'Broadsheet' wants your contribution

Press, 3 February 1986, Page 8

'Broadsheet' wants your contribution

Women keen to contribute to the feminist magazine “Broadsheet” are invited to an afternoon workshop this Saturday, February 8. The plan is to share ideas, discuss material and explore interviewing, researching and writing techniques, with the aim of generatingg greater South Island input into the magazine.

“Broadsheet” was started in 1972 as a forum for debating the spectrum of women’s issues — motherhood, employment, health, sexuality, racism, and violence.

The magazine also gives feminist perspectives on films, books, and the arts. Run by an Auckland collective the magazine is trying to reach more South Island women. So a Christchurch office was opened in the Peterborough Centre last late year.

The office is also working towards wider distribution of the magazine, especially in smaller centres where women are often more isolated, with less access to information.

Saturday’s workshop will be held on the first floor of the Dominion building in Cathedral Square (the women’s re-

fuge drop-in centre) and will start at 1 p.m. Those interested should bring along a pen and paper, and $2 to cover expense. A second, more structured day-long workshop, is planned for March 22. For more information, ' please phone the “Broadsheet” South office, between 12.30 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. at 795-095. Gender and Power If literature or feminism are special interests and you’re planning to visit Europe this winter, you might consider attending the ninth annual conference on f Commonwealth , Literature to be held in Laufen, near Salzburg, from June 13-18. Theme of this year’s conference is Gender and Power — its treatment and impact in fiction, drama, poetry, film, legend and pop culture. Writers, university staff, teachers, journalists, producers librarians, politi-

clans — anyone interested in the subject — may attend the conference. The organisers would welcome New Zealand participation. Any New Zealand studies on the roles of gender and power — whether economic, ethnic, historic, politic, linguistic, sociological or psychological — are particularly wanted. For further information write to Dr Katrine Bachinger, Instiutuf Anglistik u. Amerikanistik Universitat Salzburg, Akademiestr, 24, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria. People power People in the peace movement here are urged to write to peace groups in other parts of the world — sharing information and hope. The message comes from Marion Lyftogt, one of two Christchurch women who represented New Zealand on the Circle Pacific Peace Delegation last year.

Marion, and Muriel Morrison, both Quakers, visited the United States, Japan, South Korea, Hawaii, and Singapore, meeting peace groups and explaining New Zealand’s non-nuclear stance and its significance to the Pacific. “I discovered a power in person-to-person contact that I’ wouldn’t have imagined existed if I hadn’t experienced it,” says Marion. "Peace groups in other countries are watching us closely, and taking hope from our stance. It’s vital that we keep the links alive.” Since the two women have been back in New Zealand, letters from overseas peace groups have been pouring in, particularly from the United States. “Since the A.N.Z.U.S. crisis there has been an amazing energy between groups here and groups there,” she says.

Marion is concerned at what is called "psychic numbing” — the hopelessness and despair people feel about the nuclear issue.

“When I was in the United States I was aware of a heavy oppressive force. But I have hope

that the different peace groups, all working in their different ways, will link together and eventually influence the present militaristic reality of the world.” For a list of overseas peace groups, contact Christchurch Peace Forum, P.O. Box 2547, or telephone 792-257. Good nutrition “Eating for Health and Happiness” is the title of a recipe book recently published by the New Zealand Nutrition Foundation. The Auckland-based foundation is a registered charitable trust which aims to promote better understanding of food and nutrition. Run by highlyqualified medical professionals it studies and reports on a variety of food matters — from breastfeeding to allergies

and eating disorders. The recipe book is in twelve sections, covering everything from breakfasts and brunches through to microwave cookery. Each section begings with professional advice on the nutritive value of different foods and how to preserve it in cooking. “Eating for Health and Happiness” is hardcovered and contains 40 coloured photographs. It is available for $l5, plus $2 postage, from Eating for Health and Hapiness, P.O. Box 3358, Auckland. Complied by Glenys Walker. Items for this column should be sent to Glenys Walker, Making It Happen, Home and People Page, The Press P.O. Box 1005. Copy should reach the newspaper one week before publication date.

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