Cartoonist James Sturm will present “Applied Cartooning: Civic Engagement, Public Health and Funny Animals” at Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church Sunday, July 2, at 11 a.m. as part of the Monadnock Summer Lyceum.
Sturm is cofounder and creative director of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vt. He is a major advocate of harnessing the power of comics for public education. He has published several graphic novels: “The Galem’s Mighty Swing,” “Market Day” and “Off Season,” and has adapted “Watership Down” into graphic novel format. He is also working toward creating cartoon instructional books for children. He was honored as a MacDowell Fellow in 2008 and 2015 and named Mary Bunting Institute Fellow by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard in 2020-2021.
David Macy, resident director of the MacDowell Colony, will serve as moderator. Attendees can come at 10:30 a.m. for music by The Fireside Winds, featuring Julie Armstrong, Susan Henkel and Mary Seaver, before the lecture begins at 11 a.m.
For information, go to the Monadnock Summer Lyceum website.