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A BIT OF BUSINESS

⭑To keep Oven Productions running, tickets are now being sold at three different prices, according to each person's ability to pay. Tickets in advance are sold at $3, $5, $10. At the door ticket prices are $3.50, $5, $10. NONE of these tickets are reserved or better seats. We greatly appreciate the support you are financially able to give us. Oc. casional events will have lower admission prices (Big Mama, November 26). Work exchange for concert tickets can be arranged.

★ To avoid those long announcements at every concert, a simple bulletin of community announcements will be printed and distributed at each event. Your an. nouncements must arrive at the Oven office seven days before the scheduled performance. For printing and energy expenses, a $1 donation is requested.

p.o. box 18175, Cleveland, Ohio 44118 321-0692

Big Mamas unite for Cleveland performance

Thanksgiving weekend will bring together the Big Mama Poetry Troupe for a dramatic performance coinciding with the release of their second book of poetry. Members of the seven women poetry troupe which originated in Cleveland four years ago are flying from Chicago and Washington. D.C. for this special weekend. The performance will be held Saturday, November 26, at 8:30 p.m. in Hillel Auditorium at Case Western Reserve University. The event is co-sponsored with the CWRU Women's Center.

Since the five original Big Mamas (Marguerite Beck. Rex, Sally Pirtle. Barbara Angell, Mary Ann Larkin (Cronin), and Meredith Holmes) joined artistic forces in 1974. the poetry troupe has acquired quite a history. Big Mama has been on TV, radio and toured New York City, New Jersey, Chicago and Ohio. Proceeds from the tours have been put toward funding publication of their poetry. The November 26 performance will mark

the release of their second book, printed by EmPress. Since 1975. Big Mama has been working with artistic director Dorothy Boroush to communicate with the audience the emotions felt when creating their poems. From simply reading poetry. Big Mama performances have evolved into near-theatrical experiences. Their presentations are a flowing and dynamic blend of music, drama, movement and poetry. This season Betsy Reeves completes the seven member troupe as music director and performer.

Big Mama has been wow-ing Cleveland audiences for years. But THIS performance presents an all-new Big Mama, with material not yet heard or seen in Cleveland,

Please come. EVERYONE is welcome. Ticket prices for this event are $2. First editions of their new book will be on sale at the concert.

★ Oven strives to make events accessible to handicapped people: Call us for information and/or assistance to concerts.

★ Photographers and concert reviewers are needed. Contact Oven well before the performance.

Monthly open meetings with the Oven collective will be November 2 and December 7, 8:30 p.m. at 1633 Belmar Road in Cleveland Heights.

★ Our numbers: Oven Productions P. O. Box 18175 Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118 321-0692

Oven Productions Advance Ticket Outlets:

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East Coventry Books, Three of Cups Center -WomenSpace

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

Akron Booklein

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Geauga -Geauga Women's Center

or write P.O. Box 18175, Cleveland

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Rainbow woman brings messages

Oven Productions presents Sally Piano, November 12th. 8:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Society. 2728 Lancashire Road in Cleveland Heights. As one of the finest and most original performers of women's music. Sally Piano has been performing nationally for many years. gaining much recognition in the midwest with her dynamic performances at the First and Second Annual Michigan Women's Music Festivals.

Sally Piano's music is of the finest quality. In her words. "In order to survive the difficulties of my childhood I began expressing myself on two of the musical instruments I now play voice and piano – at the age of three. Several years later I taught myself on the guitar, and recently I have taken up the oud, a Middle Eastern instrument that I experienced as a part of my culture growing up. I have been writing songs for ten years, and have focused in the past six on writing out of my own experience dealing with those issues which affect me most directly and which concern me most deeply issues of race and culture, of age, of lesbian love and politics: songs about my past life as a hip hetero, songs about disability, about patriarchal religion

and then about the weather, and songs about my mother...

Sally Piano is sharing her struggles for recognition as an Armenian woman in a white society and her joy in reclaiming her cultural roots. In celebrating the affirmation of her heritage. Sally is taking a new name. S'irani Avedis. She shares her name change process with us by describing its beautiful meaning. S'irani (tseerr/ah/nee) in the Armenian language this word has two meanings. First, it means rainbow a word she identifies with on three levels: as a breathtakingly beautiful natural phenomenon; as a word she uses to describe those womyn who are neither Black nor white: and as a symbol of the peaceful joy to be found after the storm of revolution that we as womyn face in this world. Secondarily the word s'trani means the color lavendar -so it seemed a perfect fit for her as a womon-identified Rainbow womon.

Avedis (ah/veh/dees) – this is the root word of the name she was born under, Avedikian. In Armenian the "ian" suffix means "son of". So. by taking off this ending we are left with the root, which in the language of her people means "the bringer of messages".

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This concert is a woman only event. Free child care is offered at all Oven events by reservation. 321-0692 by November 10.

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