•••••••Iwoo TO DO! Calendar Sponsored by 1 • • . • • v_ n ! re !at-ion Shaarey Zedek Exhibit 2 p.m. Sundays, March 15 • • UPC MOW; EVE. acr SHAMMY UM • and 22, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave. Free with museum admission. www.DIA. org , www.JudySima.com . • • Peruse Irwin Alterman's Haggadah collection on display through ews (:)ff i7Edlla Auti gimek Z24q: FEATURING PROFESSOR HOWARD LUPOVTTCH AND A NAME IHEMED SHABBAT DINNER Take a look at "Pots" by Warren MacKenzie, the current show through April 11, at Susanne Hilberry Gallery, 700 Livernois, Ferndale. (248) 541-4700. Friday, March 20 • 6:00 PM • CSZ B'nai Israel Center COMMUNITY DINNER COST: $18.00 PER ADULT $9.00 PER CHILD (12 AND UNDER) Professor Howard Lupovitch's appearance is generously sponsored by The Sandra Davis Memorial Fund • Coming to a synagogue near you! CHO USIC 2:30 PM - Sunday, May 3 CSZ S outhfield March 15, at Janice Charach Gallery, inside the West Bloomfield JCC. (248) 432-5579, www.charachgallery.org . voki x Generously sponsored by the Sidney J. WI)4and r Melba Winer Creative Arts For Children'Ftlifd For more information, please call the synagogue office at 248.357.5544 E-mail the best photo from your family's Passover celebrations for possible display in the Janice Charach Gallery at the West Bloomfield JCC. Send your contact information and jpg photo to: gallery@jccdet.org . Hang out at an all-women's show, "S.O.B. - Sisters of the Brush," through March 28, at Lawrence Street Gallery, 22620 Woodward, Ferndale. (248) 544-0394, www. lawrencestreetgallery.com . Browse the new paintings of "Personal Territory" through March 28, at David Klein Gallery, 163 Townsend, Birmingham. (248) 433-3700, www.dkgallery.com . Cinema & Stage Check It Out! Arts & Culture Come to an artist reception for Nikolai Jacobs' show "Menagerie" 6:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at the Woods Gallery, 26415 Scotia, Huntington Woods. Show continues through April 12. (248) 581-2696, www.woodsgallery.org . Find items from the Victorian period through the 1980s at the Bloomfield Hills Jewelry & Vintage Apparel Show 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at the Birmingham Unitarian Church, 38651 Woodward. $5. (248) 797-2112. See the lovely work of Judaica artist Lynne Avadenka at her show "Then and Now," opening B14 March 12 • 2009 Saturday, March 14-April 18, at Lemberg Gallery, 23241 Woodward, Ferndale. (248) 591-6623, www. lemberggallery.com . Discuss People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks with facilitator Sharon Schwartz and the Lunch & Literature Book Club noon-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, in the West Bloomfield JCC Library. Free. Bring a bag lunch; beverage and dessert provided. Francine Menken: (248) 432-5546, fmen- ken@jccdet.org . Gather as Judy Sima brings to life stories of Jewish American families in fact, fiction and folklore at a celebration for the Norman Rockwell American Chronicles Watch the film You Never Know by Israeli director Boaz Shahak at a program about songwriter Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach 9 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at Yeshivat Akiva, 21100 W.12 Mile, Southfield. Howie Kahn will share recollections of the leg- endary rabbi during an hourlong kumsitz of Carlebach tunes. $18 includes light refreshments. Mark Nadel: (248) 356-5663. Listen to staged readings of new plays from local playwrights at the Fireside Festival of New Works 8 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, March 15-18, at Performance Network Theatre, 120 E. Huron, Ann Arbor. Pay what you can. (734) 663-0681. Get engrossed in Un Secret, a drama about a Jewish boy in post- World War II Paris who finds a Too Many Books? Drop off unwanted books, books on tape, records, videos, CDs and DVDs on colos- sal collection day for this year's Bookstock, the upcoming used book and media sale, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, March 22, at Bloomfield Plaza, southwest corner of Maple and Telegraph, Bloomfield Township. Sorting takes place at same location 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesdays and 1-4 p.m. March 22. Sale dates: April 26- May 3, at Laurel Park Place, 37700 W. Six Mile, Livonia. (248) 645-7840, ext. 365. mysterious toy in the attic, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 22, at Temple Beth El, 7400 Telegraph, Bloomfield Twp. Dr. Charles Greenberg leads post-film discussion for the tem- ple's Reel Israel Film series. Free. (248) 851-1100, ext. 3149. March 20-22 and 27-29, at Lahser High School, 3456 Lahser, Bloomfield Hills. Show times: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $15 adults, $12 seniors/students; group rates available. (248) 433-0885. Catch a mid-week movie, The Believer, a former Sundance Film Festival selection, 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Road, Southfield. $2 Sisterhood member, $3 others; includes snacks. (248) 357-5544, www.shaareyzedek.org . Prepare for The Band's Visit, a charming Israeli movie about Egyptian musicians stranded overnight in an Israeli desert town, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, at the Oak Park JCC. This is a Lenore Marwil Film Festival presentation. $10 at door, but advance purchase advised: (248) 967-4030. See the passionate story of Romeo and Juliet danced by the American Ballet Theater Friday through Sunday, March 13-15, at the Detroit Opera House, 1526 Broadway. Tickets/schedule: (313) 237-7464, www.Michigan0pera.org . See four actors play more than 40 parts in the musical I Love You, You're Perfect Now Change, through March 29, at the Gem Theatre, 333 Madison, Detroit. Reduced ticket price: $25 (group: $20). Tickets/schedule: (313) 963- 9800, www.gemtheatre.com . Enjoy the strange goings-on of Rocky Horror Show, the cult- classic musical staged weekends through March 15, at Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. This is a community theater production of Stagecrafters. (248) 541-6430, www.stagecrafters.org . Explore the story of a German- Jewish family living in Atlanta in 1939 at Last Night at Ballyhoo 8 p.m. Friday and Saturdays, March 13-14 and 20-21; 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at St. Dunstan's Theatre, 400 Lone Pine, Bloomfield Hills. Tickets: (248) 737-3587, www. stdunstanstheatre.com . Find amusement in the fam- ily musical Seussical, staged by Bloomfield Players Community Theatre Fridays through Sundays, Explore diversity with the Matrix Theatre Company's original play, Decide Tonight, weekends through April 5, at Matrix Theatre (new location), 2730 Bagley, Detroit. People with various disabilities worked with professional artists to tell their stories. Tickets: (313) 967-0599, www.matrixtheatre.org . Concerts Attend a Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings concert featuring bas- soonist Marcus Schoon 8:30 p.m. (reception at 8) Friday, March 13, at Hagopian World of Rugs, 850 S. Woodward, Birmingham. $20 adults, half price for students. www.detroitchamberwinds.org , (248) 559-2095.