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Torah Study Series

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Around Town

Get performance experience at the
Other Room at the Masonic, 500
Temple, Detroit. The venue has started
having live bands and DJs Friday and
Saturday nights. Call Amy Labert at
(313) 832-7100, ext. 225.

Get involved with the Art in the Woods
Art Fair 2006, July 1 - 2 at the
Huntington Woods Lutheran Church, by
submitting art, auditioning to entertain
and/or volunteering. (248) 336-1961.
www.woodsgallery.org .

Audition for the Eisenhower Dance
Ensemble's production of Motown in
Motion noon Sunday, Jan. 8, at the
Detroit Opera House (Madison
entrance), 1526 Broadway, Detroit.
Performances are scheduled in January
and March. Contact Laurie Eisenhower
at (248) 370-3024.

Arts & Culture

Submit artwork for the Michigan Fine
Art Competition organized by the

Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center,
1516 S. Cranbrook, Birmingham,
where the exhibition of works
will be held March 10-April 7.
Applications are due Friday,
Jan. 6. Call Lizbeth Catris at
(248) 644-0866, ext.103.

Get and send in applications
for Art in the Park through
March 3. The annual event runs
Sept.16-17 in Birmingham to bene-
fit Common Ground Sanctuary, which
offers a crisis phone line among its
services. (248) 456-8150.

Hear historian and poet Jennifer
Michael Hecht discuss Doubt: A History,
contemplating how philosophical skepti-
cism and religious faith intertwine, at
1:30 p.m. Friday, Jan.13, at the

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See the paintings of David Deutsch and
others through Jan.14 at the Susanne
Hilberry Gallery, 700 Livernois,
Ferndale. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6
p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. (248) 541-
4700.

Rabbi Jennifer Tisdale

View new works in the Oakland

University Faculty Exhibition Jan.14 -
Feb.19 at the Meadow Brook Art

Gallery, 208 Wilson Hall, Oakland
University. Gallery hours are noon-5
p.m. Mondays-Sundays and evenings
during Meadow Brook Theatre perform-
ances. The opening reception runs 6-8
p.m. Saturday, Jan.14. A panel discus-
sion with artists starts 2 p.m. Sunday,
Jan. 22. (248) 370-3005.

Look through the paintings of Fay
Kleinman through Jan.14 at the Ann
Arbor District Library, 343 South Fifth
Ave. The exhibit, Ordinary People, fea-
tures portraits of Jewish people at
work, at play, in protest and with
pets. After retiring at age 88,
Kleinman began painting
and exhibiting again,
starting new at 92. At
95, she is called
"Bubbie Kleinman,"
a takeoff on
"Grandma Moses."
(734) 327-4200.

Experience small works of
art first displayed as holiday gifts
through Jan. 28 at the Neal Davis

Gallery, 314 W. Fourth, Royal Oak.
Gallery hours are noon-6 p.m.
Wednesdays-Saturdays. (248) 296-
0326.

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

Washington Street Gallery, 120 E.
Liberty, Ann Arbor. Gallery hours are
noon-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays, noon-
9 p.m. Saturdays and noon-4 p.m.
Sundays. (734) 761-2287.

Cinema & Stage

Submit a short play for the New Works
Play Festival sponsored by
Stagecrafters in Royal Oak. Scripts must
allow for no longer than 10 or 15 min-
utes of adult drama or comedy. Send
pieces to the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S.
Lafayette, Royal Oak, MI 48067 by
Feb. 28. (248) 541-8027. www.stage-
crafters.org .

See the movie Singin' in the Rain

for free at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan.
5, at the Oak Park JCC. (248)

967-4030.

Audition to perform in the
musical Aladdin with the Starlight
Youth Theater. Youngsters in grades 3-
12 are invited 3-6 p.m. Saturday-
Sunday, Jan. 7 -8, at the theater in the
Summit Place Mall, 315 N. Telegraph,
Waterford. (248) 335-1788.

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See the music revue Let Freedom Ring!
A Celebration of America's Music pre-

sented by Avon Players at 8 p.m.
Fridays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays
Jan. 13-15, 20-22 and 27-28, at 1185
Washington, Rochester Hills. $14-$16.
(248) 608-9077.

Laugh with the Players Guild of
Dearborn as they stage the comedy

Epic Proportions, which tells the story
of two brothers who go to Arizona to be
extras in a biblical film. The show starts
at 8 p.m. weekend evenings Jan.13 - 28
and 2:30 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 22 and 29.
$6-$12. (313) 277-5164.

See the puppet show A Banana for

Turtle at 2 p.m. Saturdays, Jan.14, 21
and 28, at PuppetART, 25 E. Grand River,

Detroit. $5-$7. (313) 961-7777.

Opened - Celebrating 20 Years of
Women's Rabbinic Ordination at noon

Monday, Jan. 9, at Congregation B'nai
Moshe, 6800 Drake, West Bloomfield.
Call Nancy Kaplan at (248) 737-1931.

Concerts

View a free showing of And the Gates

Spirits scheduled through Feb. 5 at the

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Watch the Yiddish - Jewish video
Pripetshik Sings Yiddish at 1 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 9, at the Oak Park JCC.
The free program is sponsored by the
Holocaust Survivors and Families
Support Group. (248) 967-4030.

Try out for Love, Sex and the I.R.S., with
the Avon Players. Tryouts begin at 5:30
p.m. Sunday, Jan.15, and 6:30 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 16, at 1185 Washington,
Rochester Hills. (586) 468-7282.

Hear Mahler's Magnificent Fifth with

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Cranbrook Art Museum, 1221 N.
Woodward, Bloomfield Hills. $4-$6.
(877) 462-7262.

The next session of the B'nai B'rith
Great Lakes Region lunch and learn,
with its new format "Ongoing Studies
of the Torah", will he held Tuesday,
Jan. 10, at 12:30 p.m. at the Max M.
Fisher Building in Bloomfield
Township.
The speaker will be Rabbi Jennifer
Tisdale of Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield. B'nai B'rith members,
friends and relatives are invited to he
a part of this learning experience. The
cost of $10 includes a kosher lunch.
For information or to make a reser-
vation, call B'nai B'rith, (248) 646-3100.

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ducting Jan. 6 - 8
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Hall, 3711
Woodward,
Detroit. Pro-
grams start at 10:45
a.m. Friday, 8:30 p.m Saturday and 3

p.m. Sunday. $27-$114. (313) 576-5111.

Go on a Musical Adventure at the JCC

with Fabs Kaldobsky at 2 p.m. Tuesday,
Jan.10, in Oak Park. Music by Bach,
Dvorak and Rossini is being featured.
(248) 967-4030.

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