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JANUARY 1988 VOLUME 3-ISSUE 7

CLEVELAND, OHIO

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CWRU hosts 7th Conference

The organizers of the Case Western Reserve Lesbian and Gay Conference announced that the 1988 conference will be held Mar. 25-27, on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in University Circle.

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Events and speakers already duled include Cleve Jones of the Names Project (the AIDS quilt) and an Oven Production concert featuring Romanovsky and Phillips. Organizers are just now starting to work on

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workshops and other vely scheduled events include mass wedding for all couples who did not get to Washington, D. C.; a showing of local lesbian and gay art work and photography; a volleyball tournament; and more than 15 workshops dealing with lesbian and gay issues.

This will be the 7th annual conference to be held at CWRU. Last year's 250 participants was down from the 350 who attended the conference

Quilt memorial to emphasize Northern Ohio

The Names Project Quilt will be arriving in Cleveland on June 7, for a three-day public showing June 8-10.

The Cleveland Names Project committee is busy exploring sites big enough for the portions of the Quilt to be displayed. Special display emphasis will be given to the part of the Quilt which contains names of Northeast Ohioans.

The memorial Quilt is a series of 3' x 6' panels bearing the names of those who have died from AIDS.

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Quilt is now over 100,000 square feet, and was first displayed on the Mall in Washington, D.C. in conjunction with the Oct. 11 March Washington for Lesbian and Rights. Cleveland is one of many stops the QUilt will be making on its nationwide tour.

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in 1986. The conference planners attribute this loss to the lack of a gay newspaper and no Oven Production convert in 1987. The conference committee is asking for volunteers, especially from the women's community that this year's conference will be even more successful than 1986.

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If you are interested in helping, contact Jerry Borres, (216) 621-8886, or Doug Braun, TTY (216) 371-3489.

Women raise funds and gallery

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ART FOR US is an organization for women visual artists. It is a feminist women's group. Its goals are: provide encouragement to continue production of art; on to prevent isolation and deterioration of creative process; to create an active alternative community of women artists in to provide a safe environment for artistic critique; to build and manage an alternative women's gallery space at the Women's Building Project that to show their work and of other whose women artists meets their criteria and gallery purposes.

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the area; If you would like help organize the Cleveland display, would like to contribute panel to the Quilt, or would like to help work on other panels, please contact Dale Melsness at (216)2811610.

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The Western Reserve AIDS Foundation was organized in June 1987 as a of responding to the AIDS crisis. foundaThe purpose of the tion is to generate and distribute funds in the Northern Ohio area. The foundation will raise funds through special projects and private fund raising. funds will be These utilized to support three areas of need: research, education, and patient support services.

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The Organization will work conjunction with the AIDS commission of Greater Cleveland, which functions as an umbrella organization for activities related to AIDS. The board of trustees includes: John Ꭲ . Carey, M.D., president; Betsy Umstead, secretary; Diana Price, treasurer; A. Peter Beebe, Ph.D.; Rena Blumberg; Leonard Calabrese, D.O.; Gordon S. Friedman; Eric J. Nilson; Barbara S. Robinson; Diann Scaravilli; and Cheryl Wills.

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By providing gallery space they expect to raise not only the artistic awareness, but also influence the social and political consciousness of their viewing audiences. ART FOR US aesthetics and goals differ from and often in opposition to those of patriarchal art institutions and the women's work seen at this gallery will challenge white, male, and upper-middle class values--those held by mainstream art galleries organizations. Some

The total fund raising goal of the organization is $500,000 over the next two years, with no single area support receiving more than half of the total contributions. current large contributors include TRW, with gift of a $50,000, and Stouffer Hotel Co., with a gift of $25,000.

Three major events have been planned so far. The first is "Hollywood Salutes Sondheim" (Feb. 5 at Music Hall downtown). This will be a musical tribute to Stephen Sondheim, including such stars as Pam Dawber, Pescow, Lee Horsley, and Jo Anne Worley. The second event (Sept. 17) will be a black-tie gala celebrity evening at Stouffer Tower City Plaza, and the third event (Fall 1987) will be a performing arts spectacular.

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ART FOR US is asking for the of the port community build this gallery. They need donations of 8-foot or longer 2x4's, plywood sheets, white/off-white/gray interior paint, assorted nails and of course, money. If you have any of the above laying around the house, please contact us at 561-5749.

ART FOR US is pleased to announce that we recently received a grant of $250 for from gallery construction the Women's Community Fund. The next fundraiser to benefit ART FOR US will be held at the Women's Building Project at the Civic, 3130 Mayfield Rd., on Jan. 23, at 8pm. Admission is $3, $6, or $9.