two one-act plays for young audiences
titled Wilderness and Straw Soldiers.
The plays, by Karim Alrawi, are
inspired by William Faulkner short
stories. Straw Soldiers: 10 a.m. and 2
p.m. Thursday-Friday, May 14-15.
Straw Soldiers and Wilderness: 2 p.m.
and 7 p.m. Saturday, May 16, and 2
p.m. Sunday, May 17. $10/adults,
$5/children under 12. Oakland Uni-
versity campus, Rochester Hills. (248)
377-3300.
Art Scene
The Womencenter at Oakland
Community College's Orchard Ridge
campus presents Our Visions: Women
in Art, a multimedia exhibit of art and
poetry, May 11-29, at the Wallace
Smith Theatre Gallery, 27055
Orchard Lake Road, Farmington
Hills. Jurors include Sandra Dupret
and Susan Knoppow. (248) 471-7602.
The annual Greenfield Village
Antiques Show & Sale brings nearly
40 exhibitors to elegant Lovett Hall
11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, May 16, and
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, May 17. $7.
The preview evening is Friday, May
15, from 6-10 p.m. $100-$350. This
year's event features a special "Deco-
rating with Antiques" night, a book
collecting lecture and a garden shop.
Oakwood Blvd. and Village Road,
Dearborn. (313) 982-6044.
Students from Orchard
Lake Middle School in
West Bloomfield display
their artwork through May
28 at Objects Of Art,
6243 Orchard Lake Road,
West Bloomfield. Proceeds
from the event benefit the Pon-
tiac Rescue Mission. (248)
539-3332.
The Birmingham Fine Art
Festival 1998 fills downtown
Birmingham with 300 artists
and their works, children's
activity booths, food from
local restaurants and out-
door entertainment. 10
a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, May
9, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, May 10. Shain
Park. Sponsored by the
Birmingham Bloom-
field Art Center and
the Chamber
of Com-
merce.
Whatnot
Mother's Day tours will be offered ,
at Cranbrook House and Gardens
1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday, May
10, and will continue every Sunday
throughout the summer. $10. The
Cranbrook Gardens spring plant sale
takes place 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday,
May 13, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thurs-
day, May 14. 380 Lone Pine Road,
Bloomfield Hills. (248) 645-3149.
Irving Ritter, assistant director of
the Institute For Retired Professionals,
will preview Porgy and Bess 2:45 p.m.
Monday, May 11, at Jaffe Hall in the
JPM building of the JCC in Oak
Park. Free of charge. 15110 West Ten
Mile Road. (248) 967-4030.
Dresses from the Collection of
Diana, Princess of Wales may be
viewed at the Meadow Brook Theatre
and Art Gallery 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Friday-Saturday, May 15-16, and 10
a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 17.
$10/adults, $5/students. Oakland
University campus, Rochester Hills.
(248) 370 3318.
The Southfield Public Library wel-
comes local author Paul Herron for a
book signing of his new novel Anais
Nin: A Book of Mirrors. Herron's
book contains reactions to the life and
work of Nin by such notables as Allen
Ginsberg, Erica Jong and poet Daisy
Aldan. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 12,
at the library, 26000 Evergreen
Road.
The city of Southfield's ice
skating spectacular, Ice Com-
pany, hits the Southfield
Sports Arena ,rink May 13-
17. Performances are 7:30
p.m. Thursday-Saturday, May
14-16; 1:30 p.m. Saturday-
Sunday, May 16-17; 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 17. $9.50/rink-
side, $9/loge, $8.50/upper
rinkside. A special benefit
performance takes place 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, May 13.
26000 Evergreen Road.
(248) 354-9357.
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A dance dress in spangled
chiffon, designed by Bruce
Oldfield, is one of five
"Dresses from the Col-
lection of Diana,
Princess ofWales,"
that will be dis-
played at Meadow
Brook Theatre
and Art Gallery.
Pictures Wort!' •
ichael Steinlauf feels
he is looking at a vast-
. ly expanded personal
family photo album
each time he views the exhibit "And
I Still See Their Faces: Images of
Polish Jews."
That's because his family is from
that part of the world and because
he has made a career of Judaic stud-
ies.
The more than 450 displayed
pictures in the exhibit were found in
attics, rafters of old houses and
other concealed places. They are
from a pool of 8,000 images sub-
mitted by Jews and non Jews
answering a 1994 appeal from - War-
saw's Shalom Foundation.
Steinlauf will explore the depths
of his feelings and the relationship of
the photos to his academic studies
when he speaks at 7:30 p,m. Thurs-
day, June 11, at the Kahn Jewish
Community Center in "West Bloom-
field.
His talk comes toward the end of
the exhibit, Nvhich runs May 10-
June< 14 in the JCCs Shiffman Hall.
"My lecture will be about recover-
ing a lost world, which was wiped
our in three or four years of the
Holocaust," said. Steinlauf; author of
Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the
Memory of the Holocaust.
know the people who assem-
bled the exhibition, and I have seen
it. The photographs show a great
variety of people, and they're very
moving. They're mostly happy pic-
tures from pre-World War II
Poland."
b y e -Holocaust
r ., the exhibition
of people who have
hose
From ( 7 Still See Their Faces: Images
of olish Jews" —
'This lovely girl is Lusia Bronstein,
daughter of the owner of the
Rotog,rafika' studio at 4 Kraiwwski
Street in Tarnow. Bronstein, who had
Brazilian citizenship, was taken to a
camp after the War broke out, along
with his wife and daughter, and sever-
al other families offireign citizenship.
Once BrOrlSteill sent news from the
camp. Ile wrote that he was in good
irits and that . from his window he
• ad a view of the Alps. He asked that
bread be sent to him ifpossible.
Unfortunately, it was not possible."
Stanislawa Roleska, Tarnow
actress and singer with the E.R.,
Kaminska State Jewish Theater in
Warsaw. "This title also is deserved
by those who save the memory."
Tencer will be at the exhibit's
opening' reception at 7 p.m. Sunday,
May 10s. A series of talks by survivors
Will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesdays
and Fridays, and a feature film series
will take place at 1 p.m. Tuesdays.
.
— Suzanne Cheder
es.
Ktaka
Stein au who earned 6d6tate
in Judaic studies from Brandeis Uni-
versity- and spent a year in Poland
researching Jewish history after the
war under a Fulbright Scholarship,
will discuss the culture that mustered
the strength to continue.
"The righteous are those who
have saved one life," said Shalom
Foundation founder and director
Golda Tencer, who also is director,
"And I Still See Their Faces:
Images of Polish Jews" will be
displayed 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sun-
days-Thursdays and 10 a.m.-1
p.m. Fridays, May 10-June 14,
in Shiffman Hall at the Kahn
Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield. The opening
reception is at 7 p.m. Sunday,
May 10. (248) 661 - 0840.
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