PAC NYC ICONS OF CULTURE brings together innovators, creators, and game changers for a series of conversations about shaping culture and influencing the way we live, work, and play. The 2025 festival will celebrate WOMEN IN FRONT with high-profile conversations over three nights featuring women who are leading the way and making a distinct mark in our society.

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• ICONS OF CULTURE: Es Devlin

  DATES: OCT 29 6PM
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  British artist and designer Es Devlin (born London 1971) views an audience as a temporary society and invites public participation in communal choral works. Her major installation works have focused on some of London's most vital communities: In Congregation (2024), she made chalk and charcoal portraits of 50 Londoners who brought their gifts to the city having experienced displacement. In Come Home Again (2022), she drew 243 of London's most endangered species and installed them outside Tate Modern underscored by London's diasporic choirs. In 2018, she painted one of Trafalgar Square's stone lions fluorescent red and invited visitors to feed it words that formed a collective poem projected onto Nelson's Column. She designed Dear England at the National Theatre (2023) which brought together the UK's football and theatre communities, and The Lehman Trilogy (2018) which explored the mechanics of Western Capitalism over three hours with three actors and a piano. She designed the UK Pavilion at the World Expo (2021) which gathered millions of visitors' words into an AI co-authored global collective poem, the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime show (featuring Dr Dre and Kendrick Lamar), Beyoncé's Renaissance tour, operas at the Royal Opera House and La Scala, and the London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony. She has been awarded three Oliviers, a Tony, an Ivor Novello, the McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, and a CBE, and is Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University.

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• ICONS OF CULTURE: Christy Turlington Burns

  DATES: OCT 29 8PM
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  Christy Turlington Burns is the Founder and President of Every Mother Counts. Christy’s work in maternal health began after she experienced a childbirth-related complication in 2003—an experience that inspired her to direct and produce the documentary feature film, No Woman, No Cry, about the challenges women face throughout pregnancy and childbirth around the world. Under Christy’s leadership, over the past 15 years Every Mother Counts has invested nearly $50 million to support awareness raising, community-led solutions, and advocacy for systems change, with the goal of ensuring that the maternal health journey before, during, and after childbirth is safe, respectful, and equitable for everyone, everywhere. Before founding EMC, Christy received international acclaim as a model representing the world’s biggest fashion and beauty brands which she leveraged to become a health and wellness advocate. She authored a book about yoga, Living Yoga: Creating A Life Practice (Hyperion 2002), edited the book, Arrival Stories: Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers (Random House 2022) with Amy Schumer, and served as an executive producer for the 2023 Apple TV documentary series, The Super Models. In 2025, Christy was named to the inaugural TIME100 Philanthropy list as one of the most influential people shaping the future of giving, and she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from New York University in 2023. Christy graduated Cum Laude from NYU’s Gallatin School of Independent Studies and studied Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She has completed 10 Marathons on behalf of Team EMC and lives in New York City.

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• ICONS OF CULTURE: Danai Gurira

  DATES: OCT 30 8PM
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  Danai Gurira is an award-winning actress and playwright. She starred as General Okoye in Marvel’s Academy Award-winning blockbuster film Black Panther, for which she won a People’s Choice Award (Favorite Action Movie Star), an NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Supporting Actress/Motion Picture) and a shared SAG Award (Outstanding Performance by a Cast/Motion Picture). Later that year she reprised her role in Avengers: Infinity War and again in Avengers: Endgame, which went on to become the #1 top grossing film in history. She reprised her role of Okoye in the highly anticipated Black Panther sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, one of 2022’s top grossing films. She most recently wrapped shooting the Apple TV+ film Matchbox opposite John Cena.

  On television, she is best known for starring as Michonne on AMC’s The Walking Dead. This February marked the release of the AMC limited series The Ones Who Live, in which she reprises her role of Michonne and reunites with her co-star Andrew Lincoln. She also serves as an executive producer, co-creator, and co-writer on the series, which broke AMC viewership records with its premiere episode. Her other acting credits include the feature films All Eyez on Me, Mother of George, and The Visitor. She has also starred in Shakespeare in the Park’s stage productions of Measure for Measure (Equity Callaway Award) and Richard III as the title character, directed by Robert O’Hara.

  As a playwright, she is distinguished as the first African female writer to have a play on Broadway, and to bring the perspective of African women to mainstream theater. Her plays include In the Continuum (OBIE Award, Outer Critics Award, Helen Hayes Award), Eclipsed (Tony nomination: Best Play, NAACP Award, Helen Hayes Award: Best New Play, Connecticut Critics Circle Award: Outstanding Production of a Play), and The Convert (six Ovation Awards, L.A. Outer Critics Award). Her newest play, Familiar, received its world premiere at Yale Rep and premiered in New York at Playwrights Horizons. Commissioned by Yale Rep, Center Theatre Group, Playwrights Horizons, and the Royal Court, she is a recipient of the Sam Norkin Award (2016 Drama Desk Awards), a Whiting Award as well as a Hodder Fellowship.

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