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 Earth Day Check It Out! Arts & Culture er of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), 10 a.m. Thursday, April 24, at Center for New Thinking Library, 725 S. Adams in Birmingham. $10 guests, $1 less for members. No reserva- tion needed. (248) 646-0416. Browse more than 200 student works at opening of the Elaine L. Jacob and Community Arts galleries' "Waynemania: 2008 WSU Undergraduate Exhibition," 5-8 p.m. Friday, April 18, at 150 Community Arts Building, on the Wayne State University campus in Detroit. Exhibit continues Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays through May 23. Free admission. Hours: (313) 577-0770. Discuss Amy Bloom's book Away at the JPM/JCC Book Club 1 p.m. Thursday, April 24, at the Oak Park JCC. No charge. (248) 967-4030. Enjoy a photography exhibit at Lawrence Street Gallery, 22620 Woodward in Ferndale. Running through April 25, the show hours are noon-5 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; and noon-9 p.m. Fridays. (248) 544- 0394. www.lawrencestreetgallery. Find something special at Pewabic Pottery's spring sale Friday- Sunday, April 18-20,10125 E. Jefferson in Detroit. Pewabic Society members only may shop April 18. Tile workshops offered by reservation, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. weekends. Anat Shiftan's exhibit is continuing. No charge. Hours: (313) 822-0954 or www.pewabic.org . COM. View the work of artists Karen Anne Klein and Susan Gold through April 30, at Arnold Klein Gallery, 32782 Woodward in Royal Oak. Gallery hours:11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. (248) 647- 7709. Enjoy 20th century design, including art deco pieces, at the Michigan Modernism Exhibition on the weekend of April 18-20, at the Southfield Municipal Complex, 26000 Evergreen. Preview party ($50 admission): 7-10 p.m. Friday. Regular hours ($8): 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. www.MichiganModernism.com . 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 Learn about contemporary art from writer Marsha Miro, co-found- EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE by Jordan B. Gorfinkel • April 17 • 2008 RESERVED www.jewishcartoon.com C14 Ages. Museum hours, docent-led tours: (248) 357-5544. Cinema & Stage See award-winning artists at the Farmington Artists Club spring exhibit and sale, Wednesday, April 23-27, at Costick Activities Center, 28660 W.11 Mile in Farmington Hills. Enter through Gate 4. No admission charge. Hours: (248) 455-9885. Get out to Sugarloaf, a juried fine art and craft fair, April 18-20 at Rock Financial Showplace, 46100 Grand River in Novi. Open 10-a.m. each day; closes 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 5 p.m. Sunday. $8; with discount coupon available at www. sugarloafartfair.com . a EXT PRODUCTIONS INC. AL Your Official Guide to PASSOVER SEDER LEADERS Celebrate Earth Day with the Michigan Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, Jewish Community Center Healthy U and Whole Foods 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, outside the West Bloomfield JCC Fitness Club. Watch a variety of multi-media presentations and pick up facts and tips for healthy, sustainable living and being guardians of planet Earth. (248) 642-5393, ext. 7. 0 a 0 LThe. SPRINTER Humonobsio/nomniuhinnuth manim(mIrhapps/elvrivm... ME, Bur IF i-r M E ANS D/NINE.R 5001,1 I'M HIP, Take in a rare adult puppet perfor- mance 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, at PuppetART Theatre, 25 E. Grand River in Detroit. The show is "Sing-a- long with Uncle Nappy: Soothing Melodies for Deranged Children." Meet puppeteer Jim Napolitano following. Purchase tickets ($10): (313) 961-7777, or www.puppetart. org . Ponder the Tony Award-win- ning drama Equus by Peter Schaffer through April 26, at the Zeitgeist, 2661 Michigan in Detroit. Performed by Abreact Theater Company. Tickets/schedule: reser- vations@theabreact.com or (313) 247-5270. See the classic ballet Swan Lake 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at Mercy High School, 29300 W. 11 Mile in Farmington Hills. High school students Shayna Simon of West Bloomfield, Lila Weinstein of Farmington Hills and Gabbi Stone of Bloomfield Hills will perform with the Michigan Classic Ballet Company. $18, and discounts for seniors and children. (248) 334- 6964. BECCA BETH("BERNIE The Altruist The Realist The Idealist let YAEL WE'VE L)ON- THE role 62057-70/145 IN HEBREW, EN61-1,511, Y11:), 1)0.5H AND R0551AN. ANYONE FOR FAR6/K Laugh along with Sex and the Second City, a sketch comedy show running through April 27, at the Second City inside Andiamo's, 42705 Grand River in Novi. $15- $20. (248) 348-4448, www.secondcity.com . Bring a friend to see Menopause: The Musical, whose run was extended through Sunday, May 18, at the Gem Theater in Detroit. Details: (313) 963-9800. Concerts Experience La Traviata, conclud- ing the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra's season 8 p.m. Friday, April 18, at the Michigan Theatre, 603 E. Liberty in Ann Arbor. $10- $45. Details/tickets: (734) 994- 4801 or a2so®a2so.com • Young professionals, ages 21- 39, are invited to join the Dead Composers Society for dinner before the concert. $26. RSVP to Glenn Bugala: glenn®a2so.com The MARATHONER 1-Er6 Enjoy the Oakland Theater Guild production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat through April 27, at Starlight Theater inside Summit Place Mall, 315 N. Telegraph. Schedule/tickets: (248) 335-1788 or www.starlight- theater.net: 111" LOUIS -4/4.0k ZAYDS The ii i The Perplexed Rebel ir The Traditionalist BUBS The Bubbe The COACH PAGE YOUR5I_VE5 -- THE- Z>LICK NEEDS ANOTH E R TEN M/A/61731 Appreciate the jazz-folk stylings of singing guitarist Natalia Zukerman 8 p.m. Friday, April 18, at the Ark, 316 S. Main in Ann Arbor. Her parents are classical musicians Eugenia and Pinchas Zukerman. $15. (734) 761-1415, www.theark. org . Listen to Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings 3 p.m. Sunday, April 20, at Grosse Pointe United Methodist Church, 211 Moross in Grosse Pointe Farms. Laurence Liberson of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is one of the musicians. A program preview starts 2:15. Tickets at door: $15-$30. (248) 559-2095, www.detroitchamberwinds.org . Hear the Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra play at the Oakland Choral Society's spring choral concert 8 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 620 Romeo in Rochester. (248) 391-0184. Celebrate Israel's 60 years at an all-Israeli, orchestral concert featuring four cantors 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Rd. in Southfield. The performers are Cantors Meir Finkelstein, Alberto Mizhari, David Propis and Chayim Frenkel. A reception will follow. Sponsors are the Laker Family and Alvin and Henrietta Weisberg. Tickets are required. Tobye Bello: (248) 357-5544 or tbello®shaar- eyzedek.org . Take in the Fair Lane Chamber Players' final concert of the season 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, at the Henry Ford Estate - Fair Lane in Dearborn. Café seating begins at 7. $15, with discounts available: (313) 593-5330. Spend an evening with Israeli singing star Noa and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, an Israel@60 event, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, at the Max M. Fisher Center Music Center, 3711 Woodward in Detroit.