metro >> calendar HOW TO SEND IN LISTINGS: Send listings by noon Tuesday, nine days prior to publication. Email listings and questions to calendar®thejewishnews.com . For telephone inquiries, call David Sachs at (248) 351-5140. Much To Do! to benefit Akiva. Admission: $36. Info: www. akivaauction.org . FRIDAY, DEC. 14 THURSDAY, DEC. 20 MONDAY, DEC. 24 EMANU-EL CHANUKAH GERSHWIN REVIEW ISAAC STERN FILM 5:45 pm. Oak Park Temple Emanu-El's Brotherhood Chanukah latke dinner; Shabbat service at 7 pm. Adults, $15; children, $8; under 5, free. RSVP: 248-967-2040. COJAR LUNCH/ LEARN Noon lunch and 1 pm concert. S'Wonderful Gershwin Review with pianist Marty Mandelbaum and singers John DeMerell and Diana Turner at Oak Park JCC. Paid RSVP for $3 lunch required by Dec.18. Concert is $1. 248-967-4030. 2 pm. Movie, Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso in the Greenberg Suite at West Bloomfield JCC. Information: 248-967-4030. BIM BAM SHABBANUKAH Pirke Avot before Council for Orthodox Jewish 6 pm. Shabbat service followed by a Chanukah dairy/vegetarian potluck dinner at Temple Kol Ami, West Bloomfield. Latkes, etc. $2/adult; $1/ child. RSVP: Julie@tkolami.org or 248-661-0040. Active Retirees at Oak Park JCC. $2. 248-967- 4030. MONDAY, DEC. 17 Noon 1 pm. Chaya Sarah Silberberg discusses - TUESDAY, DEC. 18 SATURDAY, DEC. 15 HERMITAGE MOVIE HAVDALAH FOR KIDS 1 pm. The film The Hermitage Museum, part III, facilitated by Joe Tazelaar at Oak Park JCC. Information: 248-967-4030. 5:15 p.m. Farmington Hills Adat Shalom Synagogue Young Families sponsors "Saturday Night Lights," a Havdalah program for families with kids, kindergarten and younger. Older sib- lings welcome. Free. RSVP: Lauren Reich, laurenhannareich@hotmail.com . SUNDAY, DEC. 16 CHINESE AUCTION 6 p.m. Akiva Day School hosts An Evening in Harmony," a Chinese auction with buffet and bar, at Cong. Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. Prizes include TVs, computers, trips, etc. All proceeds WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19 PJ'S, PASTA & STORIES 6 pm. Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills invites families with preschoolers through first graders to pasta supper and a craft project. Rabbi Rachel Shere is story reader. $3 per per- son up to $18 a family. RSVP: Debi Banooni, 248- 626-2153 or dbanooni@adatshalom.org . BROZA AT BERMAN 7:30 p.m. Together with Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza, four multicultural youth musicians from Israel's Polyphony Youth Ensemble, a group that brings together Arabs and Jews through musical education, perform at the Berman Center at the West Bloomfield JCC. Tickets: bermancenter.jccdet.org or 248-661-1900. TUESDAY, DEC. 25 BOUNCE PARTY FOR KIDS 3 5 pm. Cong. Shaarey Zedek of Southfield event for kids pre-K to grade 2 at Franklin Athletic Club, 29350 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield, featuring bounce houses, a rock wall, an inflatable obstacle course and more. $15 per child. RSVP by Dec. 21: Alexis Zimberg, Jewish Family Educator, 248-357- 5544 or azimberg@shaareyzedek.org . - SUNDAY, DEC. 23 'FESTIVUS' EVENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT JET 9 pm. Join CommunityNEXT and Come Play Detroit at Fifth Avenue, 215 Fifth Ave., Royal Oak. $10 cover after 10 pm. 2 pm. The Jewish Historical Society of Michigan's "Afternoon at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre" presents the musical I Do! 1 Do!, about a couple's multi-decade marriage, at the West Bloomfield JCC. Afterglow with cast members follows play. JHSM members $34; others $38. Afterglow only, $10. Tickets: 248-432-5517. THURSDAY, DEC. 27 JCC CONCERT Noon lunch and 1 pm concert with entertainer Jack Dalton at Oak Park JCC. Non-refundable paid RSVP for $3 lunch due by Dec. 24. $1 for concert. 248-967-4030. CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM PRESENTS I SOO SUNNY PARK: VAPOR SLIDE NOVEMBER 17, 2012 THROUGH MARCH 17 2 013 "From Here to There: Alec Soth's America," is the first major U.S. survey to explore the past 15 years of work by one of the most compelling voices in contemporary photography, artist Alec Soth. Featuring over 100 photographs, the exhibition includes a new body of work that is the result of a road trip the artist took across Michigan in the weeks leading up to the presidential election in November. "Alec Soth's America" is organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Soo Sunny Park's large-scale installation SSVT (South Strafford, Vermont) Vapor Slide (2007), is the artist's response to the undulating, snowy hills of South Strafford, Vermont. This exhibition inaugurates a new series of one-person exhibitions that will showcase the work of Academy alumni. FROM HERE TO THERE: ALEC SOTH'S AMERICA For more information: 248 645.3323 or www.cranbrook.edu NOVEMBER 17, 2012 THROUGH MARCH 30, 2013 ART WORKS 32 December 13 • 2012 JN