Wednesday Sept. 14–Sunday Sept. 18 | 8 pm–10 pm
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY
To mark 100 years of PEN America's defense of free expression, renowned artist Jenny Holzer will premiere SPEECH ITSELF, 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.
Learn more about how PEN America is celebrating its 100th year.
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