Check out some of the fun arts & cultural events to look forward to in the Farmington/Farmington Hills community this week:

Monday, March 17th: Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with beer and music at any number of restaurants and pubs around town.

Thursday, March 20th @ 3:00 pm: In the latest installment of her Killing Us Softly series, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising displays distorted and destructive ideas of femininity. The film explores a wide range of print and television advertisements that show a pattern of damaging gender stereotypes-images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic and unhealthy perceptions of beauty, perfection and sexuality. This event will be facilitated by Arlene Frank, Womencenter Program Coordinator. In room J-294 at Oakland Community College, Orchard Ridge.

Thursday, March 20th @ 8:00 pm: a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth opens, presented by OCC’s Orchard Ridge theater program at the Smith Theatre at Oakland Community College.

Sunday, March 23rd @ 2:00 pm: Boogie, Blues, & Ragtime musician, Matthew Ball aka “The Boogie Woogie Kid” will heat up the piano keys at The Farmington Community Library (32737 West Twelve Mile Road) for a free concert.

Sunday, March 23rd @ 2:00 pm: Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and The Guy Stern Endowment in Exile and Holocaust Studies present a talk by Thomas Kühne: “The Murderers Among Us: How We Elude and Confront Holocaust Perpetrators.” In his lecture, Kühne will explore and assess popular fantasies about and scholarly insights into the pathology and the ordinariness of Hitler’s mass murderers, showing that the Holocaust can be explained only if we render account to the full diversity of the people who committed it. At the Holocaust Memorial Center, Zekelman Family Campus, 28123 Orchard Lake Road.

Sunday, March 23rd @ 3:00 pm: The Farmington Musicale invites the public to enjoy a recital by the students whom the distinguished judges deemed the best of the best in their recent, Awards for Musical Excellence competition. The recital is at the St. John Lutheran Church on 23255 Gill Road in Farmington Hills.