Opening of Yoko Ono's "Imagine No Fracking" Installation

Opening of Yoko Ono's "Imagine No Fracking" Installation
Where: ABC Carpet & Home Who was there: Guests included Yoko Ono, Rufus Wainwright, Adrian Grenier, Susan Sarandon, Sara Bareilles, Carla Gugino, Horst M. Rechelbacher, Paulette Cole, Deepak Chopra, Amy Ray, and Josh Fox. [Photo: Yoko Ono via NYTimes] [Deepak Chopra, Susan Sarandon] Other details: On Friday, Yoko Ono's art installation "Imagine No Fracking" was unveiled at ABC Home & Carpet.  Guests came together to show their support for a quest to persuade Governor Cuomo to find alternative ways to extract natural gas from the earth. The night began with two songs by Rufus Wainwright and then Yoko took the stage. When asked about the collaboration she recalled,
“I immediately said ‘Yes’ when ABC asked me to take over their window displays to help spread the message to stop fracking our beautiful state, I was surprised by the courage of ABC to use all of their windows to express a message so important for people’s health. We need more brave people to speak up and join in the fight to save our land and water.”
[Rufus Wainwright, Adrian Grenier] [Carla Gugino] After Yoko spoke, the audience heard heartfelt words from Susan Sarandon and Deepak Chopra. Then, Amy Ray took to the stage to play four songs followed by Sarah Bareilles who closed out the musical portion of the presentation, even getting the entire room to whistle along to one of her tunes. The night ended with a Q&A session with Deepak Chopra and Josh Fox the creators of the anti-fracking film "Gasland." [Susan Sarandon, Rufus Wainwright, Deepak Chopra, Paulette Cole] [Rufus Wainwright] [Photos via]
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