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The 'Windsor Jewish
Film Festival runs April
30-May 3, at the Cineplex
Odeon in the Devonshire
Mall in Windsor. $10. For
a schedule of screenings,
call (519) 973-1772 or go
to jewishwindsor.org .

The Detroit Music
Awards will be
presented at 7 p.m.
Friday, April 27, at
Gail Zimmerman
the Fillmore Detroit
Arts Editor
(doors at 5 p.m.).
Nominees include
David Nefesh, Billy Brandt, Howard
THE ART SCENE
Glazer, Mayer Hawthorne and Tino
Gross. $20. detroitmusicawards.com .
Painter Nancy Mitchnik and sculp-
tor Lois Teicher are among the artists
ON THE STAGE
featured April 27-July 21 in Three
Generations of Expressionist Art
The Farmington Players present Alan
in Detroit: 1970-2012 at N'Namdi
Menken and Howard Ashman's musi-
Center for Contemporary Art in Detroit.
cal comedy Little Shop of Horrors April
Artists' reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday, April
27-May 19 at the Farmington Players
27. (313) 831-8700; nnamdicenter.org .
Barn Theater in Farmington Hills. Barry
University of Michigan Museum of
Cutler of Ferndale plays Mushnick; Gary
Art in Ann Arbor hosts Slow Art Day,
Weinstein of Farmington Hills is a den-
part of an annual event held around
tal patient. $18. Show times and tickets:
the world, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday,
(248) 553-2955; farmingtonplayers.org
April 28. View a collection of pre-
The first touring theatrical produc-
selected art at your own pace; then
tion of Blue Man Group —best known
join a discussion with UMMA docents.
for its performances combining music,
Bring a bag lunch. Free, but preregister
comedy and multimedia theatrics that
at slowartday.com . (734) 763-8662;
feature three bald and blue characters —
umma.umich.edu .
comes to Detroit's Fisher Theatre 9 p.m.
In 2006, Jewish ceramicist Betty
Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays
Woodman's work was the subject of a
and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays, May 1-13.
major retrospective at the Metropolitan
Matt Goldman, who rarely performs
Museum of Art, the first retrospec-
anymore, co-founded Blue Man Group
tive given to a living ceramics artist.
with friends Chris Wink and Phil
An exhibition of her recent work
Stanton in the late '80s. $39-$89. (313)
takes place at David Klein Gallery in
872-1000; broadwayindetroit.com .
Birmingham April 28-June 2. Artist's
reception: 5-7 p.m. Saturday, April 28.
DANCE FEVER
(248) 433-3700; dkgallery.com .

Spain's only classical ballet company, the
Barcelona Ballet (formerly the Corella
Ballet), makes its North American debut
with a production of Swan Lake at 7:30
p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 27-29, at the Detroit Opera
House. The performances are supported
in part by a gift from the Betty, Marvin
and Joanne Danto Dance Endowment.
Tickets start at $29. (313) 237-7464;
michiganopera.org .

THE BIG SCREEN

The Detroit Film Theatre in the Detroit
Institute of Arts presents Jewish film-
maker Jon Shenk's new documentary,
The Island President, about the demo-
cratically elected President Mohamed
Nasheed's fight to keep his country, the
Sunni Muslim nation of the Maldives,
from sinking into the sea, 7 p.m. Friday
and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, April
27-29. $6.50-$7.50. Also at the DFT: A
perfect crime goes wrong in Stanley
Kubrick's 1956 thriller, The Killing,
screening 4 p.m. Saturday, April 28; $5/
free for DIA members. (313) 833-4005;
tickets . dia. org .

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The Michigan Modernism
Exhibition, a showcase and sale of
20th-century design pieces, returns
to the Southfield Municipal Complex
10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-5
p.m. Sunday, April 28-29 ($10 admis-
sion good for both days/underl2 free);
www.michiganmodernism.com . Get
first picks at the Gala Preview, with
wine, hors d'oeuvres and entertain-
ment, 7-10 p.m. Friday, April 27, bene-
fiting the Detroit Area Art Deco Society
($55); (248) 582-3326 or daads.org .
Speakers — including Dr. Joel Kahn
of DMC and Jason Wrubel, raw chef to
the stars — as well as cooking demon-
strations and samples all will be part
of Vegfest Vegetarian Taste Fest and
Expo, 11 a.m. -5 p.m. Sunday, April 29, at
Suburban Collection Showcase in Novi.
$10/$5 students. vegmichigan.org . ❑

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A MUSICAL SOIREE
WITH MOZART
AND BRITTEN

Elizabeth Schulze,
Hai-Xin Wu, violin

Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Jeffrey Zook, piccolo

conductor
Tonight !

Thu., May io at 7:30 p.m.

Thu., Apr. 26 at 7:3o p.m.

At Berman Center for the Performing
Arts on the Eugene and Marcia
Applebaum Jewish Community
Campus, 6600 W. Maple, West
Bloomfield Twp.

At Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
27375 Bell Rd., Southfield

Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto
Haydn Symphony No. 67
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

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Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3
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