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Flashback, Cleveland's four-woman swing band, will be performing every Monday night in April at Club Isabella, 2025 Abington Rd.. in University Circle from 8 p.m. to midnight. On Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, the band will be at Brother's Lounge at 11609 Detroit from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Flashback will also perform at Shaughnessy's at 19729 Center Ridge Road in Rocky River on Thursday. Friday and Saturday. April 14, 15 and 16, April 28, 29 and 30, and May 12, 13 and 14.

The Tenth Muse Coffeehouse will feature Melissa Lim from Kent on April 23. A special evening is in store May 7 when Judy Reagan. from the Washington. D.C. area, comes to the Muse. Judy will perform songs from her first album "Old Friends" on Wild Patience Records. Nancy Day of Columbus, Ohio will present her versatile talents at singing, guitar and piano at the May 21 Coffeehouse. The Coffeehouse is located at 202 N. Lincoln St. in Kent. Doors open at 8 p.m. and music begins at 9:30. Donation for the shows is $1.50; $1.00 on other nights. For additional information call 1-678-6665.

Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert will blend two generations of socially conscious folk music at a concert April 17 at the Civic, 3130 Mayfield Road. Cleveland Heights. The concert is being sponsored by MBS Productions. WomenSpace. and Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice/WILPF. Holly and Ronnie will be accompanied on piano by Jeff Langley. Sign language artist Susan Freundlich will interpret the music for the hearingimpaired. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Hall. The building will be wheelchair accessible, and free parking is available near the building. For ticket information, call WomenSpace at 696-6967.

Mag Christian, one of the musical pioneers of the women's movement. will perform in concert on April 19, 1983 at 8:00 p.m. in Oberlin College's Finney Chapel. Appearing with her will be Diane Lindsay on bass and piano. Tickets are $7 ($3 seniors) and are available at Coventry Books in Cleveland Heights, and at the main door the night of the concert. The sponsors also hope to provide sign interpretation for the hearingimpaired. Call 1-775-8102 for further information.

On Saturday, April 23, Women's Coffeehouse will feature music by the four-woman group Haresulte from Columbus. They will present music in the Blue Grass tradition. This is their first appearance at the Coffeehouse. The Coffeehouse is held the fourth Saturday of each month at Center Hall in the Civic. 3130 Mayfield Road (near Lee) in Cleveland Heights. We are open from 8 p.m. to midnight and ask a $2.00 donation at the door. The Coffeehouse is chemical-free. Coffee, tea, juice and snacks are available. All women are welcome. For more information, call 231-0260 or 425-2089.

The American Theatre Company, a Cleveland theatre group organized and run entirely by women, will present The Club. a musical satire by Eve Merriam, as their next production. The play concerns the members and other inhabitants of an exclusive men's club-with all the roles played by women. Directed by Marilena Tonti. "The Club" will be performed May 5-7, 12-14 and 19-21 at 8:00 at the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Hall, 2227 Payne Avenue. Tickets are $4.00. or $3.50 for seniors and students. There will be no charge to unemployed persons who show some evidence of unemployment.

The National Lesbian Slide Show and Competition will travel to more than five cities for judging by lesbian audiences between May 14 and the end of July: the closest it will come to Cleveland is Grand Rapids, Michigan. To submit 35mm color slides. send SASE to the National Lesbian Slide Show and Competition, c/o Herizon. P.O. Box 1082. Binghamton, NY 13902. Deadline for entries is May 7, 1983. A total of $350 in cash prizes will be awarded to the top winners. and profits from the Show will benefit the Natalie Barney Fund which assists grassroots lesbian projects.

. The first annual women-only Spring Prem is being sponsored by the Women's Wholistic Center on Saturday, May 14, 1983, from 9-2 a.m. Come dressed up or in costume! The donation is $5.00 at the door and there will be alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available. The place? The Chric, of course, at 3130 Mayfield Road. Cleveland Heights.

Coming to the Spring Prom? Complete your costume with a Cersaga purchased from the women of the Land Alliance. We are a group of nine city women looking to buy country land and this is a fund raiser for us. The corsages will be on sale in the lobby at the Civic during the Prom.

The 1983 National Women's Music Festival will be held June 3-5, 1983 in Bloomington, Indiana. The Festival, in its ninth year. will feature workshops in a wide range of topics as well as music. Performers scheduled for the Festival include Odetta. Holly Near. Ginni Clemmens. Linda Tillery and Adrienne Torf. Ferron. Nancy Brooks of Womanshine Theatre. Therese Edell and Betsy Lippitt, the Reel World String Band. Jane Sapp. Ann Reed and Judy Reagan. Another new aspect is a fine arts exhibit. Before May 7, the early fee for a full festival pass is $48: housing and food are extra. One and two-day tickets are also available. After May 7. the price is $53 for the three days. Write to NWMF. P.O. Box 1568. Bloomington, IN 47402 for more information. Please include a SASE.

Ovular 5 Photography Workshops for Women will be held at Rootworks. women's land in southern Oregon. from June 11-18, 1983. For the fifth consecutive year. this community of woman will eat, breathe and sleep photography for a week in lovely natural surroundings. This year the cost of Ovular 5 Workshop has been reduced to $125 for the entire seven days. This includes vegetarian food. accommodations. use of the darkroom (with chemicals provided but not paper or film). A $50 registration fee is refundable until June 1. Send SASE to Ovular 5. 2000 King Mountain Trail. Sunny Valley. OR 97497-9799, for more information or to register.

Barbara Hammer, feminist filmmaker, and Ovular Photography, will offer a special workshop July 9-14 to explore all that a camera and a woman can do. Fee of $260 includes tuition, housing and food. Students responsible for own film costs. Limited to 10 women. Send SASE for details to Ovular Photography. Sunny Valley. OR 97497-9799.

The 1983 Augusta Heritage Arts Workshop, a five-week festival of the traditional arts. will take place July 10-August 13, 1983 in Elkins. West Virginia. approximately 5 hours drive from Cleveland. For further information or brochure. send to Augusta Heritage Arts Workshop. D & E College. Elkins. WV 26241. Enclose SASE.

The 12th annual conference of the International Women's Writing Guild will be held at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. NY. on July 22-29, 1983. The Guild is particularly known for non-elitist writing conferences which attract women of every age and background from every part of the U.S., Canada and also from abroad. Known for its profusion of workshop offerings and for furthering writing as a tool for personal as well as professional growth. the IWWG has been responsible in the past few years for the publication of 45 books by hitherto unpublished women writers. For further information contact Hannelore Hahn. Executive Director. The International Women's Writing Guild. P.O. Box 810. Gracie Station. New York, NY 10028. or call (212) 737-7536.

The first North American Gay Choral Festival will take place September 8-11, 1983. at New York's Lincoln Center. More than 1.000 singers from the U.S. and Canada are expected to attend. including many choral groups from various parts of the country. Tickets will go on sale at the Lincoln Center box office sometime in June. The price range will be $8-$35 for each performance. Further information can be obtained by writing to COAST. 450 Broome St.. No. 4W. New York, NY 10013.

Events

A Jobs with Peace march and rally will take place Saturday. April 16. beginning at 12:15 p.m. at the Tom Johnson statue on Public Square. AT 1:00 p.m. a rally wit be held at the Engineers Building. Ontario and St. Clair, with labor and peace group speakers. Call Louise at 991-2640 for information.

The CWRU Women's Center is picketing the pornographic movie "The Filthy Rich" on Friday, April 29, 1983. The movie times are 6. 8. 10 and 12. We will be meeting at 5:45 outside Strosacker Auditorium on the Case Quad. Questions? Call the Women's Center at 368-5032.

Save Sunday, May 22, 1983, for bicycling around Shaker Lakes with a group of women. We'll leave at 11a.m. from in front of Arabica at Coventry. The 7-10 miles will take us an hour or two. How about brunch afterwards? Watch for a different ride every month. Call Laura. 229-5354. or Fern, 371-2806, for more information.

The 1983 Okie Gay Pride Parade will be held Sunday, June 26, 1903. in Columbus. For information, write to Stonewall Union. P.O. Box 8355-A. Columbus. OH 43201. o call Craig Covey. Director. Stonewall, (614) 299-7764.

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