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also 18th Century French Art;/continue through two more rooms to.23B, 18th Century French Decorative Arts. Here behind glass is a porcelain plate, Cupid Carried by the Three Graces. It is from the Sevres Factory, dated 1703-1770, after a design by Francois Boucher. The Three Graces in the Old Religion were Life, Death and Beauty. They are known as the three-fold mother and later as the Fates or the Graces. They are always shown with their arms around each other with very contented and peaceful expressions.

According to classical Greek mythology, the Three Graces were daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, a child of the Titan, Ocean. They are always together, a triple incarnation of grace and beauty," Their names are Aglaia (splendor), Euphrosyne (mirth), and Thalia (good cheer). In other words, classically/ they are reduced to light-hearted fancy, whereas under the Old Religion they had more meaningful representation.

Next walk through Room 23C and Room 12, Romanesque and Early Gothic. Make a left to Room 11, Art of the Migration Period. Here there is an Arenite Head of quartz sandstone which is Celtic of the 3rd Century A.D. The Celts worshipped the Great Mother Goddess. "The cosmic hour was midnight. The male day was enclosed by two female Family Violence (continued from page 3) her/his client within the legal/judicial system.

While service to clients is FVP's main priority, the eight women and men who staff the program are also committed to effecting institutional change and to reducing the community's acceptance of domestic violence. To these ends, FVP staff members conduct a public information campaign through a speakers' bureau, printed materials, and media exposure (watch for signs on some buses this month), provide training and education for police, hospitals, social service and mental health professionals, attorneys, and school personnel, collect statistics and other information, work with other agencies for coordination of services, and maintain contact with community organizations.

The program is sponsoring the printing of a handbook for battered women, which will soon be available at no charge.

FVP's services are free, and child care is provided for children ages 3-12. Hours are 8:30-4:30 Monday

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you feel when it's all put together and you are as much the audience as the performer anxiously awaiting another act. It's a truly one-of-a-kind experience that many become involved with year after year because each show is unique, reflecting the immagination and tastes of the group combined.

If you want to meet people and feel a part of something, if you want to have fun with friends, if you want to perform your art with the feedback of an audiance, be at 2328 Grandview (2nd floor) -òn · January 13 at 7:30 p.m. for the first planning meeting. Other meetings will be on January 21 at 1:09), and February 3 at 7:30.

If you want to performu, write, or just help out, come to the mostings; if you want to watch, lickets are irvailable on the east side at Coventry Books, The Free Clinic and Rape Crisis Center, and on the west side at Tish's Shoes. They will also be available in Kent at the Muse (a women's coffee house) and from Bonnie at 678-6665. The price is $5.00 in advance and at the door. We encourage you to buy in advance as the event is always a popular one and has sold out to standing room only in the past couple of years. It's also important that you buy for the night you plan to attend, as tickets are not interchangeable.

Groups wishing to be included on the program and people wanting more information can leave a message with Oven at 321-1587 or call JoAnna at 486-3117.

Don't be left out of the wonderful feelings this show can give. We leak forward to seeing everyone there.

nights, and time division was by the night. Ireland and Scotland were female settlements, named after the ladies Erin and Scota. Whether this sculpture

is of a womon or possibly a goddess we cannot be sure. We must use our imagination on these older works. Please view the Arenite Head for yourself and see what you think.

Part III of this series will consist of the Renaissance and Baroque Art of the Museum as well as Greek and Roman, Ancient Near Eastern, Oceanic, Egyptian and Oriental.

Footnotes:

'Ecclesiastes 1:15.

'Shelley, Percy Bysshe, The Cloud. 'Wordsworth, Prologue to Peter Bell. 'Montaigne, Essays III.

'Wicca or Wicce in Anglo-Saxon means "to bend or to shape".

'Starhawk, The Spiral Dance (Harper & Row, 1979), p. 9.

'Ibid., p. 5.

Ibid., p. 12.

'Cleveland Press, December, 1979.

Hamilton, Edith, Mythology, p. 37.

"Diner, Helen, Mothers and Amazons: The First Feminine History of Culture (Anchor Press, 1965), P. 202.

through Friday and 8:30-12:30 on Saturday. Any resident of Cuyahoga County who is experiencing problems with domestic violence is eligible for program services.

For more information, call the Family Violence Program at 623-7399.

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15 years. The office setting will most likely provide a detailed view of the working woman's predicament. Dolly Parton, the boss's "personal" secretary, will undoubtedly raise the public's consciousness of sexual harassment on the job. "Good comedy," Fonda explains, "is the other side of tragedy”. Just as "The China Syndrome" and "Coming Home" showed us tears in our social fabric that we'd rather not see (just how many political issues can one activist handle?), { expect that "Nine to Five" will snag us on the malevolent web of the corporate hierarchy.

Along with others in the audience, I found one of Fonda's statements disturbing. As she introduced the subject of the film "Nine to Five," she reassured us with the words, "Don't worry, it's not going to be a feminist tract. It's not going to be boring". Yet Fonda's entire speech was feminist: it contained affir`mative values for women, it emphasized the impertance of coopesition and· collective action, and it criticized the lower value placed on women's work. It seerns unlikely that Fonde was intentionally criticizing current fedmisist thinking.

Later in her speech, Fonda said, "Women office workers must organize at a time when the majority of people agres with the ideas of equal pay on the job kuid justior at the workplace. This change in attitude Enid is due romà dấy: the cìvit rights, the anti-war and the women's, phovements”. Which leads me to believe Jane Fondir lettioded simply to gain the trust of those women unfamiliar with, afraid of, or hosille to feminism. To focus on this one remark may seem trivial or acadèmic. I raise the issue because it does seem that for many women feminism is still a dirty word that evokes negative images. Like it or not, this attitude is dangerously prevalent. It effectively distorts the public image of feminists across the nation and discourages potential activists. It obscures the many positive changes feminists have achieved and are still striving for.

Jane Fonda concluded her speech with the rousing words, "The labor movement will no longer be represented by George Meany. Working women will change the face of labor in the 80's". A powerful speech, A terrific applause. And a final call to become a member of Cleveland Women Working.