Dance Piece for Peace V - "Slow Motion Day" on YouTube!

This is "Dance Piece for Peace V" - a part of "Slow Motion Day" day 5 of 7. We spent 12 hrs talking and moving in slow-motion. It was more a internal slow-motion than anything.

"Dance Piece for Peace V" is the X-mas dance. Merry X-mas! War is Over!

This day we also read the lost Life Magazine interview from 1969 by Charles Childs with John & Yoko. Joan Athey, author from Canada, wanted to share this public world premiere of the interview with us and we spent 50 minutes reading it with her live over Skype. Andrea read the part of John and Daniel the part of Yoko.
You can find the full interview over at Bambuser.

Merry X-mas (War is Over)
Music: John Lennon

Dance Piece for Peace II - "Bagism Day" on YouTube!

This is "Dance Piece for Peace II" - a part of "Bagism Day" day 2 of 7. We spent 4 hrs with papersbags over our heads and danced an encore for The World March for Peace's Base Team staying in Savonlinna, Finland, over Skype later that night.

Music: Raga Kausi Kanhra by Ravi Shankar

The World March for Peace

Two members of the Base Team. After their visit to our room they flew heads over heels into a cab and directly to the airport for their flight heading to Copenhagen. They will arrive in Punta de Vacas in Argentine the 2nd of Jan 2010. We never had time to offer them coffee during the visit but we did sing for them.

Dance Piece for Peace IV on YouTube

This is "Dance Piece for Peace IV" as performed during "Conflict Day" the 4th day of the 7 days Bed-in for Peace. A day of inner-conflict, 11hrs of "Give Peace a Chance" and Bob.

"God" by John Lennon.

Give Peace a Chance - Joan says hi!

Joan sent us this picture from her book "Give Peace a chance" - get it over at Amazon. During the week she would call us up and read an essay out of it. This was one of the highpoints of each day.

Two of the stories she has in the book she never got around to but she told us we could hear them some other time - feels reassuring!

One thing that happens during a Bed-in is that your perception of time gets altered in a very radical way. We have to admit we did plan on keeping ourselves busy during the week and busy we were, so busy we didn't have time to post stuff here on the blog as frequently as we would have wanted to - but come to think of it, it was probably due to that same phenomena, the perception of time. Perhaps we moved very, very slowly inside. It is a good feeling anyways, slowing down is a good thing.

Here is one of the original photos Joan sent us. She sent us more, and some real gems... but we can't publish them here. They are NOT out there yet.

Photograph: Gerry Deiter

13 Days Dance Festival results Day 6

Stina Nyström, MMS:

Dancing for Peace

Lotta O Claesson, EMAIL:

vått,
blått,
varmt,
lite rädd för hajar,
framme vid ön,
sand mellan tårna,
varmt,
sol,
tropiskt å bara vila.....
love, peace and understanding,
Lotta

Dance Piece for Peace VI

Dance Piece for Peace VI
Music: "I´m only sleeping" - Lennon/McCartney

Danced and choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea C Rygh

Sixth Day - "Peace March Day" turned "Failure Day" turned "Total Magical Night".

Day started off with technical issues, server going down, cameras acting up but we were still in good spirits. We waited for the marchers. Day was an utter technical failure. And then marchers stood us up. Luckily we had plan a little concert and we also got a chance to perform this Dance Piece for Peace VI in front of an live audience.

"Imagine" by John Lennon on You Tube

Final day of our Bed-in the Base Team form Thea World March for Peace and Non--violence visited the room.
We had a talk and we sang them a song.

This is "Imagine" by John Lennon. Performed by Bed-in for Peace Stockholm 2009.

Dance Piece for Peace VII

Dance Piece for Peace VII
Music: "All you need is love" - Lennon/McCartney

Danced and choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea C Rygh

Seventh Day - Final day! "Fulfillment Day"! We danced a dance of bubbles and sign language. Simple and wonderful.

Dance Piece for Peace VI on YouTube

Here is "Dance Piece for Peace VI" - a part of "Peace March Day" day 6 of 7.

Dance Piece for Peace VII on You Tube

Here is "Dance Piece for Peace VII" - a part of "Fulfillment Day" day 7 of 7.

For Joan Athey - We Love You.

You taught us how, now we can do the peace-fingers fluently. True.

Peace, Love & Joan!

Kulturnyheterna - LOVE, PEACE & TELEVISION!

We made the Swedish public service television cultural-news - Kulturnyheterna!

On our 7th day in bed we got a call from the Swedish public service company Sveriges Television asking about how to pronounce Andrea's surname. Andrea repeated the pronunciation a few times and, BAM! -Petra nailed it. Much too our enjoyment in the room. Must say the spirit has gone up some.

The short but too us very rewarding mentioning can be seen again tonight at 22.40 on channel SVT 1.

You can watch it here until the 6th of Nov.

Here's a pic of Petra and us in the background. Yep, the quality is subpar but click the image and you will see the actual song we are playing.

Peace! It ain't too hard to sell! It took us 7 days to get publicity. Big SMILE!

13 Days Dance Festival results Day5

Lotta O Claesson, EMAIL:


Avsaknad av dagsljus går inte att mäta

Päivi Vettenranta, EMAIL:

Uncountables
my love
to you

Fight for Peace Games VI : re-play

Ok, so Andrea beat me again. I even forced a re-play on her because I found indescrepencies in the video. She admitted to have played foul and accepted the re-play. I can't tell you how lucky she was. I left to chance which colors to use and she took advantage like a shark.

She got my Secret code in 5. I got hers at 8.

Don't think we will need to play the last of the games. She is plain better.

This concludes the Fight for Peace Games. It's Andrea 4 1/2 and Daniel 2.

She won. That's all.

And out.

Dance Piece for Peace III on YouTube

This is "Dance Piece for Peace III" as performed during "Flower Power Day". Day 3 out of 7 of Bed-in Stockholm 2009.

Bed-in Stockholm on YouTube

We are now starting to upload videos to YouTube so you can re-live our Bed-in.

Here is the first clip.

This is "Oh, Yoko" by John Lennon.
Performed as part of Bed-in for Peace Concert at "World March for Peace Day", we renamed it "Failure Day" because of utter technical failures throughout the day. But in the end, it was a great day.

13 Days Dance Festival - day 6 of 6!

Instructions day 6
dance and report

12: Swim - dreamtime

Swim in yur dream

as far as

you can until you

find an Island.

Tell us results.

13: future time

Color yourself

wait for the spring to

come

let us know when it comes

future luck!

mail: bedin.sthlm2009@gmail.com

Fight for Peace Games VI - Andrea WINS it ALL

It's over. There was nothing I could do. I even admitted to cheating - or maybe that was the reason I finally had to cave in. She beat me. She won. She beat me in that funny looking Master Mind type of game she had - it wasn't even a REAL Master Mind.

I SO couldn't concentrate on how to solve it - the colours were just too weird. My head was just shut down. And yes, I even tried to cheat. But since it was caught on tape I finally had to admit to cheating. Good thing, because I couldn't even remember the colours I peeked at.

Ok, so here it is. It is Andrea 4 and Daniel 2. She has got her 4 out of 7 and I cannot beat her now. All I can do is to try and win the last game to even it out some. I will try. And this time I'll pick the game - oh, wait. Think I'll pick Chess.

Joan Athey read us this poem

One of the highpoints of every day has become the time when Joan Athey calls to say "hi" and share with us some of her many stories. Today she also read us a poem. Here it is:

____________________________

From Joan Athey:

As Andrea and Daniel are highly skilled in movement, I thought they would especially enjoy this poem.

Moving Through The Mystery
by Peter Trower Victoria, BC.Canada 1963

We are moving through the mystery
in a rush of rented mornings
where conundrums of existence
dance across the window awnings,
Why is which? and what is whither?
cry the voices in the crawl space
underneath the floors of meaning
and beyond this no-at-all-place.

There is no vocuabulary
for the thoughts below the surface...
distant particles of answer
from some unimagined orifice
The reflections of the psyche
fall upon unknown waters...
shatter outward in to ripples
at the stones of the distorters.

Three time death is five time nothing...
there are footprints on the rainbow
and the ape and the professor
down the same long-trodden lane go.
There is no defense in dogma..
there is no escape in history ...
we are moving through the movement ..
we are moving through the mystery.

Dance Piece for Peace V

Dance Piece for Peace V

Music: Happy Xmas (War is Over) by John Lennon / Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band and The Harlem Community Choir

Danced and Choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea C Rygh

The 5th installment of Dance Piece for Peace had childhood x-mas spirit and happy eyes. We performed it during our "Slow Motion Day" - It was saying: Imagine Peace and dance (to the tune).

13 Days Dance Festival results Day4

Päivi Vettenranta, EMAIL:

On the water and in the water.

Also some in me.

I was listening Anne singing while waching so I had to name my big surounding water after her.

Johanna Amnéus, EMAIL:

SHaKy ShAkY...

Lotta O Claesson, EMAIL:

Regina Lund sends a Speech for Peace

Regina sends this to us from Copenhagen!

Thank you Regina, stay strong!

Copenhagen
29 oct 209


Dear Citizens of the Earth, Dear Peace Walkers!

I want to welcome you and thank all of you who dare to take action.
I want to thank all of you courageous, brave, beautiful people for walking for Peace today.
Today and every day.
Everywhere.
In any way.
I want to thank you for walking for peace, being in bed for peace, talking for peace, singing for peace, rolling your wheelchair for peace, laughing for peace, loving for peace.
Where ever you are.
Thank you.

The brave few of you walking and being present here today , I send you all my love. And more.
I hope and know that you will have a great time in Sweden and you will be well met by all the wonderful loving hearts that has come to share this experience together.
I also send love to those who has not yet dared to take action or who has not yet had the courage to chose peace.
They will all need are support.
We are all one and there is no us against them, there is only you and me and WE.

There is no more important thing to do right now than working for love, peace and happiness.
That is what you all here are doing today and I honor you and respect you deeply for this.

I also know from experience that it is one of the most provocative actions you can do working for Peace and Love and Happiness.
More provocative than if we all were to present a new technology for a new weapon, killing each other.
We are here today to change this.
And we will.
We WILL find actions that brings Peace to our beautiful Earth cause we LOVE her so much.
And we will do it.
It is important to focus on all the actions we wish to do when peace has arrived and do them NOW.
Do them NOW and peace will arrive much faster.
Peace WILL arrive.
We all believe this is possible.
That is why we are having fun together.
That is why we persist in love, peace and happiness.
Beacause we believe in Freedom .
Beacause we believe in Peace.
Beacuse we believe in LOVE.

When peace has arrived what is it we so much long to do?
With eachother?
With the Earth?

What you do today walking for peace will vibrate and spread and make good in all aspects of the Universe.
Never forget that every loving action you make will give resonance to every flower, every animal, very human and every living creature in this Universe.
Never doubt the power of your loving action!

Actions of love, compassion and peace are very urgent.
Very urgent indeed.
Thank you for understanding this..
What you do today is urgent and important, think nothing less.
It is not in vain.
It is not in vain for our children.
We do this for our children and all those who have been here before us and those who are here now and those who are yet to come.

Today and every day lets be in the service of love, peace, freedom, forgiveness, tolerance and happiness.
Today and every day , let us all walk for peace.
Every step we take.
Let every step be a kiss.
Kiss the Earth with your feet and walk in peace.
What you are doing today is very , very important for our children and their children.
It is very , very important for the Earth.
YOU are important for the Earth and for the whole Universe.
Never ever forget this!


I welcome you to the country of Sweden. I welcome you and I thank you.
I am so sorry I cannot be with you physically today , my presence is contracted and needed in Copenhagen, Denmark today where I am performing a very brave play together with Asylum seekers, a peace work also much needed and issues needed to be brought into further light, but I am with you in soul and heart as well.

I am with you and I thank you from all of my heart.

We all do this work together where ever we are!

Thank you for manifesting all this beauty with your presence here today and thank you for sharing the exitement of living life in Peace and Love!

I admire your bravery and your persistence.
I admire your courage.

Welcome to Sweden.

I love you!


Regina Lund

13 Days Dance Festival - day 5 of 6

Instructions day 3
dance and report

10: find - morning

go find a clover

and send us

measurements and

weight of all

possible parts of the

clover

11: send - daylight

send something you can´t count

With love! mail: bedin.sthlm2009@gmail.com

Fight for Peace Game V - utter humiliation

So, yesterday when we played the test game of Casino I swept her easily. She musta been worried.

Today she made new rules. And she won. So it's now 3 Andrea and 2 Daniel.

No, I am not bitter.

With a little help from my friends

We are 5 days into our Bed-in. We have a lot of ppl to thank, not only the ppl you can find in our list of sponsors to the right but of course also ppl behind those logos and ppl without logos. Yep, those exists,

I'd like to mention Åke! Thanks for the flashlights that will be used at tomorrows concert which starts in the Clarion lobby at 21.30. We will be performing a few songs and twinkle into the skies, or roof at Clarion.

Also, here's to Sarah! You are Capten Eo. Without her no sound, and no food. The mixer we're using and the microphone are hers. She also introduced me to her friend Mathias, that has lent me the 49 keys keyboard.

And here's to JuanP, Pelle and Jonas. You guys rock.


Peace!

The Lost Interview - John Lennon and Yoko Ono for Life Magazine 1969

Our Friend Joan Athey, author from Canada got up early this morning to share a very special moment with us.
She called us before heading off to work and we spent just under one hour on Skype.

Since we have Slow Motion Day today everything we do takes extra time... so there, the talk took a very long time

What she wanted to share with us today was an interview from back in 1969, an article written by the journalist Charles Childs, still alive and well in New York, written for Life Magazine. He met up with John and Yoko and talked to them about their Bed-in and their views on society, war, money and art. It is an un-published article and got pushed aside because of articles surrounding the Vietnam War - or so the story goes. I am Sure Joan can tell us more about the history of this lost article.

So there she was, Joan on our screen and our livefeed taking on the pat as Charles Childs as we worked our way through the article. Andrea read John's answers, I did Yoko's.

We want to thank Joan for sharing this very rare moment with us, we are tremendously thankful for your generosity.

Peace!

Spinoff Effect of Slow Motion Day

So, right now we've spent almost 7hrs in Slow Motion Mode. Starting off this morning Linnea M called and wanted to check out if our slow motion talking indeed was slow motion. She recorded us and speeded it up. You be the judge.

Dance Piece for Peace IV

Dance Piece for Peace IV

Music: "God", John Lennon

Choreographed and performed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea C Rygh

Fourth day. It was a very hard day. First off the ambience in the room was less than friendly. We were both pretty much at each others throat the whole day. Times of questioning oneself are trying times.

So, Andrea performed "God" by John Lennon w/ myself on keyboard fill-ins. Then I did a homage to the Bobs (yes, both to the original one and the one in red pants in Russia). Joan Athey called it a "naked and honest rendition in Lennonesque spirit". We do not know what to say but, "thx!".

13 Days Dance Festival - results Day 3

Mari Solberg, SKYPE:

Jeg målte horisonten.

Päivi Vettaranta, EMAIL:

the task with boiling water:

laitoin riisiä tulelle. liekki oli väärä. haistoin uuden tuoksun.

valutin vettä pannulle. sihahdus, kuplia ja höyryä.

tiskasin.

Kaptenoklownika, EMAIL:

"Too many instructions"

Emelie Johansson, EMAIL:

bild av dold horisont. byggnader som blockerar vägen och människor som hindrar min promenad till denna horisont.

kokande vatten.

dansande bubblor. tankepaus. välgörande för täppt näsa. leder troligen till mer dans imorgon då täppan börjar lösas upp.

Stina Nyström, MMS:

en horisont, - perfekt i sin längd.

Lotta O Claesson, EMAIL/CHAT:

Vet du hur långt det är till horisonten?

Nä.

Lika långt som tillbaka.

13 Days Dance Festival - day 4 of 6

Instructions day 3
dance and report

8: count - afthernoon

Count the clouds

name them

9: Shake - afthernoon

go shake hands with as many

persons as possible, write

down their names. try in the

elevator, tubem, escalator,

street, toilet,on top of a

mountain, in the dark, daydream,

on the clouds, etc. make it a

nice handshake by holding a flower

in your hand,perfume or

wash you hand, etc

Good luck!

remember the email adress: bedin.sthlm2009@gmail.com

Dance Piece for Peace III

Dance Piece for Peace III

Music: "I am the Walrus" - Lennon/McCartney

Danced and choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea C Rygh

Third day - happy day! "Flower Power Day"!

We performed a flower-drenched little dance-piece that oozed indulgence. It was glowing down to the last Ying and Yang.

Out of body experience.

Dance Piece for Peace II

Dance Piece for Peace II

Music: "Raga Kausi Kanhra" by Ravi Shankar
Danced and choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea Csaszni Rygh

We spent 4 hours in brown paperbags. We also performed this dance 3 times during the day. One of the time we performed it for the Base Team of the marches in The World March for Peace who were in Savonlinna, Finland with Juha.

It was a very intense experience. Out of this world really.

Dance Piece for Peace I-IV

So we are 4 dances down our list of Dance Pieces for Peace.

We would like to upload each of the dances seprately but will have to wait until we solve a minor video issue. These files are huge, 12hrs long and round about 40GB in size.

But if you stay around and are patient we will post them to our YouTube profile:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bedinsthlm2009

Soon.

Fight for Peace Games IV - pool on a bed?

I can't say it was enjoyable at all. She kept on moving around balls and was bickering the whole time. Anyways - Andrea won.
It wasn't honorable in any shape or form, considering the sloping green and the itsy bitsy tiny weenie setup. I do wish I would have won but I will be back tomorrow.

Standings:
Daniel 2
Andrea 2

Game is definitely heating up. Sob.

Letters of peace! three more letters have been written.

Each day we send 3 letters to different persons.
Our letters contain instructional art from the book Grapefruit by Yoko Ono.
We choose them by shifting through the book fast and having the other saying: STOP followed by a number - page and piece on page. Today and yesterday we wrote to:

26th of Oct 2009, Monday
1: Tobias Billström - Line Piece; Tobbe got the almost too perfect instruction Erase lines.
2: Alan Jonson - Tape Piece IV; God luck!
3: Siv Jensen - Collecting Piece II; Its gonna keep her busy for a while.

Peace Fingers at 19.00!

We've been told we haven't demonstrated any skills in the "Peace Fingers" area. Tune in for our Skype-conversation with Joan Athey at around 19.00 and I am sure it will be remedied.!

International Bed-in part 3!

 

13 DAYS DANCE FESTIVAL results Day 2

Karen E Rygh, SMS:

Veldig bra... Jeg puster både tidlig og seint... og bruker telepati. :)

Men kanskje mine telepatiske evner ikke veldig gode... Siden du måtte spørre :)

KaptenoKlownik, EMAIL:

"Juliette Gets Wet", festivalbidrag 2

Päivi Vettenranta, EMAIL:

4.
I imagined the moon to the place where I know the sun sets. Tried to draw a circle around it on the grey sky. On top of evaporated water and floating particles. Big circle closer to horizon and another one up on the sky. Trying to keep the same size. Knowing that moon is the same even it looks smaller up on the sky.

Johanna Amnéus, EMAIL:

Hejja hejja!

Lotta Orava Claesson, EMAIL:
öandligt återkommande evigt, vattnet , vårt vatten är det samma som alltid funnits, samma vatten kommer det att vara sen, nu å då

Stina Nyström EMAIL/MMS:

Ljusdal-Ånge-Östersund

Idag har jag rest genom landet norrut. Stannade mellan Ljusdal och Ånge och tittade upp mot himlen och ritade en cirkel. Vände mig mot nordväst. Ca. 5 meter i diametern. Marken var knölig och himlen otvivelakligen grå. Det kändes fint. Framme i Östersund besöktes en fontän, dock avstängd för vintern. Kändes tomt, kallt och mörkt. Detta finns på film, men jag får öva mig på mina tekniska prylar tills imorgon, idag blir det stillbilder på mms istället. Kommer inom kort.

Stina

13 Days Dance Festival - day 3 of 6

Instructions day 3
dance and report

6: watch - in the evening

have you seen the horizon lately?
go see a horizon.
measure it from where you stand
and let us know the length

7: watch - 8 pm

boil water and watch until it
evaporates


Good luck!

(Remember the email; bedin.sthlm2009@gmail.com)

Letters of Peace! 6 more Letters sent!!

Each day we send 3 letters to different persons.
Our letters contain instructional art from the book Grapefruit by Yoko Ono.
We choose them by shifting through the book fast and having the other saying: STOP followed by a number - page and piece on page. Today and yesterday we wrote to:

26th of Oct 2009, Monday
1: Avigdor Lieberman - Concert Piece; Yes I could easily se him playing around alone in the concert hall.
2: Dan Eliasson - Kitchen Piece; Okej Dan now this would be a good way to spend your time.
3: Nicolas Sarkozy - Wisper piece; He could definately do with some whispering to stones or to a tree.

25th of Oct 2009, Sunday
1: Anders Fogh Rasmussen - Painting for the skies; the skies is a good thing to focus on.
2: Barack Obama - wind piece; Now earn the peace prize, and earn it well!
3: Carl Bildt - Pieces for orchestra; Yes you see the problem but we need the action.

EDIT: So, the last three hasn't made it out the door yet. They will be on their way tomorrow, first thing!

Joan Athey - Storyteller supreme!

So, it is safe to say our Bed-in truly is getting to our heads. Not because we are overrun by overzealous activists out there ready to pass the torch (we wish!) but more because of the lack of oxygen and the heat emanating from the machines in the room. I know Yoko and John didn't bother about bringing computers and what not into the room. I am also sure they didn't make the hotel patch a dedicated 100Mbit line into their room. But who knows, if Internet would've been around back in 1969, maybe that is exactly what they would have done. But I figure they probably would have organized their own satellite broadcast - besides, from what I gather, they couldn't have fit a computer of that time into the rooms they stayed in. We fit 4 in the room, heh.

Someone who knows a heck of a lot more about this is Joan Athey. How she found us, is a mystery to me, I am going to have to ask her tonight when she calls. If you read this Joan, remind me that I had something to ask you.

So Joan has called us twice and well, it has become one of them moments during the day we talk about and that we look forward to. She will keep on calling us for more Bed-in-time stories.

But, instead of complicating this the way I am just going to try and keep it short and simple. Here's to you Joan Athey!

---

Andrea and I were shocked right out of our bed when the Skype connection lit up on the first day with a call from Canada. It was Joan Athey. She wanted to know if we wanted to hear a bed-time story every day that we are at our Bed-in. Of course we said "YES".

She has written a beautiful book. At least it sounds beautiful. The first two essays are incredible and we loved them.

The name of her book is Give Peace A Chance: John and Yoko's Bed-in for Peace, 1969, by Joan Athey published by Wiley in May 2009. It is available in English, French and German and Swedes can buy it on-line at Amazon. It is the only book devoted to the Bed-in with over 80 amazing photos of John, Yoko, the celebrities, fans and gate-crashers who dropped by during the 8 days. The photographer Gerry Deiter (on assignment for Life Magazine) was the only photographer there the entire 8 days.

I wonder what story she will read to us today?

Fight for Peace Games III - this is getting ugly

Okey so Daniel won the Chess game and I´m not going to blame my loss in five moves on the fact that he played chess professionally when he was younger. No I´m not going to do that. So the score is now 2-1 to Daniel and the "Fight for Peace games" continues tomorrow.

lovely

13 DAYS DANCE FESTIVAL results Day 1

Lotta Orava Claesson:

give dance a break!

breathe at dawn

breathe at midnight

Emelie:

first breath at 05.30. no, since it´s now wintertime at 04.30. before dawn. auw.

I keep falling back into the soft, warm surroundings. heavy body, warm inside. rolling around for some time with another body, very small and warm. peaceful. almost only love.

Johanna Amnéus: Göteborg 09-10-25

I rise to my feet and dance to the quietness of the house... and to the song in my head that goes:

"It's getting dark and it's getting cold and the nights are getting long"

I see my reflection in the window as I breath out the busy world.

My midnight breath announces peace.

Introduces the fresh mind.

Embraces ideas.

Stina Nyström:

This is the place for my dance today!

Ewa Jonason:

Peacefull and calming!

midnatt

andas

zzzzzooover

andas

i gryningen

zzzzover, vaknar sakta, lägger märke till min andning

Annica Catharina:

Här kommer det första bidraget från KaptenoKlownika

Pälvi vettenranta:

I tough to have easy and soft breath today. Easy it was, but it got heavy during the day, when things cot complicated. I sarted when I woke up an keep on going. Now when I managed to get this done. Out. I can change.

13 Days Dance Festival - day 2 of 6

Instructions day 2
Dance and report

3: In the evening

Breathe Together


4: watch - in the afternoon

draw a large circle in the sky
let us know the diameter of the circle (guess),
direction and color of the sky you were watching
and the duration of your watching experience

5: watch

go to the nearest fountain
and watch the water dance

good luck!

correct e-mail: bedin.sthlm2009@gmail.com

Spearhead takes one for the home team!

As some of you have noticed we've had some issues with a camera. Dropouts in sound and video. We are now happy to present a new sponsor that will lend us a new camera the duration of the Bed-in.

Spearhead!

Today during "Bagism Day" we wore brown paper-bags on our heads for 4 hours. We were totally communicating.

International Bed-in for Peace 2!

Here is Take 2!

The World March for Peace Sweden

We just had a very entertaining meeting with the Swedish co-ordinator of the The World March for Peace - Mabel Cruz.

She brought her kids and the filmmaker Cristian Andrade. Together we spoke with the Finish part of the March and the Base Team who has spent the day there in Savonlinna. Sauna, walks in the autumn cold and of course a visit to the old castle. Home of the Opera-festival of Savonlinna.

Anyways, we Skyped and they told us some about their endeavors. They are making a mad trip around the world and bringing with them The Nuclear Abolition Torch.

The 29th they will be here in Stockholm! We hope to invite them for coffee.

correction - wrong mail adress!

We have been sending out the wrong mail adress for the dance festival so this is the right one

bedin.sthlm2009@gmail.com

mail us what you have been mailing again!!

International Bed-in for Peace!

Out of the last 500 who visited the blogg now under 50% are Swedish.

This makes us real happy, not that we dislikes swedes but it is really nice to see that this effort interests people of all nations.

We will keep on posting these images since the last 500 entries always shifts. Perhaps we can follow The World March for Peace in some way mapping out the flags on a map. Tonight we talk to The World March in Finland!

Fight for Peace games: Andrea sweeps Daniel in Backgammon

Utterly annihilated I can only say, she swept me like a nasty broom.

The turning point was an aggressive, and stupid move on my part, thinking to myself I had it in my hands (oh, the vanity!), I wanted to do the ol' bait and run... but the bait just turned on me, and took me rod, line and sinker. It was impossible to stand up against those crucial double 3's x3 she threw at me.

She played me like a flute. I couldn't have fought my way out of a wet paper-bag today. Honestly.

Score: Daniel 1

Andrea 1

13 Days Dance Festival - day 1 of 6

Instructions day 1
Dance and report

1: midnight
breathe

midnatt
andas

2: breathe
at dawn

andas
i gryningen

good luck!

PROGRAM Bed-in Sunday 25.oct

Program Sunday

(we will try to keep it on time)

Sunday 25.oct - Bagism day

01.00 Instructions for the dance festival posted on the blog

12.00 Starting LIVE

16.30 Dance piece for peace II

All day - Sending peace letters

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SARALUNDEN in for Peace!

At 21.30 CET Saralunden stepped into the room with a tight entourage of ppl longing to hear her perform. We were anxious to hear what she had been working on in support of our Bed-in for Peace.

So, suddenly she was there, the power-woman, pedals, cables, synths and a voice that can seriously bring you to tears.

She performed "Loneliness" and "Every man has a woman who loves him". It was magic. I was moved to tears, but had to try and keep up with her on my mini-maracas. We in the bed feel very thankful for the honour and the very special moment she shared with us. One thing though, I am not sure what happened but suddenly she almost took her top off. It must have been a mix of the hot, hot room (it gets warm in here) and the excitement of the show . Make sure to check the clip afterwards if you missed it.

Thank you SARALUNDEN!

Fight for Peace games 1-0 to Daniel

We have a session of games once a day during our bed-in and today we played The Missing Diamond. Daniel won so its now 1-0 to Daniel.

Next game tomorrow!

AUCTION! HAMMARBY vs AIK - TICKETS!

Here is something very COOL!

We have 2 tickets to the DERBY tomorrow at 12.30 at Råsunda Fotbollsstadium.

We are now auctioning them to the highest bidder. The highest bidder midnight TONIGHT will get the tickets. Starting bid will be 200 kr!

Bid by mailing us at. Please put "DERBY" somewhere in the Subject!

2 Tickets to the Derby!
Hammarby vs AIK
Råsunda, Söndag 25 okt kl. 12.30

Letters of Peace! 3 Letters Written!

Each day we send 3 letters to different persons.
Our letters contain instructional art from the book Grapefruit by Yoko Ono.
We choose them by shifting thorugh the book fast and having the other saying: STOP followed by a number - page and piece on page. Today we wrote to:

1: Benny Dagan - Shadow Piece; this one is interesting and it can keep Benny busy for a long time.
2: G-20 Secretariat - Mess Piece; imagine all of them doing THAT mess.
3: Nyamko Sabuni - Blood Piece; we do not wish anyone to die. Nyamko please choose "A"! Please!

More tomorrow!

Dance Piece for Peace I - NEW DANCES everyday at 16.30

So we performed the first dance in our series of bed-dances - we will redo it at 19.00.

Dance Piece for Peace I
Music: Julia by Lennon/McCartney
Performed by John Lennon
Danced and choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea Csaszni Rygh

We will perform this again tonight at 19.00.

Everyday between the 25th - 30th Oct we will perform a NEW Dance PIece for Peace. We will do this at 16.30 - EVERY DAY.

Every day at 16.30!

The bed-in has now started!

We have now officially started our Bed-in for peace and we will stay in our room until next saturday. We both have a cold but what could be better then to stay in bed! You can reach us from 12am to 12pm using the links above.

At 9.30pm we will have a concert with Sara Lunden from our rooms, don´t miss that!

skype it, mail it, fax it , send it, technologic!

love

Contact links are up - Tomorrow we start!

Okey so hipp hipp hurrey! Now there is only one day to go before the bed-in starts and I was just talking to Daniel about what an effort we have made to make this happen. When Yoko and Lennon did it in 1969 they probably just had a whim and desided to do a bed-in, and then they did it, without having to think for a second about the costs, paying to put up commercial posters with messages like "WAR IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT" all over town.

We on the other hand have sponsors up over our ears to make the bed-in happen.

I have the feeling that a lot of things where a lot easier in the late 60s, I meen practical things where maybe a bit less complicated and problematic I think.

Our room is now a tecnical heaven with green and blue lights like a magical aquarium and Daniel and Jonas are playing Titanic by Mikael Wiehe. It coulden´t get better. Jonas is now getting very engaged playing the gitarr with a spanish temprament.

Anyway!

We have now created links on the top of the blog to our LIVE stream, our SKYPE contact info and to our MAIL adress. This can be used when you want to report to the dance festival and to communicate with us during the bed-in.

We are on LIVE tomorrow at 12:am, in the beds and with a concert by Sara Lunden at 9.30:pm from the room. Dont miss it!

bos

Bedding by Drottningen av Saba

I ran into Ellen Utterström (The queen of Saba) at Wisp´s lecture a while ago and it proved that Ellen makes clothes that are a littlebit like pyjamas, that they feel like you are wearing a pyjamas. So she told us we could borrow some clothes for the week and we are super pleased and we love the outfits.

Thanks to WomenInStagePerformance also for bringing us together!

Herman´s!

Great news! We don´t have to do a hunger strike cous we now have food all week thanks to the vegtarian restaurant Hermans!

Brilliant, exellent, Fantasticastik!
Now we just need someone to bring us the food everyday...

tre days to go.

peace of cake.