Family Fun

photographic portfolio of "re-enact-
ed" images of the Civil War by con-
temporary photographer Robert A.
Zeichner through Sept. 30. The
works include photos taken during
the filming of an upcoming historical
documentary about the Battle of
Antietam. 611 Griswold St., Detroit.
(313) 963-0101

The Franklin Cider Mill opens its
doors to a new season of caramel
apple making, apple pie baking, donut
dunking and apple-pressing on Satur-
day, Sept. 5. The cider mill will be
open 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays and
Sundays and 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-
Fridays. Northwest corner of Franklin
and 14 Mile roads. (248) 626-2968.
Crowds attending the Ford Mon-
treux Jazz Festival will have
the opportunity to tour the
U.S. Brig Niagara, a sail-
ing reconstruction of the
vessel that played a major
rolein the Battle of Lake
Erie during the War of
1812. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri-
day-Monday, Sept. 4-7, at
the foot of Woodward near
the Diamond Jack dock at
Hart Plaza. $4. (313) 852-
Guy Louis brings the
4051.
Chautauqu a Express to
Temple Shi r Tikvah on
Monday.

The Art
Scene

Whatnot

The Novi Expo Center
Antiques Show offers
antiques, collectibles, vin-
tage decorative acces-
sories, furniture, dolls,
toys and silver 5-9
p.m. Friday, Sept. 11;
11 a.m.-9 p.m.'Satur-
day, Sept. 12; and 11
a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday,
Sept. 13. Novi Road
at 1-96. $6/free
under 12. (248) 348-
5600.
TheJewish
Genealogical Society
of Michigan offers a
tour of the historic Elmwood
Cemetery and Michigan's oldest
Jewish cemetery, the Champlain
Street Cemetery of Temple Beth
El, with historian/tour guide
Chauncey P. Miller 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 13. $15 JGS mem-
bers/$20 nonmembers. (248) 443-
1943.
Auditions for Joe Masteroff's She
Loves Me, the second play in the
1998-99 Village Players playbill, are
set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thurs-
day, Sept. 8 and 10, at the group's
-
playhouse, 752 Chestnut St., Birming-
ham. (248) 644-2075.

It's all about ME, Not You: An
Installation by Greer Lankton opens
Saturday, Sept. 5, at Cranbrook Art
Museum and tells a heartbreaking
story about decadence, bodily abuse
and a tortured and delicate soul.
Lankton, who died in November 1996
at age 38, infused her work with the
imagery of popular culture and con-
sumerism. Through Nov. 1. 1221 N.
Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills. $5
adults/$3 full-time students, children
and seniors. (248) 645-3323.
Internationally renowned conceptu-
al artist Sol LeWitt creates a cus-
tomized wall drawing in the
Robinson Fine Arts Gallery of the
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Cen-
ter, with students, faculty, staff
and friends of the Art Center,
beginning Tuesday, Sept 8.
Through Nov. 14. 1516 S. Cran-
brook Road, Birmingham. Call
for more information, (248) 644-
-
0866.
Creative Resource Gallery
exhibits the work of award-win-
ning lithographer and U-M Pro-
fessor Emeritus Emil Weddige
Sept. 9-Oct. 10. 162 N. Old
Woodward Ave., Birmingham.
(248) 647-3688.
The.Cowboylunkies play at the Meadow
The City Gallery displays a
Brook Music Festival on Wednesday.

Focus On Photographs

IV

hat started as photog-
rapher Jimmy Bittker's
vacation to Eastern
Europe with the intent
of visiting sites of family history
became "A Photographic Essay of
Eastern Europe Today," now on
exhibit in the upper level of the Jan-
ice Charach Epstein Museum/
Gallery in the Kahn Jewish Commu-
nity Center.
Bittker, a Bloomfield Hills resi-
dent and retired dentist who studied
photography at the Center for Cre-

Central Europe.
Probing the complex relationship
between non-Jewish Germans and
their relationship with the past, as
well as with Jews now living among
them, Serotta includes anecdotes and
in-depth portraits of individuals
exploring the Jewish experience in
Germany today.
Both exhibits are on display
through Oct. 15. A free lecture series
accompanies the exhibits:
•7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8: Ed
Serotta speaks about his book and
exhibition, followed by a tour
with Jimmy Bittker of his photo
exhibit. Reception follows.
.7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.
– 9: BI Michigan Region Special
Agent-in-Charge Nicholas J.
Walsh will speak on "Protecting
a-. Civil Rights and Combating
Terrorism in the Shadow of the
Holocaust."
A special traveling exhibition
of posters titled "The Holocaust:
1933-1945" will be on display.

Above: Edward Serotta explores
Jewish life in modern-day
Germany.

Right: Jimmy Bittker's
photographs document life in
Eastern Europe today.

ative Studies, developed
prints in his own dark room,
creating an exhibit which
illustrates the renewed inter-
est in searching for family
roots in places like Germany, Poland,
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Bittker accompanies what he calls
"a pictorial review of my trip" with
explanations of their contents based
on research and interviews.
The gallery's main level displays
documentary photojournalist
Edward Serotta's "Jews Germany
Memory: A Contemporary Portrait."
A former correspondent and produc-
er of ABC's "Nightline,” the Ameri-
can-born Serotta currently divides
his rime between Vienna and Berlin.
He bases his exhibit of text and pho-
tos, shot from 1988-96, on his book
of the same name, the third in a tril-
ogy of volumes on post-Holocaust

.7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17:
Professor Sidney Bolkosky will speak
on "German Jews On The Eve of
War: Crisis of Identity:"

— Shelli Liebman Dolman

"A Photographic Essay of East-
ern Europe" and "Jews Germany
Memory: A Contemporary Por-
trait" are on exhibit at the Janice
Charach Epstein Museum
Gallery, located in the D. Dan
and Betty Kahn Jewish Com-
munity Center, 6600 W Maple
Road, West Bloomfield.
(248) 661. -7641.

9/4
1998

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