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 Meet exhibiting artists Karen Anne Klein and Susan Gold 6-8 pm. Friday, April 4, at Arnold Klein Gallery, 32782 Woodward in Royal Oak. They will discuss their work 8 p.m. Thursday, April 17. Gallery hours for their show, through April 30, are:11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. (248) 647-7709. See photographs by Ralph Scheer through May 31, at Oak Park Library, 14200 Oak Park Blvd. (248) 855-8223. Participate in Congregation Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood Book Club's discussion of The Book of Names by Jill Gregory and Karen Tintori 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at 27375 Bell Rd. in Southfield: The facilitator is Sharon Berry. (248) 357-5544. Applaud when juror Balthazar Korab presents awards during a public reception for Lawrence Street Gallery's photography exhibit 6-9 p.m. Friday, April 4, at 22620 Woodward in Ferndale. Gallery hours: noon-5 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; noon-9 p.m. Fridays. (248) 544-0394. www.lawrencestreetgallery.com . 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 speak about her personal Holocaust history as a hidden 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. View works of the Michigan Fine Arts Competition finalists, through April 11, at Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 S. Cranbrook in Birmingham. Artists represented include Prudence Bernstein of West Bloomfield, Marilyn Blinder of Southfield and Ann Arbor residents Miriam Brysk (see item above) and Elizabeth Schwartz. Free admission. (248) 644-0866. Come to the show "From Childer Street to E. Grand Blvd," through April 12, at Birmingham Rail District, 2243 Cole, Birmingham. Marcia Freedman and Fraser Taylor created the show's paint- ings and drawings. Freedman will appear 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9. Linda Ross: (248) 892-2985 or Linda@lrosscontemporary.com . Study the multi-media exhibit, "Interwined," through April 19, at Lemberg Gallery, 23241 Woodward in Ferndale. Free admission. Hours: (248) 591-6623; www.lemberggallery.com . 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 . EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE by Jordan B. Gorfinkel • View the Prato Haggadah exhibit, a medieval-era Haggadah manuscript from Spain on display through May, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Rd. in Southfield. See the process by which medieval illuminated manu- scripts were created in the Middle Ages. Museum hours, docent-led tours: (248) 357-5544. • Take a bus trip to the exhibit 10:15 a.m. Monday, April 7, from the Oak Park JCC. $10 charge JCC members, $15 for others. JCC Travel Dept.: (248) 432-5471. Watch the animated movie Monsters Inc. with members of Temple Kol Ami 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at 5085 Walnut Lake Rd. in West Bloomfield. Charge: $4, or $12 per family. Treats will be available at a nominal cost. RSVP: rssecretary@tkolami.org ; (248) 661-0040. Cinema & Stage Buy a ticket for Carousel, Rodgers and Hammerstein's famous musi- cal on stage Thursday-Sunday, April 10-13, at Power Center for the Performing Arts, 121 Fletcher in Ann Arbor. This is a University of Michigan Department of Musical Theater production. (734) 764- 2538, www.music.umich.edu . 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. (248) 341-2270. C16 April 3 2008 Watch a political documentary, Farewell Israel, concluding Temple Beth El's 2007-2008 Reel Israel Film series, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in the temple's Alpert Room, 7400 Telegraph in Bloomfield Township. Refreshments and a discussion, led by Dr. Charles Greenberg, will follow the screen- ing. No charge. Barbara Grant: (248) 851-1100, ext. 3149. Enjoy the comedy Moonlight and Magnolias through April 13, at Meadow Brook Theatre, campus of Oakland University in Rochester. The play is about creating the film, Gone With the Wind. Loren Bass plays producer David 0. Selznick. $22-$38. Performance schedule/tickets: (248) 377-3300. Try the Shakespearean comedy Come to opening night of 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 mati- nee scheduled 4 p.m. Sunday, April 20. Tickets: reservations@ theabreact.com or (313) 247-5270. (!) - As You Like It, performed by the Andover Players, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 11-12, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 13, at Andover High School, 4200 Andover in Bloomfield Hills. Tickets: $10 for main floor, $8 for balcony. Some seats will be avail- able an hour before show. (248) 341-5625. BECCA BETH ()BERNIE YAEL LOUIS The Altruist The Realist The Perplexed The Rebel The Idealist (02006 BY CORFTEXT PRODUC TIONS I NC. ALL RIGHTS RE www.jewishcartoon.com Maven Gallery Slip into a '60s groove at the "Maven Gallery Coffeehouse" 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at Temple Shir Shalom, 3999 Walnut Lake Rd. in West Bloomfield. Performers include folk singer and comedian Ron Coden, Cantor Penny Steyer and the Folk All Stars. $25 advance, $20 at door; includes desserts. RSVP: (248) 737-8700. Appreciate the exhibit, "Still Pulling: Traditional Printmaking in the Digital Age," through May 16, at Wayne State University's Elaine Jacob Gallery and Community Arts Gallery, 480 W. Hancock in Detroit. Hours: (313) 993-7813. 1; 1 4 , 17h ZAYDS The Traditionalist Join the Village Players of Birmingham for Into the Woods, the Tony Award-winning musical and adult fairytale romp at the Village Players Playhouse, 34660 Woodward in Birmingham. Matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 6. Debi Bernstein-Siegel of Bloomfield Twp. is the choreographer. Purchase tickets ($15): (248) 644- 2075 or www. birminghamvillageplayers.com . BU BS The Bubbe Audition for Romeo and Juliet, a Water Works Theatre Company production, 2-8 p.m. Sunday, April 6, or 6-10 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at St. John's Episcopal Church, 29698 Woodward in Royal Oak. The play will be performed out- doors July 24-Aug.10, in Royal Oak's Starr Park. Details: (248) 399-3727. Try the Oakland Theater Guild for two shows at Starlight Theater inside Summit Place Mall, 315 N. Telegraph. Schedule/tickets: (248) 335-1788 or www.starlighttheater.