference, April 27 - 29, 2007.
The Wish Tree was displayed at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA.
Yoko Ono on the Wish Tree in Finland - The Tree becomes a Forest
When they did it in Finland they said one tree was not enough. Because the wish was becoming much larger than one tree.They added so many trees it became like a mini-forest.
You suddenly see very strong emotions of people coming out. It is fantastic.
I'm keeping all the wishes from all the countries, although I never read any of them. I feel it's not right to read people's private wishes.
Yoko Ono
We now know that those wishes were included in the Imagine Peace Tower, dedicated in October 2007 on on Videy Island in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Source: Obrist H.O. 2002. An Interview of Yoko Ono by Hans Ulrich Obrist
The Fate of So Many Wish Tree Wishes
- I have saved all the wishes people made and hung on my work, called 'Wish Tree' in many different countries.
The number of those wishes I collected and kept has now reached over 495,000 and they will all be buried in capsules around this light tower on the Isle of Videy.
The Imagine Peace Tower on Squidoo
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Imagine Peace Tower - Celebrating Peace on John Lennon's Birthday
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October 9th 2007 on would have been John Lennon's 67th birthday, Yoko Ono unveiled the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island in Reykjavik, Iceland as a way of encouraging global peace. The Imagine Peace Tower is dedicated to her late husband, John Lenn...
Wearable Wishes Available on Amazon
A Wishing Tree Wish
I wish for secrete smiles to strangers on the train
I wish that what you say is true
I wish for cold summer rain and hot winter sun. . .
Source: Pati Gaitan. Flickr Quote. I wish on the Wishing Tree
Wearable Peace Wishes Available on Amazon
Change the World - Wish for Peace
Power works in mysterious ways.
You don't have to do much.
Visualise...and just start thinking PEACE.
Thoughts are infectious.
Send it out.
The message will circulate faster than you think.
Yoko Ono, 2007
John and Yoko - Give Peace a Chance
Available on Amazon
Happy Xmas Video Showcase on Squidoo
A collection of videos with John and Yoko's special Christmas Wish.-
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Video Showcase
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More Wish Trees from Around the World on Flickr
Wish Trees in Stockholm, Sweden; London; Roskilde, Denmark; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Detroit, Michigan; Portland, Oregon; Glasgow, Scotland; Paris, France and Utah.
Wish Tree Trio in Paris
Wishing Trees on YouTube
One Video shows a Wish Tree of Poems in Israel.
Two Videos show an interactive installation "One Garden One Night One Wish" created for Nuit Blanche 2006 in Toronto.
The final wish comes from Thomas the Tank Engine series, when Henry the Green Engine wishes on the wishing tree.
Wish Tree
Wish Tree
wish tree
nuit blanche 2006 wish tree
ONE GARDEN ONE NIGHT ONE WISH
Peace Ornaments on Amazon
Gifts with Wishes of Peace on Squidoo
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Peace Ornaments - Hope Ornaments - Ornaments to Remember
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A special selection of Ornaments Ornaments to inspire peace to honor and remember loved ones who are facing challenges or have died year 'round. Some of the Ornaments are designed for high quality porcelain and available through Cafe Press stores; oth...
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Imagine Peace & Love Gifts for Mom, Dad, Kids and More
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Looking for a special gift for your Mom, Mother or Mum? How about one for your Dad, Father or Daddy? Why not choose one that spreads the message of peace and love? Inspired by Imagine Peace and Valentine's Day, the Imagine Peace - Imagine Love Store...
Wish Ornaments on Amazon
We Cherish, Laugh, Heal, Breathe and We Survive
We cherish the moment of having fun
We cherish every moment of warmth and love
We laugh, we heal, and we embrace
We breathe for life
We'll survive
Remember: we are one
Yoko Ono
October 9, 2007
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Marelisa
Beautiful lens. I've seen these around Christmas time: kids whose parents can't afford to get them presents write down what they want for Christmas and people who want to help select a list hanging from the tree and then purchase what is written on there for that particular child. Posted July 07, 2008 |
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WhiteOak50
As always what can I say...except I LOVE the thought of this lens. Thank you for submitting it to Everything Spiritual! Blessings Posted March 03, 2008 |
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NoLimitReality
I just came across your group and found your blog. Keep up the good work. 5* Posted February 09, 2008 |
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Karendelac
5 Stars for you ! Posted December 29, 2007 |
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lisadh
What a great idea. I've lensrolled you to my Family Christmas Letters lens so I can remember to do this next year. Posted December 27, 2007 |
