Best Bets: Teen filmmakers, ‘Erie Canal’ video, Talich Quartet
1. Steven Spielberg, eat your heart out. The next generation of filmmakers has arrived. See the results at 3 p. m. Sunday when Squeaky Wheel and Preservation Buffalo Niagara screen some thought-provoking shorts from Buffalo Youth Media Institute.
Highlights include a magical portrait of Forest Lawn, an ode to grain elevators and a look at St. Luke’s. Admission is $10 at Market Arcade Film & Arts Center, 639 Main St.
2.“ Clinton’s Ditch” lives! Catch the award-winning 90-minute video, “The Erie Canal: Albany to Buffalo,” in the comfy confines of North Tonawanda History Museum, 54 Webster St. This virtual ride is free and starts at 2 p. m. Saturday.
3. They are four of Europe’s finest musical performers, and we’re not talking U2.
Listen to the Talich Quartet, the embodiment of Czech music, at 8 p. m. Tuesday in Kleinhans Music Hall’s Mary Seaton Room. Tickets are $20; call 462-4939 or visit www.bflochambermusic.org.
4. Recharge your memory with the 1944 play “I Remember Mama” by John Van Druten this weekend at the Buffalo& Erie County Historical Society Museum, 25 Nottingham Court. Experience some old-time family values at 8 p. m. Friday, 2 p. m. Saturday and 2 p. m. and 6 p. m. Sunday. Tickets: $18 for adults; $13 for seniors and students.
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