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Arts & Culture

View Elaine Treisman's lat-
est paintings in the exhibit A
Passionate Palate shown through
Jan. 27 at the Creative Arts
Center, 47 Williams St., Pontiac.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Wednesdays-Fridays and 2-5 p.m.
Saturdays. (248) 333-7849.

Discuss Milton Steinberg's
novel As a Driven Leaf with
Rabbi Steven Rubenstein at
12:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, at
Congregation Beth Ahm, 5075
W. Maple, West Bloomfield. The
luncheon program is sponsored
by the sisterhood. $15. Call (248)
661-8080 or (248) 851-8379.

Browse the exhibit Focus on
Faculty: Sabbatical Exhibition
Jan. 20-Feb. 24 at Center
Galleries, 301 Frederick Douglass,
Detroit. There will be an opening
reception 6-8 p.m. Friday, Jan.
19, and a gallery talk at noon
Thursday, Jan. 25. Gallery hours
are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-
Saturdays. (313) 664-7800.

Attend a free lecture and book
signing by Bill Chritsen, author
of Pauline Cushman: Spy of the
Cumberland 2 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 20 at the Birmingham
Historical Museum, 556 W. Maple,
Birmingham. Presented by the
Michigan Photographic Historical
Society. (248) 642-2817.

Hear Rabbi Sherwin Wine discuss
the book Letter to a Christian
Nation by Sam Harris at 10:30
a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at the
Center for New Thinking Library,

725 S. Adams, Birmingham. $9-
$10. (248) 646-0416.

Join the Tikvah Group of the
Greater Detroit Chapter of
Hadassah to view the exhibit
Maze! Toy: The Art of Marriage
at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30,
at the Janice Charach Epstein
Gallery at the West Bloomfield
JCC. The group will go to lunch at
the Milk & Honey restaurant. $15.
RSVP by Jan. 26 to (248) 851-
7757 or (248) 353-0072.

Catch the production Steel
Magnolias running through
Jan. 27, at the theater of the
Farmington Players, 32332
W.12 Mile, Farmington Hills.
Performances are at 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays - also with an 8 p.m.
show on Jan. 27. $13-$15. (248)
553-2955.

Attend the Rodgers and Hart musi-
cal Pal Joey performed by the
Village Players through Jan. 28
at 34660 Woodward, Birmingham.
Performances start at 8 p.m.
Fridays-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays. $15. (248) 644-2075.

See the play Same Time, Next
Year through Feb. 4 at Meadow
Brook Theatre on the campus of
Oakland University in Rochester.
$22-$38. Get a full schedule by
going to www.mbtheatre.com .

Take in the Lynn Ahrens-Stephen
Flaherty production Once on
This Island - A Musical per-
formed by Stagecrafters through

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Micah Fialka-Feldman will be spotlighted in the local pre-
miere showing of the groundbreaking film Through the
Same Door: Inclusion Includes College. The 25-minute
film documents the journey of a student with a cognitive
disability who wanted to go to college. Fialka-Feldman, a
Berkley High graduate, now attends Oakland University. He
is the son of Janice Fialka and Rich Feldman.
Show time is 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, at Berkley High
School, southeast corner of Coolidge and 11 1/2 Mile.
Michigan State Board of Education member Elizabeth
Bauer will speak on inclusive education and why universal
education works for all of us. University of Michigan film
graduate Paul Rossen produced the film.
The film is funded by the Albert and Doris Pitt
Foundation. The free Jan. 21 program is sponsored by the
Berkley Schools, United Cerebral Palsy of Metro Detroit,
Everyone Together and Dance of Partnership.

Feb. 4 at the Baldwin Theatre,
415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak.
Performances are at 8 p.m.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays. $16-$18. (248) 541-6430.

Attend a production of The
Pirates of Penzance presented by
the Oakland Theatre Guild Jan. 19-
28 at the Starlight Theater at the
Summit Place Mall in Waterford.
Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Fridays-
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays.
$11-$15. (248) 335-1788.

Watch the film The Pen and the
Sword: Muslims, Christians and
Jews in Medieval Spain at 6:30
p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at the Ford
Community and Performing Arts
Center,15801 Michigan, Dearborn.
$100 to benefit Unity Production
Foundation. www.upf.tv.

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See the play It Should Be per-
formed Jan. 23-Feb.18 by JET
at the West Bloomfield Jewish
Community Center. Performances
are at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesdays-
Thursdays, 5
and 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays and
2 p.m. Sundays.
The play also can
be seen at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.
23, and 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.14.
$24-$39. (248) 788-2900.

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Observe Cirque du Soleil perform
Delirium at 8 p.m. Wednesday-
Saturday, Jan. 24-27, at the
Palace of Auburn Hills. $39.50-
$112.50. (248) 377-0100.

Watch The Great Warming, a new
documentary about global warm-
ing, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan.
25 at Congregation Beth Ahm,
5075 W. Maple, West Bloomfield.
The program is co-sponsored by
the Michigan Coalition on the
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Jan. 21, at 124 Wilson Hall on the
campus of Oakland University in
Rochester. (248) 364-6106.

Get a French perspective with
the film Amen, based on the true
story of SS officer Kurt Gerstein.
It exposes how the Catholic
Church and many Western
European powers remained silent
while the Nazis sent thousands
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Laugh with Jerry Seinfeld appear-
ing at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26,
at the Wharton Center for the
Performing Arts on the campus
of Michigan State University in
East Lansing. $45-$75. (800)
WHARTON.

Catch Man of La Mancha Jan. 26-
27 at the Macomb Center for the
Performing Arts , 44575 Garfield,
Clinton Township. Performances
are at 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8
p.m. Saturday. $40-$50. (586)
286-2222.

Audition for The Miracle Worker,
a Stagecrafters production, at 11
a.m., Saturday, Jan. 27, at the
Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette,
Royal Oak. www.stagecrafters.org .

Catch David Nefesh & Marilyn host
Songwriter Showcase 8-10:30 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 18, at the Coffee
Beanery Cafe, 28557 Woodward,
Berkley. $5. (248) 336-9930.

Attend the Kalichstein-Laredo-
Robinson International Trio Award
Concert with the Trio Con Brio
Copenhagen at 8 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 20, at the Seligman
Performing Arts Center, 22305 W.
13 Mile, Beverly Hills. The concert
is sponsored by the Chamber
Music Society of Detroit. $25-$75.
(248) 855-6070.

Listen to the Ann Arbor
Symphony Orchestra perform
Peter and the Wolf and the pre-
miere of Josh Penman's Raccoon
Tune at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21,
at the Michigan Theater, 603 E.
Liberty, Ann Arbor. $5-$12. (734)
994-4801.

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