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make gifts to take home. The pro-
gram is free with museum admis-
sion. Call Amy DeWys-VanHecke
for information and to register.
(313) 833 9720.
Youtheatre at Music Hall hosts
New York's Theatreworks/USA pro-
duction of Babes in Toyland 11 a.m.
and 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19; and 2
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20. Tickets are
$71$8 at the door. (313) 963 2366.

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What To Do, What To Do .

Musical
Notes

If you never
had the chance to
see a Beatles con-
cert when the Fab
GAIL
ZIMMERMAN Four performed
at Olympia back
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in the 1960s, you
Entertainment
can come close to
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that experience
(without all the screaming) when
1964 ... The Tribute takes the stage
at the Magic Bag on Saturday, Dec.
19. Billed as the "No. 1 Beatles Trib-
ute Band in the World," the group
will play songs from the Beatles' first
seven albums. Doors at 8. 22920
Woodward Ave., Ferndale. $15.
(248) 544-3030.

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Looking for something to do on
Christmas — besides Chinese and a
movie? The Jimmy Prentis Morris
Jewish Community Center in Oak
Park hosts an afternoon of aquatic
fun in the pool beginning at 12:30
p.m. Friday, Dec. 25, followed by a
concert with Ron Coden at 2:30 in
Jaffe Hall. No charge for swimming;
the concert is $3 per person.
(248) 967 4030.

Small Screen

The Zamir Chorale — perform-
ing "Hanerot Halalu — A Song for
Chanukah, " by Baruch Cohen, and
" Maoz Tsur" ("Rock of Ages") —
will be the voice of Detroit's Jewish
community as a featured performer
on the CBS-TV 62 special "Detroit
Celebrates the Holidays." The spe-
cial will air 11 p.m. Saturday, Dec.
19; 12:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 24;
and 9 a.m. Friday, Dec. 25.

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Big Screen

Temple Emanu-El's Jewish Film
Series presents Contact, based on
Carl Sagan'a 1985 best-seller, 7:30
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, at the tem-
ple, 14450 W. 10 Mile Road, in
Oak Park. Tickets are $4, in advance
or at the door. (248) 967-4030.

Wearable Art

arty Miro sprinkles
her gold and silver
jewelry with subtly
colored, tiny dia-
monds. She favors abstract
forms, shaping them sponta-
neously as she moves along.
Above: Darcy Miro: Jewelry
Miro, who studied art as a
as small-scale sculpture.
high school student at Cran-
brook before relocating out of
Right: "Silver Bracelet."
Michigan, is showing her wear-
she learned their craft.
able art at the Susanne Hilberry
"The trips have inspired my jew-
Gallery in Birmingham.
elry," says Miro, 25, now moving
The artist's earrings, rings and
from San Francisco to New York.
bracelets reflect her years of study at
"They inspired me to create by
the Rhode Island School of Design
hand, open my mind and see how
and experiences traveling for
all sorts of things are possible."
months in the Far East, where she
Miro thinks of her jewelry as
lived.outdoors with women who
small-scale sculpture. Each piece is
made blankets out of yak hair. First
one-of-a-kind.
she watched them work, and then

Family Fun

The Detroit Historical Museum
presents a Children's Chanukah
Workshop, designed for children
ages 5-10, 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec.
19, at the museum. The program
will feature films; a discussion of
the traditions and meaning of the
"Festival of Lights"; the chance to
play dreidel; and the opportunity to

"I've been enjoying
the quality of tiny
blue, green and cham-
pagne diamonds and
how they are affected
by light," says the
artist, a former student
`-a at Temple Beth El.
I "Diamonds add focal
8 points, and I use them
to break up space as
exciting, glistening
spots.
"I love metal and
have always had this fascination
with the way it changes. When I
was working with textiles, the work
just didn't flow in the same way."
Miro was introduced to galleries
by her mother, Marsha Miro, former
art critic for the Detroit Free Press and
continuing arts publications writer.
The artist, also represented by

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Author! Author!

Borders hosts Mitch Albom,
signing copies of Tuesdays with
Morrie, 5-6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19;
and Bo Schembechler, signing
copies of Michigan Memories: Inside
Bo Schembechlers Football
Scrapbook, 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec.
22. 34300 Woodward, Birming-
ham. (248) 203-0005.

For more Arts 6- Entertainment
listings, see the Community Calendar.
Gail Zimmerman may be reached
at (248) 354-6060, ext. 260,
or by e-mail at:
gzimmerman @thejewishnews. corn

galleries in Washington and San
Francisco, spends most of her time
in her studio: Time out includes
trips to museums, long walks and
being with family.
"I was always on my own beaten
path," she says. "My work and trav-
els have allowed me to be my deter-
mined self and encourage explo-
ration. I don't like to think of what
I've created as traditional jewelry. I
want each piece to become part of
the person who has it. Wearing the
jewelry makes it something to be
shared with viewers."
— Suzanne Chessler

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The jewelry of Darcy Miro will
be shown through Thursday,
Dec. 24, at the Susanne Hilberry
Gallery, 555 S. Old Woodward,
Birmingham. (248) 642-8250.

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