•♥• Bed-in for Peace •♥• Stockholm 2009

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

2009-12-22T22:55:00.001+01:00

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!

2009-11-08T23:39:00.002+01:00

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

2009-11-05T18:54:00.005+01:00

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

2009-11-03T23:15:00.003+01:00

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!

2009-11-02T01:29:00.002+01:00

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

2009-10-31T13:32:00.000+01:00

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

2009-10-30T23:35:00.004+01:00

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

2009-10-30T23:29:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-30T22:56:00.012+01:00

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

2009-10-30T22:56:00.008+01:00

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

2009-10-30T22:53:00.004+01:00

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

For Joan Athey - We Love You.

2009-10-30T21:49:00.002+01:00

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

Peace, Love & Joan!

Kulturnyheterna - LOVE, PEACE & TELEVISION!

2009-10-30T19:16:00.008+01:00

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

2009-10-30T16:13:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-30T15:50:00.004+01:00

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

2009-10-30T14:45:00.005+01:00

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

2009-10-30T02:25:00.004+01:00

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!

2009-10-30T02:18:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-29T23:34:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-29T21:17:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-29T18:42:00.004+01:00

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

2009-10-29T16:51:00.007+01:00

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

2009-10-29T16:40:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-29T00:44:00.005+01:00

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

2009-10-28T22:53:00.002+01:00

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

2009-10-28T20:06:00.004+01:00

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

2009-10-28T18:52:00.005+01:00

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

2009-10-28T18:44:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-28T15:02:00.000+01:00

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

2009-10-28T14:47:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-27T23:20:00.006+01:00

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

2009-10-27T20:29:00.002+01:00

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

2009-10-27T20:23:00.004+01:00

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

2009-10-27T19:49:00.002+01:00

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?

2009-10-27T15:48:00.003+01:00

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.

2009-10-27T14:40:00.008+01:00

Peace Fingers at 19.00!

2009-10-27T14:35:00.003+01:00

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!

2009-10-27T12:59:00.000+01:00

13 DAYS DANCE FESTIVAL results Day 2

2009-10-27T12:32:00.007+01:00

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

2009-10-26T23:27:00.006+01:00

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!!

2009-10-26T18:10:00.007+01:00

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!

2009-10-26T18:07:00.004+01:00

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

2009-10-26T15:52:00.004+01:00

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

2009-10-26T14:18:00.006+01:00

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

2009-10-25T23:06:00.014+01:00

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!

2009-10-25T22:35:00.005+01:00

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!

2009-10-25T22:17:00.002+01:00

Here is Take 2!

The World March for Peace Sweden

2009-10-25T20:49:00.003+01:00

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!

2009-10-25T16:45:00.002+01:00

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!

2009-10-25T16:19:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-25T15:46:00.004+01:00

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

2009-10-25T00:33:00.006+02:00

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

2009-10-24T23:38:00.000+02:00

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!

2009-10-24T23:13:00.007+02:00

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

2009-10-24T18:43:00.004+02:00

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!

2009-10-24T17:11:00.003+02:00

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!

2009-10-24T16:50:00.005+02:00

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

2009-10-24T15:33:00.003+02:00

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!

2009-10-24T12:27:00.003+02:00

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!

2009-10-23T11:51:00.009+02:00

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

2009-10-22T00:29:00.005+02:00

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!

2009-10-21T22:36:00.005+02:00

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.

Järnia brings the light!

2009-10-20T00:21:00.004+02:00

We proudly present another player for the peace-team!
Åke at Järnia wants to provide the flashlights for our Mass Bed-in at Clarion the 29th of Oct!

So here is the deal. The 29th we will make some (white) beds for you to rest on, located to right of the ramp in the lobby of Clarion hotel. While enjoying the comfort of Clarions HighQ beds we will perform a little concert for you before we host the actual Mass Bed-in in which we will play together. Sounds good? Why, yes it is!

Vi presenterar stolt en ny spelare för hemmalaget!
Åke på Järnia ställler upp med ficklampor till vår Mass Bed-in den 29 okt!

Den 29 okt ställer vi upp sängar nere vid rampen vid Clarions lobby. Sen kan man från sängarna se oss göra en liten spelning från sängen. Kom, ligg, sjung med och njut!

Peace!

This is cool!

2009-10-17T22:39:00.002+02:00

Imagine Peace!

Shout-out till Lars Epstein på DN och Gärdets Kaffebar!

2009-10-17T20:41:00.008+02:00

English BELOW!

På Lars Epsteins blogg Epsteins STHLM kan man idag läsa om fredsmarschens aktiviteter och om stödet marschen har från olika håll. Förutom Perfect Performance här i Stockholm så hör t.e.x Jane Fonda, Juanes, Desmond Tutu, Dario Fo, Martin Sheen och Yoko Ono till de som stödjer marschen. Eller som Lars Epstein skriver:

Jimmy Carter, Dalai Lama, Pedro Almodóvar, Mikael Wiehe, Arja Saijonmaa, Maj Britt Theorin är bara några av alla människor världen runt som uttalat sitt stöd för fredsmarschen. Själv stöder jag den till 100 procent och kommer att gå med i Stockholm den 29 oktober. Vi ses väl i ledet?

Oss kommer ni inte se i ledet men väl per videolänk under Fredsmarschens manifestationer!

Glöm inte heller att gå med i dansfestivalen vi står värdar för från sängen. Skriv in er i formuläret till höger eller gå med i festivalgruppen 13 Days Dance Festival in 6 days for Peace på Facebook!

Coolt.

Vi är också stolta att kunna presentera en ny sponsor! Kaffefrågan är löst!
Vi kan med galen stolhet presentera Gärdets Kaffebar som sponsor på kaffesidan! Heja, Per! Heja, Emmelie!

Peace!

Oh, and the ENGLISH!
Over at Lars Epstein's blog Epstein STHLM, you can now read about The World March for Peace, the activities surrounding it and about the support the march is getting from different directions. Besides Perfect Performance here in Stockholm, Jane Fonda, Juanes, Desmond Tutu, Dario For, Martin Sheen and Yoko Ono are among those who support the march. Or, as Lars Epstein writes:

Jimmy Carter, the Dalai Lama, Pedro Almodovar, Mikael Wiehe, Arja Saijonmaa, Maj-Britt Theorin are just some of the people around the world who supports The World March for Peace. Naturally, I support it 100 percent and will join the march in Stockholm the 29th of October. See you in there?

Us, you will not see in the march but you will see us by videolink during The World March for Peace rallies!

And do not forget to join the Dance Festival we are hosting form our beds. Fill out the form to the right, or join the group 13 Days Dance Festival in 6 days for Peace on Facebook!

Cool.

We are also proud to present a new sponsor! Coffee issue is solved!
We are mad proud to present Gärdets Coffee Bar as sponsor of the coffee side of things during our Bed-in! Heja, Per! Heja, Emmelie!

PEACE!

john blund

2009-10-17T01:42:00.004+02:00

I couldn´t fall asleep yesterday and instead of counting sheep I found myself counting little John Lennons jumping over a fence. Over and over again with his round glasses jumping up and down on his nose.

god night.

When Finland says "YES" - You should to!

2009-10-16T23:46:00.013+02:00

Ok, I do realize posting a picture of something you can see live in the menu to the right is a very silly idea. But the number of participants in the festival amazes me. And more are coming in every day. We are one week away from heading into our Peace Room. I am psyched. And the cloud is getting really crowded... will it turn all black before the 25th?

We spoke to Juha in Finland yesterday on Facebook. He is the Finish co-ordinator of The World March for Peace. We decided to do a live video event at their rally the eve of the 27th of Oct, with us In Bed for Peace here in Stockholm and them manifesting in Finland for Peace. Look out for info as we close in on the event!

Soon on a computer near you!

PS: We are still looking for food! Peace!

Kulturaaama

2009-10-15T20:56:00.008+02:00

Yea it was very nice to meet the Kulturama students today and I hope they found it interesting and useful,
It was good to see the location too and to get an image of the place (because it is easier for me to remember things trough images. So when someone referes to Kulturama in the future I will have a easier time remembering what that person was talking about.)
It´s a great thing meeting people like this, visiting schools. I kind of feel like I´m trying to convert someone though, into a religious sect or something. Maybe we are. Haha. No sorry, we are not.
So Daniel had prepared a little talk about performance art and we discussed what performance is.
Then we needed to make it clear that our bed-in is not performance art but rather we see it as activism or re-activism.
BUT IT COULD BE PERFORMANCE. But its not.

The band is developing and it has been very nice rehearsing with the band. It kind of moves me. (daniel! we need to get a name for the band, how about "In bed band"? Or does anyone reading the blog have a suggestion?)
I´m Also looking forward to try out hotel outfits tomorrow.
Now I will have some night time coffee while sending a text message out into the world.

Oh we/I forgot to take a picture of the students so I did my best to draw them instead. By memory!

love you all

Kulturama are cool

2009-10-15T16:55:00.003+02:00

So today we went to Kulturama and spoke with the classes Dans 1 and 2. Awesome, they seem like real smart people and we really enjoyed talking to them.

They have a theme-week next week about Performance Art. So we spoke some about that, about who we are and about our Bed-in. It'd be really kewl if they signed up for the 13 Days Dance Festival as well. I think they will!

So that's about it. Tomorrow it is back to crunching those choreographies (5 to go) and we will meet up with an excellent designer that wants to help us out with what to wear. Not what NOT to wear. We like it positive. Anyways, meeting her will be awesome and we are psyched about it.

Yes.

Happy News and Setbacks

2009-10-13T00:20:00.005+02:00

GOOD
Ok, so we met with Peter from Framtidens Team today and it was really a upbeat meeting!
Peter decided he'd go in and give us actual monetary support! We are proud and immensely thankful towards him and his gang over at Framtiden Team. Big thx also to Ewa, who tipped us off!
This means we will be able to go through with ideas we've had for the Bed-in from the get go! Awesome. Truly fantastic.

BAD
On the downside we can share that Cous Cous decided to pull their support for our project. Considering the economic situation at the moment I can't blame them, but too bad, we really felt they were right for us.

Oh, NO!
Now we find ourselves with no sponsor of the food. We have nothing to eat!
Now, If you know of anyone willing to chip in for food, let us know! We do need to eat.

Note to self: Tomorrow, we need to look into the coffee issue, can't do a Bed-in without coffee - you really can't.

Sunday as usual

2009-10-11T19:44:00.007+02:00

Not much going on today but then again, tons of stuff is happening all the time. Right now we are just trying to focus on the things we feel are the most important. Or as Tony Gustavsson said yesterday during the Sweden vs Denmark game in football: "You want to "act" and not "react"!"

I like this line of thinking. It is really easy to say. Let's act. Let's try and practice "acting". Uhm. Somethings missing here.

Ok, so on the list of todays "have duns" we can find:

♥ mails to different service-providers considering the public-streaming part of the project

♥ conversations with our bandwidth provider for select feeds to different public locations

♥ baked bread - "Ciabatta" like

♥ cleaning up of mailing-list (rooted out dead addys among other things)

♥ more text to be used on news sites

♥ washing clothes

We are still looking for sponsors willing to give us flowers - any amount is GOOD!

We are still working out details on The World March for Peace manifestation.

We still have tons of things to do but... it is Sunday. So cruising softly is ok. It is. Really.

That's it for now.

Peace.

Dance Piece for Peace I & II - down and rdy!

2009-10-09T21:58:00.003+02:00

Each day during our 7 day Bed-in for Peace we will present a new dance-piece. They will be around 5 min long and performed in or around the bed (duh!).

Perhaps when considering we will be broadcasted 12*7 hours = 84 hours during the Bed-in, then the total running time of the dance-choreographies amounting to 35 minutes, may look like "very tiny, smallish potatoes" but maybe then it's even more important that we get them right. Just right. It is a possibility.

We've been hard at work conceptualizing each day of the Bed-in and now, when we feel pep and happy about where we find ourselves in the process, we've felt ready to move on to the dance-floor. Thus, after a few days, we can safely say we got "Dance Piece for Peace" I & II down. 5 to go! Easy peasy and tons of fun.

So what can be said about the two pieces? They are both like bon bons, with wings. Or like sweet apples with acidic travels into bliss.

John Lennon - Birthday!

2009-10-09T00:07:00.001+02:00

Happy Birthday, Mr Lennon!
Peace!

UPDATE 8 Oct: 13 Days Dance Festival in 6 days!

2009-10-08T01:31:00.005+02:00

Ok, så now we are well beyond the 100 mark... counting at what rate the people coming in we will have over 200 come Saturday. It is looking to be truly amazing. Thanks all!

Further I am happy to report that the work with the choreographies for "Dance Piece for Peace I-VII" are coming along frickn' fantastic. Whoot!

We have a few kinks considering a few things pertaining our room but hope to solve them ASAP. We should all learn to speak lingo...

Badminton practice?

2009-10-06T15:14:00.004+02:00

This morning I eat breakfast and drank coffee with Stephen and then Love came to and we played smashball in the sun together in the yard. Waking up the last neighbor sleeping.
It was great.
We also talked a bit about nonviolence and a book I´m reading...
It was good for me to play some racket, I feel that it is important that I workout before the bed-in. If you know what I mean.
Actually, if anyone would like to play badminton with me or some other sport before the bed-in I would be very glad. I especially like badminton and I need to practice it before the bed-in because we might have a sports competition during the week. So if you would like to play badminton with me just give me a call. If you have my number. If you don´t have my number you can contact me on facebook or something if you feel that it would not be to weird.

Anyway we need to get TV interested in showing our dances for peace in their morning show. we need to make them understand that this will look absolutely amazing in a TV screen. We are working on it.

Now I´m going to stand on my head for ten minutes.
A good friend of mine told me it gets the metabolism going.

In the name of peace
Andrea

UPDATE - 5 Oct: 13 Days Peace Dance Festival in 6 days

2009-10-05T15:03:00.002+02:00

This is important! As a lot of people are wondering about the "Dance" in the Dance Festival. We will clarify this once and for all!

Anyone can participate in the Dance Festival. You do not have to be a dancer to participate. Do not let the "Dance" in the festivities scare you off!
Dance is an extra turn before turning the corner, it is a smile too long before shaking hands, it is brushing your teeth with the wrong hand, or your feet.

We want all walks of life in the festival, all are invited.

You do NOT have to be a dancer, performer, actor, artist etc. YOU CAN BE WHATEVER YOU ARE. Ok? :)

Festival Doers!

2009-10-04T19:17:00.003+02:00

We present the present 13 Days Dance Festival for Peace doers (no pun intended)!
You can now find them in the nifty cloud to the right!
Make sure to add your name!

Oh, the exclamations. Peace!

Press conference and The World March takes off

2009-10-03T20:07:00.007+02:00

Yesterday, the 2nd of Oct The World March started from Wellington, New Zealand.

They've been on the road for one day now and we are psyched to welcome them to Sweden come the 29th of Oct.

Yesterday we also participated in the press conference held by the The World March co-ordinator in Sweden. Andrea did a awesome job in relaying what we are up to that among other things includes:

• 7 days in bed for peace at Clarion hotel Södermalm, Stockholm

• 12hrs a day live video-streaming on the Internet of the event.

• Hosting of Yoko's 13 Days Dance Festival for Peace from our beds

• Hosting of a Mass Bed-in the 29th of Oct from our beds

• Each day a new Dance Piece for Peace

• Theme days starting with "Opening Day", what else?

There will be a lot more going on during the week but it is a good idea to make a long lists short on a blog. Or so they tell me.

What we missed out on yesterday was Perfect Performance Inspirational shock taking place over at Dansens Hus. We were told it was a very cool event. Sad I missed it but some has to work. Really!

Peace!

We add Billebro to our list of sponsors!

2009-10-01T23:51:00.004+02:00

We proudly present Billebro as another sponsor. They are giving us magic mad spons on all things lighting and FX. Without them we'd be lost in the dark - forever.

Billebro gives peace a chance!

Update: 13 Days Dance Festival in 6 days is growing

2009-10-01T09:44:00.005+02:00

Every day new participants sign up for the festival. We are psyched about the whole endeavor and hope the steady stream of new participants will never stop! :)

If you missed it you can sign up to the right.

So, right now I am sitting at Mellqvist Söder. Just had to mention it since Hedvig working here promised to sign up for the festival, very cool. Lollo as well - so there the woman with so much cred she scares ppl now officially is a part of the 13 Days Dance Festival for Peace!

Here they are!

Oh, and you can find a picture of us over at Perfect Performance!

Peace!

They danced for Peace

2009-09-29T09:06:00.005+02:00

Found this poster backstage at Riddarfjärdsteatern, the second theatre Daniel ever performed at. It's from the 80's, a classic!

You can find names like Göran Blomkvist, Lotta Stenström, Patrik Sörling, Armand Gutheim, Siv Ander and Yvan Auzely among the players.

The dance festival is growing

2009-09-28T18:37:00.003+02:00

We held a short informal info-meeting about The 13 Days Dance Festival in 6 Days for Peace over at The Royal Swedish Ballet School. In studio 4 the festival grew even bigger - participation-wise!

Beautiful students at the Royal Swedish Ballet School will sign up for the festival!
You sign up in the menu to the right - Name, email and CLICK!

Translation/fordítói/traducción/traduzione/翻訳/번역/תרגום/अनुवाद/oversettelse/翻译/traduction/الترجمة/översättning/

2009-09-27T20:20:00.026+02:00

Ok, so it's far from perfect and sometimes the text metamorphosis totally destroys the actual meaning of what we are trying to say but as a whole, it is a nice tool. Use it at your own discretion, but be careful!

Links can be found in menu to the right!
Linkek találhatók a jobb oldali menüből!
链接中可以找到菜单的权利

Phat Sunday!

2009-09-27T15:38:00.004+02:00

A new sponsor has arrived!

As most of you know, if you have followed us here on the blog, we will be broadcasting our Bed-in live over the Internet and show it on monitors on different locations over the city of Stockholm. Of course we invite other places in other countries to pick up our video-feed as well. We have a few leads but more about that later.

Ok, so when looking into the different solutions on what will be our final solution for the technical part of the video-streaming, we have to consider a lot of different aspects and altenatives.
One of the things we are looking into is setting up our own streaming server. Now, running your own streaming server has a lot of benefits but also a few extra kinks you need to consider.
One of the most critical issues is the bandwidth.
Consider that each video-stream in real nice quality requires around 300kps. Now if you do the math you soon realize it poses some serious problems if you are limited to the 2mbit bandwidth I measured in the room at Clarion.
Now we have a solution for this, a new sponsor!
We are happy to present Swelaser that will provide us with sufficient bandwidth in case we opt for using our own streaming-server.

Very cool! Peace.

Show our bed-in

2009-09-26T14:48:00.003+02:00

Oh Yes! We are looking for places to show our bed-in at clarion live streamed. It could be in a gallery, office, in your home, in a cinema, a theatre, in the sky etc

So if you want to show us somewhere during our bed-in or know of a good place where it can be projected let us know!

New participants

2009-09-26T13:56:00.008+02:00

If you feel isolated and want to meet a lot of people you know, a good tip is to place yourself outside copacabana. I had a very nice meeting with my dear friend Sepidar and now Astrid, Pontus(in the picture), Sepidar and a lot of other people has signed up to participate in the Dance Peace Festival. Wicked! The list is getting longer. But we have a lot to do. Sepidar will also show our Bed-in live streamed at her exhibition at the gallery Hangups.

Over.

Peace and Love

Spreading the word

2009-09-25T23:51:00.006+02:00

Spent the day mailing, among others our super-producer Louise and the boss over at PP - he spoke passionately about football.

Ok, we are now trying to find florists who are willing to support our cause!
If you are a florist or know of any florists who you think would like to help us out, have them contact us!

Wednesday I went on a meeting with Mabel to Kulturhuset. We met with Jaana and Mabel explained what The World March is all about, about the Nuclear Abolition Flame initiated by the mayor of Hiroshima and activities taking place the 2nd of Oct. That's the date when the World March for Peace and Non-Violence will take off in New Zealand. If you've missed it, the march will arrive in Stockholm, Sweden the 28th of Oct, the night of our Mass Bed-in. I Spoke about our plans in conjunction with The World March - the Mass Bed-in. The meeting went well and among other things we spoke about showing the Bed-in at Kulturhuset. It would be fantastic - we won't march for peace but among other things we'll dance for peace.

Anders over at Mellqvist Kaffebar Södermalm said he'd be psyched about showing us on their wall during our Bed-in. Whoa, very close to home but very cool, if he can work it out.

So for now we have Mellqvist Söder, Clarion Söder and perhaps Kulturhuset on our list of places that will show the Bed-in. Where will this end? Heh!

Peace!

13 Days Peace Dance Festival in 6 days

2009-09-24T21:35:00.013+02:00

Ok, so we have a dream. We would like to host the biggest Dance Festival to date. Participation-wise. Yes. The biggest. And while participating in this Dance Festival one would contemplate on the two words, "Imagine Peace".

So this is how we are thinking.

During our Bed-in for Peace in Oct between the 24th and 31st we will be hosting Yoko Ono's conceptual 13 Days Dance Festival for Peace from our beds. Our hope is to host the biggest Dance-festival on Earth and we are now looking all over the planet for participants who are willing to contemplate "Imagine Peace" while doing the dance-festival.

This is how it can work.
Every morning a new dance-instruction will be posted here on the blog.
Every participant make their own version on how to solve the instruction(s).
After done deed the participant produces a dance-report and hands it over to us - in any shape or form.
We post results, if possible, in our blog - every day!

Now, The Peace-Dance-Festival participants will get instructions on the daily activities/instructions here on our blog and they will then report in to us in any way they feel; commenting here on blog, video, SMS, email, chat, telephone or even telepathy for those with the ability.

It's easy! Remember, you define you participation; how it is done, how much time you spend and all the other how's.
You can be wherever in the world. We will even ask NASA to have a few move some for us.

Now, if you want to participate, sign up in the FORM to the right, just write your name and e-mail and CLICK or send us a note and we'll add you to the list of Festival-doers.

Do you know of a any florists, merchants, tailors, schools, other activists, dancers, artists, actors, taxidrivers, chefs, teachers, Facebook-friends and so forth you think would be interested in participating? Have them contact us now!

WE WANT YOU!
For 13 Days Peace Dance Festival!

Sign up HERE! All you do is fill out NAME and EMAIL and then you CLICK!

The Peace Dance Festival will take place between the 25-30 of October.

Peace!

J.L

2009-09-24T00:15:00.004+02:00

Everybody knows that the people have the power, all we have to do is to awaken the power in the people.

John Lennon

Andrea Back

2009-09-23T21:07:00.009+02:00

Back again from Oslo! After some norwegian "mushroom hunting" and "forest walking". Each time I go back to Oslo the swedish invasion of norwegian service jobs is more and more evident. The exotic feeling of coming home to norway is slowly being smudged. Lovely!

I kind of tried not to work at all while I was in Oslo so the long-distance work between me and Daniel was somewhat limited. But I worked a lot on my inner peace!

Today we picked out the winning pictures from the photo shoot and it felt quit good. And we look very good. I visited the newly opened coffee place to today Daniel and got some feedback on the pictures. (Malin liked my leg.)

The list of the 18 Grapefruiters is starting to take form.

Tomorrow I´m not completely sure what we will do but I really think we should workout a bit at the gym. Physical training helps the brain work and we were quit slow today.

Note: I really think the train connection between Stockholm and Oslo should go back to how it was some years ago when it took 4.30 min with the superduper x2000 train. Now it takes (minimum) 6 hours and I learned you can´t even bring your bike with you on the train anymore! Come on SJ! It feels like the train business is moving in completely the wrong direction. I´m worried.

I do like mondays

2009-09-21T20:05:00.002+02:00

All the kinks regarding the upcoming Mass Bed-in the 29th of Oct and activities related to the Bed-in now seems to be sorted. Clarion hotell are really stepping up! I am very happy about this!
I also had a meeting with Ängla, who truly is an angel, and we talked about food and well, she just settled the whole deal in 15 minutes and that was that. Cous Cous FTW!
Now photosession at Clarion!

Off to plot

2009-09-18T21:28:00.003+02:00

Friend called me, he wanted tapas.
So off it is, off to plot.
Could be worse.

Mediating the Bed-in

2009-09-18T16:37:00.006+02:00

So we plan on mediating the whole Bed-in, save for a visit from the World Marchers for Peace that will drop by for lunch and a chat the 29th of Oct.

Did I mention it is between the 24th and the 31st of Oct? Ok, maybe I did, but there it goes. Those are the dates. Anyone interested in doing something, anything, participating in some way, get in touch with us.

Besides training today I managed to squeeze in a short visit to a newly opened coffee place at St Paulsgatan. And wouldn't you know, I just happened to run into an old colleague that just happened to know ppl in the right places when it comes to broadcasting the event. Let's just hope it all works out, then you can follow our daily dance-in-bed-endeavours every morning while having breakfast. Imagine that, having breakfast, contemplating Peace and getting a piece of dance for peace while sipping the morning Yirgacheffe. Life is good.

The visit at the coffeee-place ended on a minor though since I realized I had zilch in cash and they do not, still - which I think is kewl, accept credit-cards. No coffee for you mister!

And no Västerbottentoast either.

Food for the win

2009-09-17T15:36:00.002+02:00

During a Bed-in you need to eat. Any activist needs to eat. Today we received the good news that we probably have some good people wanting to help us out by feeding us. This is great news!

Peace!

Kulturhuset - Mabel and no meeting

2009-09-16T12:10:00.000+02:00

So I was on my way to a meeting with Mabel, the swedish coordinator of The World March for Peace and Non-violence but somehow we were planning on meeting different days. No meeting then! Standing there in front of Kulturhuset, I thought - great, this will give me another 2 hours to think about who to call considering the videostuff we are planning.

We were planning on working with this kewl video-artist that works with surveillance-cameras and modification of perceived occurrences through time-manipulations but the way it looks now, he is too busy to get involved. We will have to look for someone else. I have a few ideas but still, I need to make some calls to find the right person for this. Not only do this person need to understand the concept of mediating the Bed-in but also be tech savvy and perhaps have some experience in live editing and web-streaming. Not the most common professional profile but I'll call my good friend JP and check if he might have an opening somewhere with someone.

Andrea has gone to Norway and well, while working long-distance can be productive nothing beats sitting in the same room, around the same table. We will just have to keep pushing when she comes back. Still, Google Docs is a fantastic thing. Hooray.

Bed-in Stockholm 2009 - Re-activism

2009-09-15T16:00:00.000+02:00

In collaboration with Perfect Performance
(http://www.perfectperformance.se)
and The World March for Peace and Non-violence
(http://www.theworldmarch.org/) we will do a "Bed-in" at Clarion Hotell, Södermalm in Stockholm, Sweden, for Peace and to celebrate the 40:th anniversary of Yoko & Johns Bed-in in Amsterdam 1969.

The Bed-in will take place between the 24:th and 31:st of Oct, 2009.

We want to use our Bed-in to reactivate and bring forth a message of Peace. It's re-activism for peace.

We will be updating this with current news and activities.