WHAT'S HAPPENING

THE FREE CLINIC, 12201 Euclid Avenue, will be starting Individual and group counseling for women or girls who are or have been victims of incest. The group, co-led by Joyce Spencer and Jan Felixson, will meet at 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday, starting January 23.

If individual counseling is desired, call Jeanne Sonville at 721-4010 for an appointment. There are no fees or eligibility requirements at the Free Clinic.

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

THE CLEVELAND WOMEN'S MUSIC UNION will be forming in midFebruary. All women interested in playing music with other women and/or producing concerts are invited to attend. The first meeting will be at 4:00 a.m. on Sunday, February 25, at 1698 Glenmont Road, Cleveland Heights. For further information call Melinda at 932-0346 or Lisa at 321-0304.

JEANNIE POOL, National Coordinator of the First International Congress on Yomen in Music, will present an illustrated lecture (music and slides) on February 7 at 1:30 at CSU in the Main Classroom Building, Room 205, and on February 8 at 4:00 p.m. at CWRU, 1914 Lounge. Thwing Student Center. Both presentations are open to the public.

Pool is a graduate student at Columbia specializing in women in music and has published a bibliography as well as numerous articles, There will also be a reception for Pool from 6 to 7 p.m. at the February 7 Cleveland NOW meeting, Trinity Cathedral, E. 22nd and Euclid. (Park behind the Cathedral off of Prospect and enter through the back. Push the "after 5" buzzer to enter.) The NOW meeting will focus on women in music today and the National Congress on Women in Music.

On February 9. Pool will be a special guest at Labyris, the women's coffee house, on the corner of South Taylor and E. Scarborough at 8:00 p.m. On February 11, she will be a guest on Feminist issues on WMMS from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. The show will be rerun on February 16 from 12:30 to 1:00 a.m. on WZAK.

CLEVELAND NOW LABOR TASK FORCE meeting will be held February 4 from 2 to 4 p.m. at CSU University Center. Room 362. Topics to be covered include the Impact of Carter's Wage-Price Guidelines and the Cleveland Financial Crisis on Working Women.

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.

FEMINIST ISSUES N.O.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 Lombardo (Cleveland NOW) is the coor. dinator. Ideas are welcome. Contact Barb Lombardo at 835-5042 or Julie Patterson at 581-8281 with advertising suggestions.

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) in to Del Jones at 777-9657. Contact Donne Krause at 521-4675 with ideas for topics and guests.

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

The CLEVELAND MODERN DANCE ASSOCIATION begins its second semester of classes February 12, 1979 at the studio located at 3756 Lee Road at Scottsdale. Classes are offered for children and adults both during the day and the evening. The schedule includes modern dance, jazz. disco for teens and adults, improvisation and composition, movement and mime.

Carol, Turoff, artist in residence, will also teach specialized movement courses: movement meditations, which uses movement as a meditative process: postural anatomy, which studies the principle of movement in relation to gravity and support; and moving with weight, a course designed to work with the problem of being overweight through enjoyment of movement. For further information, call 283-5335.

A Great Decisions '79 Program is to be held at the South Euclid Library, 4645 Mayfield Road, South Euclid, Ohio, meeting Thursdays, February 1 to March 22, 1979, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. The discussion group will be led by Naomi Fackler.

Topics of discussion are The Technology Explosion: How to Harness It For Peaceful Change; Trade and the Dollers: Coping with Interdependence; NATO and the Russians: Will the East-West Balance Hold?; The U.S. and Lathi America: Facing New Facts of Power; Black Africa: More Weight in U.S. Policy Scales?; World Law Of the Oceans: Narrowing Options for the U.S.; and International Terrorism: "Do Something!"-But What?

The Great Decisions '79 program book (copies on sale at the library for $4) will be the springboard for discussions. Prepared by the editors of the Foreign Policy Association, this book presents a nonpartisan examination of the eight key international issues on the U.S. 1979 agenda. Register by calling 382-4880 or in person at the library.

CLEVELAND HOW ERA REGIONAL TASK FORCE meeting will be held Wednesday, February 21. Call Barbara Lombardo at 835-5042 for further information.

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A WORKING WOMEN'S BUYING GUIDE TO BREATER CLEVELAND is now available FREE FROM Cleveland Women Working, 1258 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. This guide can help us whether we're considering changing jobs or simply wondering where to have lunch. An added attraction is the inclusion of a section on Wamee Owned and Operated Businesses and one on Fer and Abent the Working Women. For more information call CWW at 566-8511.

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 instituBonalized sexism. The Association is encouraging women researchers to submit papers on such things as feminist positics, sex role development and lesbianism.

Wednesdays at WOMENSPACE is a regular series of programs which begin each Wednesday between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m. Short presentations are followed by question and answer periods. Refreshments are available. All are welcome. Contributions for program expenses are welcome. The following presentations are currently scheduled:

Feb. 7-How to Pamper Your Car During Cold Weather Feb. 21-Helping Women by Helping Men-a male consciousnessraising session.

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

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 for rape is necessary before people take sexual harassment on the job seriously.

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-sædst, non-judgmental and growthenhancing way. The number is 621-6226.

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

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 tasks of feminist theory today; and 3) making possible the dialogue, sharing and enthusiasm which can serve as fertile ground for new theoretical leaps.

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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 wilf be held in New York City in October, 1979. For more information, contact Jeannie Pool at P.0. Box 436, Ansonia Station, New York, New York 10023.

For the past four and a half years. Judy Chicago has been working on The Dinner Party Project, a large environmental piece which includes a triangular table resting on a porcelain floor. Through china-painting and needlework. The Dinner Parly symbolically tells the story of women in Western Civilization. During the last two and a half years, hundreds of people from all over the United States have come to work with her in her studio because they. loo. believe that the information embodied in the piece is important.

The Dinner Party is scheduled to open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on March 16, 1979 and is already scheduled to travel around the country for the first year Judy has received $45,000 in grants. another $30,000 in personal donations, and has sold her work, lectured. borrowed money and invested over $85.000 in an effort to ensure that women's history would become a part of human history. There will be no exhibition unless another $40,000 is raised by early 1979. Judy does not personally own The Dinner Party and has invested more than she can ever regain.

Judy is asking for help so that the efforts of all the people who have worked to make their piece become a reality will not be in vain. Any donation you can make will be a help.

Checks are payable to The San Francisce Museum of Modern Art. Your tax-deductible contribution will be used to match a recent grand from the National Endowment for the Arts, a lederal agency. Mail donations to The Dinner Party, 1651-8 18m St.. Santa Monica, CA 90404

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