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Arts & Culture

Experience approximately 50
works in water media, including
those of artists Linda and Donald
Mendelson of Southfield and
Stanley Rosenthal of Huntington
Woods, at the Michigan Water
Color Society's 60th Exhibition,
10-6 Tuesday-Thursday and 10-7
Friday through July 20, at the
Community Arts Gallery, Wayne
State University, 5400 Cass in
Gullen Mall, Detroit. The exhibited
paintings were selected by Gladys
Nilsson, an internationally recog-
nized artist. For gallery hours, call
(248) 352-3973.

View a tapestry exhibit, Through
the Eye of the Needle, depicting
the life of a Polish woman who
survived the Nazis and came to
the United States. It can be seen
through Aug. 9, at the Janice
Charach Epstein Gallery in the
West Bloomfield JCC. The late
Esther Krinitz made the tapes-
tries, which will be discussed by
her daughters, Bernice Steinhardt
and Helen McQuade, during a gal-
lery tea starting at 2 p.m. Sunday,
July 15. Gallery hours are 10
a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays
and noon-4 p.m. Sundays. (248)
432-5448.

Cinema & Stage

See what's current in art at the
Fresh exhibit, through Aug. 4,
at the David Klein Gallery, 163
Townsend in Birmingham. Featured
artists are Brian Barr, Ben Hall,
Dalton Jamieson, Ben Kiehl, Mary
Kim, Kelly Reemtsen and Lauren
Semivan. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through
Saturdays. (248) 433-3700 or
www.dkgallery.com .

Laugh with guest comics including
Peter Berman, a U-M grad, when
comedians Kathleen Madigan and
Tim Allen headline the Dick Purtan
Comedy Night Out Friday, July 13,
at the Royal Oak Music Theatre,
318 W. Fourth, Royal Oak. The
event including aspiring comedi-
ans is a benefit for the Gail Purtan
Ovarian Cancer Research Fund
at Karmanos Cancer Institute. A
strolling dinner starts at 6:30, and

One For The Books

Buy, browse or volunteer at Mini
Bookstock 2007, a used book and media
sale through July 15, at Bloomfield Plaza
Shopping Center, southwest corner of
Maple and Telegraph roads in Bloomfield
Township. Sale hours are 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m.
Sunday. For information, contact the
Jewish Community Relations Council at
www.detroitjcrc.org . Volunteers can con-
tact Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah
to work during the sale, (248) 683-5030.

Best Performance: Esther

Watch the Purim story unfold in the family-
friendly movie One Night with the King 7:15
p.m. Wednesday, July 18, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Road in Southfield.
Admission for members is $2 and $3 for others.
Refreshments will be served. (248) 357-5544.

the concert is 8-10 p.m. For tick-
ets, $75 and $55, visit tickets.com
or the theater box office. The lat-
est details are at www.womc.com .

Come see professional Elvis
impersonators channeling the
King at Elvis Fest 5 p.m.-midnight
Friday and Saturday, July 13 and
14, in Shady Riverside Park at
Depot Town in Ypsilanti. The ben-
efit for Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels
will have children's activities, food,
beer and Texas Hold 'Em. More
details are at (734) 657-2380 or
www.mielvis.fest.com or call.

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Register for Federation's
Summertime Torah series, co-
sponsored by Florence Melton
Adult Mini-School and Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit's Alliance for Jewish
Education. There is a charge. Call
for openings in remaining classes.
(248) 642-4260.
• Explore parent-child relationships
in the Bible with local psychologist
and Judaic studies instructor Dr.
Mitch Parker in What's the Matter
With Kids Today? 7 8:30 p.m.
continuing on Thursdays, July 12
through Aug. 9.
• Study The Laws of Being a
Mentsh with Rabbi Leiby Burnham
9:30-11 a.m. continuing on
Tuesdays, July 17 and 31, at the
West Bloomfield JCC.
• Learn about Jews in America
with Dr. Howard Lupovitch 7-8:30
p.m. continuing on Wednesdays,
July 18 and July 25, at Max M.
Fisher Federation Building, 6735
Telegraph in Bloomfield Township.

Be enchanted with Wicked, music
and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz,
through July 22 at the Wharton
Center for the Performing Arts
in East Lansing. Tickets are $35-
$95. Call for show times: (800)
WHARTON or online at www.whar-
toncenter.com .

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Support student musicians at
the 13th annual Michigan Jazz
Festival noon-9:15 p.m. Sunday,
July 15, at Schoolcraft College,
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Education

Learn about Jewish resistance
during World War II in the docu-
mentary Partisans of Vilna 1 p.m.
Thursday, July 19, at the Oak
Park JCC. Interviews with former
partisans are interspersed with
rare film footage from 1939-1944.
(248) 967-4030.

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One Night with the King tells the Purim story.

Mile, in Livonia. Performances by
18 groups and four big bands are
offered free of charge on four air-
conditioned stages at VisTaTech
Center, on the north end of cam-
pus. One stage is outdoors. Food
is available at the full-service caf-
eteria. For information, call (248)
474-2720 or visit michiganjazzfes-
tival.homestead.com .

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Find out what takes people from
the realm of viewer to a collector
at Perspectives on Collecting,
a panel discussion, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, July 18, at Museum
of Contemporary Art Detroit
(MOCAD), 4454 Woodward, south
of Warren, Detroit. Scheduled
panelists are Marc Schwartz,
Burt Aaron, George N'Namdi and
Sharon Zimmerman. The complete
schedule of MOCAD programs is at
wwwmocadetroit.org , www.moca-
detroit.org or call (313) 832-6622.

Enhance skills or try something
new at the 10th annual Learning
at the Opera House community
cultural series through Aug. 12,
at Michigan Opera Theatre, 1526
Broadway in Detroit. The educa-
tional experiences include pro-
grams in opera, musical theater,
music composition, performance
and movement, art and poetry.
One highlight is the Architectural
Learning Series, 7-9 p.m. starting
Monday, July 16. $15 per lecture.
The complete schedule is available
at www.MichiganOpera.org or call
(313) 237-3270.

Event Hotline

See the work of artists from
across the country at Art on the
Grand. Friday, July 20-22, in
downtown Farmington. The juried
art fair is a feature of the annual
Farmington Founders Festival,
which also offers jazz, pop and
oldies music and children's
activities. Hours are noon-9 p.m.
Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday
and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. City
of Farmington Hills Cultural Arts
Division has more details. (248)
473-1857.

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