WHAT'S HAPPENING

Music & Dance

Cleveland on Stage, John Carroll University and Northeast Ohio Jazz Society will co-sponsor Wemonjazz '82. a women's jazz festival to be held in Kulas Auditorium at John Carroll'University on September 24 and 25, 1982. Performances will be at 8:00 p.m. both evenings. Tickets for this double: bill, are $10.00 ($8.00 for NOJS members) and will be available September 1 through the Cleveland on Stage Boxoffice and at the following locations: Record Rendezvous, Public Square, Wax Stacks Records, 2254 Lee, Road: Westgate Music Center, 23820 Center, Ridge Road; and Heartbeat Records, 426 E. Main Street, Kent.Cleveland's Jazz Women will be featured at the Friday evening performance, September 24. This event is free and open to the public. For ticket information, call the Cleveland on Stage Boxoffice; 491-4428.

The September 25 Women's Open House will feature music by Maureen Landies and poetry by Connie Mader. The Women's Open House is a coffeehouse, held on the 4th Sunday of each month at 2728 Lancashire (off Coventry near. Mayfield): We are open from 8:00 p.m. until midnight with music beginning at. 9:00 p.m. Coffee, teas, juice and snacks are available, and a $1:50 donation is asked at the door. The Open House is non-profit and chemical free, and all women are welcome. For more information, call,371-0483.

Tenth Muse Productions is pleased to announce our fall season of events. The Coffeehouse at 202 N. Lincoln Street, Kent, will reopen on Friday, September 24. This exception to our Saturday format will feature performer Sidney Spinster from. Minneapolis. Doors open at 9:00 p.m.; music starts at 9:30. Sidney, who performed at the open mike at the recent Michigan Women's Music Festival, will perform wimmin-identified music from a separatist point of view because; to her, "wimmin have a unique perspective on the world...

On October, 2 the Coffeehouse will be closed in support of the Cleveland Women's Take Back the Night March...

Our fall Special Event on October 16 will be an evening of comedy and fun with fumerist (that's feminist-humorist) Kate Clinton from Cazenovia, New York. Kate has been entertaining women across the country, encouraging them to laugh and to bond together through shared joy. We are pleased to bring her unique style of entertainment to Kent for her first

Workshops & Conferences

The Land Project is a group of 13 women who own 38 acres of land in Northwest Pennsylvania with a unfinished but livable house, à barn; pond, meadow and woods. We are interested in sharing the land with other women. Our next open weekend will be September 11:12. We will leave Cleveland Saturday morning and return Sunday evening. We will *provide food, a sleeping space and transportation for a fee of $20.00. There will be structured and free time. We want no alcohol, drugs or pets, and there will be no smoking Indoors. Tent camping is available. but you must bring your own tent. For information; write to Land Project, c/o 2953 Berkshire, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118.

The Campaign '82,8ks Workshop of the Cleveland Abortion Rights Ac-. tion League will be held on September 11, 1982 from 8:00a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the West Shore Unitarian Church, 20401 Hillard Blvd., Rocky River, Ohio. Registration is $8.00. Call CARAL, 522-0169, for registration and information..

"Rising Together, a regional forum for theological reflection; personal and organizational support and strategizing for the future, will be presented by The Cleveland Women's Ordination Conference from 7:00 p.m. on Friday, October 8, to 2:00 p.m. Sunday, October 10, 1992 at The Cleveland Hilton South, 1-77 and Rockside Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44130. Registra tion begins at 5:30 p.m. on October 8, and the conference fee is $50,00.. or $45.00 for early registration by September 27. Facilities are handi-capped accessible and childcare services are available. For more infor mation, write CWOC, 2007 West 65th Street; Cleveland, Ohio 44102, or call Jane O'Brien Relily at 221-9425:

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performers, The Festival at those times was a true celebration

In addition to the music, there were numerous workshops on many subjects such as a computer appreciation course, lesbian child custody, matriarchal dance, healing, jazz jam session, rugby, women and psychology, self-publishing, fat liberation, self defense, poetry workshop; and many others.

Margie Adam.directed a workshop on the subject of creativity. Women can develop the creativity from. within themselves through music and other vehicles. -We have felt the oppression of external cues to follow others, work within set structures and with people · having different values. She gave encouragement to

Ohio performance. Watch for more details soon. For additional information..call Barrie or Bonnie at 1-678-6665.

The Third Annual West Coast Women's Music Festival will be held September 23-28 in San Francisco. For information or tickets, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to WCWMF, Box FL. 1195 Valencia, San Francisco, CA 94110, or call (415) 641-4892.

Pianist and vocalist/songwriter Cris Willamson will perform in concert at 8:00 p.m. on September 29 in Oberlin College's Finney Chapel. Tickets. priced at $3.00 for Oberlin College students with identification and at $7.00 for others, will be available at the Wilder Hall Main Desk on campus (1-775-8102), at Ohio Ticketron outlets, and at the door.

On Saturday, October 9, at 8:00 p.m.. Oven Productions, in cooperation with Cuyahoga Community College, will present Wallflower Order in the CCC Metro Campus Auditorium, 2900 Community College Boulevard. If you saw this dynamic feminist dance troupe when they were in Cleveland last September you'll want to see them again; if you missed them, you have an exciting evening in store. The dance troupe will be returning with an entirely new repertoire of dances relevant to women's lives. Tickets are $6.00 in advance, $7.00 at the door, and $2.00 for under 12 and over 60. Tickets will be available at Coventry Books, or by mail from Oven Productions. P.O. Box 18175, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118. Parking will be available under the Metro Campus Auditorium Building for $.50. Childcare is available by calling Jean Hrichus at 231-0260. This event is wheelchair accessible and open to the public.

Perfect in her Place, an exhibition tracing the contribution of women's labor, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, will begin its national tour at the First National Bank, Fort Dodge, IA from September 4-October 3. The exhibition will be at the Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD, from October 23-November 21, and at the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Wilmington, DE, from January 29-February 27, 1983. For further information, contact Eileen Harakal, Public Affairs Officer, or Judith Cox, Exhibition Coordinator, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C. 20560, (202) 357-3168.

The Ohio N.O.W. Conference will be held on September 11-12, 1982 at the Ramada Inn North in Columbus, Ohio. The Conference will include workshops on Reproductive Rights, the Right Wing. Non-Sexist Parenting. Child Care, the ERA, Networking for Lesbians. Media Violence Against Women, and other issues. There will also be a feminist film festival and entertainment. Advance registration fees are $15.00 for N.O.W. members, $20.00 for non-members, or $20.00 and $25.00 respectively at the door. Call (614) 464-2214 for more information.

The third annual WomenSpace Women at Work Exposition will be held Wednesday, October 27, at Swingos' at the Statler, 12th Street and Euclid Avenue downtown, from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Keynote speakers will be Letty Cottin Pogrebin, feminist leader, author and an editor of Ms. Magazine, and Karen Horn, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The registration fee for the full day's program is $40.00, which includes lunch and all evening presentations. The fee for the evening session only is $10.00 and includes a keynote speech by Karen Horn and a choice of three workshops. Registration forms are available from WomenSpace, 1258 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 44115, or by calling 696-6967.

women to look within themselves and develop that which is there in all ways possible. When she writes her songs, they grow out from within; all of us can do this if we try.

Music is not just entertainment. Music can be a political tool. Holly Near gave a workshop on the topic of disarmament in which she shared some of her views on how she has combined her political ideals with her music. We are in a long struggle for freedom which will last the span of our lives.

Michigan becomes women's space by the hard work and determination of many women who share a dream that they have the right to live and be on this earth. If you share that dream, come to Michigan next year.