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. guage. Tickets: www.stagecrafters.org or (248) 541-6430. r Check It Out! 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 52 April 22 • 2010 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.