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KINDNESS 
ART MENORAH 
5:30-6:30 PM, DEC. 14 
(THURS.) 
This year’s Kindness Art 
Menorah will be created 
by hundreds of students 
from local Jewish and 
public schools. The 
menorah will be made of 
tzedakah boxes. Kindle all 
eight candles in Franklin 
Village, near the Franklin 
Public Library, 32455 
Franklin Road, Franklin. 
Enjoy the traditional 
Chanukah delicacies: 
donuts, latkes and warm 
soup plus an amazing 
fire show. The event, 
sponsored by Chabad of 
Bingham Farms, is free. 

BIM BOM BABY 
10-11 AM, DEC. 15 (FRI.) 
Bim Bom Baby is a 
Shabbat celebration for 
babies to 5-year-olds 
at Temple Shir Shalom. 
Welcome Shabbat with the 
rabbis and cantor, play, 
sing and braid challah to 
take home. There is no 
charge. All are welcome.

THEREMIN NOIR 
7 PM, DEC. 15 (FRI.) 
At the Detroit Film Theatre 
in the DIA. The Theremin 
Noir trio composes and 
plays darkly evocative 
chamber music using 
the theremin, the early 
electronic tone synthesizer 
invented in 1920 and 
used most famously in 
Hitchcock film scores 
and by the Beach Boys 
in songs such as “Good 
Vibrations.” The trio, 
including Rob Schwimmer 
on theremin, pianist Uri 

Caine and violinist Sara 
Caswell, will perform a 
daring improvised score 
for a compilation of 
silent films by Parisian 
avant-garde artists of the 
era, including Man Ray, 
Fernand Leger, Rene Clair 
and Marcel Duchamp. This 
live program complements 
the DIA exhibition “After 
Cubism: Modern Art in 
Paris 1918-1948,” on view 
through Jan. 7, 2024.

VILLAGE HAVDALAH 
3-5 PM, DEC. 16 (SAT.) 
At Congregation Shaarey 
Zedek — a spirited 
Havdalah featuring a drum 
circle and fun Havdalah 
craft project. Start the 

week as a family. Free and 
open to the community. 
Register: tinyurl.com/
CSZvillagehavdalah.

KIDS’ NIGHT 
5:30-8 PM, DEC. 16 (SAT.) 
At Adat Shalom 
Synagogue. Kids will enjoy 
hanging out with their 
friends, eating dinner, 
doing Havdalah with 
Rabbi Nosanwisch and 
having fun. K through 
fourth-graders will 
enjoy watching a circus 
performance by Cirque 
Amongus and trying out 
circus skills. Fourth- to 
seventh-graders will enjoy 
playing games at Marvin’s 
Marvelous Mechanical 

Museum. $12, members of 
Adat Shalom/$18, guests. 
Info: jlive.app/events/6103.

IRISH MUSIC
8 PM, DEC. 16 (SAT.) 
At the Ark, 316 S. Main 
St., Ann Arbor. Blackthorn 
offers shows that involve 
a musical ramble across 
Ireland. Each of the 
band’s five members plays 
multiple instruments. Cost: 
$20.

BABY & ME CLASS 
10-11 AM, DEC. 17 (SUN.) 
Village Tots is 
Congregation Shaarey 
Zedek’s Baby and Me 
class for youngest 
learners. Lindsay Mall will 
direct songs, movement, 
instruments, bubbles and 
more. No registration 
required; free and open to 
the community. Perfect for 
tots ages 0-2 years. 

PROJECT MITZVAH: 
NOON, DEC. 17 (SUN.) 
“Hearts & Hands for 
Detroit & Israel.” Our 
hearts are with Israel, the 
hostages, their families 
and friends. Write cards of 
love to our Israeli brothers 

ON THE GO
PEOPLE | PLACES | EVENTS

IRISH MUSIC
DEC. 16, 8 PM

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