Every Hero Tells A Story: A Changing America Comics Workshop with Marek Bennett

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Keene Public Library
Lower Level

Event Details

Marek will show you how to draw a story as a comic in this hands-on two-part workshop series. We'll learn about real life Civil Rights heroes like Jonathan Daniels and put them in our own comic books. Daniels was a native of Keene, N.H. While a seminarian at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Ma., he responded to the pleas of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for clergy to become more actively involved in the Civil Rights movement and he traveled to Alabama to assist with voter registration efforts in the South.

Come have fun at the workshop, which is open to adults and children who are at least 8-years-old.

“Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963” is presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and is part of NEH’s Bridging Cultures initiative, “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle,” which brings four outstanding films on the civil rights movement to communities across the United States (see http://createdequal.neh.gov). “Created Equal” encourages communities across the country to revisit and reflect on the long history of civil rights in America.


Event Type(s): Activities and Crafts
Age Group(s): School Age Kids
Presenter: Marek Bennett
Gail Zachariah
(603) 352-0157

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