To Do! CALENDAR 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. */ Check It Out! ARTS & CULTURE www.playersguildofdearborn.org . Hear award-winning photographer Marji Silk of Oak Park teach tech- niques to turn snapshots into works of art 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, at the Oak Park Library, at 14200 Oak Park Blvd. Marji will bring samples of her own award-winning works and offer helpful advice to improve your photo- graphs. Free to Friends of the Oak Park Library or $5 for others. (248) 691- 7480, ci.oak-park.mi.us/library. Stagecrafters presents Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream on Sept. 17-Oct. 3 at the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. Advance tickets are $16 and $18 at www.stagecrafters.org or (248) 541- 6430. Tickets cost $2 more at door. See the Womencenter at Oakland Community College's Orchard Ridge Campus' 20th annual national women's art exhibition, "From Our Perspectives" at its Smith Theatre Gallery 10 a.m.-4p.m. Monday-Friday through Oct. 8. The opening recep- tion will be 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16. Deborah Kashdan of Southfield is featured in the exhibition with her pieces Charles McGee at 85, Satori Circus and Michael Stone Richards. The campus 27055 Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills. Check out "The Green Show," through Oct. 14, at Janice Charach Gallery inside the West Bloomfield JCC. Exhibit features sculpture, jewelry and other works of art created from recycled materials, as well as photos by Joanne Scherf. www.charachgallery. org or (248) 432-5579. Marvel at "Synagogues In Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction" of 14 Nazi- destroyed temples using computer aided design through Nov. 29 at Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills. (248) 553-2400, ext. 23. Enjoy The Waiting Room, the Fran Aaron Players' humorous musical play about patients waiting to see the doc- tor at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the Oak Park Community Center, 14300 Oak Park Blvd. Written and directed by Fran Aaron. $3. Light refreshments. See a film intertwining Jewish and Polish history and culture, 100 Voices: A Journey Home, a documentary fol- lowing a group of cantors who return to Poland. Shown only at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, at these theaters: AMC Livonia 20,19500 Haggerty; Commerce 14, 3033 Spring Vale Road, Walled Lake; Quality 16, 3686 Jackson Road, Ann Arbor; Canton Cinema 43555 Ford Road; Showcase Ann Arbor 20, 4100 Carpenter Road, Ypsilanti. Let Harvey Ovshinsky demystify the screenwriting process at his next six- month workshop, "How to Complete Your First Movie Script In Six Months," meeting on last Monday of each month beginning 7-10 p.m. Monday, Sept. 27, at Community House of Birmingham, 380 S. Bates in Birmingham. Tuition: $325. (248) 644-5832 www.hkomedia. com or www.communityhouse.com . COMEDY er CONCERTS Laugh to comedian Elon Gold and sup- port the mental health agency Kadima at a performance 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, at the Max. M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit. Tickets begin at $100. www.kadimacenter.org or con- tact Paula Schenberg at CINEMA 6, STAGE See the play Crossing Delancey week- ends through Oct. 3 at the Players Guild of Dearborn, 21730 Madison. $15 ($13 students): (313) 561-TKTS or EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE by Jordan B. Gorfinkel • TH EY 5AY THAT WHEN YOU so BEFORE YOUR MAKER FOR JUDGMENT, THE-LORD PLAYS BACK A H/61/4/GHT REEL. OF YOUR LIFE,50 YOU YOURSELF CAN 5EE ALL- OF YOUR GOOD 1)4- a!),5 AND A1-1-- OF YOUR BAD. EIWc!. 114....416 l'► i l ium._ do. Gl i '"•‘`" , ©20 10 BY -GORFTEXT PRODUCTIONS INC. ALL RIG HTS R ESERVE D. www•ewishcartoon.com KIND OF PUTS YOORAC170N6 IN AWHOI-ENEV 4/6H7, eh? paulas@kadimacenter.org or (248) 559-8235, ext.118. Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary, will perform a benefit concert in memory of Mary Travers 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, at Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, 15801 Michigan Ave., Dearborn. The Light One Candle concert will ben- efit the Be the Match Registry, which matched Mary with her bone marrow transplant donor. Get tickets at $30- $150 at www.dearborntheater.com . Information: (313) 943-2354. Hear Brazilian pianist Flavio Varani at opening concert of Vivace Music Series 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, at Birmingham Temple, 28611 W.12 Mile in Farmington Hills 48334. Claire Levine chairs series. $20 or $23, includes afterglow. (248) 788-0338 (Joyce) or (2480 661-1348 (Ann). Attend Temple Israel in West Bloomfield's First Schmier Chamber Concert featuring the Carpe Diem String Quartet playing gypsy, tango, folk, rock and jazz-inspired music 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26. Contact Diana Plopa: (248) 661-5700 or dplopa@ temple-israel.org . EVENT HOTLINE Adrienne Cooper Marilyn Lerner Yiddish Enchantment Enjoy renowned vocalist Adrienne Cooper and pianist Marilyn Lerner perform a Yiddish concert 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, at the Windsor Jewish $15. (519) 973-1772. Community Centre, 1641 Ouellette, Windsor. Summer Get Together" dinner and cash bar 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20, at Rosie O'Grady's, 279 W. Nine Mile, Ferndale. Free to members; $15 for others. RSVP: Keith Sirlin, (248) 682- 6890 or sirlinlawman@aol.com . The Annual Barn Dance and Dinner will be 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, to benefit restoration of the Kreger Farm, known as Franklin Community Center. Adults only. Tickets ($60) at Franklin Village Hall or Market Basket, or from John Pulker, (248) 538-0183. Compete in the 15th Annual Hillel Day School Golf Classic noon Monday, Sept. 20, at Franklin Hills Country Club in Farmington Hills. 5:30 p.m. cocktails and dinner. Contact Cheryl Schanes, (248) 539-1488 or cschanes@hilleiday.org . Walk with Jewish Hikers of Michigan 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, at Dolph Park, Wagner Road south of Jackson in Ann Arbor. Contact Eli Avny, (734) 883- 9522; Rabbi Lisa Delson of Temple Beth Emeth at (734) 665-4744; or e-mail jewish.hikers@gmail.com . Join the reunion of Women's American ORT members from the 1960s-90s 5-7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20, at the home of Rochelle Lieberman in Bloomfield Hills. Wine and hors d'oeuvres. Learn about ORT programs and hear Chris Mack of Keep It Simple Solutions speak about using Feng Shui to simplify one's environment. Sponsored by ORT America Michigan Region. $18. (248) 723-8860. EVENTS THAT HELP Attend Yad Ezra kosher food pantry's 20th annual fundraising dinner honor- ing Margot and Jerry Halperin, 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11, at Cong. Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. Contact www. yadezra.org or (248) 548-3663. HEALTH 6, SUPPORT Find a shoulder at "Together We Stand — Your Journey Through Cancer," with social worker facilitator Jodie Jacobs, 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. Trade courtroom tales at the B`nai B'rith Barristers Unit's "End-Of- BECCA BETH BERNIE r-% YAEL The Altruist The Realist The Idealist The Perplexed tCP LOUIS The sqV Rebel ZAYDS BUBS The Traditionalist The Bubbe 22 (second and fourth Wednesdays of each month), through Temple Israel's Robert Sosnick Family Life Center, 5725 Walnut Lake Road in West Bloomfield. Also: social worker Helen Croll facilitates bereavement sup- port group 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 27 (second and fourth Mondays of each month). Free, but must RSVP 24 hours in advance: elaine@temple-israel.org or (248) 661-5700. Learn about the latest technologies and treatment procedures related to prostate cancer at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center, 31995 Northwestern Hwy, Farmington Hills, at 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23. Hear Karmanos experts including Dr. Michael Cher, chief of Urology. Dr. Jordan Maier, will address the latest technology in radiation therapy. Free. RSVP at 1-800-KARMANOS or e-mail KarmanosFHevent@karmanos.org . Attend the Michael Golds Memorial AD/HD Conference 8 a.m.-4:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, at Oakland Community College's Orchard Ridge Campus, 27055 Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills. Keynoter Sandra Reif and 14 presenters. Educators and social workers can earn CEU credits. $75; $30 for students. RSVP: (248) 522-3645 or www.oaklandcc.edu/ MGMC or www.chadd.net/527. Join Rainbows — a divorce support group for parents and their children through eighth grade offered by National Council of Jewish Women, SPACE for Changing Families. Meetings will be 7-8 p.m. for seven Mondays beginning Oct. 18 at the Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills. RSVP: (248) 355-9936 or space@ncjwgds. org . One-time $10 charge. HELPING OUT Meijer is including Yad Ezra in its Simply Give Program through Sept. 25 at the Southfield store (12 mile and Telegraph) only. Donate a $10 "Simply Give" card at the check-out. Calendar on page 56 September 16 • 2010 • • 55 •