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 27375 Bell Rd. in Southfield. See the process by which medieval illu- minated manuscripts were created in the Middle Ages. Museum hours, docent-led tours: (248) 357-5544. Find something beautiful at the 40th annual Westacres Artist Market, a juried fine art show 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at Westacres Clubhouse, 3700 Westacres in the Commerce-Union Lake roads area of West Bloomfield. $2 donation helps Care House of Oakland County. (248) 360-5323. See the watercolors of Marge Hecht Simon, through June 12, in the Woods Gallery, 26415 Scotia in Huntington Woods. Open daily except Friday. (248) 581-2696, woodsgallery48070@yahoo.com . It's all "For the Love of Glass," a show celebrating Anne Kuffler's 21st year of exhibiting art glass, through May 10, at Ariana Gallery, 119 S. Main, Royal Oak. (248) 546- 8810 or www.arianagallery.com . Appreciate artist-writer Miriam Brysk's exhibit, "Children of the Holocaust," exhibited through June, at the Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Rd. in Farmington Hills. Museum hours: 9:30 a.m.-3:3O p.m. Sundays- Thursdays and until 12:30 p.m. Fridays. Free. (248) 553-2400. Come to the opening of a new exhibit, "Considering Detroit," 7 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 4454 Woodward in Detroit. The MOCAD show, through July 28, will feature the creativity of seven artists, including Ellen Cantor, and the artist collective Time Stereo. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday and Sunday; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday- Saturday. (313) 832-6622. Have Dinner With Friends, Donald Margulies' play about marriage, staged weekends May 2-18, in Southfield's Historic Burgh theater, 26060 Berg. The City of Southfield P&R and SRO Productions offer shows 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: $12, with discounts avail- able. Reservations: (248) 796- 4645 or www.srotheater.org . WSU Undergraduate Exhibition," presented by Elaine L. Jacob and Community Arts galler- ies, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays through May 23, at 150 Community Arts Building, on the Wayne State University campus in Detroit. No admission charge. Hours: (313) 577-0770. Become informed when Ann Arbor author Nancy Goldstein presents a slide program on her new book, Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist, 7 p.m. Monday, May 5, at the Oak Park Public Library, 14200 Oak Park Blvd. Free. (248) 691-7483. See the David-Horodoker Organization's sponsored film, EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE by Jordan B. Gorfinkel • www.jewishcartoon.com Official Guide to UNLOADING 'Your EXCESS MATZO HIDE NEXT Y E AR'S AFF/KOM4- N A YEAR EARL-Y.. RI GHTS RE Yrnir Enter the magical world of Willy Wonka Junior, a musical performed Thursday-Sunday, May 8-11, at Berkshire Middle School, 21707 W. 14 Mile, east of Lahser, in Beverly Hills. Jewish cast members include Zach Kozlow as Wonka and also Corey Shanbom, Sarah Knoll, Meredith Starkman, Emily Elconin and Alicia Lerner. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $9, or $7 in advance: (248) 203-4700. Cinema & Stage Browse more than 200 student works at "Waynemania: 2008 View the Prato Haggadah exhibit, a medieval-era Haggadah manu- script from Spain, through May, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Brother's Shadow, 8 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at United Artists Theater, 14 Mile and Haggerty. The genera- tional story about a family in the Bronx is part of the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival, and the screening follows the organization's annual meeting at 6:45. $10. Arlene Gendelman: (248) 646-2094. 0 0) z 0 0 CC a. LL cc 0 0 >- co EsERNIIE, S JUST FOUNG -3-- 50XE_5 OF MATZO UNDER 3 THE SOFA...? RATS. Attend Rabbi Joseph Klein's review and discussion of Yehudah Amichai's 1998 poetry book, Open Closed Open, 9:15 a.m. Sunday, May 11, at Temple Emanu-El, 14450 W.10 Mile in Oak Park. Program is part of the temple's Israel®60 cel- ebration. Amichai has been called Israel's poet laureate. No charge. Purchase his book for $14 from the temple office: (248) 967-4020 or rabbi@rabbiklein.com . Plan on hearing Prof. liana Blumberg, author of Houses of Study - A Jewish Woman Among Books 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 12, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek B'nai Israel Center, 4200 Walnut Lake Rd. in West Bloomfield. The Education Committee of Sisterhood is presenting Blumberg, runner-up for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies. No Gifts For Mom Find gifts for Mother's Day and other occasions at Art for Life, sponsored by the Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Program, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Thursday, May 8, and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, May 9, in the lobby of the West Bloomfield JCC. Browse through jewelry, quilts, fabric items, Judaica and pottery by Israeli and local artists, as well as affordable treasures made by Brown program participants. (248) 661-6390. charge, but requires RSVP by May 7. (248) 357-5544, ext. 48. See Cindy Williams (TV's Laverne and Shirley) in Nunsense, through May 18, at Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester. (248) 370-3316. Find joy and humor in the age-old conflict between parents and chil- dren (freely based on the Book of Genesis) in the Stephen Schwartz musical, Children of Eden, week- ends through May 18, at Players Guild of Dearborn Theater, 21730 Madison in Dearborn. 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: (313) 561-TKTS, www.playersguildofdearborn.org. Invite a friend to see Menopause: The Musical, through May 18, at the Gem Theater in Detroit. Details: (313) 963-9800. Swing along with A Tribute to Benny Goodman, part of the DTE BECCAtBETH BERNIE YAEL LOUIS ZAYDS The Idealist BUBS The Perplexed The Rebel The Traditionalist The Bubbe FEED 50, WHAT- 40 YOU 51-10P- KEPE.R3 1:30 WITH ALL THE LZFrOVER MATZO? Witness the Michigan debut of Ilya Yakushev, a prize-winning pianist from St. Petersburg, Russia, at the final Pro Musica concert of the sea- son 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, at the Music Box in the Max Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward in Detroit. ($40): www.detroitsymphony.com or (313) 576-5111. Listen to Cuban jazz played by Ann Arbor's Tumbao Bravo 2 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at the Oak Park Public Library, 14200 Oak Park Blvd. No charge. (248) 691-7483. Concerts The Altruist The Realist Energy Foundation Pop Series, Thursday-Sunday, May 1-4, at Max Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward in Detroit. Dave Bennett and his sextet will perform. Schedule:10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday, 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. (313) 576- 5111, www.detroitsymphony.com . IT-TO LIKES EVERYTH/NG. Strike up the Birmingham Concert Band, when former members playing alongside current musi- cians, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at Groves High School, 20500 W. 13 Mile in Beverly Hills. The band's scholarship fund will accept dona- tions. (248) 647-7586. or www. birminghamconcertband.com Spend an evening with Israeli sing- er Noa and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, at the Max Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward, Detroit, plus a short film by Oscar-winner Sue Marx. Tickets, starting at $18, are available: (313) 576-5111, www. detroitsymphony.com . Calendar on page C16 May 1 2008 C15