WHAT'S HAPPENING

A CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S,DAY will take place on March 2, 1979, at the Unitarian Church on Lancashire Road, at 7.00 p.m., beginning with a polluck supper. At 9:00 the movie "Bables and Banners'' will be shown, and at 10:30 beer and wine will be served. Admission is $1.50 for the movie. plus $.50 for the party. Tables for groups can be arranged.

Child care will be provided. For further information, call Paula (days) at 241-3646. Christina (evenings) at 371-0419, or Barb (days or evonings) at 321-6143.

Many women suffer from an early, traumatic, sexual experience. The ma jority are molested by a father, step-lather, relative or close friend of the family. They feel alone, hurt, and bitter. They often leel there is nowhere to turn for help as no one would understand,

The FREE CLINIC is offering Individual and group counselling for victims of incest, on Tuesday evenings between 7:00 and 10:00 pm To make an apointment, call 721-4010 and say you want an appointment with Joyce Spencer or Jan Felixson. There are no fees or eligibility requirements at the Free Clinic (12201 Euclid Avenue).

THE FREE CLINIC has started a drop-in group for women who wish to discuss, explore, or develop their feelings for other women, or may be considering coming out. The group. Women With Women, meets at the Free Clinic on Friday evenings from 7:00 to 8:30. Any interested woman is welcome.

For the fifth consecutive year the FREE CLINIC will unite its efforts with CWRU Medical Scheel to provide an Afternoon Clinic at the Free Clinic. The clinic will provide routine pelvic exams and pap tests, family planning, pregnancy testing, and treatment of vaginal infections and sexually transmitted diseases.

The purpose of the clinic is: 1) to provide people with quality medical care, education and counseling related to their specific needs; 2) to provide second year medical students with an introduction to the sensitive issues involved in performing male and female genital exams and talking with people about sexual matters.

Appointments are available for Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from January 29 through early April 1979. Please call 721-4010 after 2:30 p.m.

All are welcome to WOMEN'S FOLK NIGHT on the second Tuesday of every month at the Coach Housà, located on Abington Road near Euclid Avenue. Admission: $1.00.

HEAD HELP (8142 Mayfield Road, Chesterland) is looking for volunteers. If you are youth-oriented and non-judgmental, we want you to become one of our telephone holline workers. We provide training and supervision. You will learn how to answer hotline calls, help people with problems. give information, and make referrals. Volunteers of all ages are welcome. Call Robin, Volunteer Coordinator, at Head Help. 729-1768. 286-9497, 834-8331.

Make your old newspapers work to support a worthy community agency. Give them to the Head Help Paper Drive. The container will be parked dal. ly at the Geauga Market House on Rt. 306 just north of Rt. 322

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 alred 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) in to Del Jones at 777-9657. Contact Donna Krouse at 521-4875 with ideas for topics and guests.

A WORKING WOMEN'S BUYING GUIDE TO GREATER CLEVELAND is now available FREE from Cleveland Women Working, 1258 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. This guide can help us whether we're consider ing changing jobs or simply wondering where to have lunch. An added atfraction is the inclusion of a section on Women Owned and Operated Businesses and one on For and About the Working Weman. For more information call CWW at 586-8511.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN PSYCHOLOGY will hold its sixth annual Conference on Feminist Psychology in Dallas from March 8 through March 11. The Association, established in 1969, was founded to encourage feminist psychological research on sex and gender, and to end the use of **Mental Health Professions" as a means of enforcing institu tionalized sexism. The Association is encouraging women researchers to submit papers on such things as feminist politics, sex role development and lesbianism,

ANNIE MacDONALD will perform at Peabody's Cafe (corner of Taylor and Cedar), on March 8. She sings 40's jazz and blues, backed by a 4-piece

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Lake Erie College invites you to see ESTHER ROLLE, star of Good Times. in her performance in the one-woman production, Ain't I A Woman? at the Paul S. Weaver Auditorium, Morley Music Bldg., Tuesday, March 27. at 8:00 p.m Tickets are $4 50 for adults, $2 50 for students and senior citizens For more information, call 352-3361, Ext 305

Morning Seminar, an informal discussion group. invites you to meet JOSEPHINE IRWIN in a special interview with this long-time activist in politics and the women's rights movement. Thursday, March 1, from 9-11:00 a.m. al the Fireside Room of the West Shore Unitarian Church, 20401 Hilliard Road, Rocky River. Cost is $1.50, and babysilting is pro vided. Call 333-2255 for more information.

DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS (women who have lost the support they were dependent upon) can gel help through the Olsplaced Homemakers Program al all campuses of Cuyahoga Community College. The program offers services to help women become ''job ready" and self-supporting. No fees are charged. To be eligible, a person must have worked without pay as a homemaker for her family, had not been gainfully employed, and is at least 35 years old. Courses Include how to find and keep a job, interviewing, community resources, and budgeting. Call the campus nearest you: Metro, 241-5966; Western, 845-4000, Ext. 250: Eastern, 464-1450, Ext 275.

The second WOMEN AND MONEY SEMINAR will be held at WomenSpace. 1258 Euclid Avenue, on April 28, 1979. For more information, call 696-3100

NATIONAL BAY TASK FORCE member Rhanda Carlsen, a student at the Graduate School of Social Work of the University of Texas, is conducting a research survey to determine how lesbians define themselves and their community. She needs lesbians willing to complete a fairly long, specific questionnaire. Questionnaires and all correspondence will be kept strictly confidential, but a distillation of the results will go into Ms. Carlson's master's thesis which she hopes will eventually be published. It is not required to be "'out' to participate. All that is required is that you be a lesbian. For more information, or a questionnaire, write Rhonda Carlson, 3014 Millmar Drive, Dallas, Texas 75228.

The COMMUNITY SEXLINE, a telephone education and referral service in human sexuality, is open from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Trained volunteers and professional staff answer calls from the community at large in a non-sexist, non-judgmental and growthenhancing way. The number is 621-6226.

THE OHIO WOMEN IN PRISON PROJECThas received permission to donate books to prison libraries. Needed are fiction (what they have is very old), magazines (they get only Newsweek, Time and Ebony), records, AM radios, cassettes, filmstrips and other material. Most urgently needed is fiction. At this time it is not known whether non-fiction books of a political or feminist nature will be accepted, but novels written from those viewpoints will probably pass Inspection. But even if you have only junk novels, please donate what material you can to these women in cages with nothing to do. Separate book's into fiction and non-fiction and (if possible), include a list of authors and titles (otherwise the women of the Project will have to do it). Call Barbara Louise at 941-6530 for more information.

The Cleveland Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) has formed a west-side committee for members and all pro-choice friends. The first general meeting will be held on Thursday, March 22, at 8:00 p.m. at the West Shore Unitarian Church, 20401 Hilliard Road, Rocky River. Ned Ford, new CARAL coordinator, will speak at the meeting. Please plan to attend and feel free to bring some friends.

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, conlact Jeannie Pool at P.0. Box 436. Ansonia Station, New York, New York 10023.

NORTH SHORE ALERT (anti-nuclear fission) meets the 1st Thursday of each month at Church House, 2230 Euclid Ave. at 7:30pm

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE sponsors a vigil for safe energy every Friday from noon to 1:00 at CEI, Public Square.

Cleveland NOW is sponsoring a Pro-Choice Forum in celebration of International Women's Day at Cleveland Stale University. Saturday, March 10. from 1-4 pm in the University Center, 2nd floor lounge Several speakers, including Eileen Roberts of the ACLU, will address the prochoice issue nationally and internationally We encourage all interested women lo altend Donation $2 00

Cleveland NOW Labor Task Force meeting will be held Sunday, March 4. from 2-4 pm at CSU University Center, Room 362

Cleveland NOW Pro-Choice Task Force meeting is lentatively scheduled for March 21. 8 p.m. at Trinity Cathedral. Call Barbara Lombardo (835-5042) for further information.

The monthly meeting of Cleveland NOW will be held March 7, 7:00 pm, at Trinity Cathedral on East 22nd and Euclid Avenue. Park in lot, push **after 5" button at rear door. Topics to be covered include How Inflation Affects Cleveland Working Women, and Carter's Policles on Infiation.

An International Conference is being called to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of THE SECOND SEX by Simona de Beauvoir, and to honor the book as a vital part of the theoretical tradition which sustains the effort toward women's liberation.

The conference, to be held at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University on September 27-29, 1979, invites a number of individuals or groups to address themselves to identifying and discussing what they believe to be the central theoretical question for feminists today. In short, where do we go from here? The question can be discussed through any medium which provides a basis for theoretical interpretation and speculation. A 400-word abstract should be submitted for consideration by February 15, 1979.

The conference has three goals: 1) commemorating and re-evaluating the single most seminal work of feminist theory; 2) bringing together individuals from different countries and different fields to discuss the lasks of feminist theory today; and 3) making possible the dialogue, sharing and enthusiasm which can serve as fertile ground for new theoretical leaps.

Participants will be asked to submit condensed versions of papers which will be distributed in advance to all individuals who pre-register for the conference. This will facilitate discussion by all participants at plenary and workshop sessions.

Conference attendance will be by pre-registration only. Day care will be provided. Pre-registration will begin after April 1, 1979. Please direct all submissions and all requests for pre-registration forms and information to: Jessica Benjamin, The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, 19 University Place, New York, N.Y. 10003, or call (212) 598-2874.

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

Anyone who can contribute toward a handbook to be made available to women office and clerical workers on the subject of confronting sexual harassment on the job, please write to: Working Women United, 593 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10021.

The people putting the handbook together are convinced that consciousness-raising similar to that which has been done lor rape is necessary before people take sexual harassment on the job seriously

OVEN PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

The Cleveland Dinner Party Art Show/Sale

Please join us in honoring the opening of The Dinner Party. Created by Judy Chicago along with many women artists and designers. The Dinner Party is a large triangular table with 39 place settings resting on a porcelain floor, which symbolically tells the story of women throughout Western history.

Come and be part of an International Dinner Party Event as women from many cities and countries host their own dinner party along with us. Together, we will form a 24-hour celebration around the world!

Unitarian Church

2728 Lancashire Road Cleveland Heights Saturday, March 24 1.9 p.m.

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A polluck dinner will be held with beverages provided $1 00 at the door

The public is warmly invited. Women artists interested in display. ing their work can contact us at 321-1587.

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