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LEWISTON — Elizabeth Peavey, a Portland-based writer, performer and educator and Anne Cardale, program director for the Maine Senior College Network, will present “We ZOOM — How About You?” at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn Senior College Food for Thought luncheon on Friday, Feb. 10.
This session will demonstrate how Peavey taught an online video conference memoir writing class for seniors, who used the ZOOM video conference platform and their computers and iPads to participate in class from home.
The session will include a live demonstration of the ZOOM technology as well as comments from class participants from Presque Isle, Machias and Lewiston-Auburn.
Cardale will share how this class originated, and Elizabeth will discuss the importance of memoir writing as well as her experience being an instructor via ZOOM versus the classroom setting.
Peavey’s one-woman show, “My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother,” has played to sold-out houses since 2011 and won the Maine Literary Award for Best Drama. She is the author of three books, including “Glorious Slow Going: Maine Stories of Art, Adventure and Friendship,” which was a Maine Literary Awards finalist. She has written a humor column for 20 years, and her writing has been featured in Down East magazine since 1993. She teaches public speaking at the University of Southern Maine.
Cardale was born in the Lake District in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a Church of England vicar. She holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design and a master’s degree in photography from the Royal College of Art in London. She also worked as a freelance photojournalist in the UK for 15 years while teaching photography at different art schools in London. Cardale moved to Maine to attend the adult and higher education master’s program. She has worked for Women, Work and Community and the National Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Network. She became the MSCN program director in 2014 where she works with the boards and staff of the 17 senior colleges throughout Maine.
Senior College, now in its 19th year, presents this monthly luncheon program, which is open to the public, in Function Room 170 at USM LAC. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., and the program will begin promptly at noon. The cost, which includes lunch, is $7 with an advance reservation or $8 at the door. To make your advance reservation, call Senior College at 753-6510 by noon on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Reservation calls received after this date/time will be considered “at the door.”
