Celebrating 100 years of defending the written word 

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** Join us for an inspiring art installation by Jenny Holzer.
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** Wednesday Sept. 14–Sunday Sept. 18 | 8 pm–10 pm
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY
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To mark 100 years of PEN America's defense of free expression, renowned artist Jenny Holzer will premiere SPEECH ITSELF ([link removed]) , a powerful new series of large-scale light projections at New York’s Rockefeller Center. The facades of 30 Rockefeller Plaza and 610 and 620 Fifth Avenue will be lit with selected passages from gifted writers and artists who have supported PEN America’s vital work to protect free expression, including Ayad Akhtar, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Margaret Atwood, Ron Chernow, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Joy Harjo, Jhumpa Lahiri, Yoon Ha Lee, Toni Morrison, Alejandro Zambra, and many more.

The collaboration between PEN America and the “impresario of language who makes words into visual spectaculars,” as The New York Times called Holzer, comes amid rising threats worldwide to the rights of writers, journalists, scholars, artists and people from all walks of life to read, speak, teach, and learn freely.

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Are you interested in volunteering to help at this event? Fill out this form to sign up! ([link removed]) Volunteers will get the opportunity to meet and network with other supporters of PEN America’s mission to uphold and defend free expression. They’ll also get to take home plenty of swag! If you have any questions, please email Aleah at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .

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