To Do! CALENDA E-mail items to calendar@thejewishnews.com Mail items to Calendar, the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034 Fax items to (248) 304-8885 Deadline: noon, Tuesday, nine days prior to publication. Grant: (248) 851-1100, ext. 3149. Check It Out! ARTS & CULTURE View "The Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Transport," an exhibit from Yad Vashem, through April 18, at the Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills. A woman prisoner discovered photos of herself and other Hungarian Jews in an album kept by the SS on the same day American forces liberated the Dora- Mittlebau German concentration camp. Informatin and museum hours: (248) 553-2400. Enjoy a photography show through April 30, at Lawrence Street Gallery, 22620 Woodward, Ferndale. Reception 6-9 p.m. Friday, April 9. (248) 544- 0394. CINEMA & STAGE Take in the Michigan premier of Henrietta Hermaline's Fall from Great Heights, the latest installment of the 2010 Late Night Series through April 17 at Planet Ant Theatre, 2357 Caniff Ave. in Hamtramck, Fridays and Saturdays at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $10. To reserve seats: (313) 365-4948 or email reservations®planetant. com . For more information: www.planetant.com . Revisit sultry New Orleans at A Streetcar Named Desire, presented by the Stagecrafters Thursdays-Sundays, through April 11, at Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. Tickets: $14 and $16. Schedule: (248) 541-6430: Watch Leslie Ann Handelman as one of four bored Englishwomen who comes alive at the Italian sea- side in Enchanted April at Oakland University's Meadow Brook Theatre, 207 Wilson Hall, Rochester. Weekend shows through April 11. $24-$39. Box office: (248) 377-3300 Attend a performance of new and popu- lar dance works by the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, Saturday, April 10, at Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, 44575 Garfield, Clinton Township. (586) 286-2141. Behold "Spring Dances" by MoreDances Contemporary Dance Company 8 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at Azar's Oriental Rug Gallery, 670 S. Woodward, Birmingham. $14-$16 at door. Janet: (586) 899-2629. View the 2008 drama Adam Resurrected at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at Congregation Shir Tikvah Movie Night. This intense film about a Holocaust survivor was directed by Paul Schrader and stars Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. In German, Yiddush, and Hebrew with English subtitles. No charge. Soft drinks provided, please bring a snack to share. Congregation Shir Tikvah, 3900 Northfield Parkway in Troy. (248) 649-4418 or www.shirtikvah.org . Learn about the road Detroit-area playwright-composer Cindi Rosner Kelly took to bring her musical The Key, to the stage in "The Key: The Documentary" 3 p.m. Sunday, April 18, at the Farmington Civic Theater, 3332 Grand River, Farmington. $15. Tickets: www.thekeythemusical.com or (248) 683-3637. Attend a screening of The Band's Visit at Foreign Film Night at 6:30 p.m., Monday, April 19, at the Northville District Library, 212 West Cady Street. Humor and empathy combine when an Egyptian ceremonial band is acciden- tally dropped off at a remote Israeli vil- lage. In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles. No charge. (248) 349-3020. Laugh at the zany comedy Little Shop of Horrors, through May 9, at Performance Network Theater,120 E. Huron, Ann Arbor 48104. Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken. Tickets $25-$44, senior and student discounts available. Tickets and showtimes: (734) 663-0681 or www.performancenetwork.org . Congregation T'chiyah of Oak Park will sponsor the 2 p.m. matinee of Palmer Park on Sunday, April 25, at the JET Theater at the West Bloomfield JCC. Yom HaShoah a A • Adat Shalom Men's Club presents Holocaust survivor Aron Zoldan 9:15 a.m. Sunday, April 11. At 11:15, Cantor Daniel Gross performs excerpts from "I Believe: A Shoah Requiem." Michael Feldman and Murray Sittsamer are making arrangements. All are welcome. $5 breakfast charge at door. (248) 851-5100. • Commemorate Yom HaShoah at a program featuring scholar Susannah Heschel, daughter of the late Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel, at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 11, at the West Bloomfield JCC. Co-sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial Center, the JCC, Federation and the Michigan Board of Rabbis. Open to all. Free. • Attend a Yizkor Yom HaShoah program at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 11, at the Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills. Presented by Shaarit Haplaytah with Hidden Children, Child Survivors Association of Michigan and C.H.A.I.M. No charge. • Observe Yom HaShoah with a learning and remembrance service 7 p.m. Monday, April 12, at Temple Beth El. Jerry Manko will talk about his experiences in prewar Germany followed by a candlelighting ceremo- ny. Free, open to all. 7400 Telegraph in Bloomfield Twp. Contact Barbara Following the play that re-creates the neighborhood and the elementary school that are integral to the memo- ries for many, there will be a Q&A with the director. T'chiyah will hold an after- glow with refreshments. For discounted tickets, contact Sid Simon at sidneysi- mon@sbcglobal.net . COMEDY & MUSIC Hear the sounds of world/classical fusion group Loop 2.4.3 at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 10, at Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. Fourth, Ann Arbor. Tickets $5-$25: (734)769-2999 or www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com . Listen to pianist Richard Goode perform works by Bach, Haydn and Schumann, presented by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, Saturday, April 10, at 8 p.m. at the Seligman Performing Arts Center on the campus of Detroit Country Day School, 22305 Genealogy Tour Take a tour of Jewish historical interest 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 11, in the Polish Mission of St. Mary's Seminary Adam Cardinal Maida Library, 3535 Indian Trail, Orchard Lake. Genealogist Ceil Jensen and mission director Marcin Chumiecki will discuss holdings of the Association of Former Political Prisoners of German and Soviet Concentration Camps, including uniforms, displaced persons' memoirs and yearbooks containing thousands of signatures of Polish Jewish youngsters. Free for members of Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan, $5 plus Ceil Jensen Marcin Chumiecki service charge for guests. RSVP: www.jgsmi.org . West 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills. A pre-concert dinner at Bacco Ristorante on Northwestern Highway in Southfield, with special reduced din- ner price for CMSD ticket-holders, will take place 5-6:15 p.m., followed by a pre-concert talk by Goode at 6:45 p.m. Single tickets are $43 - $75, students $25. To order, please call 248-855- 6070 or visit www.ComeHearCMSD.org . Attend a concert titled "Classic Violin Works of Yesterday and Today" spon- sored by the Fair Lane Music Guild, with violinist Gabriel Bolkosky and pianist Michele Cooker, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 14. Dessert served starting at 7 p.m. Henry Ford Estate - Fair Lane, U of M Dearborn Campus, 4901 Evergreen Road. $15 general admission, $14 seniors, $9 students. Tickets and information: (313) 593- 5330 or www.umd.umich.edu/fair_lane_ music_guild. Hear comedian Howie Mandel 7 and 10:30 p.m. Friday, April 16, at the Andiamo Celebrity Showroom, 7096 E.14 Mile, Warren. (586) 268-3200 or www.AndiamoShowroom.com ; ticket- master.com or (800) 745-3000. Appreciate the music of Franz Schubert in three concerts by local pianist Martin Katz and baritone Jesse Blumberg at Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. Fourth, Ann Arbor. 8 p.m. Friday, April 16: "Die Schoene Mullerin; 2 p.m. Saturday, April 17: Schubert Masterclass; 4 p.m. Sunday, April 18: "Die Winterreise." Tickets: (734) 769- 2999 or • Learn about Yom HaShoah at "A Day to Remember," at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Twp.'s Lunar Learn and Lunch and noon Learn Wednesday, April 14, and 7 p.m. Thursday, April 15. Free. RSVP: (248) 865-0612. Attend the 67th Annual Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at a candlelighting ceremony with music and readings, at 7 p.m. Monday, April 19, at the Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road. Sponsored by Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring in collaboration with the Holocaust Memorial Center. Free and open to the public. RSVP: (248) 432-5677 or micirclel@gmail.com . • Go to the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies Annual Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Commemoration at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, April 18, at the Bernath Auditorium in the Undergraduate Library at Wayne State University. Professors Sidney Bolkosky and Gerard Libaridian will speak on the theme "Challenges and Opportunities of Oral Testimony." Free. RSVP required: (313) 577-2679. www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com . Listen as pianist Ralph Votapek plays music of Copland, Schubert, Ravel and Albeniz at the Vivace Series concert, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at Birmingham Temple, Farmington Hills. $20-$23, group rates available. Tickets from Joyce: (248) 788-0338. Enjoy a free concert featuring Israeli soprano Yael Handelman 2-3 p.m. Sunday, April 18, at the Oak Park Public Library,14200 Oak Park Blvd. (248) 691-7483. Join the DSO and Principal Guest Conductor Peter Oundjian welcome French pianist Helene Grimaud for a performance of Beethoven's serenely intimate Piano Concerto No. 4 in Beethoven & Vaughan Williams. The concert opens with the DSO premiere of Jacques Hetu's Le Tombeau de Nelligan based on the poetry of Emile Nelligan, and concludes with Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 4. Performances take place in Orchestra Hall on Friday, April 9, at 10:45 a.m., Saturday, April 10, at 8:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 11, at 3 p.m. Box office: (313) 576-5111. EVENT HOTLINE Give the gift of life by donating blood at the Shir Tikvah Blood Drive on Sunday, April 11, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3900 Northfield Parkway, Troy. Individuals 17 or older please bring Red Calendar on page 56 April 8 • 2010 55