The Great American Lesbian Art Show (GALAS), a national series of exhibits and events honoring lesbian creativity, will begin May 1, 1980 in Los Angeles. The goals of GALAS are to celebrate lesbian art by making it public, visible and accessible, to build a national network of lesbian artists and a permanent slide collection of lesbian art, and to increase awareness of the power of lesbian vision and sensibility. GALAS is asking women to organize exhibits of lesbian art in their own communities, both in galleries and in non-traditional spaces. These shows will occur at the same time all across the U.S.!

There is no absolute definition for lesbian art, so if you feel your work is lesblan, please join us! We encourage work in all media and multi-media. We also suggest lesbian art events to enhance the spirit of this occasion.

If you want to show your work or the work of women you know, contact GALAS before January 15, 1980. If you exhibit your work as part of GALAS, send 3 slides to us by April 15, 1980. These will be presented at the Woman's Building exhibit in Los Angeles and will be collected in a permanent archive of lesbian art.

Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality) has a new pamphlet, Talking Union. The guide includes a glossary explaining terms about union negotiations, organizing and meetings; how to tell the EEOC from the FEPC; highlights of U.S. labor history and labor law. Copies are $1.25 each plus $.60 postage, or $.80 plus postage if you order 10 or more. Order from Union Wage, P. O. Box 40904, San Francisco, Calilornia 94140.

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 Woman 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.

DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS (women who have lost the support they were dependent upon) can get help through the Displaced Homemakers Program at all campuses of Cuyahoga Community College The program ol. fers 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. Ex. 250, Eastern, 464-1450, Ext. 275.

The Cleveland Women's Choir will be performing at the Oven Variety Show February 22 and 23. New members are encouraged to join us on or before January 24 for weekly rehearsals Thursdays at 7:30 pm Last year's Variety Show performance was an exciting and rewarding experience for all involved. Don't miss your chance this year! For informatlon call Lisa at 371-0483.

Feminist musicians Rainsong, Mudslide and Mel will be performing their original music at Icthus Coffeehouse (on .Hampshire at Superior) on Saturday, January 19, from 8 to 11 p.m. On Saturday, January 26, they will be joined by Katie Thomas on drums and percussion at Oberlin College. For information on the time and location at Oberlin, please call Lisa Rainsong at 371-0483.

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

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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE sponsors a vigil for sale energy every Friday from noon to 100 at CEI, Public Square

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

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

The Coalition of Women's Art Organizations has announced plans for the First International Festival of Women Artists to be held in Copenhagen, Oenmark from July 14-30, 1980 Sponsored by the Coalition, which is comprised of 95 women's arts organizations representing over 60,000 women artists, the festival will coincide with the 1980 World Conference of the U.N. Decade for Women in Copenhagen to be held at the same time. The event will include readings, performances, panel discussions. films and an exhibition of postcard art. It will culminate in a procession event symbolizing peace and solidarity among women worldwide. For more information, call Susan Schwalb at (212) 674-3434.

Organizers for the third annual Women's Jazz Festival to be held in Kansas City, Missouri March 20-23 report that seven groups have confirmed they will perform at the festival, including Cleo Laine, Joanne Brackeen, the Carla Bley Band, the Women's Jazz Festival All-Stars, the Mary Watkins Band, Dianne Reeves, and an unnamed 17-place all-women's band from Los Angeles. The festival will also feature a Genesis Jam for beginning jazz students, a lecture/film series, a jazzwoman jam and an open jam, and a special salute to the original International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

THE DOMESTIC WORKERS OF AMERICA, INC. is sponsoring Operation Jeb Bank. The purpose of the program is to improve the economic living standards of the unemployed, the underemployed, and the untrained. It will explore such Ideas as opening concession stands in downtown office buildings and establishing a public marketplace controlled by community co-op groups. For more information about the project, write or call Hotline, Domestic Workers of America Incorporated, 1258 Euclid Avenue, Room 200, Cleveland, Ohio 4405.

There will be several meetings at the Women's Growth Cooperative, 2420 So. Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights, for gay women Interested in developing a social drop-in center. Dates are January 15 and 29, and February 12 and 26 at 7:30 p.m.

NOW's Day Women's Rap Group is an informal rap group meeting the third Sunday of every month at (promptly) 3:00 p.m. If you are tired of the bar scene and would like to meet with your sisters in a less destructive manner, contact Joye at 286-4306, or Kay at 761-8971 after 5:00 for more information. Our next meeting will be held January 20, 1980. All women are welcome.

The DEAR Foundation has begun a women's drop-in group on the first Monday of each month. There is also a "women with women" group on the third Monday in the month to provide a safe place to explore your feedIngs about other women. All meetings will be held in the Gay Community Center at 1012 Sumner at 8:00. For more information, call the Gay Hotline at 621-3380.

Lesbian parents (lesblans in the parenting role) share special problems: custody, creating positive male role models, money, meeting other lesblan parents, coming out (or not) to our kids, their teachers and other parents, the conflict between our social lives and our children's needs. We need to share our frustrations and strengths, get together with our kids, and have a good time. If you are interested in forming a lesbian parents support group, call Gall or Barb at 281-5744.

DIGNITY, an organization for Catholic and other Christian gay women and men, welcomes new members. Meelings are at Hallinan Center, CWRU. the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month, beginning with a women's meeting at 7 p.m. and Mass and a program at 8 p.m. For more information, call Patti at 321-9456.

WOMEN TOGETHER, INC., Cleveland's shelter house for battered women and their children, is selling beige T-shirts with royal blue printing: "Women are Together". Hanes T-shirts $5.00, French cut $7.50. Available at Coventry Books, 1824 Coventry Road, Appletree Books, 12419 Cedar Road, Sleeping Bee Art Gallery (in Ohio City), East Side Food Coop, 11628 Euclid Avenue, and at Women Together's administrative office at the YWCA, 3201 Euclid Avenue. Your purchase helps to operate the shelter for battered women. For further info call Jan Ogline at 431-6267.

WOMEN TOGETHER also welcomes donations of furniture, especially beds and dressers, usable household items, linen, educational games and toys, and good books for both adults and children. For further info call Jan Ogline at 431-6267.

FEMINIST JAPAN, a bi-monthly Journal of women's culture published in Japanese, is pleased to announce its second International issue will be published in January, 1980. We hope to contribute to the ongoing dialogue among women around the world and to promote a better understanding of the progress and problems of Asian women in their struggle for equality. About half the articles in the International Issue will be on Japanese women with a focus on aging and the life cycle. The situation of women in a number of other Asian countries will also be explored. Wherever possible, the articles will be written by women of the countries concerned.

Feminist Japan is available. by order from New York or Los Angeles for $2.50. Please make your check payable to Feminist Japan. Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery. Send to: Diane L. Simpson, 555 Main St., Apt. S1802, Roosevelt island, New York, N.Y. 10044; or Noriko Mizuta Lippit, 1992 Prince Albert Drive, Riverside, California 92507.

Womensart '79, an exhibit of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography and fiber by professional Ohio women artists, will run through January 26 at the B. K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio 44077.

Dance Group: improvisation on feminist themes. Sundays, 6 p.m. No previous training necessary, but a desire to move and share with women, Small fee for studio rental. Call Gayle Crawford at 5861-5749 or 561-5764.

Hard Hatted Women are a small group of women in nontraditional jobs such as steelworkers, truck drivers, etc., who would like to mee! with other women in these types of jobs and talk about forming a support and action group. We would like to pattern ourselves after a very successful group in Pittsburgh of the same name. Please call Sandy at 921-2656 or Geri at 721-8945.

OWN (Older Woman's Network) is planning a feminist gathering in the Chicago area January 25-27, 1980. All older women welcome who plan to stay for the entire weekend. For more information, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Henny Moore, 100 Green Bay Road, Winnetka, Illinois 60093, or to Mary Morgan, 5 Elizabeth Drive, Athens, Ohio 45701.

The National Women's Studies Association will hold its annual convention at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, from May 16-20, 1980. The planned program will include panels, seminars, and papers in feminist education and presentations in the arts. Participants can look forward to discussions of Women's Studies Programs in academic institutions and of feminist alternatives to traditional education. For further information contact Elaine Reuben, Coordinator, NWSA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

With the goal of making the powerful tools of computer technology available to more women, the Feminist Computer Technology Project was launched at the National Women's Studies Association Conference in Lawrence, Kansas in early June. Among the objectives of the Project are preparing a questionnaire to be distributed through selected women's computer technology resources and the potential constituency of the Pro→ ject; and obtaining funding from various private sources for a first experimental computing center to be set up in 1980. All women sharing the goals of the Project are invited to join by sending a short description of their backgrounds and interests along with $2 to cover initial mailing costs to: Helen Eisen-Rotkopf, 4407-C Normandy Trace Drive, St. Louis. Missouri 63121.

The BEAUBA 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 socond 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 al 338-8398, or Sally at 423-3871.

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. Del Jones is the coordinator, Ideas are welcome. Contact Julie Patterson at 581-8281 with advertising suggestions.

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Female will share 2-bedroom, furnished North Royalton condominium with same. $170/mo., including utilities (phone, electric). Write: "Share Condo," P. O. Box 33324, No. Royalton, O. 44133.

CLEANING? I'll do it. I love to clean (other people's houses). $5.00 per room (negotiable). Thorough, honest, immaculate. Call Sally at 321-6261 or 921-8299. *And, by the way, I do do windows.

Olivia Records and other women's labels looking for a sales rep to distribute and promote women's music in Ohio. Send resume to Distribution, Olivia Records, 4400 Market Street, Oakland CA 94608.

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