To Do!

Check It Out!

Around Town

Livernois, Ferndale. Gallery hours

are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-
Saturdays. (248) 541-4700.

Listen to the Borromeo String
Quartet in a program sponsored by

7:30 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20,

Look through small works of art

the Chamber Music Society of
Detroit at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17,

at Congregation B'nai Moshe,
6800 Drake, West Bloomfield. The

through Jan. 28 at the Neal Davis

group presents all kinds of Jewish
music. (248) 478-0631.

Gallery, 314 W. Fourth, Royal Oak.
Gallery hours are noon-6 p.m.

Audition to appear with the Zamir

Chorale of Metropolitan Detroit

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Arts &
Culture

first displayed as holiday gifts

at the Seligman Performing Arts
Center, 13 Mile at Lahser, Beverly
Hills. $38-$75. (248) 855-6070.

Hear musician Ben Opengeym

Wednesdays-Saturdays. (248) 296-
0326.

entertain at 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 19,
at the Oak Park JCC. The free pro-

Browse the drawings of Barry
Avedon as part of the three-artist

gram is sponsored by the
Holocaust Survivors and Families

Join a discussion of the book
Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva at 7

show Kindred Spirits scheduled
through Feb. 5 at the Washington -

Support Group. (248) 967-4030.

p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15, at the West
Bloomfield JCC. West Bloomfield

Street Gallery,120 E. Liberty, Ann
Arbor. Gallery hours are noon-5

librarian Elisabeth Shubow con-
ducts the session. Call Fran

p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays, noon-9
p.m. Saturdays and noon-4 p.m.
Sundays. (734) 761-2287.

Menken at (248) 432-5546.

View the photos of David Maisel in
the exhibit Imaging a Shattering

Earth through Dec. 18, at the

Cinema &
Stage

Education

Holiday Spirit

Bring your holiday gifts to Toys R Us in Novi for wrapping with

proceeds going to ORT's worldwide network of schools and
programs. Volunteers will be wrapping at 43460 W. Oaks Drive

through Dec. 24. For more information or to volunteer to be a

wrapper, call (248) 723-8860.

View the 40-minute

Richard Trank doc-

Rochester. The gallery is
open noon-5 p.m. every
day except Mondays. It

umentary

Beautiful
Music at

also is open evenings

7:30 p.m.

during Meadow Brook
Theatre performances.

Saturday,
Dec. 17, at

(248) 370-3005.

Look through the Holiday
Show running through Dec.
23 at the Detroit Artists Market,

Young Israel
of Oak Park. It

Susan Adelman is among the 50

artists displaying their works.
Hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-

American-born classically trained
musician, and her blind Palestinian

Saturdays. (313) 832-8540.

Muslim student, Rasha Hammad,

See the paintings of David Deutsch
and others through Jan. 14 at the

Susanne Hilberry Gallery, 700

Schreiber, (248) 443-8792.
See a new musical puppet show A

Banana for Turtle at 2 p.m.
Saturdays, Dec. 17 and Jan. 14, 21
and 28, at Detroit Puppet Theater,

25 E. Grand River, Detroit. $7

who is autistic. Narrated by Brooke
Shields. Tickets for the event, at

Concerts

Have lunch and hear a concert
performed by the Bel Canto Choir
at noon Thursday, Dec. 15, at the

Oak Park JCC. $2.75 lunch, $1 pro-
gram for non-members.

adults, $5 children, $8. Puppet

Reservations required for lunch by

workshop after performance. (313)
961-7777.

calling (248) 967-4030.

Experience the funny side of the

"Klezmer for Katrina," which

holiday season with "The Chrisma-

begins at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18,
at Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Southfield, 27375 Bell Rd. The New
Orleans Klezmer All Stars will per-

their own lunches for the free
class. (248) 865-0612.

Attend the free Writer's Corner
with facilitator Norma Goldman at

1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, at the Oak
Park JCC. (248) 967-4030.

Hear a concert and support

explores the rela-

tionship between
Orthodox Jewish piano teacher
Devorah Schramm, who is an

4719 Woodward, Detroit. Jeweler

ages 12 and up only: Lynne

Acculturation" noon Thursday,
Dec. 15, at Temple Beth El, 7400

Telegraph, Bloomfield Township.
Participants are asked to bring

Meadow Brook Art Gallery, 208

Wilson Hall, Oakland University,

Hear educator Keren Alpert dis-
cuss "Assimilation and

Hana Kwanzaa Holiday
Spectacular" at the Improv

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Inferno, 309 S. Main, Ann Arbor.
Showtime is at 8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays through Dec. 30. $10.

(734) 214-7080.

$8 per person, include a pizza din-
ner and dessert. Reservations,

form to raise funds for repairing
and rebuilding synagogues dam-

aged by this year's storms. $18
concert, $90 concert and Creole

afterglow. (248) 646-3100.

Event Hotline

Discuss current events with Dave
Weiner at 10:30 a.m. Thursdays at

the Oak Park JCC. (248) 967-4030.

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Listen to Rabbi Daniel Nevins dis-
cuss evangelical Christianity in the
final session of the series "Jewish

Faith in Relation to Christianity,
Islam and Buddhism" at 8 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 15, at Adat Shalom

Synagogue, 29901 Middlebelt,
Farmington Hills. There is no

charge, but reservations are
requested. Call Sheila Lederman at

(248) 851-5100.

Hear motivational speaker Sylvia

Rubeck discuss "Just Who Do You
Think You Are?" at 1 p.m.

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