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W

ine tasting may have
become an art for
some people, but not
Davya Cohen.
The wine bottles themselves,
including samples from kosher
products, provide her artistic out-
let. She's painted many to show
and sell at Art Over The Inter-
state, a juried art fair that will
include live bands, ethnic foods
and activities for the kids this
weekend at Oak Park's Rothstein
Park.
Cohen will be joined by artists
from across the state as they
showcase fine art and craft me-
dia including paintings, ceram-
ics, jewelry and dolls. All the
works were juried by the Oak
Park Arts and Cultural Corn-
mission.
"This is a new fair, and my art
is new," Cohen explains about
her wine, perfume and water bot-
tles enhanced by contemporary
designs. "I call my art funky be-
cause it's different."
Cohen, an art teacher who has
worked with colored pencils and
has a still life in the book Best of
Colored Pencil III, also will bring
painted canvas rugs meant for
wall display to the fair.
The fair, which celebrates
Michigan Month, has invited a
variety of musical groups to
round out the entertainment.
While the event opens with the
Multi-Ethnic Youth Orchestra
playing jazz, traditional Jewish
music also will be part of the pro-
gram. The klezmer band ABZ
will see to that.
'We've been asked to play Jew-
ish ethnic music, and that's fine
with us," said Abraham Ben
Zeev, who is at the keyboard and
will be performing with drummer
Dave Taylor, bassist Ron Rodger-
son and horn player Russ Miller.

Clarence H. White

Last weekend to view the
works of the innovative pho-

Fri•, 11 a•m•-4 p•m.;
Sat. & Sun.,
11 a.m.-5 p.m

tographer/teacher and those
he influenced in the Pictorial-
ism into Modernism exhibi-
tion. DIA. (313) 833-7900.

We Brake For Artists

All the ABZ musicians are college the blues/rockabilly style of
trained and have worked with George Bedard and the King-
other bands to play all kinds of pins.
music besides klezmer.
An eclectic mixture comes from
Jazz takes on a blues sound the Immigrant Sons playing
through the talents of Robert Eastern European-Middle East-
Penn and makes a
ern-Polish numbers.
Local artist Davya
New Orleans turn
Art-fair goers can
with the Motor City Cohen will showcase shop, jam and nosh on
her
contemporary
Street Band. Muse, a
plenty of kosher food
group of women, beats painted floor cloths and offered by the Jewish
bottles at "the world's
out African drum only art fair held on a Community Center,
rhythms in contrast to
Akiva Hebrew Day
highway overpass.

Loren Estleman

Detroit's own author of
best-sellers (Whisky River,
Motown) lectures on
44- writing the mystery", as

part of Sehoolcraft College's
Author-Author series.
18600 Haggerty, Livonia.
(313) 462-4448.

Tues.,
6:30-8:30 p.m.

Jewish Authors
Book Group

Join in on the group's
topic: Jewish Mysticism
through the Ages. Bor-
ders Books and Music,
30995 Orchard Lake
Road, Farmington Hills.
(810) 737-0110.

Tues., 7:30 p.m.

School and Young Israel of
Oak Park. And, Sinai Medical
Center-Oak Park is sponsoring
Arts & Scraps, a children's work-
shop that teaches budding
young artists how to create
artistic forms from recycled ma-
terials.
"Oak Park is a community
that really embraces cultural
events," said Kathy Jacobi, coor-
dinator of Art Over The Inter-
state. "We're very pleased with

Hugh M asekela

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"It is time to dance...to
celebrate." The trumpeter
has done that on
Paul Simon's Gracelancl
and on the Sarafina!
soundtrack.
Majestic Theatre, 4140
Woodward, Detroit.
(313) 833-9700.

Wed., 8 p.m.

all the support from the Jewish
community. El

—Suzanne Chessler

%t Art Over The Interstate
will run from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday and Monday, May 26
and 27, at Oak Park's Roth-
stein Park, which is behind
the JPM Jewish Community
Center on 10 Mile Road, just
east of Greenfield. For infor-
mation, call (810) 691-7480.

Yefim Bronfman

The former Israeli pianist
joins Neeme Jarvi and the
DSO for the last classical
concert of the season.
Orchestra Hall.
(313) 833-3700.

Thurs., 8 p.m.;
Fri., 10:45 a.m.

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