To Do!

A Treat For Vets

1,Check It Out!

Arts & Culture

See Site Lines, an exhibit by artist
Jacque Liu, through Aug. 12 at
Lemberg Gallery, 23241 Woodward,
Ferndale. (248) 591-6623.

Visit the Farmington Area
Founders Festival 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
Friday-Saturday, July 21-22, and
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, July 23,
in downtown Farmington. www.
foundersfestival.com .

Enjoy the final two perfor-
mances by student dancers of
the American Ballet Theatre's
Summer Intensive 1 and 4 p.m.
Friday, July 21, at the Detroit
Opera House. Tickets a the door:
$15 adults/ $10 students and chil-
dren under 15.

Listen to the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra's "Big Band Tribute
to Benny Goodman" 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 23, at Meadowbrook
Music Festival near Rochester.
$40 and $20 pavilion; $15 lawn.
(248) 377-0100.

Cinema & Stake

Drive to the Michigan
Shakespeare Festival held
through Aug. 6 at the Potter
Center in Jackson. This year's
plays include Hamlet and A

Midsummer Night's
Dream with a musi-
cal Rats! for the

kids. For scheduling
and price informa-
tion, call (866) 705-
2636 or visit www.
MichShakeFest.org .

Take the kids to see The Jungle
Book, a Stagecrafters Youth
Theatre production running
Thursday-Sunday, July 20-23,

The Department of Michigan,
Jewish War Veterans and Ladies
Auxiliary will sponsor a picnic for
more than 200 patients at the
Veterans Administration Hospital
in Battle Creek on Sunday, July 23.
A chartered bus will depart 8
a.m. from the JWV office parking
lot, 24901 Northwestern Highway,
Southfield, for the event that
will feature a deli-type lunch and
music.
Veterans or descendants of
veterans who would like to take
part in the picnic may contact
State Commander Gerald Order,
(248) 305-8037, or Chairman Art
Lipman, (248) 352-8307.

at the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S.
Lafayette, Royal Oak. Curtain
times are 1 p.m. Thursday, 7 p.m.
Friday, 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday and
1 p.m. Sunday. $6 kids, $9 adults.
(248) 541-6430.

Watch Jackie and Rachel Gubow
in a production of the musi-
cal Rapunzel: Uncut at 7:30
p.m. Friday-Sunday, July 21-23,
and 27-30 at the Players Guild
of Dearborn, 21730 Madison,
Dearborn. $5-$10. (313) 561-TKTS.

Catch a free showing of the film
Who Killed the Electric Car?
At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 23,
at 26341 Coolidge, Oak Park.
The program is sponsored by
Workmen's Circle-Arbeter Ring
and the JCC Lenore Marwil
Jewish Film Festival with a
discussion after the screening.
Reservations are required by call-
ing (248) 545-0985.

5. $15-$20. www.waterworksthe -
atre.com .

See the comedy The Complete

Works of William Shakespeare,
Abridged performed by the

Grantland Street Players Friday-
Sunday, July 28-30 and Aug.
4 6, at Trinity House Theatre,
38840 W. Six Mile, Livonia.
Curtain times are 8 p.m. Fridays-
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays.
$10. Call Nancy Florkowski at
(313) 535-8962.

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Take in a free performance of
three one-act plays with Eric
Gutman directing at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, July 26, at 1515
Broadway, Detroit. Donations
support the Breathe Art Theatre
Project. Reservations should be
made by calling (519) 980-0607
or e-mailing breatheartthe-
atreproject@yahoo.com .

Watch The Comedy of Errors,
Gold Rush Style per-
formed by the Water
Works Theatre Company
July 27-Aug. 6 at Royal
Oak's Starr Jaycee
Park, 1101 W. 13 Mile.
Performances start at 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 7 p.m.
Sundays. Any youngster under 17
gets in free with the purchase of
an adult ticket for 3 p.m. mati-
nees Saturdays, July 29 and Aug.

Thursday, 6:30-10:45 p.m. Friday
and 11 a.m.-noon and 1-9 p.m.
Saturday. (248) 644-5832.

Concerts

Experience the Tzofim Friendship
Caravan, a group of talented
Israeli boys and girls, as they per-
form in a free program at 7 p.m.
Thursday, July 20, at
Charlotte Rothstein
Park behind the Oak
Park JCC. (248) 967-
4037.

Listen to singer-songwriter
Jesse Palter perform during the
second night of free Jazzfest
programs scheduled Thursday-
Saturday, July 20-22, at Shain
Park in downtown Birmingham.
Show times are 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Hear pianist and professor Louis
Nagel perform and explain at 8
p.m. Tuesday, July 25, and 2 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday, July 29-30,
at the Kerrytown Concert House,
415 N. Fourth, Ann Arbor. The
topics are "19th Century Sonata"
on Tuesday and "19th Century
Character Piece" on Saturday.
Sunday's program is a complete
concert. $5-$25. (734) 769-2999.

Event Hotline

Camp out at Temple Israel start-
ing at 4 p.m. Saturday, July
22, at 5725 Walnut Lake Rd.,
West Bloomfield. $36 per family
includes dinner, games and more.
RSVP by calling Beth at (248)
661-5700.

Crooz & Shmooz with the
Sisterhood of Temple Beth El noon-
4 p.m. Sunday, July 23, in the north
parking lot of the temple, 7400
Telegraph, Bloomfield Township.
$10 advance registration fee and
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the judging by Mark Phelan. In
case of rain, the event will be July
30. Donations benefit Kids Kicking
Cancer. (248) 851-0617, press 3.
Party with supporters of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
and Michigan Opera Theatre at
6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 29,
at the Lutz Farm in Ann Arbor.
The Argentinian dance troupe "I
Tango" will entertain. $350. (313)
237-3425.

Health

Meet with the Holocaust
Survivors' Support Group at 10
a.m. Mondays at the Oak Park

JCC. (248) 661-2999.

Helping Out

Donate books to the Birmingham
Branch of the American
Association of University Women
for the sale Sept. 17-19. Blue bar-
rels have been placed at Ace
Hardware at Telegraph and Maple,
Farmer Jack at Maple and Lahser,
Hollywood Supermarket at Maple
and Coolidge and South Boulevard
and Opdyke, Kroger at Maple and
Woodward and Lone Pine and
Orchard Lake and Quality Cleaners
at Telegraph and Long Lake. (248)
865-7257.

Holidays/Shabbat

Experience meditation services
at 6:30 p.m. Fridays in July at
Temple Shir Shalom, 3999 Walnut
Lake Rd., West Bloomfield. (248)
737-8700.

Treat yourself to a fusion of world
Jewish cuisine after services at
7:15 p.m. Friday, July 21, at the
Shut, Chabad-Lubavitch, 6890 W.
Maple, West Bloomfield. There will

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