Language Matters with Bob Holman: A Celebration of Mother Tongues
61 West Superior Street
Free Admission
A reception will follow the program.
There are over 6,000 languages remaining in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Noted filmmaker David Grubin and poet Bob Holman have teamed up to produce Language Matters, a two-hour documentary that asks: What do we lose when a language dies? What does it take to save a language?
In anticipation of the show's airing on WTTW, join Grubin and Holman, along with poets Peter Cook and Parsino Carlos Peynetsa for an evening of performances, film clips, and discussion about endangered languages.
Presented in partnership with WTTW.
Language Matters is a co-production of David Grubin Productions Inc. and Pacific Islanders in Communications. Produced in association with The Endangered Language Alliance. Major funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities with additional funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and philanthropic individuals.