Puppeteers of America’s 2023 National Festival presents a panel discussion with Concord Park residents livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network on this 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 outside of Philadelphia as an interracial community at a time when covenants prohibiting the sale of homes to African Americans and other minority groups were routinely included in deeds. Children of the Wonderland Puppet Theatre puppeteers will discuss their experience growing up in a neighborhood that intentionally sought to fulfill Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of beloved community and the role that the Wonderland Puppet Theatre played in unifying neighbors.
