To Do! E-mail items to calendar@thejewishnews.com Mail items to Calendar, the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034 Fax items to (248) 304-8885 • Deadline: noon, Wednesday, eight days prior to publication Check It Out! Arts & Culture Listen to a talk by featured art- ist Anat Shiftan, 5-6 p.m. Friday, March 14, followed by the exhibit's opening 6-8 p.m., at Pewabic Pottery, 10125 E. Jefferson in Detroit. Shiftan's "Recent Works of Still Life" continues through May 9. Hours: (313) 822-0954 or www.pewabic.org . Hear a gallery talk by artists Ted Lee Hadfield and Janet Hamrick 11:30 a.m. Saturday, March 15, at Lemberg Gallery, 23241 Woodward in Ferndale. No charge. Their multi-media exhibit, "Interwined," continues through April 19. (248) 591-6623; www.lemberggallery. com Experience the ballet classic Giselle, performed by Joffrey Ballet, Friday-Sunday, March 14- 16, at the Detroit Opera House, 1526 Broadway. Schedule/tick- ets: (313) 237-7464 or www. MichiganOpera.org . Meet freelance writer Ellyce Field signing copies of her new book, Michigan Family Field Trips: Fun Sites for Kids, 2 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at Borders Books & Music, 34300 Woodward in Birmingham. (248) 203-0005. Peruse the "End of the Year Spotlight" exhibit, artwork by senior art students at North Farmington High School, through March 15, at City Gallery inside Costick Center, Eleven Mile between Middlebelt and Inkster in Farmington Hills. Hours are 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays. A sec- ond exhibition, "Fish Bowl," has its opening night reception at the gal- lery 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, and runs through April 2. City of Farmington Hills Cultural Arts Division: (248) 473-1856. Rare Haggadah View the Prato Haggadah, an outstanding medieval- era Haggadah manuscript, through May, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Rd. in Southfield. This Haggadah, produced in Spain, is an unfinished work allowing the viewer to see the process by which medieval illuminated manuscripts were created. The traveling exhibit from the Rare Book Collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York is sponsored by the Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation. Call about museum hours and docent-led tours: (248) 357-5544. Cinema & Stage Come to the opening of "From Childer Street to E. Grand Blvd" 5-8 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at Birmingham Rail District, 2243 Cole Street in Detroit. Marcia Freedman and Fraser Taylor cre- ated the paintings and drawings exhibited through April 12. Details from Linda Ross: (248) 892-2985 or Linda@lrosscontemporary.com . Attend the opening reception for "Still Pulling: Traditional Printmaking in the Digital Age" 5-8 p.m. Friday, March 21, at Wayne State University's Elaine Jacob Gallery and Community Arts Gallery, 480 W. Hancock in Detroit. The exhibition is through May 16. Call for hours and related public lectures: (313) 993-7813. Enjoy Gary Grimshaw's 1960s- era artwork for Detroit's Grande Ballroom and the MC5 rock group, through April 17, in the Woods Gallery, 26415 Scotia in Huntington Woods. Exhibit runs daily, except Fridays. woodsgallery48070@yahoo.com . Call for details on nomina- tions taken until April 2 for the Farmington area's 2008 Artist in Residence and Distinguished Service to the Arts Awards. Details: (248) 248-473-1856. Answer an open call for avant- garde artists and performers to join the 2008 Detroit Fringe Festival, April 5 in Detroit's Music EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE by Jordan B. Gorfinkel • VOTED FOR AN — R/CAN. AFRICAN ANIF See The Cemetery Club, a play with humor about three Jewish widows, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, at St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild of Cranbrook, 400 Lone Pine Rd. in Bloomfield Hills. Tickets: $16; $14 for seniors and students: (248) 737-3687 or www.stdunstanstheatre.com . Submit unpublished works of adult drama and comedy, between 10-15 minutes' duration, for Stagecrafters Community Theater's upcoming New Works Festival. Entries are due Saturday, March 15, at the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette in Royal Oak. Details: www.stagecrafters.org ; (248) 541-6430. Follow the yellow brick road to The Wizard of Oz, a play per- formed weekends through March 16, at Andover High School, 4200 Andover in Bloomfield Hills. The Bloomfield Players Community Theatre, including Udi Kapen of West Bloomfield as the Tin Man, performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $15, with discounts and group rates available. (248) 433-0885. Laugh with the comedy Ushpizin, a Hebrew film featuring English subtitles, 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 17, at the Northville District Library, 212 W. Cady in Northville. No charge. Jewish and Israeli- style treats will be served. (248) 349-3020. Reserve a seat for Jewish Ensemble Theatre's drama, Women's Minyan, in previews 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, March 18- 20, and 5 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at JET's Aaron DeRoy Theater inside the West Bloomfield JCC. Opening night is 8 p.m. March 22, with the run through April 13. American-born, Israeli playwright Naomi Ragen tells the story of a mother denied her children when she flees her abusive husband. Tickets: $29-$39, with discounts available. Box office: (248) 788- 2900. Concerts Welcome home New York violin- ist Jannina Barefield, performing an intimate classical concert BECCA BETH BERNIE YAEL ZAYDS BUBS The Altruist The Realist The Idealist The Perplexed The Traditionalist The Bubbe HE VOTED FOR A --'. RePOBL.ICAN. -....:.:.:. -........:. 08 BY GORIrTE SKI C18 March 13 • 2008 with pianist Michelle Cook, 8 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at a private home in Detroit's Palmer Woods neighborhood. Barefield's appear- ance is this month's "Music in Homes" event, sponsored by the Palmer Woods Music Series. Barefield, a former student of maestro Itzhak Perlman, has soloed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and performed at Carnegie Hall. $25. RSVP: www. palmerwoods.org or (313) 920- 4864. Take in the concert "Geniuses and Wannabes," presented by Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, 3 p.m. Sunday, March 16, at Birmingham Unitarian Church, 38651 Woodward in Bloomfield Hills. Steven Whiting presents a concert preview at 2:15. Tickets: (248) 559-2095 or detroitcham- berwinds.org . Event Hotline PRODUCT IONS IN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. www.jewishcartoon.com WHAT AN HISIOR/C. FR56/.0f-Nr/A11- PR/MARY. VOT- D. FOR A WOMAN. Hall. A winner may get the chance to perform with comedian-actress Sandra Bernhard. Details: rickm@ musichall.org . Answer "A Call to Wholeness," the annual women's con- ference sponsored by Oakland Community College Womencenter 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, March 15, on OCC's Orchard Ridge campus, 27055 Orchard Lake Rd. in Farmington Hills. $35 includes keynote pre- sentation with psychotherapist Bari Berkowitz, two workshops, continental breakfast and lunch. Advance registration advised: (248) 522-3642. Bring your young ladies, ages