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Mother's/Women's Day Celebration To be held at Three of Cups 12814 Buckeye. Come and be nurtured. Bring something of your own that you would like to give to women. Women and children only. Childcare provided. All women/all mothers invited.

Open Bar Committee Meeting To be held on Sunday, May 1st from 68p.m. Everyone welcome to come to Three of Cups meeting. Bar open 8-10p.m.

Sexuality Task Force Meeting scheduled. Now is the time for us to start working actively on Lesbian rights, and we need your help. The N.O.W. Sexuality and Lesbianism Task Force will hold its next meeting on Sunday, May 15th, at 3p.m, at the Three of Cups, 12814 Buckeye. All women welcome.

It is not necessary to be a member of N.O.W. to be a member of the Task Force. If you are interested, but want more information or a copy of the agenda, contact Arlene Ross, PO Box 99142, Cleveland, 44199.

The Self Help Collective is having a gathering of women who have been involved in self-help health care groups and would like to help us evaluate our two years of existence or who would like to find out more about our group and possibly become involved in our future activities. We hope to have a feedback session, idea exchange, and fun together. Please join us on Sunday, May 22nd at 7:30p.m. at 2328 Grandview Avenue, Cleveland Heights. Call Ann at 231 0942 for information.

WomanArt, a Show & Sale of graphics and crafts by Cleveland area women artists will be held at Cleveland State University, Friday, May 6th through Sunday, May 8th. The event will be in University Center, 2121 Euclid Avenue. Hours on Friday and Saturday are 10a.m. to 6p.m. and Sunday 11a.m. to 5p.m.

The show and sale is sponsored by Cleveland State University's Clearinghouse for Research on Women and Employment, the CSU Women's Association and CSU's Women's Comprehensive Program.

For more information contact Elvie Zell at the CSU Clearinghouse for Research on Women and Employment at 687 2133,

Lesbianism Program Announced Arlene Ross, State Task Force Coordi. nator of the Ohio N.O.W. Sexuality Task Force and recent guest on the "Morning Exchange" program, will facilitate a program on lesbianism for the West Suburban chapter of N.O.W.

The program "Lesbianism: A Personal and Political Perspective" will be held on Wednesday, May 18th, at 8p.m. in the West Shore Unitarian Church, 20401 Hilliard Boulevard, Rocky River. The program is free and all women are welcome to attend.

The Feminist Forum will meet at 2953 Berkshire Road, Cleveland Heights, at 8p.m. on May 6th. We will discuss access to information; how that functions as power; types of information that need to be shared; and how to maximize that communication.

All women are invited. The Forum meets regularly at the above location the first and third Fridays of every month.

CACC Disco Night. There will be benefit Disco Night for Cleveland Rape Crisis Center at Jim Swingos, 1800 Euclid Avenue, on Friday, June 10; starting at 8 p.m. A DHJ from Cleveland's disco station WLYT will be there along with the "All You Can Stand Band" which is donating time to play some funky music. Tickets will be available at Coventry Books, WomenSpace, and the Rape Crisis Center, $1.50 in advance and $2.00 at the door. Come on down and boogie. For more information call 391-3912,

The Women's Growth Cooperative will be holding a spaghetti dinner on May 14, 4:30 to 9:30 p.m., at the Three of Cups, 12814 Buckeye. Both meat and vegetarian spaghetti sauces will be available. Dinner will cost $3.00 per person. Funds raised will be used to help women who can't afford counseling to receive such services. Everyone welcome.

A Party/Benefit spensered by the National Women's Health Carn Network will be held in New York on Sunday, May 22. The sponsors plan to bring together about 200 health feminists to meet each other and support the projects of the NWHN, which include (1) a women's health information clearinghouse; (2) monitoring FDA and Congressional hearings on health; (3) speaker's bureau; (4) federal health polley's impact on women's health services; (5) reproductive health projects on patients's rights and informed consent. Present will be Barbara Seaman, Phyllis Chesler, Shere Hite, Doris Haie, JoAnne Fischer Wolf, Judy Norsigian, Sharon Lieberman, Denise Fuge, Betty Friedan, Fanette Pollack and others. For further information, write to National Women's Health Network, P.O. Box 24192, Washington, D.C. 20024.

CLEVELAND NOW CHAPTER will hold a discussion on "Daycare: Who Needs It?" on May 4 at 6:00 p.m., at Trinity Cathedral. The speaker will be Jo Pecek.

FEMINIST MUSIC SUPPORT GROUP, Meets the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month at 8:00 p.m. Call 791-3524 for information. All Interested women are welcome.

Women and Violence will be discussed on the evening of May 12th, by Dr. Elissa Benedek, chairperson of the American Psychiatric Associatlon's Committee on Women. Director of Training and Education at the Forensic Center in Ann Arbor, Dr. Benedik has recently been appointed clinical Associate Professor in Psychiatry at University of Michigan and Michigan State University. She is particularly interested In adolescents and the medical-legal issues concerning their rights.

Dr. Benedik is coming to Cleveland as the guest of the Women in Health Sciences International Women's Year Committee of the Ohio School of Podiatric Medicine and Case Western Reserve University. In the two years of its existence this committee has almed to bring women of various health science disciplines together for education and discussion of interest to women as providers and recipients of health care. Dr. Benedik's talk is open to the public. She will speak at 7:30p.m. on Thursday, May 12th in Room E401 of the CWRU School of Medicine. 2119 Abington Road, University Circle,

Francie Wyland, of the Toronto Wages for Housework Committee and Wages Dua Lesbians (an autonomous group of lesbians organizing within the Wages for Housework campaign) will speak on "Lesbianism and Wages for Housework" at a meeting on Tuesday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. at 2728 Lancashire Road (Unitarian Society), Cleveland Heights. She the author of Motherhood, Lesblanism and Child Custody, soon to be pubIlshed by Falling Wall Press, Bristol England.

Free child care will be provided if needed; call Phoebe Jones at 2819962, days. For further information, call Phoebe or Molly Ladd-Taylor, 651-8957, evenings.

WOMEN'S RADIO SHOW now on WRUW, 91.1 FM on Thursdays from 6-7 p.m. Produced by Betsy Reeves and Carolyn Morrisey. Mostly music, announcements and Interviews. They hope lots of women will listen. For requests and suggestions write: WRUW c/o Betsy Reeves, Mather Building, Bellflower Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, or call 368-2208,

"Four Views", outstanding segments from four of last season's most acclaimed Woman Alive! broadcasts, will be presented as the fifth and final Woman Alive! special at 10:00 p.m., ET, on Friday, May 6, on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), at 9:00 p.m. on WVIZ/25, Cleveland. (See What She Wants, April 1977 issue, p. 7, for further description of series.)

Woman Alivel, a series of five weekly one-hour broadcasts on the status of women in American society today, is produced by WNET/13 New York in collaboration with Ms. Magazine. The May 6 broadcast will show three films and one photo essay.

**Becoming Tough Enough," a film by Mirra Bank, shows how women of all ages are being affected by the new assertiveness they are learning In workshops, in new kinds of jobs, and in their emotional lives. It also depicts women working successfully in jobs and professions from which they previously were excluded and discovering aptitudes acquired since their opportunities have expanded.

"Farming", a flim by Nina Schulman, is a profile of three lowa women farmers, who work as full partners with their husbands ralsing corn, soy beans, hogs, and dairy cows. Although they grant that farming is a hard-working life, the women find it deeply rewaading.

"The Women of McCaysville Industries," a film by Charlotte Zwerin, Is about five middle-aged women from a small Georgia mountain town who led a bitter and often violent fourteen-month wildcat strike In 1966 to protest unacceptable working conditions in a plant owned by a large national textile corporation. After losing their case in court, they went on to establish their own sewing business built on humane labor practices The photo essay, "Growing Up Female," is a multiple portrait of the growing awareness by young girls of what it means to become a woman. with photographs by Abigail Heyman.

CA GROUP FOR MEN. Donna Krausewould like to initiate such a group. Women who know interested friends can contact her at 521-4675.

WomenSpace Scheduling Committee Calendar

WomenSpace, Oven and What She Wants have agreed to coratively pool information about women's events, meetings, and cultural programs in an effort to avoid conflicts in scheduling and over-booking in a particular time period. If more co-ordination of our schedules takes place, each of our organizations will have the attention and attendance

May 1 Three of Cups Open Bar Committee meeting, everyone welcome. 6-8 p.m., bar open 8-10 p.m.

WomenSpace offices moving day, 2-5 p.m., refreshments provided. Info: 391-8650.

What She Wants planning meeting. Linda Caswall, 1633 Belmar, Cleveland Heights, 321-0692.

May 2 WomenSpace office furniture to be moved and new phones installed, to find new number call 391-6650.

-GCCC benefit performance at Trinity Cathedral Hall, E. 22nd and Prospect at 8:00 p.m., tickets $3.00,

May 3 Women's GrowthCoop at WomenSpace, evenings, call Wegi at 321-8582 or come to 3201 Euclid, Room 344.

May 4 Sip & Flip, WomenSpace, 5-7 p.m., 1258 Euclid.

May 5 Dance Workshop, Community Room, YWCA, 3201 Euclid, 7-9:30p.m. Info: 321-8413.

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May 6, 7, 8 Woman Art, CSU University Center, Info call Elvie at 687*2133.

May 6 Feminist Forum, 2953 Berkshire, 8-10 p.m., see announcement in "What's Happening".

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May 7-WSW Birthday Party at "Three of Cups," 12814 Buckeye, $2.00 at door.

May 8 Mothers/Women's Day Celebration at Three of Cups, 7-9 p.m. May 9 Recent Widow Club, Southland YWCA at 7:00 p.m., downtown YWCA at 7:30 p.m., Room 345.

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Clearninghouse Forum on Mature Women, Zonta Room, YWCA, 3201 Euclid, 1:30-5:00, 687-2133,

May 19 Women's Growth Coop at WomenSpace, evenings, call Wegi at 321-8582, or come to 3201 Euclid Room 344.

May 11 Sip & Flip, WomenSpace, 5-7 p.m., 1258 Euclid.

-Lakewood NOW sponsores Women Alone, speaker Roslyn Talerico, Director, New Directions, CCC Western Campus. Single, divorced, and widowed, discussion and information-sharing, 15425 Detroit at 7:30p.m. Info: 228-1508.

May 12 American Psychiatric Association Committee on Women sponsors 'Women and Violence," speaker Dr. Elissa Benedek at 7:30 p.m., Room E401, CWRU School of Medicine, 2119 Abington Road, University Circle.

May 13 Feminist Music Support Group, 8:00 p.m., Info: 371-1697. Women's Growth Coop, All-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner at Three of Cups, 12814 Buckeye, 4:30 p.m., Info: 321-8582.

| May 15 NOW Sexuality and Lesbianism Task Force Meeting. Three of Cups, 12814 Buckeye at 3:00 p.m., Info: 291-2067. Open to all women. May 18 What She Wants Editorial Meeting, at Cleveland Women's Counseling, 2420 South Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights.

that we want and need it is a matter of survival for us all. We also hope that the existence of the calendar will encourage women's groups to plan ahead. Every women's group which belongs to WomenSpace and others that have related to women's groups in Cleveland have been informed that they must call in their announcements to WomenSpace (391 6650) in order to have their event appear in the listing.

Deadline for scheduling requests call Jan Dregalla, 391-6650 May 18 Sip & Flip. WomenSpace, 1258 Euclid, 5-7 pm.

NOW West Suburbanprogram: "Lesbianism: A Personal and Political Perspective, speaker: Arlene Ross, West Shore Unitarian Church, 20401 Hilliard Blvd., Rocky River, 8:00 p.m., Info: 291-2067. Open to All Women.

WomenSpace Board Meeting at noon, 1258 Euclid. May 19 Dance Workshop, Community Room, YWCA, 3201 Euclid. 7:00-9:00 p.m., Info: 321-8413.

May 20 Feminist Forum, 2953 Berkshire, 8-10 p.m.

May 20, 21 National Women's Film Circuit presented by Oven Productions, CWRU Women's Center, and Moonforce Media, Inc., Schmitt Auditorium, CWRU Campus, 8:30 p.m., tickets $2.00 available at the door, free child care available by reservation 371-1697, doors open at 7:45 p.m.

May 21 WomenSpace Legal Clinic, 1258 Euclid, 2:00-4:00 p.m., donation $1.00.

May 22 Self Help Collective open meeting, 2328 Grandview Avenue, Cleveland Heights, 7:30 p.m., Info: call Ann-231-0942.

May 25 Sip & Flip, 1258 Euclid, 5-7 p.m

May 26 What She Wants Mailing Meeting, 2420 So. Taylor Rd, Cleveland Heights.

May 27 Feminist Music Support Group, 8:00 p.m., Info. 371-1697 June 1 Recognition Luncheon for Women Business Leaders, Cleveland Plaza Hotel, 12 noon, $10 individual, $25 patron, $35 sponsor. Info. Fran Finer at 881-6878.

June 3 BeBe K'Roche Concert, 9:00 p.m., $3.50 flat rate, Info: 371-1697 June 5 What She Wants, Planning Meeting, Meredith Holmes, 2487 Noble Road, #24B, Cleveland Heights.

June 7 WomenSpace Open House, 1258 Euclid, 3:00-8:00p.m June 8 Lakewood NOW, 15425 Detroit Ave., 7:30 p.m., 228-1508 June 11-12 Ohio International Women's Year meeting, Columbus Fair. grounds, for further info call 391-6650 to find new number. June 13 Recent Widow Club, Southland YWCA at 7:00 p.m 842-4242.

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June 15 Scheduling deadline for this calendar. Call 391-6650 to find new number. June 18 WomenSpace Restructured Board meeting, 7:30 p.m., 1258 Euclid Avenue.

June 18 WomenSpace Legal Clinic, 2-4 p.m., 1258 Euclid, donation $1 June 20 What She Wants Editorial Meeting at Cleveland Women's Counseling, 2420 So. Taylor, Cleveland Heights.

June 30 What She Wants Mailing and Planning Meeting, 2420 So Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights

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