Puppeteers of America’s 2023 National Festival presents a panel dialogue with Concord Park residents livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on this web page on Saturday 22 July at 7 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 9 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 10 a.m. EDT (Pittsburgh, UTC -4).
Housing rights activist Morris Milgram developed Concord Park outdoors of Philadelphia as an interracial neighborhood at a time when covenants prohibiting the sale of houses to African Americans and different minority teams had been routinely included in deeds. Children of the Wonderland Puppet Theatre puppeteers will focus on their expertise rising up in a neighborhood that deliberately sought to meet Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s imaginative and prescient of beloved neighborhood and the position that the Wonderland Puppet Theatre performed in unifying neighbors.