Oven productions

fall calender

November 12

Sally Piano

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December 17

To be announced

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Every 'Oven concert offers free child care by appointment, but you must make reservations by the Thursday preceding the concert. Child care hours are from 7 p.m. to midnight, leaving much free time before and after the concert for the mother. We desperately need child care workers and we pay well! Call us if you can help.

Oven's new phone number is 321-0692 and office hours are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 11-2. VAN 1960AU

Page 12/What She Wants/October, 1977

October 1

Rita Coriell

November 26

Big Mama Poetry Troupe

Oven Productions Advance Ticket Outlets:

East -CoventryBooks, Food Coop, Three of Cups Center -WomenSpace

West Plants Plus, Tish's Shoe Shop, YWCA Southland Area

Akron -Booklein

Geauga Co. -Geauga Women's Center

or write -P.Ó. Box 18175, Cleveland Heights 44118.

What's Cooking in OVEN

Welcome back to another fall season of Oven Productions events. We are already working full steam to present four fine concerts this fall. Hang our calendar on your refrigerator or bulletin board or bathroom wall -anywhere that you will be sure not to miss any of our events. We want you to be there! During the summer months, the Oven Productions collective spent much time reorganizing the way the collective works within itself and within the com. munity. Internally, we have lost Carolyn Morrisey to graduate school in D.C., and have added June Adams who is taking on a modified position of the Oven staff person from Rita, who is thankfully still here. Yes, the rest of the Ovens (Susan, Lori, Rita, Linda, Jamie, Debra) are still working on. From the start of the season, Oven is undertaking a campaign to involve community women in Oven procedures. Room has been made for women to work with Oven in several ways: to take responsibility in specific work situations such as mailings, posters, production set-up; to learn such specific skills as graphics, sound, lights; to become aware of the scope of procedures in producing a concert by attending the collective's meeting open to the community every month; and, to participate in the audience feedback sessions organized by consumers Ann Kosa and Andrea Baker following each concert. Oven wants you to become involved! We need to be aware of your needs and responses to our work.

On October 2, a meeting will be held at 1652 Glenmont Road (off Mayfield near Coventry) to both act as a feedback session between audience, technicians, Oven, and performers for Rita Coriell's concert, and to define and fill the responsible roles community women can take in Oven Productions. November's open collective meeting will be on November 2, at 8:30, at 1633 Belmar Road in Cleveland Heights. We want to hear more from you than applause PLEASE come to these meetings and feedback sessions!

PIANO TO PERFORM

Oven Productions is pleased to announce an upcoming concert by Sally Piano on November 12. Sally is one of the finest and most original musicians currently performing women's music.

Like many feminist performers, Sally began her professional career on the nightclub circuit, but after six years, she dropped out and formed the D.C.based feminist trio "Ethel Mertz"; after some time she moved on to solo performing. Widely acclaimed across the country, Sally is an expert and exciting pianist, as well as an accomplished guitarist. Her concerts would be well worth attending for her instrumentation alone, but Sally has a clear, fine voice of amazing range which is but one tool with which she brings across the messages of her songs. Sally Piano's original lyrics have a profound impact on her audiences, for she writes songs ranging from poetic love songs to political messages. Sally is an intensely political musician, but one whose talent and friendly warmth allow her audiences to be entertained and welcomed as well as politicized. Sally's lyrics reflect a wide variety of issues; her political concerns are so diverse that she is sure to raise the consciousness of every audience member with at least one message.

Sally Piano is one woman who thrills and entertains her audience -just ask any of the women who stood in the pouring rain to hear her perform at the Michigan Women's Music Festival In August! As she chatted with her audience, giving us support for our soggy state, and then lifted our spirits high with her music, the message was clear: Sally Piano is one very dynamic performer; women's music as she performs it is one of the most unifying experiences women can share; and her Cleveland performance is not to be missed!