WHAT'S HAPPENING

WEEKEND FORUM FOR WOMEN. Fifty-two half-hour TV shows have been initiated by Channel 3, WKYC-TV, as Public Affairs Programming. The Forum will be aired each Saturday and Sunday from 6:00 to 6:30 AM. Preceding the twenty minutes of interviews with Cleveland women and others in areas of women's concern, there will be a five-minute edition of women's news. Call your news (not announcements of events) into Del Jones at 522-4970, or evenings at 777-9657. Contact Donna Krause at 521-4675 (days or evenings) with ideas for topics and guests.

FEMINIST ISSUES N.O.W. is a radio program broadcast from 7:30 to 8:00 AM every Sunday morning on WMMS and from 12:30 to 1:00 AM every Friday on WZAK. Barbara Lombardo (Cleveland NOW) is the coordinator. Ideas are welcome. Contact Barb Lombardo at 835-5042 or Julie Patterson at 581-8281 with advertising suggestions.

CLEVELAND CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH is sponsoring & Social Survival Seminar, designed to give information about some of the daily situations and crisis situations that may occur in our lives or the lives of those close to us. Without resources and preparation, these situations may make us doubt our ability to cope. By developing the necessary resources and preparing ourselves, events that could otherwise range from confusing to devastating can become educational and self-developing experiences.

The Social Survival Seminar will be held Saturday, November 11, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the 5th floor Party Room at Park Center Apartments. Participants will choose one topic from the list of morning seminars, and one for the afternoon. The seminar is open to women and men, for a fee of $2.00. To register, call the Cleveland Center for Reproductive Health at 421-6633, or register at the door from 10:00 to 10:30 on November 11.

After the opening speech on "How to Survive," the following seminars will run from 11:30 a.m. to the 1:00. p.m. lunch break:

Legal Questions

a Hyatt Legal Clinic representative

speaks on topics of divorce, credit, bankruptcy, maternity, landlord-tenant relations.

Assertiveness Training -Bobby Presley explains how to be more assertive in daily life situations.

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Women's Health Care Alice Malone of Planned Parenthood discusses topics of birth control, childbirth, and patient-physician relationships.

Creative Stress Management Howard Doerle of The Cleveland Wholistic Health Center deals with constructive ways to control daily stress.

The afternoon seminars will run from 2:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., and will include:

Career-Life Planning a speaker will discuss individual resources that aid in the establishment and fulfillment of career and life goals. Abortion

Legal and Moral Aspects

representatives

of the Cleveland Center for Reproductive Health and Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio (EFCO) discuss the legal and moral aspects of abortion in today's society. Human Sexual Dysfunction and Sexual Disease Elizabeth Walker of the Cleveland Wholistic Health Center will deal with the topics of male and female sexual dysfunction and sexual disease and the help available in the Cleveland area.

Self-Defense and Rape -Kathy Coles of the Rape Crisis Center demonstrates some self-defense techniques and discusses ways to deal with a rapist.

The closing speaker will be Shirley Griffin, Cuyahoga Community College Mental Health instructor, who will speak on "Developing Resources for Daily Living."

EDUCATION FOR FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN OHIO [EFCO] is initiating a Volunteer Speakers Bureau to address groups on pro-choice issues. Workshops for speakers consist of two 3-hour sessions. If you are interested in volunteering or if you'd like to learn more about the issue, contact Mary or Chris at EFCO's office, 579-0028.

The FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON WOMEN IN MUSIC is now in the planning stages. A committee has been formed in New York City to plan the Congress' presentation of scholarly papers and performances of music by past and contemporary women composers. The Congress will be held in New York City in October, 1979. For more information, contact Jeannie Pool at P.O. Box 436, Ansonia Station, N.Y., N.Y. 10023.

The NOW State Conference will be held November 17-19 at Toledo. NOW members should already have received your registration forms. To help with credentialing, voting or entertainment, call Maryellen Fleming or Nancy Fraunfelder (521-3781, evenings).

NORTH SHORE ALERT in cooperation with NOW are organizing to commemorate Karen Silkwood Day on November 13, 1978, in Cleveland and across the coun. try. A vigil will be held here at the Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation, 21010 Center Ridge Rd.at 6pm. Karen Silkwood, a plutonium worker at Kerr-McGee in Oklahoma and a spokesperson for the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union, was killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances enroute to deliver evidence of health and safety violations at KerrMcGee to a New York Times reporter and a union of ficial on November 13, 1974. A lawsuit brought by her family charges that Kerr-McGee violated Silkwood's civil rights as a union activist and employee. The suit also charges Kerr-McGee with legal responsibility for the plutonium contamination of her home.

For further information, call Barbara Lombardo (NOW) at 835-5042 or Suzanne Watson (North Shore Alert) at 771-4815 or 381-6913.

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE sponsors a vigil for safe energy every Fri. from 11:30am to 1:00 pm at CEI. Nov. 10 vigil will commemorate Karen Silkwood.

Cave Burgeso

CLEVELAND ABORTION RIGHTS ACTION LEAGUE (CARAL) will have an organizational meeting Sunday, November 5, at 2:30 p.m., at the home of Robin and Meacham Hitchcock, 9913 Lakeshore, Bratenah!. For information, call Carol Banks, days, at 283-7528, or evenings call Chris Link, 488-4370, Mary Griesinger, 791-0282, or Laura D'Amico, 932-5724.

FUNDING OUR SCHDDLS, How and By Whom, a panel discussion with State Rep. Virginia Aveni, Dist. 17, a member of the Education Review Committee, and Carla Edlefson, Staff Assistant of the Citizens Council for Ohio Schools, will be held Friday, November 17, at 98:00 p.m. in the Heights Main Library, 2345 Lee Road.

PRETERM PRACTICUMS, a full day of workshops, will take place on Monday, November 13, 1978, from 9:00am to 5:30pm at the Park Plaza Inn, 96th and Carnegie, Cleveland. Registrants are asked to select four workshops from the following: The Ambivalent Patient, Patients Who Make You Squirm, Voluntary Female Sterilization by Mini-Laparotomy, Overview of Sexual Problems and Treatment for Women, Sexual Learning Environments, Physical and Psychological and Aftermath of Abortion. The luncheon speaker will be Carolyn Hirsch, Ph.D., organizational consultant and professional staff member, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, whose topic will be Sexuality, Women and Culture. The day will include a salad luncheon and an afternoon fruit break. A cash bar and information exchange will be available at 4:30pm. The workshop fee will be $15.00.

For further information and registration, contact Preterm, 10900 Carnegie, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

NOW Labor Task Force, Jean Tussy, Coordinator, will meet Sunday afternoons beginning November 5, 1978, at 2:00 p.m. at the University Center, CSU.

CONCIOUSNESS RAISING: Cleveland NOW would like to get a group going soon. Contact Barb Lombardo at 835-5042 or Julle Patterson at 581-8281.

LOST AND FOUND: If any Ohio woman accidentally brought back from the Michigan Women's Music Festival a green canvas pack with "Stan Wood" written on the front, please call Deb Gulassi, collect, at (819) 889-2583.

A WOMEN'S CHOIR will be forming in Cleveland this November. All women who like to sing, play plano or guitar, or direct are encouraged to participate. All the music learned will be written by women. The time commitment is one rehearsal per week for three months. Any interested woman should call June Adams, 932-0668, November 1-14.

The NEW ENGLAND WOMEN'S SYMPHONY, a showcase for the work of women composers and conductors, has been formed in Boston. The group will present newly found works by neglected women composers of the past, as well as encourage the performance of contemporary works. The NEWS will be open by audition to both male and female musicians; it will be conducted by Kay Gardner, and will present its first concert December 3.

THE ORIGINALS: WOMEN IN ART, a series of films concentrating solely on women artists, produced by American public television, will be presented at the Heights Main Library, Tuesday evenings from 7:30-9:30 p.m., and at the Noble Road Library on Monday afternoons from 3:00-5:00 p.m., beginning November 20. Admission is free. The films, and the dates on which they will be shown, are as follows:

November 20-21

Anonymous Was A Woman and Mary Cassatt → Impressionist from Philadelphia. November 27-28 – Georgia O'Keeffe December 4-5

Collector of Souls

Nevelson In Process and Alice Neel December 11-12 Helen Frankenthaler Toward A New Climate and Spirit Catcher -The Art of Betya Saar.

The Wisconsin State Convention of the NATIONAL LESBIAN FEMINIST ORGANIZATION will take place November 10-12, 1978, at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. For further information, write NLFO, 306 N. Brooks St,, Madison, WI 53715, or call (608) 255-0479 and leave your name and phone number with the person who answers the phone.

The First National Feminist Conference on Pornography will be held in San Francisco In November. The conference is organized by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media, and will bring together "feminist activists from across the country who are concerned about the misogynist (woman-hating) message of pornography": Speakers at the conference will include Susan Brownmiller, Andrea Dworkin and Dr. Diana Russell, For more information, call Lynn Campbell at (415) 653-9591, or (415) 522-2709.

A WOMAN'S PLACE, Athol, New York 12810, is a mountain retreat for women where one can reevaluate one's life and gain support from other women from around the country. The following workshops are scheduled for this fall:

Nov. 4-5-Massage and Self-Healing. Nov. 11-12-Open.

Nov. 18-19-Intimate Relationships. Sharing ideas. and feelings about caring for women and/or men Nov. 23-26-Thanksgiving Community Celebration. Feast and frolic.

Please make reservations in advance so that adequate preparations can be made. Rates are reasonable and camping is available. Call 518-623-9970.

LABYRIS OPENING NOV. 1

LABYRIS, a women's cafe where women can meet and share with their friends, is located at East Scarborough and South Taylor in Cleveland Heights and will be open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings, 6-11pm. On November 1 at 7:30 pm, learn about a matriarchal society from Liz Shanklin, who will be stopping in Cleveland on her travels. No smoking, women only, and a flexible donation at the door are requested. Em joy the relaxed atmosphere, fireplace, conversation, music, games. Call 229-4312 or Coventry Books, 932-8111, for more information.

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