Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

MPLS (imPulse) joined Bart Buch and In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre’s Phillips Project for a staged summer production celebrating the Phillips Neighborhood of Minneapolis. The performance featured vocal music and puppet vignettes, video projection, dance, photography, and stilting that weaved together text and themes from residents living in Phillips. Young Dance, Powderhorn Theatre Arts Group, and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church all made guest appearances. Won’t You be my Neighbor? culminated with a lantern procession led by The Phillips Project youth and partners United Tribes of Little Earth, Waite House, and PPL’s Collaborative Village Initiative. The procession traveled from In the Heart of the Beast Theatre to Powderhorn Park.