The Dallas Heritage Village will present an evening dedicated to historic preservation, as award-winning documentary filmmaker Mark Birnbaum will premiere his new documentary short, Pilot Grove Church - an Education/Restoration Project, on the restoration of Dallas Heritage Village’s own Pilot Grove Church. The film will be followed by a panel discussion on the importance of historic preservation and the efforts of Dallas Heritage Village, featuring Birnbaum along with Mark Lamster, architecture critic for the Dallas Morning News and professor at UTA; David Preziosi, executive director of Preservation Dallas; and Ron Siebler, residential remodeler and historic preservationist. Bart Weiss, associate professor at UTA and co-founder of the Dallas Video Festival, will introduce Birnbaum and the short film. The panel will be moderated by Evelyn Montgomery, Ph.D, curator of Dallas Heritage Village.

The event is free but RSVPs are required. RSVP to lsimpson@dallasheritagevillage.org or 214-413-3662.