Meet the Phanatic at Let Freedom Ring!

Ring the bell with the Phanatic at the Association for Public Art’s “Let Freedom Ring” installation at Cherry Street Pier

Perfect photo op! Ring the bell with the Phanatic during his special visit to the Association for Public Art’s Let Freedom Ring installation at Cherry Street Pier. Explore what freedom means to different people—including a Phanatic—through hands-on activities.

Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Association for Public Art presents Let Freedom Ring by artist Paul Ramírez Jonas at Cherry Street Pier. Conceived as an enormous bell tower, the work is a powerful reimagination and reactivation of our nation’s founding ideals. It plays the patriotic song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” in its entirety — all but the final note. Participants must pull a lever to ring the last note on a 600-pound bell at the base of the sculpture to complete the song, a poignant metaphor and model for how we can work together as a society to fulfill the unfinished promises of our nation’s founding.