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ARTS & CULTURE
Appreciate beautiful art glass during
annual Glass Month shows in April:
• Charach Gallery, inside West
Bloomfield JCC: "State of the Glass,"
through May 12, displays works by
students and alumni from College for
Creative Studies in Detroit. Hours:10
a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Thursday,
noon-4 p.m. Sunday. (248) 432-5579.
• Russell Industrial Center,1604
Clay in Detroit 48211: Attend open-
ing reception, including demos, of
Michigan Hot Glass Workshop 7-11
p.m. Friday, April 23. Exhibit through
May 23 has paintings and sculptures.
www.michiganhotglass.com or (313)
871-1798.
• Farina's Banquet Hall, 2485
Coolidge, in Berkley: Admire a con-
temporary glass exhibit and award-
winning work April 24-May 23. www.
habatat.com or (248) 554-0590.
"Celebrate the Arts" with Detroit
Country Day School students, ages
3-18, Friday through Sunday, April
23-25, at Seligman Performing Arts
Center on Upper School campus,
22305 W.13 Mile in Beverly Hills.
Friday and Saturday will feature Neil
Simon's The Good Doctor at 7 and
digital film festival at 9. Open house,
1-4 p.m. Sunday, offers musical perfor-
mances, painting and sculpture. www.
dcds.edu or (248) 646-7717.
Peruse exhibition-sale of 20th cen-
tury designs at Michigan Modernism
Exposition Friday through Sunday,
April 23-25, at Southfield Municipal
Complex, 26000 Evergreen at Civic
Center Drive. Schedule: preview party
($50), 7-10 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Regular
admission: $8. www.daads.org or (248)
582-3326.
Hear Gabriele Finaldi, deputy director
of Spain's Prado, talk about how the
museum, founded in 1819, has grown.
The Dr. Colemen Mopper Memorial
Lecture will be 2 p.m. Sautrday, April
24, at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
(313) 833-7900 or www.dia.org .
Attend "Hats Off to Arts," the
Farmington Artists Foundation's jur-
ied exhibit and sale through April 24,
at Costick Center, 28660 W.11 Mile in
Farmington Hills. Enter through Gate
4. Hours: (248) 455-9885.
Admire colorful pencil drawings
inspired by the travels of Diane Zogut,
artist of the month, May 1-31, at
Birmingham Community House, 380 S.
Bates. (248) 644-5482.
Appreciate works by Kathy Kosins and
Fran Seikaly at "A Two Women Art
Show," through May 14, at Paramount
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Gallery, 22635 Woodward, Ferndale.
www.theParamountGallery.com .
CINEMA & STAGE
Experience Night Scales, a Fable for
Klara K, poetic tale by Wayne State
University faculty member Chris Tysh,
8 p.m. April 22-24, 29-30 and May
1, at the Studio Theatre, downstairs
at the Hilberry Theatre, 4742 Cass,
Detroit. Memory and fantasy in war-
torn Eastern Europe told using mul-
timedia projections, film and sound.
$10-$12; discounts available: www.
wsushows.com , (313) 577-2972.
See Ashley Bronstein as the Lead
Player in the North Farmington High
School production of Pippin 7:30 p.m.
Thursday through Saturday, April
22-24, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 25,
at 32900 W.13 Mile in Farmington
Hills. $15 adult, $12 child and senior.
Michelle: (248) 553-9223.
• Pippin at WSU: Wayne State
University's Bonstelle Theatre also
presents the show 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, April 23-24; 2 p.m. Sunday,
April 25. Two tickets for price of one,
if mention code PIPB241; call 2-5 p.m.
Tuesday-Friday: (313) 577-2960.
Clap for Lauren London as Laurey
in Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic
musical Oklahoma! opening 8 p.m.
Friday, April 23, at Village Theater at
Cherry Hill, 50400 Cherry Hill, Canton,
through May 2. (734) 484-3284 or
www.spotlightplayersmi.org .
Attend Speak for Yourself! Young
Detroiters Talk About Race, per-
formed by Mosaic Youth Theatre of
Detroit, noon Saturday, April 24, at
Performance Network Theatre, 120 E.
Huron, Ann Arbor. Pay-what-you-can
donations accepted. (734) 663-0681
or www.performancenetwork.org .
See The Wonderettes, through May
23, at the Gem Theatre, 333 Madison
in Detroit. $29-$39.50. www.gemthe-
atre.com or (313) 963-9800.
• Red hats matinee: Bring your red
hat group for a luncheon-play package
1 p.m. Saturday, April 24. $53.50, or
play only, $34.50. Group sales: (313)
463-6248.
Go to Canada for Jewish Film Festival
8 p.m. Monday, April 26, and 2, 5
and 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday,
April 29-29, at Cineplex Odeon in
Devonshire Mall, 3100 Howard in
Windsor. $10 per film. Schedule: www.
jewishwindsor.org or (519) 973-1772.
Find A Delicate Balance, presented
by Stagecrafters through May 2,
on 2nd Stage of Baldwin Theatre,
415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. $12.
Performed 8 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays
and Thursday, April 29, with 2 p.m.
matinee Sundays. Adult content, Ian-
Discover why Breaking Up is Hard to
Do, musical show through May 16, at
Meadow Brook Theatre, 207 Wilson
Hall, Rochester. Schedule-tickets: www.
mbtheatre.com or (248) 377-3300.
Appear in the local author fair at the
JCC's Jewish Book Fair, Nov. 3-14.
Current and former Michigan residents
can participate; must have published
a book on any subject this year or
in 2009. More details from Sarah
Gottlieb: bubesarah@aol.com .
Get Reel!
Enjoy special events of some sponsors
during Lenore Marwil Jewish Film
Festival (www.jccdet.org ), Sunday
through Thursday, April 25-May 6,
at theaters in Commerce Township,
Birmingham, Ann Arbor, Flint and
Windsor, Canada. If not otherwise
indicated, events held at United Artists
Commerce Theater, 3033 Spring Vale
Road, near 14 Mile and Haggerty:
• Jewish Genealogical Society: Come
COMEDY & MUSIC
Admire models wearing hats by Luke
Song, designer of Aretha Franklin's
inauguration hat, at "Art After Dark"
6-8 p.m. Friday, April 23, at Costick
Center, 28600 W.11 Mile in Farmington
Hills. $25, advance $20; includes hors
d'oeuvres, wine and live jazz. Part of
center's Festival of the Arts, through
April 25. Tickets: (248) 473-1848.
Celebrate 40th anniversary of the
Civic Youth Ensembles (CYE) 3 p.m.
Saturday, April 24, at Orchestra Hall,
3711 Woodward, Detroit. Featuring the
Civic Orchestra, Civic Jazz Orchestra
and Civic Wind Symphony. www.
detroitsymphony.com or (313) 576-5111.
Hear Music in Homes Series concert
by Latin band Orquesta La Inspiracion,
featuring director-pianist Bill Meyer, 8
p.m. Saturday, April 24, at a home in
Detroit's Palmer Woods. $35. Tickets:
palmerwoodsmusicinhomes.eventbrite.
com. E-mail: concertseries@
palmerwoods.org , (313) 891-2514.
• Concert-bus package: Linda
Yellin's Feet on the Street Tours offers
reception, Palmer Park tour and
roundtrip transportation 6 p.m. at
Claymoor Apartments, 29260 Franklin,
Southfield; bus returns 11 p.m. Purchase
($55) by April 23: (248) 353-8687 or
www.feetonthestreettours.com .
Attend a lecture and performance
featuring youth choir creator Walt
Whitman and his world-class Soul
Children of Chicago at annual Laker
Concert 4 p.m. Sunday, April 25, at
Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Road
in West Bloomfield. Free tickets: linclag
temple-israel.org or (248) 661-5700.
Appreciate the percussion-woodwind
duo, Yeyi 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 25,
at Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N.
Fourth, Ann Arbor. (734) 769-2999 or
www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com .
Pro Mozart Society presents DSO
principal cellist Robert deMaine, cel-
list Una O'Riordan and pianist Pauline
Martin at a chamber recital 8 p.m.
Tuesday, April 27, at Antioch Lutheran
Church, 33360 Farmington Road,
Farmington Hills. $25; ($5 students).
(248) 788-2479 or (248) 683-9626.
Help guest DSO conductor James
Gaffigan welcome piano soloist Andre
Watts at performance of Brahm's
to pre-glow at 7 p.m. and get food,
beverages and "goodie bag" and ticket
to movie, The Brothers Warner, 8 p.m.
Monday, April 26. $18, includes $8 for
sponsor. Tickets: www.jgsmi.org .
• SAJE: Discuss premiere of William
Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe,
about the radical civil rights attorney, with his daughter and filmmaker Emily
Kunstler 5 p.m. Thursday, April 29. (248) 432-5692.
• Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families: Come at 7 p.m. for
pre-glow fundraiser honoring Stephen Goldman, executive director of the
Holocaust Memorial Center, before seeing award-winning World War II film,
Fugitive Pieces, Thursday, April 29, at Uptown Palladium 12 Theater, 250
N. Woodward in Birmingham. $54 for film ticket and sweet treats; sponsor
levels, including varying number of tickets: $180-$1,800. Hiller's Markets is a
sponsor. (248) 661-2999, ext. 1328.
• National Council of Jewish Women/Greater Detroit Council: View the
film No. 4 Street of Our Lady 8 p.m. Sunday, May 2. Filmmaker Judy Maltz
will accept an award in person. $10, available through the Jewish Community
Centers or sponsor: (248) 355-330, ext. 0.
• ORT America Michigan Region: Attend pre-glow with desserts at 7 p.m.
if ticket ($10) purchased from ORT for Adam's Wall 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 4.
Film set in Montreal is the tangled love story of teenagers, who are Orthodox
Jewish and Lebanese. $10. ORT office: (248) 723-8860; Suzanne Berman:
(248) 354-5589.
Piano Concerto No. 2 Thursday
through Sunday, April 29-May 2, in
Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward, Detroit.
Tickets: www.detroitsymphony.com or
(313) 576-5111.
Enjoy choral masterpieces, Broadway
and pops when Benjamin Cohen,
former director of Zamir Chorale of
Metropolitan Detroit, leads Ann Arbor-
based Vocal Arts Ensemble 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 1, at Congregational
Church of Birmingham, 1000
Cranbrook Road, west of Woodward.
$10. www.vocalartsannarbor.org .
the Holocaust Memorial Center, wrote
Looking Back about her experiences
during the war and earlier in Radom,
Poland. No charge; bring a non-dairy
dish to pass. RSVP to Ameinu: (248)
967-3170.
Place some bets at B'nai B'rith Bloch
Group's "Night at the Races" 6:30-
9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24, at
Northville Downs on Center Street.
$28 member, $30 guest; includes
admission, program and dinner buffet.
RSVP to Marilyn: (248) 313-9541.
EVENT HOTLINE
Meet Detroit Lions' Hall of Famer
Lem Barney at Temple Emanu-El
Brotherhood's pre-football season
tailgate event 11:30 a.m. Sunday,
April 25, at 14450 W.10 Mile in Oak
Park. Hot dog lunch free for congrega-
tion member or $2 per guest. RSVP
required by noon Friday to Harvey
Hurwitz: (248) 398-0174, or temple:
(248) 967-4020.
Not too late to RSVP for potluck-pro-
gram featuring author Mania Salinger,
speaking on "Children of Survivors,"
6:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, at home of
Ameinu Detroit Branch 960 members
in Oak Park. Salinger, a speaker at
Check out vendor displays at the
Camp Fair 12:30-2:30 p.m. Sunday,
April 25, at the Corners, 2075 Walnut
Lake Road, west of Inkster, in West
Bloomfield. Free. www.thecorners.org
or (248) 626-5700.
Enjoy listening to versatile guitar
duo, Troubadours, part of the Schmier
Concert Series, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May
2, at Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake
Road, West Bloomfield. Complimentary
tickets from Linda Newman: linda@
temple-israel.org or (248) 661-5700.