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Bits & Pieces
Local
The Women's Building Project would like to invite you to become a member. The WBP is an organization dedicated to the acquisition of a building to house women's organizations, services and events. The objectives of the WBP are to provide affordable, safe, pleasant, accessible space for women's activities, to facilitate networking, centralization of services and resources sharing among WBP members and tenants, and to own permanent space where feminist endeavors can flourish. The next annual meeting of the WBP membership will be held Sunday, October 21, 1990 from 2-5 pm in the Franklin Circle Church located at the corner of Franklin and Fulton in Cleveland. Please call 321-3054 for more information. * *
Call for scripts. The Cleveland Public Theatre is now accepting scripts for its ninth annual Festival of New Plays, scheduled for January, 1991. Scripts will also be considered for the New Play Project, a series of monthly developmental readings beginning in September, and continuing through the 1990-91 CPT season.
Scripts must either be unproduced (previous readings okay) or have been significantly rewritten since their initial production. CPT is particularly interested in alternative work and scripts by minori-
ties and women; work that needs a stage, not a camera-no sitcoms or TV moviesof-the-week, please.
Work by any U.S. playwright is eligible for the Festival. Particular consideration is given to playwrights living in the Cleveland area. For monthly readings, we accept local playwrights only.
This in not a contest, and there is no "winning" production. However, since the Festival's inception in 1984, over half of the Festival's 80 playwright alumni have received full productions of their work at Cleveland Public Theatre and other theaters in Ohio, New York, and California after their Festival debut.
Send your script in a manuscript-sized self-addressed stamped envelope along with a check for the $10 reading fee (waiver possible) to Cleveland Public Theatre, 6415 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, OH 44102. Musicals must include a cassette tape and score (lead sheets minimum). Material without SASE cannot be returned.
Works for the New Plays Project are accepted continuously; deadline for the Festival of New Plays is November 1, 1990
For further information contact Linda Eisenstein, director of Playwright Development, c/o Cleveland Public Theatre, 216-631-2727.
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of the North Coast Men's Chorus
ACLU director to speak. The Cleveland Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday, October 24, at 7:00 p.m. at Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd. Following a brief business meeting, featured speaker Janet Benshoof, director of the National ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project will address the assembly.
Benshoof has litigated many important cases in the field of reproductive rights, including City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, the Supreme Court decision on an Akron ordinance designed to discourage abortion.
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Lesbian and gay social workers will meet on Monday, October 22 at 7:30 p.m., at CWRU Mandel-SASS, in Beaumont Hall, 2035 Abington Rd., in University Circle. Call Debra Dunkle or Jane Miller at 229-2100. No free parking is available this time.
Creative writers recruited. The Northeastern Ohio Parents Support Group (for gays and lesbians with children) is looking for your creative writing talents. With Christmas just a few weeks away they are compiling a collection of quips, poetry, and short stories, for which they will sell in time for Christmas gift giving.
Awards will be given to winning entrants submitting their creative writing in three catagories: Short stories of 1,500 words or less; poetry of 50 lines or less; and quips of 50 words or less.
A donation of $1.00 per quip or poem and $2.00 per short story is requested with profits to benefit persons with AIDS, and
the Northeastern Ohio Parents Support Group.
Entries should be neat, typewritten, and submitted with the appropriate donation no later than November 9, 1990.
Awards and gift certificates totaling over $300.00 will be presented. If you wish confidentiality or initials used please let them know. NEOPS reserves the right to accept or reject any submissions.
Please note on the entry if you would like to purchase copies for yourself or others. Mail entries to: NEOPS, att: Writing Collection Submission, P.O. Box 2841, Ashtabula, Ohio, 44004. For info call 4668309 or 466-6532.
National
Kiss-Ins for National Coming Out Day. Gay and lesbian activists in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and other New England states are calling for simultaneous kiss-ins to occur across New England on October 11, National Coming Out Day. The Massachusetts Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights and Queer Nation Massachusetts are urging gay and lesbian organizations to stage kiss-ins at centralized locations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
"There is no better way to celebrate National Coming Out Day then for large numbers of gay and lesbian people to gather together and show affection for one another in highly visible public places," said David LaFontaine, lobbying director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights. "We hope that kiss-ins on National Coming Out Day will Continued on Page 13
The North Coast Men's Chorus is looking for a few good men!
Singers and non-singers are needed for the upcoming season. Rehearsals are Sundays at 7:30 pm at the Judson manor, at the corner of E. 107th and Chester Avenue in Cleveland.
Our first rehearsal will be August 19.
GIFTS OF ATHENA
An Alternative Bookstore
2199 Lee Rd.
Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118 (216) 371-1937
For further information call PHIL at 397-0136, or NEIL at 221 7437.
dobama theatre
Dobama Theatre proudly presents the opening of it's thirty-first season with the Cleveland premiere of
Eastern Standard by Richard Greenberg.
A Broadway comedy hit from a new playwright. Stephen loves Phoebe-Phoebe loves Stephen. Drew loves PeterPeter loves Drew. October 5 thru October 28. Dobama Theatre 1846 Coventry Rd.