There are over 6,000 languages remaining in the world, and 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 WTTW premiere on Thursday, January 29 at 9:00 pm, 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.   This is a free event; first-come-first-served.  The doors open at 6:30 pm.