WHAT'S HAPPENING

A Cleveland Women's Writers Guild is being formed which will benefit all women writers by providing feedback on your writing, public reading opportunities, encouragement, publication Information, writing opportunities and membership in The Feminist Writers Guild, Berkeley, Califor nia. A writers guild for women only will help us defend ourselves against the sexism of publishers and the media. It will be a flexible organization for women of various perspectives. Meetings will be the second Monday of each month. For further information, call Pat at 791-0311.

Take Back the Night will meet February 13 at 7:30 to discuss strategy. For more information, call Diane at 441-1344 after 5 p.m. weekdays.

TEMPLUM HOUSE, a shelter for homeless women, will hold a benefit dinner dance on Monday, February 18, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m, at the Hofbrau House, 1400 E. 55th Street, Cleveland. Tickets are $15.00 aplece, $25.00 matron, and include a buffet style dinner. For information, call Constance Pederson evenings at 381-3999.

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Cuyahoga Women's Political Caucus Annual Brunch honoring elected and appointed public officials will take place Saturday, February 23, at 9:30 a.m. For information, call Julle Rak at 621-8895.

A state-wide anti-nuclear meeting will be held on Saturday, March 1, in Wooster, Ohio. Call Amy Hubbard, 861-6945 (days) for information.

On Saturday, April 26, a national March for a Non-Nuclear World will be held in Washington, D.C. Call Dorothy Spiker, 921-3178, or Amy Hubbard, 861-6945 (days), for information. Buses to be organized.

The University of Akron will present a workshop on Perspectives on Sex Roles and Identities beginning January 23, 1980 for 15 weeks. The workshop will meet on Wednesday nights from 8:00 to 9:50 p.m. at the University of Akron, Olin 124. For information, call 1-375-7281.

The workshop is a review of the biological, historical, political, economic and social factors which have shaped roles and identities in our society. Topics will include Myths of Co-Education: Gender and Identity In Education, Women and Work In American Culture, Politics of Sexual Discrimination, Human Rights and Group Rights, Psychological Differences Between the Sexes, Economics of Sexual Roles, Women Heroes, Women Writers, Biological Perspective, and The Making of the Patriarchy: The Social and Political History of Sexism in the U.S.

Kent now has a women's coffee house on the first and third Saturday of each month. The Tenth Muse opens at 8:00, with entertainment beginning at 9:30. It's located at 202 N. Lincoln, directly behind Hillel House. For those who have come, the past two months have provided good music and a quiet, supportive atmosphere, well worth a short 45-minute drive. For more information, call Bonnie at 1-678-6665.

Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Bain 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, California 94140.

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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 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 Felixson. There are no fees or eligibility requirements at the Free Clinic (12201 Euclid Avenue).

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 of. 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, Ext. 250; Eastern, 464-1450, Ext. 275.

THE DOMESTIC WORKERS OF AMERICA, INC. is sponsoring Operation Job 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 445.

The National Woman's Studles Association will hold its annual convention at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indlana, 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.

The Coalition of Women's Art Organizations has announced plans for the First International Festival of Women Artists to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark 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 Cleveland Branch of the North American Network of Women Runners and the Cleveland Wages for Housework Committee are sponsoring a meeting of women to organize for Public Resources for Women's Recreation on Monday, February 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bertram Woods Branch of the Shaker Heights Public Library, 20600 Fayette Road (the southeast corner of Shaker Blvd. and Warrensville Center Rd.). The meeting is open to all women. Low cost programs, childcare, "exercise" time off work. and better employment opportunities for those supporting women's programs wil be discussed and proposals to city organizations will be formulated. For more information or childcare, contact the North American Network of Women Runners at 283-4916.

International Women's Day potluck and film, "Working for Your Life,'' about industrial health and safety affecting women workers, will tak place at the Unitarian Society, 2728 Lancashire Road, Cleveland Heights, on Friday, March 7. Filmed in 40 workplaces, the movie shows the dangers faced by women entering occupations traditionally closed to them and what working women are doing about them. Dinner at 6:30 p.m., film at 8:00 p.m., plus speakers on the history of International Women's Day, reproductive rights, and more. Admission to the film is $1.50. For more information, call 932-6191, or 321-6143.

The GEAR 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 feelings 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.

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

Dence 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 561-5749 or 561-5764.

WOMEN TOGETHER, INC., Cleveland's shelter house for battered women and their children, is selling belge 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.

There will be a meeting at the Women's Growth Cooperative, 2420 So. Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights, on February 26 at 7:30 p.m. for gay women interested in developing a social drop-in center.

DIGNITY, an organization for Catholic and other Christian gay women and men, welcomes new members. Meetings 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.

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

FEMINIST ISSUES N.O.W. is a radio program broadcast from 7.30 to 8.00 a.m. every Sunday morning on WMMS and from 12:30 to 1:00a.m. every Friday on WZAK. Ideas are welcome. Contact Julie Patterson at 581-8281 with advertising suggestions.

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 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 729-1199, or call Nancy at 729-4887, Sue at 338-8398, or Sally at 423-3871.

HARD HATTED WOMEN, a group of women who work or want to work in non-traditional jobs, invites you to an evening of short films and discussion with a speaker from Pittsburgh Hard Hatted Women. Saturday. March 1, 7:00 p.m., St. Luke's Episcopal Church, corner of West 78th Street and Lake Avenue. If you need child care or more info, call Mary at 476-2460 or Peg at 631-3195.

The NINTH STREET TUNA will be playing at Peabody's Cafe February 13 and 27 from 9:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. This band features two women musicians, Mary Martin, lead vocalist, and Margie Carol, saxophonist.

We are three Feminists living on twelve acres in southcentral Kentucky. We share skills, most resources, thoughts, labor and strive for collective sufficiency. We are anti-nuclear environmentalists struggling for change on a grass roots level while creating a supportive womonspace, learning new patterns, and reclaiming our self-expression. Exploring our lives, we recognize how We affect/influence social/political/economic change, and how Feminist theory/action seeks to break down barriers of sexism, racism, classism, and agism which keep us isolated and weak. We base our relationships on collective responsibility and mutual support rather than on competition and individual isolation

Womyń, including womyn with children, considering an alternative lifestyle write: Sunnybrook Wimmins' Collective, Sunnybrook, Kentucky 42650. Send SASE.

A Chilean Task Force representative will speak on "Continuing Tension Between the US and Chile's Military Dictatorship and the special plight of women and children under the Junta at the Cleveland Heights Main Library, 2345 Lee Road, on February 15 at 8:00 p.m. For further information call Daisy Ford, 247-5856.

We are an inspired group of women: lesbians, heterosexuals, mothers, working and middle class, living in a political community dedicated to non-violent revolution called Movement for a New Society. We are holding a 9-day training program with an optional 4-day group project following to share our skills, visions, and experiences with other women. The program will include: feminist strategizing for social change; naming and nurturing our dreams; analyzing the role of oppression in our lives and movement; creative ways for dealing with the conflicts that arise in our work; and concrete skills for direct action campaigns.

The training program will be held May 2-11 and 11-15, 1980. For more Information, write: Women's Training Collective, 4709 Windsor Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143.

NOW's Bay Women's Rap Group is an informal rap group meeting the third Sunday of every month at 3:00 p.m. sharp. If you are tired of the bar scene and would like to meet with your sisters in a less destructive manner, contact Joye at 286-4308, or Kay at 761-8971 after 5:00 for more info. Our next meeting will be held February 17. All women are welcome.

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Lesbian/Feminist Housing outside of Ohio City. Sliding scale rent. Bev: 281-1726.

Sale: February 23, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sears washing machine-$250; Sears refrigerator-$250. Smith-Corona electric typewriter-$75. Also assorted household items-beds, chairs, tables, misc. Advance sale of items to WSW subscribers by appointment. 2280 S. Overlook between Cedar and North Park, 721-2439.

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