Arts and Culture

"Body Counts," the 12th annual International Women's Film Festival presented by the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG) at the University at Buffalo, will open Jan. 31 and continue on Thursday evenings through March 6 in the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, 639 Main St.

Much research addresses how and why many of the earth's thousands of languages are disappearing. The question still arises, however, as to why it should matter to the rest of us if, say, Pite Sami, a language spoken by fewer than 20 inhabitants of Norway and Sweden, should vanish from the face of the Earth. Jeff Good, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo linguist, says that we should attend to these losses because even seldom-used languages can tell us a great deal about the methods of categorization of the natural and mental world and because they can serve as vital links between the present and the prehistoric past.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Trinity Irish Dance at 8 p.m. on Feb 23 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. There will be a pre-performance talk at 7 p.m. The performance is sponsored by KeyBank.

Peter H. Hare, Ph.D., State University of New York Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo and former chair of its Department of Philosophy, died suddenly Jan. 3, 2008, at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was 72.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Classic Albums Live -- Led Zeppelin IV at 8 p.m. on Feb. 2 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Most of us have never heard of him, but Jacobean scientist and theologian John Wilkins had grand plans for a lunar landing that have been hauled out of 17th-century England and planted firmly in a Montreal art gallery. They are the focus of an art exhibition, "Vegetable Rites -- Birds in the Moon."

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at 8 p.m. on Feb. 22 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Blue Suede Shoes -- The Ultimate Elvis Bash at 8 p.m. on Jan. 18 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Producers, a Mel Brooks musical, at 8 p.m. on Jan. 25 and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 26 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Band of the Coldstream Guards at 8 p.m. on Jan. 24 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.