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Friday March 31, 2023
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	QiGong for Health and Healing (In-Person 5-week course) - QiGong for Health and Healing -( In-Person 5-week course) QiGong is an ancient Chinese practice which promotes many benefits for health, healing, and longevity. It is the basis for interacting with our qi (life energy), which slowly depletes over time, especially as we become older. We can learn how to enhance and nurture this vital energy through meditation, breath, self-massage, and movement. One of the beauties of QiGong is that it can be practiced sitting or standing and is adaptable to individual strengths and abilities. We learn to listen to the body rather than over-ride it. In this course, we will do some fun, easy exercises to loosen up the body and the joints.  We will include:     additional activities to improve our breathing     self-massage to enliven our energy pathways (meridians)     an easy six movement form (can be done sitting or standing) to help us actually feel our own qi and to release stagnant energy and build nurturing qi.      There will be discussion, minimal lecture, demonstration of each form, and a lot of doing to provide personal experience.      Students will receive handouts to assist in recall and ability to continue practice between classes at home. In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	CARNEVALE: FILM COMEDY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE - In-Person 6-week course) - CARNEVALE: FILM COMEDY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE - (In-Person 6-week course) Humour provides us a wonderfully rich path to opening up what we otherwise avoid talking about as too difficult subjects.  While some comedies take a particular issue head-on, such as Dr Strangelove in addressing the nuclear madness of the 1950s-60s, others look more to larger social anxieties, such as Sleeper and our worries about the future.  This course will favour those broader issues, looking to several different decades from the 1920s on.  Films may include A Nous la Liberté, A Night at the Opera, Adam’s Rib, Man in the White Suit, The Stunt Man, and Up and Down.Details about location will be sent after registration.In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Monday April 3, 2023
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM	ALWAYS CURRENT: CHARLES DICKENS' "BLEAK HOUSE" in our Age (In-Person 6-week course) - Always Current: Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" on our Age (In-Person 6-week course) Dickens published Bleak House serially beginning soon after the Great Exposition of 1851 which presented Great Britain as a world on the move in the full flowering of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens, successful and established in London, knew the story was a lot more complicated–and bleaker. Ruth intends to supplement the reading and discussion of Bleak House with information about the actual times and some thoughtful critical responses (such as George Orwell’s wonderful take on Dickens as a revolutionary). The class will read chunks at a time together as I’ll hope to approximate what it was like for readers of Household Words in which Bleak House appeared, a couple of chapters at a time. And there will be discussion and more discussion. Any version of Bleak House will do for the primary text. Dig out your battered copy 0f Bleak House! Or call your local library or bookstores to see if you can find the books, or order online in a paperback version, e-reader, or audio versionRuth will supply other bits of texts.Class will be held at a new location: UMA-Bangor campus, Eastport Hall Room 136 10:30-12:30. Parking is very convenient.More details coming In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Thursday April 6, 2023
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	The Origins of Maine Lakes, their Characteristics, how they Function and Evolve, and their Future (In-Person Course 6-weeks) - The Origins of Maine Lakes, their Characteristics, how they Function and Evolve, and their Future (In-Person Course 6-weeks) Maine’s 5,000+ lakes are “young”, all less than 16,000 years old. Since they were formed, largely by glacial processes, they have evolved chemically, biologically, and physically. What we see now is a snapshot in a 16,000 year film, recorded in accumulating lake sediments. We will develop an understanding of how lakes function in their initial physical setting, how they and their respective terrestrial watersheds evolve in their functioning, how humans have impacted lakes, and what we can expect because of climate change over the next few decades.Steve is out of state the first normal week of the Senior College Spring term. Thus, we will start the week of April 3, and every week thereafter for a total of six weeks. If there is sufficient interest, we will take a field trip, after the six weeks, to a lovely nearby lake, check out some of the things we talked about in class, have a picnic, and then work our way home.In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Friday April 7, 2023
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	QiGong for Health and Healing (In-Person 5-week course) - QiGong for Health and Healing -( In-Person 5-week course) QiGong is an ancient Chinese practice which promotes many benefits for health, healing, and longevity. It is the basis for interacting with our qi (life energy), which slowly depletes over time, especially as we become older. We can learn how to enhance and nurture this vital energy through meditation, breath, self-massage, and movement. One of the beauties of QiGong is that it can be practiced sitting or standing and is adaptable to individual strengths and abilities. We learn to listen to the body rather than over-ride it. In this course, we will do some fun, easy exercises to loosen up the body and the joints.  We will include:     additional activities to improve our breathing     self-massage to enliven our energy pathways (meridians)     an easy six movement form (can be done sitting or standing) to help us actually feel our own qi and to release stagnant energy and build nurturing qi.      There will be discussion, minimal lecture, demonstration of each form, and a lot of doing to provide personal experience.      Students will receive handouts to assist in recall and ability to continue practice between classes at home. In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	CARNEVALE: FILM COMEDY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE - In-Person 6-week course) - CARNEVALE: FILM COMEDY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE - (In-Person 6-week course) Humour provides us a wonderfully rich path to opening up what we otherwise avoid talking about as too difficult subjects.  While some comedies take a particular issue head-on, such as Dr Strangelove in addressing the nuclear madness of the 1950s-60s, others look more to larger social anxieties, such as Sleeper and our worries about the future.  This course will favour those broader issues, looking to several different decades from the 1920s on.  Films may include A Nous la Liberté, A Night at the Opera, Adam’s Rib, Man in the White Suit, The Stunt Man, and Up and Down.Details about location will be sent after registration.In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Monday April 10, 2023
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM	ALWAYS CURRENT: CHARLES DICKENS' "BLEAK HOUSE" in our Age (In-Person 6-week course) - Always Current: Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" on our Age (In-Person 6-week course) Dickens published Bleak House serially beginning soon after the Great Exposition of 1851 which presented Great Britain as a world on the move in the full flowering of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens, successful and established in London, knew the story was a lot more complicated–and bleaker. Ruth intends to supplement the reading and discussion of Bleak House with information about the actual times and some thoughtful critical responses (such as George Orwell’s wonderful take on Dickens as a revolutionary). The class will read chunks at a time together as I’ll hope to approximate what it was like for readers of Household Words in which Bleak House appeared, a couple of chapters at a time. And there will be discussion and more discussion. Any version of Bleak House will do for the primary text. Dig out your battered copy 0f Bleak House! Or call your local library or bookstores to see if you can find the books, or order online in a paperback version, e-reader, or audio versionRuth will supply other bits of texts.Class will be held at a new location: UMA-Bangor campus, Eastport Hall Room 136 10:30-12:30. Parking is very convenient.More details coming In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Thursday April 13, 2023
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	The Origins of Maine Lakes, their Characteristics, how they Function and Evolve, and their Future (In-Person Course 6-weeks) - The Origins of Maine Lakes, their Characteristics, how they Function and Evolve, and their Future (In-Person Course 6-weeks) Maine’s 5,000+ lakes are “young”, all less than 16,000 years old. Since they were formed, largely by glacial processes, they have evolved chemically, biologically, and physically. What we see now is a snapshot in a 16,000 year film, recorded in accumulating lake sediments. We will develop an understanding of how lakes function in their initial physical setting, how they and their respective terrestrial watersheds evolve in their functioning, how humans have impacted lakes, and what we can expect because of climate change over the next few decades.Steve is out of state the first normal week of the Senior College Spring term. Thus, we will start the week of April 3, and every week thereafter for a total of six weeks. If there is sufficient interest, we will take a field trip, after the six weeks, to a lovely nearby lake, check out some of the things we talked about in class, have a picnic, and then work our way home.In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Friday April 14, 2023
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	QiGong for Health and Healing (In-Person 5-week course) - QiGong for Health and Healing -( In-Person 5-week course) QiGong is an ancient Chinese practice which promotes many benefits for health, healing, and longevity. It is the basis for interacting with our qi (life energy), which slowly depletes over time, especially as we become older. We can learn how to enhance and nurture this vital energy through meditation, breath, self-massage, and movement. One of the beauties of QiGong is that it can be practiced sitting or standing and is adaptable to individual strengths and abilities. We learn to listen to the body rather than over-ride it. In this course, we will do some fun, easy exercises to loosen up the body and the joints.  We will include:     additional activities to improve our breathing     self-massage to enliven our energy pathways (meridians)     an easy six movement form (can be done sitting or standing) to help us actually feel our own qi and to release stagnant energy and build nurturing qi.      There will be discussion, minimal lecture, demonstration of each form, and a lot of doing to provide personal experience.      Students will receive handouts to assist in recall and ability to continue practice between classes at home. In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	CARNEVALE: FILM COMEDY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE - In-Person 6-week course) - CARNEVALE: FILM COMEDY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE - (In-Person 6-week course) Humour provides us a wonderfully rich path to opening up what we otherwise avoid talking about as too difficult subjects.  While some comedies take a particular issue head-on, such as Dr Strangelove in addressing the nuclear madness of the 1950s-60s, others look more to larger social anxieties, such as Sleeper and our worries about the future.  This course will favour those broader issues, looking to several different decades from the 1920s on.  Films may include A Nous la Liberté, A Night at the Opera, Adam’s Rib, Man in the White Suit, The Stunt Man, and Up and Down.Details about location will be sent after registration.In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Monday April 17, 2023
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM	ALWAYS CURRENT: CHARLES DICKENS' "BLEAK HOUSE" in our Age (In-Person 6-week course) - Always Current: Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" on our Age (In-Person 6-week course) Dickens published Bleak House serially beginning soon after the Great Exposition of 1851 which presented Great Britain as a world on the move in the full flowering of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens, successful and established in London, knew the story was a lot more complicated–and bleaker. Ruth intends to supplement the reading and discussion of Bleak House with information about the actual times and some thoughtful critical responses (such as George Orwell’s wonderful take on Dickens as a revolutionary). The class will read chunks at a time together as I’ll hope to approximate what it was like for readers of Household Words in which Bleak House appeared, a couple of chapters at a time. And there will be discussion and more discussion. Any version of Bleak House will do for the primary text. Dig out your battered copy 0f Bleak House! Or call your local library or bookstores to see if you can find the books, or order online in a paperback version, e-reader, or audio versionRuth will supply other bits of texts.Class will be held at a new location: UMA-Bangor campus, Eastport Hall Room 136 10:30-12:30. Parking is very convenient.More details coming In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Thursday April 20, 2023
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	The Origins of Maine Lakes, their Characteristics, how they Function and Evolve, and their Future (In-Person Course 6-weeks) - The Origins of Maine Lakes, their Characteristics, how they Function and Evolve, and their Future (In-Person Course 6-weeks) Maine’s 5,000+ lakes are “young”, all less than 16,000 years old. Since they were formed, largely by glacial processes, they have evolved chemically, biologically, and physically. What we see now is a snapshot in a 16,000 year film, recorded in accumulating lake sediments. We will develop an understanding of how lakes function in their initial physical setting, how they and their respective terrestrial watersheds evolve in their functioning, how humans have impacted lakes, and what we can expect because of climate change over the next few decades.Steve is out of state the first normal week of the Senior College Spring term. Thus, we will start the week of April 3, and every week thereafter for a total of six weeks. If there is sufficient interest, we will take a field trip, after the six weeks, to a lovely nearby lake, check out some of the things we talked about in class, have a picnic, and then work our way home.In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Friday April 21, 2023
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	QiGong for Health and Healing (In-Person 5-week course) - QiGong for Health and Healing -( In-Person 5-week course) QiGong is an ancient Chinese practice which promotes many benefits for health, healing, and longevity. It is the basis for interacting with our qi (life energy), which slowly depletes over time, especially as we become older. We can learn how to enhance and nurture this vital energy through meditation, breath, self-massage, and movement. One of the beauties of QiGong is that it can be practiced sitting or standing and is adaptable to individual strengths and abilities. We learn to listen to the body rather than over-ride it. In this course, we will do some fun, easy exercises to loosen up the body and the joints.  We will include:     additional activities to improve our breathing     self-massage to enliven our energy pathways (meridians)     an easy six movement form (can be done sitting or standing) to help us actually feel our own qi and to release stagnant energy and build nurturing qi.      There will be discussion, minimal lecture, demonstration of each form, and a lot of doing to provide personal experience.      Students will receive handouts to assist in recall and ability to continue practice between classes at home. In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	CARNEVALE: FILM COMEDY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE - In-Person 6-week course) - CARNEVALE: FILM COMEDY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE - (In-Person 6-week course) Humour provides us a wonderfully rich path to opening up what we otherwise avoid talking about as too difficult subjects.  While some comedies take a particular issue head-on, such as Dr Strangelove in addressing the nuclear madness of the 1950s-60s, others look more to larger social anxieties, such as Sleeper and our worries about the future.  This course will favour those broader issues, looking to several different decades from the 1920s on.  Films may include A Nous la Liberté, A Night at the Opera, Adam’s Rib, Man in the White Suit, The Stunt Man, and Up and Down.Details about location will be sent after registration.In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Monday April 24, 2023
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM	ALWAYS CURRENT: CHARLES DICKENS' "BLEAK HOUSE" in our Age (In-Person 6-week course) - Always Current: Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" on our Age (In-Person 6-week course) Dickens published Bleak House serially beginning soon after the Great Exposition of 1851 which presented Great Britain as a world on the move in the full flowering of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens, successful and established in London, knew the story was a lot more complicated–and bleaker. Ruth intends to supplement the reading and discussion of Bleak House with information about the actual times and some thoughtful critical responses (such as George Orwell’s wonderful take on Dickens as a revolutionary). The class will read chunks at a time together as I’ll hope to approximate what it was like for readers of Household Words in which Bleak House appeared, a couple of chapters at a time. And there will be discussion and more discussion. Any version of Bleak House will do for the primary text. Dig out your battered copy 0f Bleak House! Or call your local library or bookstores to see if you can find the books, or order online in a paperback version, e-reader, or audio versionRuth will supply other bits of texts.Class will be held at a new location: UMA-Bangor campus, Eastport Hall Room 136 10:30-12:30. Parking is very convenient.More details coming In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Thursday April 27, 2023
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	The Origins of Maine Lakes, their Characteristics, how they Function and Evolve, and their Future (In-Person Course 6-weeks) - The Origins of Maine Lakes, their Characteristics, how they Function and Evolve, and their Future (In-Person Course 6-weeks) Maine’s 5,000+ lakes are “young”, all less than 16,000 years old. Since they were formed, largely by glacial processes, they have evolved chemically, biologically, and physically. What we see now is a snapshot in a 16,000 year film, recorded in accumulating lake sediments. We will develop an understanding of how lakes function in their initial physical setting, how they and their respective terrestrial watersheds evolve in their functioning, how humans have impacted lakes, and what we can expect because of climate change over the next few decades.Steve is out of state the first normal week of the Senior College Spring term. Thus, we will start the week of April 3, and every week thereafter for a total of six weeks. If there is sufficient interest, we will take a field trip, after the six weeks, to a lovely nearby lake, check out some of the things we talked about in class, have a picnic, and then work our way home.In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.

Friday April 28, 2023
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	QiGong for Health and Healing (In-Person 5-week course) - QiGong for Health and Healing -( In-Person 5-week course) QiGong is an ancient Chinese practice which promotes many benefits for health, healing, and longevity. It is the basis for interacting with our qi (life energy), which slowly depletes over time, especially as we become older. We can learn how to enhance and nurture this vital energy through meditation, breath, self-massage, and movement. One of the beauties of QiGong is that it can be practiced sitting or standing and is adaptable to individual strengths and abilities. We learn to listen to the body rather than over-ride it. In this course, we will do some fun, easy exercises to loosen up the body and the joints.  We will include:     additional activities to improve our breathing     self-massage to enliven our energy pathways (meridians)     an easy six movement form (can be done sitting or standing) to help us actually feel our own qi and to release stagnant energy and build nurturing qi.      There will be discussion, minimal lecture, demonstration of each form, and a lot of doing to provide personal experience.      Students will receive handouts to assist in recall and ability to continue practice between classes at home. In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	CARNEVALE: FILM COMEDY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE - In-Person 6-week course) - CARNEVALE: FILM COMEDY AS SOCIAL CRITIQUE - (In-Person 6-week course) Humour provides us a wonderfully rich path to opening up what we otherwise avoid talking about as too difficult subjects.  While some comedies take a particular issue head-on, such as Dr Strangelove in addressing the nuclear madness of the 1950s-60s, others look more to larger social anxieties, such as Sleeper and our worries about the future.  This course will favour those broader issues, looking to several different decades from the 1920s on.  Films may include A Nous la Liberté, A Night at the Opera, Adam’s Rib, Man in the White Suit, The Stunt Man, and Up and Down.Details about location will be sent after registration.In kindness and consideration of our instructors and participants, Penobscot Valley Senior College expects that each student be up to date with vaccination against Covid-19 when attending in-person classes. PVSC will comply with Covid/masking policies of each location where we hold in-person classes and events. Masks will be available at all in-person classes.