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Glassman Bash

The autumn Glassman Party will
take place at the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield from
1-3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25. Music
will be provided by the Billy Rose
Orchestra. The dessert buffet will
be provided by the Bingham Farms-
based Matt Prentice Restaurant Group. The cost for this event
is $2 for JCC members, $4 for non-members and $3 for non-
members coming with a bus group. RSVP by calling (248)
432-5577. All payment will be taken at the door.

Check it Out!

Arts & Culture

in Royal Oak. Details are at (313)
852-4056.

See the creativity of Linda Sterns
on display through Nov. 1, at
the Woods Gallery, inside the
Huntington Woods Library, 26415
Scotia. Sterns does paintings,
watercolors and mixed media col-
lages. Exhibition hours are 10 a.m.-
9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
Learn more at www.woodsgallery.
org or (248) 581-2696.

Discuss Golden Country by
Jennifer Gilmore at the Book
Discussion Group of the Greater
Detroit Chapter of Hadassah
10-11:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 26,
at the Sarah & Ralph Davidson
Hadassah House, 5030 Orchard
Lake Rd., West Bloomfield.
From the 1920s through the
Holocaust, three immigrant fami-
lies in Brooklyn become a part of
America. Call (248) 683-5030.

Appreciate From Our Perspective,
a juried, national women's art
exhibition presented by the
OCC Womencenter through Oct.
12, in Smith Theatre Gallery on
Oakland Community College's
Orchard Ridge campus, 27055
Orchard Lake Rd. south of 1-696,
in Farmington Hills. Gallery hours
are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays.
Admission is free. For information,
contact Arlene Frank at (248)
522-3642.

Browse through works by artists
Prudence Bernstein of Bloomfield
Hills, Stanley Rosenthal of
Huntington Woods, and Donald
and Linda Mendelson of Southfield
during the Michigan Water Color
Society's 60th Annual Exhibition
Travel Show, through Sept. 27, at
Eastern Michigan University's Ford
Gallery in Ypsilanti. Exhibit details
are at www.mwcsart.com . Also,
attend the society's annual meet-
ing 10:00 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday,
Sept. 29, at the West Bloomfield
Public Library, 4600 Walnut
Lake Rd. Guest presenters will be
Marnie Fender and Jim Newara.

Delight in the nature and wildlife
photographs by Judy Yaker of
Bloomfield Hills Friday, Sept. 21-
Nov. 25, at the Detroit Zoo's Ford
Education Center Exhibit Gallery

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University's Cohn-Haddow Center for
Judaic Studies for a free showing of the
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producer Albert Barry will speak. RSVP
by Wednesday, Sept. 26, at (313) 577-
2679 or e-mail aa2690®wayne.edu .

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Admire 35 art quilts by Studio
Arts Associates through Sept. 29,
at Lawrence Street Gallery, 22620
Woodward in Ferndale. Exhibit
hours are noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-
Saturday, and until 9 p.m. Friday.
For details, call (248) 568-5739
or visit www.lawrencestreetgallery.
corn.

See the work of Norman Dubin
and Edna Garte in Witness for the
Nameless, an exhibition of photo-
graphs and poetry through Oct.
4, at the Waterford Public Library,
5168 Civic Center Drive. The same
show will run in November and
December at the Southfield Public
Library. Waterford Library: (248)
618-7693.

Peruse the Michigan Weavers
Guild's 60th anniversary exhibi-
tion through Oct. 5, in Mardigian
Library's Alfred Berkowitz
Gallery at University of Michigan-
Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen in
Dearborn. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
(313) 593-3592.

Building in Detroit. (313) 577-
0770.

Tour two exhibitions of the Detroit
Artists Market (DAM) through
Oct. 20. More details are at (313)
832-8540 or visit www.detroi-
tartistsmarket.org:
• Lois Teicher is among nine art-
ists featured in 3X3, exhibited 9
a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays and until
noon Saturdays at the Community
Arts@Paramount Gallery, 22635
Woodward in Ferndale.
• 3Quarters-3Artists-3Views,
representing three generations
of exhibitors, is 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Tuesday-Saturday at DAM, 4719
Woodward in Detroit.

Sign up for Recipe for Creativity,
starting 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.
25, at the Oak Park JCC. Mixed-
media artist Edie Simons will
teach collage and stitching of
recipe cards to swap or keep.
Bring personal recipes and original
photographs; copies will be made.
The six-week class is $75 for JCC
members; $95 for others. All ages
are welcome. (248) 967-4030, ext.
2028.

Take in four exhibits through Oct.
5, at Birmingham Bloomfield
Art Center, 1516 S. Cranbrook in
Birmingham. Represented are the
Michigan Hot Glass Workshop,
Birmingham Society of Women
Painters, Donna Engstrom's multi-
media show and Dan Keller's adult
painting students. Information is
at www.BBArtCenter.org or call
(248) 644-0866.

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Faculty Exhibition, works in
various mediums by Wayne State
University's professional art facul-
ty, through Oct. 12, in Community
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in Royal Oak. Show times are at
8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and
2 p.m. Sundays. For information
on tickets and a raffle, call (248)
541-8027.

Enjoy The House of Blue Leaves,
a prize-winning comedy, through
Sept. 23, in the Village Players
Playhouse, 34660 Woodward in
Birmingham. Performances are
at 8 p.m. Sept. 21-22; and 2 p.m.
Sept. 23. Marni Raitt of Royal
Oak is in the cast. Tickets are $15.
Additional details are at (248)
644-2075 or www.birminghamvil-
lageplayers.com .

Child and teenage dancers age
7 and older are needed to per-
form in The Nutcracker with the
Cincinnati Ballet. Auditions will be
held 4-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
27 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.
For details, call (313) 961-3500
ext. 3290 or visit motopera.org .

Concerts

Audition for the Bel Canto Choral
Society, an all-women's group
rehearsing Monday evenings at
the Oak Park JCC. The group sings
show tunes and popular, seasonal,
operetta, classics and ethnic
music at JCCs, senior residences,
synagogues and other venues.
Director Marty Mandelbaum does
not require auditions. To learn
more, contact Katy at (313) 640-
0123 or e-mail kparcells®aol.com .

Education

Bring a bag lunch
(beverage provided) to
a new season of lunch-
and-learn programs at
noon every Thursday
at Temple Beth El,
7400 Telegraph in
Bloomfield Twp. The
presenter is Keren Alpert, the
temple's director of education.
RSVP by calling (248) 865-0612.

