LEWISTON — Elizabeth Peavey, a Portland-based writer, performer and educator, and Anne Cardale, program director for the Maine Senior College Network, will be the presenters at the Senior College at University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College Food for Thought luncheon on Friday, Feb. 10.

This session, “We Zoom — How About You?” will demonstrate how Peavey taught an online videoconference memoir writing class for seniors, who used the Zoom videoconference platform and their computers and iPads to participate in class from their home locations.

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 Peavey will discuss the importance of memoir writing, as well as her experience being an instructor via Zoom versus a traditional 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 UK and 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 has worked for Women, Work and Community and the national Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Network. She became the Maine Senior College Network’s program director in 2014, where she works with the boards and staff of the 17 Senior Colleges throughout Maine. Her office is on the USM Portland campus.

This monthly luncheon program will be held in Function Room 170 at USM’s Lewiston-Auburn College. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and the program will begin promptly at noon. The program, which is open to the public, costs $7, including lunch, with an advance reservation made by Feb. 8. Admission is $8 at the door. 

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