Peggy at Windward Community College this Wednesday!

Please join us at WCC this coming Wednesday March 19, 12:40 – 1:20 p.m., Hale Akoakoa, Room 105. Peggy is the keynote speaker for the WCC National Women's History Month series. The theme for this year is "Women's Art: Women's Vision". They will be first showing the HPU documentary, "To Peggy with Love", then Peggy has prepared a few words that I will be sharing for her. To read more about the event, please see the article below that was posted in the advertiser:

From HonoluluAdvertiser.com

Posted at 10:52 a.m., Thursday, February 28, 2008

Peggy Chun to speak at WCC's Women's History Month series
Story submitted by Bonnie Beatson

"Women’s Art: Women’s Vision" is the theme for National Women’s History Month. Windward Community College will celebrate Women's History Month with a series of inspiring speakers: Keynote speaker artist Peggy Chun, Hawai‘i International Film Festival founder Jennette Paulson, musician/entrepreneur Millicent Cummings, and tattooist Tricia Allen.

Audiences are invited to participate in discussions with the distinguished speakers. All events are free, open to the public and located at Windward Community College in Hale ‘Akoakoa 105. WCC is located at 45-720 Kea‘ahala Rd., in Kane‘ohe.

Keynote Speaker: Peggy Chun

Wednesday March 19, 12:40 – 1:20 p.m., Hale Akoakoa, Room 105

View “To Peggy, With Love,” a film about Peggy’s life, and listen to her words with a little help from her friends. Peggy Chun is known for her beautiful and often whimsical watercolor art. Now fully paralyzed by Lou Gehrig’s disease, Peggy captures the spirit of aloha in her paintings and thrives on sharing her love of the islands (and life!) with the world. These days, with only her eye movement unaffected by the disease, Peggy now paints digitally with the help of a computer.

“After all,” says Chun, “you don’t paint with your hands, you paint with your heart.”

This is Windward Community College’s forth year of presenting women speakers important to Hawai‘i and the nation. Women’s History Month events are sponsored by WCC’s Faculty Staff Development Committee.

For more information, contact Kathleen French at 236-9223 or at kfrench@hawaii.edu. The URL is http://www.wcc.hawaii.edu/womenshistorymonth.