WHAT'S HAPPENING

September

The second annual West Coast Women's Music & Cultural Festival will take place September 10-13, 1981, at Camp Mather near Yosemite, CA. Performers and workshop leaders will include Meg Christian, Audre Lorde, Charlotte Bunch, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Kate Millet, Flo Kennedy, Teresa Trull and Ultra Violet. For more information, write to West Coast Women's Music & Cultural Festival, 1195 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, or call (415) 641-4892.

Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio (EFCO) will sponsor a Raffle Drawing and Salad Supper Benefit on Saturday, September 12, at 2728 Lancashire, Cleveland Heights. Supper will be at 7:30 p.m., and a film, "So Many Voices: A Look at Abortion in America,'' narrated by Ed Asner and Tammy Grimes, will be shown at 8:30. Admission is $2.00, kids $.75. Child care provided. Please let us know you're coming. RSVP 621-8224,

Tenth Muse Productions of Kent is pleased to present Holly Near in concert for one show only, September 18, 1981. Holly will be accompanied by pianist Adrian Torf. The show begins at 8:00 p.m. and will take place in the University Auditorium of Kent State University. The auditorium is accessible, child care will be available, and the concert will be signed for the hearing impaired. Tickets are $5 in advance, $6 at the door, and are available at Coventry Books. For additional information contact Bonnie at 1-297-7868 during the day, or 1-678-6665 in the evening.

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On Saturday, September 19, Holly Near will perform at Oberlin College. More information will be available soon from the college student union. WomenSpace, CWW and Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice are among the community organizations that have endorsed Solidarity Day, called by the AFL-CIO to reaffirm the historic commitment of the labor movement to social and economic justice, and to demonstrate...that a large grassroots constituency...opposes the assault against worker protections and severe cutbacks in programs that aid working people.' There will be a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., from 10 a.m. to. 5 p.m. on September 19, which will include speakers, entertainment, and a march from the Mall to the Capitol.

The Alternative Budget Coalition is coordinating transportation and a send-off rally for Cleveland area groups. Buses are scarce, so if you can drive a car, van or station wagon, call Frieda Smith Kreitner, 451-4126, or Peace House, 231-4245.

On September 25-27, the Ohio Right-to-Life Society will hold its annual statewide convention in Dayton, Ohio. This event gives anti-choice forces and their plan for a constitutional amendment,to ban all abortions heavy media exposure throughout the state. The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) will respond with a pro-choice statement in a full page signature ad in the Dayton Journal Herald on September 25. With your help the pro-choice stand will be clear to the people of Dayton and to all our state and federal legislators who will receive a copy of the ad.

The cost of supporting this ad with your name is only $3.00. We are depending on individual contributions to cover the actual cost of the ad's preparation and publication. Please support the pro-choice effort by signing your name to the ad. Send at least $3.00 to NARAL/Ohio, 65 S. Fourth St. No. 328, Columbus, Ohio 43215. All names must be in the office by September 10 in order to appear.

The Land Project is a group of thirteen women who own 20 acres of land in Northwest Pennsylvania. We are interested in sharing the land with other women and have scheduled an open weekend for September 26-27. Plans are to leave Cleveland Saturday morning and return Sunday evening. We provide food, a sleeping space and transportation for a fee of $20.00. We want to limit the number of women to 15. We do not want alcohol, drugs or pets brought to the land and there will be no smoking indoors. Tent camping is available but you must bring your own tent. Fill out the form below and mail to Land Project, c/o 2953 Berkshire, Cleveland Hts., Ohio 44118.

Name

Day Phone

Can you drive?

Night Phone

How many can you lake?

Are you part of a group that would like to come together?

If so, how many in the group?

The WomenSpace Hotline will hold a benefit concert Sunday, September 27, from 7 p.m. to midnight at Peabody's Cafe (corner of Cedar and Taylor in Cleveland Heights). Artists include Rose, the Rainsong and Mudslide Trio, Gusti, and James Glover. Tickets are $5 in advance, $5.50 at the door. Tickets are available at Peabody's, Arabica, Coventry Books, Six Steps Down and WomenSpace. For more information, call 696-6967.

The Freedom of Choice Coalition of Miami Valley (Dayton area) has scheduled a Pro-Choice March and Rally on Sunday, September 27, to protest the annual right-to-life statewide convention being held in Dayton. Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio and the Cleveland Abortion Rights Action League are supporting this event by organizing buses of supporters to attend. The cost is $15.00 round trip. Depart from CSU, E. 22nd and Euclid, at 7:45 a.m. sharp; return to Cleveland at approximately 10:00 p.m. (20 percent discount on groups of 3 or more who RSVP to EFCO, 439 The Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio 44114. For more information, call 621-8224 or 522-0169.

Cleveland Women Working will hold a public hearing September 30, 1981, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the City Club (see this month's editorial). Come speak out for affirmative action!

Daughters of Time, a new film about current trends in nurse-midwifery, will air nationally on PBS on September 30, 1981, at 10:30 p.m. Produced independently by Washington, D.C. filmmaker Ginny Durrin, the film portrays three contemporary nurse-midwives at work: in a hospital birthing room, at home, and in an alternative birth center. The film is distributed by New Day Films, P.O. Box 315, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417, and can be. rented for $50 or purchased for $450.

October

ALIVE! All female jazz quintet will perform Friday, October 9, at a noon workshop at Wilder Hall, Oberlin College (free), and at a concert on October 9 at 8:30 p.m. at Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Tickets are $3, available at the door.

Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice will hold a meeting Friday, October 16, 1981, at 8 p.m. at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Main Library, 2345 Lee Road. There will be speakers and slides covering the important state issues in the November election, including Workers Compensation and Congressional Redistricting. There will also be the election of officers and executive board. Refreshments will be provided. For further information, call Blanche Livingstone. 371-4027,

A national coalition of over 500 diverse organizations have called an All Peoples Congress to overturn the Reagan program of cutbacks, racism and war. Thousands of delegates wil meet in Detroit's Cobo Hall arena on October 16-18. For more information, contact (313) 965-0074.

A National Day of Unity for Battered Women has been declared for October 17, 1981, by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. This day will be observed and celebrated with the over 300 member organizations who work to end violence against women. The purpose of the day is twofold: to remember those women who have died by violence and those imprisoned for murdering their mates as a result of being victims of violence; and to celebrate the work going on across the country: the shelters for battered women and their children, the hotlines and other domestic violence programs. This day will increase awareness of the problem and bring it before the public conscience.

Templum House, a shelter for battered women, will hold a benefit on October 18, 1981, to celebrate its birthday. There will be an open house in the afternoon, followed by a performance of "The Belle of Amherst" at the Phoenix Theatre, 3130 Mayfield Road, and a birthday party in the evening. For tickets or information, call 687-1838.

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Preterm will sponsor a sexuality workshop entitled "The Awefulness of Sex" with speaker Philip Sarrel, M.D. and Associate Professor Obstetrics, Gynecology and Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Sarrel and his wife Lorna Sarrel, M.S.W., are Co-Directors of the Sex Counseling Service, Division of Mental Hygiene at the Yale University Health Services. As one of the nation's leading proponents of sex education, Dr. Sarrel has been instrumental in integrating sexuality education into the field of medicine and other areas of study. His address will be "The Sexual Unfolding of Adolescence: An Approach to Understanding Teenage Pregnancy". Other topics will be covered by local professionals. The workshops are open to the public.

The day-long program will take place at the Statier Office Towers, 12th and Euclid, on October 22, 1981. The workshops will begin at 8:30 a.m. with coffee and registration. Sessions start at 9:00. Lunch is scheduled for noon, followed by Dr. Sarrel's address; and the program will conclude at 4:30. For additional information and registration, call Preterm at 368-1006.

November

Last November 16, 2500 women from all over the Northeast came to Washington, D.C. for the Women's Pentagon Action. We held workshops and on November 17 surrounded the Pentagon. Some 150 women were arrested blocking the entrances.

The Women's Pentagon Action, a growing web of local groups from Maine to North Carolina, has set November 15-16 for our return to the Pentagon. This date is close to the anniversaries of the deaths of Karen Silkwood and Yulande Ward. It's an appropriate time for women to gather again in Washington. We will create new sisterhood confronting the Pantagon with the full range of its crimes through our ritual, our demonstration of our strength, our civil disobedience.

All women in the geographic area are welcome and needed in planning and participating in this action. Women in other areas might want to organize supporting actions. If so, contact the Women's Pentagon Action at 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10002 (212-254-4961), or P.0. Box 9306, Washington, D.C. 20005 (202-483-4284).

Attention: Women interested in playing Flag Football. We will meet through September and October (weather permitting) on Sunday mornings at 11:00 a.m. In the parking lot of Forest Hills Park (near Lee and Monticello) in Cleveland Heights. Come prepared-bring whatever you need (ball, knee pads, a conditioned body), Safety first-we want no injuries. This is a friendly, mellow yet competitive on-going game.