?f, TO DO! Calendar Sponsored by ongregation Shaarey Zedek ( 4 {m' i;/'ri (- ( - -1>1(4/ Upcoming vents October 4 Featuring Alan Morinis Community-Wide Mussar Shabbaton Featuring Alan Morinis 9:00 AM • CSZ B'nai Israel Center October 14 Sukkot Celebration followed by Sukkah Stroll 10:00 AM • CSZ Southfield October 15 Super Sensational Sukkot For Pre-School Families 10:30 AM • CSZ Southfield October 21 Simchat Torah Family Program 5:30 PM CSZ Southfield October 21 Simchat Torah Block Party 7:00 PM • CSZ B'nai Israel Center November 7 Featuring Rabbi Daniel Gordis Kabbalat Shabbat Service & Dinner Welcoming New Members 6:00 PM • CSZ Southfield For more information, please call the synagogue office at 248/357-5544 www.shaareyzedek.org Arts & Culture Attend the dedication ceremony for a new permanent exhibit, "The Kindertransport Memory Quilts," 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, at the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus, 28123 Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills. Members of the Kindertransport Association and/or their family members around the world created the quilt squares. They capture the memories of Jewish children whose parents sent them on a secret train trans- port from Germany to righteous English families, just before World War II. Advance registration advised: (248) 553-2400, ext. 25. C16 October 2 • 2008 Join the Oak Park-based Book Beat bookstore for a program with writer Heather Henson and illustra- tor David Small discussing their children's book That Book Woman, 7-8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, at Southfield Public Library, 26300 Evergreen. (248) 968-1190. See "Three Generations of Photography," an exhibit of work by photographers Leo Sheiner, his daughter Susan Sheiner and her son Daniel Epstein, through Nov. 1, at the House on Main, 803 Main in Royal Oak. Judy Weiner: (248) 541-3069. Register by Nov. 17 to be an arti- san or vendor at this year's Gift Emporium 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at the Oak Park JCC. Details: (248) 967-4030, ext. 2006. Feed The Needy Participate in the Yad Ezra/Berkley kosher food pantry's Yom Kippur Food Drive, helping to feed 1,400 families in need. Bring grocery bags filled with food, donation envelopes or money to wherever you observe Yom Kippur on Oct. 9. See the "Helping Out" category for volunteering to sort food. (248) 548- 3663. Reserve your place on the Jewish Federation's Family Mission to Israel. Dates are Dec. 25, 2008- Jan. 4, 2009. Details: (248) 642- 8639 or skaufman®jfmd.org . Cinema & Stage Ponder the thriller Doubt: a Parable, 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette in downtown Royal Oak. Stagecrafters 2nd Stage offers performances Thursday-Sunday evenings, with Sunday matinees, through Oct. 12. Tickets: $12. (248) 541-6430. Try a little Murder by Poe, open- ing Wednesday, Oct. 8, at Oakland University's Meadow Book Theatre in Rochester. Shows through Nov. 2. Tickets/schedule: (248) 377- 3300 or wwwmbtheatre.com . Enjoy the Broadway show Say Goodnight Gracie, about comedy and life partners George Burns and Gracie Allen, 8 p.m. Wednesday- Sunday, through Nov.16, at the Gem Theater, 333 Madison in Detroit. Matinees presented 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Oct. 8 and 15 and 1 p.m. Saturdays, Oct. 11 and 18. Tickets: (313) 963-9800, www. gemtheatre.com . Laugh at David Regal and Arthur Beer as The Sunshine Boys, also the name of the Neil Simon com- edy, weekends through Oct. 12, in Marygrove College Theater, 8425 W. McNichols in Detroit. Theatre Company of University of Detroit Mercy: (313) 993-3270, www.theatre.udmercy.edu . Tell aspiring singers and danc- ers, ages 13-25, about auditions for "National City Stars of Ballet and Broadway" and "Rising Stars" 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, at Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, 350 Madison in Detroit. Audition times from Meg Paul: megp@musichall.org or www. starsofballetandbroadway.com . Come back for Temple Beth El's 2008-2009 Reel Israel Film Series 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at 7400 Telegraph in Bloomfield Twp. The Truce, starring John Turturro, is an adaptation of Primo Levi's memoir, The Reawakening, chronicling the author's trek home to Italy after being liberated from Auschwitz by the Russian Army. Dr. Charles Greenberg will lead a post-film discussion. Free. Details: (248) 851- 1100, ext. 3149. Concerts Celebrate Detroit musical heritage at the annual Motor City Blues & Boogie Woogie Festival Friday- Saturday, Oct. 3-4, at Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, 350 Madison in Detroit. $35 nightly; $75 VIP ticket includes mezzanine seating and buffet, but cash bar. Schedule/box office: (313) 887-8500. Experience an Opus 3 concert 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at Seligman Performing Arts Center, 22305 W. 13 Mile on the campus of Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills. Chamber Music Society of Detroit will present musicians John Bruce Yeh, clarinet; Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Gary Hoffman, cello, and Christopher Taylor, piano. Tickets: www.comehearcmsd.org . Hear a chamber music concert, "Music and Color," performed amidst the art of four galleries, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, at Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 S. Cranbrook in Birmingham. $25. (248) 644-0866. Enjoy violinist Anton Shelepov, appearing with the Andiamo String Quartet, in the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra's Afternoon Delights Concert Series 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the Jewish Community Center of Washtenaw County, 2935 Birch Hollow Dr. $8. (734) 994-4801. Attend the first concert of the "For the Love of Music Series" 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, at Temple Beth El, 7400 Telegraph in Bloomfield Twp. Charles Greenwell conducts the Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra, featuring Hart Hollman on viola. Series/individual tickets: (248) 645-BBSO or www.BBSO. org . Bring your soprano, alto, tenor or bass voice to the Metropolitan Singers. No experience required. Details from Ray: (248) 932-0390. Event Hotline Enjoy Feminists Are Funny, an evening with performance artists Guerrilla Girls, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, in Smith Theatre at Oakland Community College, 27055 Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills. Arlene Frank is director the college's Womencenter, celebrating its 35th anniversary. Free. (248) 522-3642. Visit more than 50 vendors, able to help you have a great party, at Joe Cornell Entertainment's Event Planning Expo 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, at the West Bloomfield JCC. (248) 356-6000, www.joecornell.com . Hear a recap of the recent Jewish International Genealogical Conference during a pro- gram planned by the Jewish