Exhibit Explores Links Between Peace, Pop Music
The “Give Peace a Chance” exhibit at the L.A. Collection in Laguna Beach chronicles six decades of efforts to promote peace through pop music. It features original song manuscripts, rare concert posters, gold records, letters and other documents, photographs and memorabilia of, from and regarding such performers as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Woody Guthrie, Country Joe McDonald, the Clash, U2, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.
On loan from the Peace Museum in Chicago, it will remain at the L.A. Collection gallery through Dec. 24. The showing is sponsored by the International Museum of 20th-Century Arts and Cultural Centre, whose U.S. headquarters are in Laguna Beach.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays. The gallery is in the Pavilion shopping center, at 1146 S. Coast Highway.
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