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All Mozart

Enjoy a concert by Israeli-
born, Grammy-winning
violinist Gil Shaham with
Akira Eguchi on piano 8
p.m. Saturday, March 29.

Check It Out!

Participate in book discussions at
no charge:
•JCC Book Club, West Bloomfield
JCC: "The Lost: A Search for
Six of Six Million" by Daniel
Mendelson, Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Thursday, March 27. The facilita-
tor is teacher Sharon Schwartz of
Hillel Day School. RSVP to librar-
ian Fran Menken: (248) 432-5546
or fmenken@jccdet.org .
•Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Sisterhood Book Club, 27375 Bell
Rd. in Southfield: The Book of
Names by Jill Gregory and Karen
Tintori. 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 8.
The facilitator is Sharon Berry.
(248) 357-5544.

Hear author Rachel Dewoskin
discuss modern-day China and
her novel Foreign Babes in Beijing
7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27,
at the Ann Arbor District Library,
343 S. Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor. (734)
327-4200.

See the Museum of Contemporary
Art Detroit (MOCAD) gleam during
Gold, a fundraiser Saturday, March
29, at MOCAD, 4454 Woodward
in Detroit. The museum's New
Wave Committee hosts. The
exhibitions Holy Hip Hop! New
Paintings by Alex Melamid and
ReFusing Fashion can be viewed.
$75 VIP admission, starting at
7:30 p.m., includes fine-dining
cuisine, open bar and performance
artists Martha Colburn and Ian
Clark. $15, for admission at 9:30
p.m., includes a chance to hear 10
bands; cash bar. www.mocadetroit.
com/gold or (313) 832-6622.

Peruse the "Fish Bowl," artwork

by seniors at North Farmington
High School, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
weekdays through April 2, at
City Gallery inside Costick Center,
Eleven Mile between Middlebelt
and Inkster in Farmington Hills.
City of Farmington Hills Cultural
Arts Division: (248) 473-1856.

Call for details on nominations,
taken through April 2, for the
Farmington area's 2008 Artist
in Residence and Distinguished
Service to the Arts Awards: (248)
248-473-1856.

Browse through the 12th annual
photography exhibit Wednesday,
April 2-25, at Lawrence Street
Gallery, 22620 Woodward in
Ferndale. Juror Balthazar Korab
will present awards at a public
reception 6-9 p.m. Friday, April
4. Gallery hours are noon-5
p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays and noon-9 p.m.
Fridays. (248) 544-0394. www.
lawrencestreetgallery.com .

Consider aspects of object design
with artist Michelle Oka Doner
5:10 p.m. Thursday, April 3, at
the Michigan Theater, 603 E.
Liberty in Ann Arbor. Sponsor
is University of Michigan School
of Art & Design's Distinguished
Visitors Series. No charge. (734)
763-1265.

Meet artist Miriam Brysk at the
opening reception for her exhibit,
"Children of the Holocaust," 3 p.m.
Sunday, April 6, at the Holocaust
Memorial Center, Zekelman Family
Campus, 28123 Orchard Lake Rd.
in Farmington Hills. Brysk will
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child in Poland. She also will sign
copies of her memoir. Exhibit runs
through June during museum
hours: 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Sundays-Thursdays and until 12:30
p.m. Fridays. No charge. (248)
553-2400.

The all-Mozart program is
part of the Opus 9 Series of

View works of the Michigan
Fine Arts Competition finalists,
through April 11, at Birmingham
Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 S.
Cranbrook in Birmingham. Jewish
artists represented are Prudence
Bernstein of West Bloomfield,
Marilyn Blinder of Southfield and
Ann Arbor residents Miriam Brysk
and Elizabeth Schwartz. Free
admission. (248) 644-0866.

at Wayne State University's Elaine
Jacob Gallery and Community
Arts Gallery, 480 W. Hancock in
Detroit. Hours: (313) 993-7813.

View the Prato Haggadah exhibit,
an outstanding medieval-era
Haggadah manuscript writ-
ten in Spain, through May, at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
27375 Bell Rd. in Southfield. See
the process by which medieval
illuminated manuscripts were
created in the Middle Ages. 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.
Museum hours/docent-led tours:
(248) 357-5544.

Study the multi-media exhibit,
"Interwined," through April 19, at
Lemberg Gallery, 23241 Woodward
in Ferndale. Free admission. Hours:
(248) 591-6623; www.lemberggal-
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Wax nostalgic at an exhibit featur-
ing weathercaster Sonny Eliot,
Ernie Harwell and four more
of Detroit's most notable radio
personalities of the past and
present, through Aug. 24, at
the Detroit Historical Museum,
5401 Woodward. The "Detroit's
Classic Radio Voices" exhibit fea-
tures artifacts, photos and audio.
Admission: $6, with discounts
available. Details: (313) 833-1805

Take in artist Anat Shiftan,
through May 9, at Pewabic
Pottery,10125 E. Jefferson in
Detroit. Shiftan works from histor-
ic representations of nature. Free
admission. Hours: (313) 822-0954
or www.pewabic.org .

Appreciate the exhibit, "Still
Pulling: Traditional Printmaking in
the Digital Age," through May 16,

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at Detroit Country Day
School, 22305 W.13 Mile in
Beverly Hills. Tickets: $43-
$75, and students, $25.
(248) 855-6070 or www.
ComeHearCMSD.org .

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Street to E. Grand Blvd," through
April 12, at Birmingham Rail
District, 2243 Cole Street in
Detroit. Marcia Freedman and
Fraser Taylor created the show's
paintings and drawings. Linda
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Cinema & Stage

Reserve a seat for Jewish
Ensemble Theatre's drama,
Women's Minyan by Naomi Ragen,
presented through April 13, at
JET's Aaron DeRoy Theater inside
the West Bloomfield JCC. The
drama grappling with domes-
tic abuse premiered in 2002
at Israel's National Theatre.
Schedule: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-
Thursday; 5 and 8:30 p.m.
Saturday; 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Tickets: $29-$39, with discounts
available. Rush tickets for $18 are
offered an hour before show time,
as available. Box office: (248)
788-2900.

Catch Address Unknown, per-
formed in Hebrew with English
subtitles by Kibbutz Theatre
Company of Israel, 2 and 7:30
p.m. Monday, March 31, and 2
p.m. Tuesday, April 1, at the West
Bloomfield JCC. $20. (248) 432-
5462.

Laugh at Fools, a Neil Simon play,
8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April
3-5, in Smith Theater at Oakland
Community College's Orchard
Ridge campus, 27055 Orchard
Lake Rd. in Farmington Hills. The
comic fable is about a Russian
town placed under a curse of stu-
pidity. Tickets: (248) 341-2270.

Come to opening night of Jewish
playwright Peter Schaffer's Tony
Award-winning drama, Equus,
8 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the
Zeitgeist, 2661 Michigan in Detroit.
Performed by Abreact Theater
Company, the run is 8 p.m. Fridays
and Saturdays through April 26,
with one matinee scheduled 4
p.m. Sunday, April 20. Tickets:
reservations@theabreact.com or

