WHAT'S HAPPENING

CLEVELAND ABORTION RIGHTS ACTION LEAGUE will hold its general meeting June 10 from 3 to 5 p.m. at The First Unitarian Church, 21600 Shaker Blvd. The speaker will be Or. Dwight Brown, minister of First Unitarian, who, as minister of a Dallas church, counselled 20 to 40 women a week with problem pregnancies in the five years prior to the 1973 Supreme Court decision. We will also be finalizing plans for the Cincinnati demonstration on June 23 against the Right-to-Life National Convention. For more information on transportation to Cincinnati, call Cheryl Jensen (CARAL) at 226-8990, or Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio, 579-0028.

A Women's Run will take place at Euclid Square Mall, located between Babbitt Road and East 260th Street, on June 24, 1979. Any age female may enter either the 1 Mile Fun Run, which has a $3.00 fee, or the 5 Mile Run, which has a fee of $5.00. Pre-entries should be in by June 19. Registration begins at 7:45 a.m. in the Community Room of the Mall on the day of the race. The Mile Race begins at 8:30 a.m. and the 5 Mile at 9:30 a.m. Entries on the day of the race will be taken at an additional charge of $1.00 for each race. For further information, call Euclid YWCA al 731-7454.

New Games Foundation is a non-profit educational organization communicating a style of play encouraging participat on, trust and creativity. The foundation serves a seed function by teaching the skills and concepts of New Games refereeing in workshops acro the country. New Games projects grow in these cities according to the interests of those involved. Created in 1974, the foundation has offered New Games training programs and presentations in over 90 cities in 38 states and four foreign countries, including New Games literature and equipment.

There will be a New Games Festival on Sunday, June 17, 1979, at Madison Park, 13201 Madison Ave., Lakewood. The Festival is free and open to everyone. For Eastsiders, take the new freeway. Route 90, to West 117th Street and go north to Madison Ave. Turn left onto Madison and the park is two minutes away.

New Games are superb treatment for burn-out. The energy created while playing will help re-charge anyone who is operating on reserve. Perspectives on Sex Roles and Identities, a credit and non-credit workshop, will be offered by the University of Akron from June 25-July 6 Irom 1:00-5.00 p.m., and June 27 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. The workshop will feature Florence Howe, founder of the Feminist Press. University of Akron faculty, and other speakers in an exploration of the movement toward a more androgynous society in which men and women will be able to develop without limitations of narrow and constraining sexual role prescriptions. You can attend one session or the entire workshop. Call 1-375-7291 for information.

The GEAUGA WOMEN'S CENTER, 11984 Caves Road, Chesterland, Ohio. at the northwest corner of Wilson Mills and Caves Road (Community Church of Chesterland, downstairs), has a Drop-In Center open the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 8 to 10 p.m. Offered are support groups, self-help/health. information and referral service on doctors, lawyers, therapists. social services and divorce, and various speakers. The group needs feedback (good or bad) to expand its referral lists Come share your experiences For further information, call Nancy at 729-4887, Carolynn at 286-2081. Sue at 338-8398. or Sally al 423-3871.

An Alternative Energy Fair will take place at Lakeland Community College on Saturday, June 23, and Sunday, June 24, all day. The speakers include Ohio Sen. Tim McCormack. Equipment and exhibitors will demonstrate the feasibility of environmentally safe energy production, Directions. 1-90 East to Rt 306. Mentor exit Follow signs to Lakeland Community College. For information, call Suzanne at 771-4815

A Mini-Fair and Jazz Festival will take place June 30 from 4-8 p.m. at Peace House, 10916 Magnolia Drive, in celebration of the International Year of the Child, sponsored by Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, American Friends Service Committee, and Clergy and Laity Concerned. There will be folk dancing from 7-8 p.m., children's crafts and games all alternoon, and food provided by Genesis.

The Women's Educational Equity Grant Writing Workshop will be held at the Cleveland YWCA, 3201 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, on June 12 and 13 to teach how to write grants and proposals and find funds for projects related to educational equity for women. The workshop is free to participants who have not previously received any competitive funding, although there will be a charge for materials. For information, contact Beverly Warfield, YWCA Public Relations Director, at 881-6878.

DISPLACEO HOMEMAKERS (women who have lost the support they wero dependent upon) can get help through the Displaced Homemakers Program at 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 be 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.

HOME-LIKE BIRTH CENTER of Booth Memorial Hospital offers tours of the Center on the first Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m. Women considering giving birth in the home-like environment should contact the Center early enough in pregnancy to be able to participate in the program. The Birth Center Staff are also available to lecture classes and groups about this unique program. Contact Carol Shulthesis, Director, Nurse-Midwifery Services, or Sarah Dennet, Nursing Educational Coordinator, at the hospital, 692-3500, for fur-

ther information.

THE CLEVELAND WOMEN'S CHOM welcomes new members. The only experience necessary is enjoying singing. Choir rehearsals are on Tuesday evenings. For more information, call Lisa at 321-0304.

Women's music at LABYRIS, 2420 So. Taylor, every Friday evening. 9 to 12 p.m., beginning June 8 with Deb Adler. June 15 with Lisa Rainsong and Mudslide. June 22 with Kathy Knowles and Deb Adler, and June 29 with Lisa Rainsong and Deb Adler. Also, "games night" every Saturday Join us. Support Cleveland's only women's coffeehouse.

The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland is sponsoring a Wilderness Canoe Trip for Adult Women for 12 days, August 14-26, 1979, near Quetica Proven cial Park in Western Ontario. The cost is $495.00 and the minimum age is 25. For more information, contact Jody Telfair-Richards, 167 Morgan Street, Oberlin, Ohio 44074; tel. (216) 774-5725.

THE FREE CLINIC, 12201 Euclid Avenue, is starting an ongoing support group for women who have been victims of domestic violence. If interested, contact Gail Powers, Sandy Scully, or Jeanne Sonville at 721-4010. There are no fees or eligibility requirements.

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, Wemen With Women, meets at the Free Clinic on Friday evenings from 7:00 to 8:30. Any interested woman is welcome.

The FREE CLINIC is offering individual and group counselling for victims of incest, on Tuesday evenings between 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. To make an apointment, call 721-4010 and say you want an appointment with Joyce Spencer or Jan Felixson.

PRO-CHOICE ACTION COMMITTEE is organizing a Benefit Picnic on June 8, 1979 at Forest Hills Park (Lee Road entrance just off Monticello) from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00. A donation of $2.50 will go to help defray the cost of chartered buses to Cincinnati on June 23 to protest the Right-to-Life National Conference, and includes hot dogs, softball, music, volley ball and good company. For information, call 579-0028.

Lifelong Learning Institute's WomenFocus Program of Cuyahoga Community College will conduct over 45 classes, beginning June 25, tailored to meet the needs and interests of women. The classes will be held at the three CCC campuses and at nearby community locations. Fees range from $10 to $30. Courses include Auto and Home Maintenance, Assertiveness. Career Decisions, Divorce Support Group, Identifying SelfDefeating Behavior. Self-Defense, Yoga: Managing Stress through TA, Secretarial Office Procedures and Financial Planning.

In addition, CCC's Lifelong Learning Institute is sponsoring over 160 non-credit courses in personal and professional development, special interests and cultural enrichment as well as specialized programs for women and youngsters. Classes start the week of June 25 at CCC's three campuses and certain sites throughout Cuyahoga County. Average fees range from $6 to $32.

A complete summer schedule is available at each CCC campus. You can register at each CCC Admissions Office from June 11-21. For more information, call WomenFocus at CCC: Eastern Campus, 464-1450, ext. 242; Metropolitan Campus, 241-5966, ext. 209; or Western Campus, 845-4000, ext. 250.

The WOMEN'S SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE (WSPA) has chosen Regis College in Denver, Colorado for the location of its fourth session, August 9-23, 1979. WSPA was founded in the belief that both personal and professional growth can be fostered by a fuller integration of our values and identities as women and as professionals. WSPA is a personally supportive environment which enables women in the fields of architecture, planning, design, landscape architecture, environmental psychology, and other environmental design fields to gather together for an exchange of ideas, and to explore the particular qualities, concerns. and abilities which they as women bring to environmental design, it is the only school of planning and architecture to be entirely conceived, founded, financed and run by and for women.

This year's theme is Transitions: Designing for the Future as if Women Mattered. Participants may attend the full two-week session, August 9-23. or the four-day weekend session, August 9-12. The weekend session will focus on the future from both a global and a personal perspective. Women of all ages and stages of their professional development are encouraged to attend. There are no academic credentials required, only a committed interest in the built environment, and environmental design field. Child care will be provided, and the college is wheelchair accessi. ble. The cost for the two-week session for room, board and tuition is. $400 (based on double occupancy), and $100 for the 4-day weekend session. Enrollment is limited, so early application is suggested. The registration deadline is July 1. For applications and more information, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to WSPA, Box 102 Palomar Arcade, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, or call Sue Aitcheson (617) 731-0957. WISCONSIN WOMYN'S LANO COOP, Norwalk, Wisconsin, announces summer 1979 retreat facilities for your womyn's group. Available are primitive camping on 80 acres of women's land, exclusive barn use for workshops/encounters, cookhouse and outdoor children's area. Fées are $5.00 per day per womon for a minimum of 5 and maximum of 20 womyn. For booking call (608) 269-5301. WWLC is open to womyn of all ages on the last full weekend of every month and the preceding five days. The land is open to boys until their 10th birthday.

The COMMUNITY SEXLINE, a telephone education and referral service in human sexuality, is open from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 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.

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 coor dinator. Ideas are welcome. Contact Barb Lombardo at 835-5042 or Julie Pallerson at 581-8281 with advertising suggestions.

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE sponsors a vigil for safe 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 Simene 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 will be held at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University on September 27-29, 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 difterent 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. Conference attendance will be by preregistration only. Day care will be provided. Pre-registration will begin after April 1, 1979. Please direct all submissions and all requests for preregistration 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.

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, New York, New York 10023.

COVENTRY BOOKS is having a continuous multi-media extravaganza about China now that owner Ellen Strong has returned from the People's Republic. Come in and enjoy books, fresh brewed tea and a continuous slide show.

Professional help in the writing of funding proposals is now available to women's groups across the country through the WOMEN'S ACTION ALLIANCE, INC., the national non-profit center for women's issues and programs. They will evaluate your proposals in writing and will return them to you within three weeks. There is a $5.00 fee for postage and handling. If interested, write to Proposal Critique Service. Women's Action Alliance, inc., 370 Lexington Avenue. New York, New York 10017. THE OHIO WOMEN IN PRISON PROJECT has received permission 10 donate books to prison libraries. Needed are fiction, magazines, AM radios, cassettes, records, 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. Even if you have only junk novels, please donate what you can to these women in cages with nothing to do. Separato` books into fiction and non-fiction and include a list of authors and titles. Call Barbara Louise at 941-6530 for more infor mation,

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

WEEKEND FORUM FOR WOMEN. Finy-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. NORTH SHORE ALERT (anti-nuclear fission) meets the 1st Thursday of each month al 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.

CLEVELAND WOMEN WORKING's Downtown Safety Project, designed to reduce crime and fear of crime among downtown employees, has progressed several steps in its initial calendar of activities. It has a new name, Target: Safety. Seminars making use of the recently completed slide/tape presentation on safety on the job will begin soon These seminars, featuring crime prevention and safety tips, will be presented throughout downtown by trained speakers from CWW during the next year.

Downtown Crime Prevention Surveys have been distributed widely and initial results are being tabulated. Over 1000 responses have been received so far. If you are interested in helping by filling out a survey, distributing surveys, having seminars in your office, or have a general interest in safety on the job, call Kathie FitzSimons at 566-8511.

THE WOMEN'S WRITER'S CENTER, INC. Is beginning its fifth year September 16, 1979. It is a one-year program of up to thirty credits in writing workshops and tutorials, in feminist literary history and aesthetics, and in independent study projects. This year's visiting faculty include Mary Gordon, Judy Graham, Irena Kleplisz, Maxine Kumin and Grace Paley, who will join the resident faculty, Rachel deVries. Mary Beth Ross and Rita Speicher. For details about curriculum, costs, transfer possibilities and financial aid, write Women's Writer's Center, Inc. Williams Hall, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia. New York 13035

SHEPN KOYECH (translated from the Yiddish as "Drawing Strength '). an anthology of writings by Jewish lesbians, wants submissions written from a Jewish-lesbian-identified perspective. For more information, write Shepn Koyech, P.O. Box 6050, Boston, MA 02209

CHOMO-URI, a women's multi-arts magazine, is seeking submissions for its upcoming special issue on Women and the Performing Arts. Graphics. photography, poetry, songs, fiction, non-fiction, plays, interviews, reviews, and essays are welcome in the areas of music, dance and theatre. Pays in two complimentary copies. Please send all submissions with a self-addressed stamped return envelope to Chomo-Uri, P.O. Box 1057, Amherst, MA 01002. Submission deadline is September 15, 1979

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