The Portal Organization has to find a new partner by the end of September. Without one, the livestream sculpture will depart Philadelphia. This circular screen sits in City Hall’s courtyard and links Philadelphians to residents across several cities in Europe, the Philippines, and Brazil. The video feed runs all day and night.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia<\/a> remains the sole North American location with this installation.<\/a> Feeds cycle between cities like Vilnius, Lithuania, Dublin, Ireland, Lublin, Poland, Taguig, Philippines, and Piau\u00ed, Brazil. People can wave at each other and hold up signs, but the livestreams don’t carry sound.<\/p>\n New York City first saw the installation in May 2024 before it traveled to LOVE Park that October. Leaders and organizers promoted its arrival ahead of America’s 250th anniversary celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n A public vote picked a new spot, which brought the sculpture to City Hall in April 2025. Last year, organizers mentioned the city only backed a two-year stay.<\/p>\n Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys built this livestream project to connect people from different nations. He launched the program in 2016.<\/p>\n “In the City of Brotherly Love, the Portal became a place where pure human connection could be felt every day,” Gylys said. “It belongs in Philadelphia. What we need now is for a local partner to step forward and say yes.”<\/p>\n The organization wants a partner with access to a prominent public location. Requirements include open space, power, and an internet connection. The sponsor would need to support moving and refurbishing the sculpture, which got damaged during its first installation at LOVE Park. Several partners could work together to keep it in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portal Organization has to find a new partner by the end of September. Without one, the livestream…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-264048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}