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Polish Heritage Celebration In Valhalla (Valhalla, NY that is…)

From Westchester.com:

Immerse yourself in the culture, crafts, food and music of Poland at the 31st Annual Polish Heritage Celebration, Sunday July 20 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla.

The festivities include fun for people of all ages, with live Polka music, authentic Polish food and bakery items and dancers performing traditional Polish folk dances. The children of the Polska Subotnia Szkola group will recite poetry written by Nobel prize-winning Polish poets and sing traditional children’s folk songs. The event will also include a chance for visitors to meet this year’s Pulaski Day Parade marshal and the reigning Miss Polonia.

Festival-goers can view this year’s Polish-American cultural exhibit, which will feature portraits and biographies of renowned Polish and Polish-American figures and artwork detailing historic events in Polish history.

This event is sponsored by Westchester County Parks and the Westchester Pulaski Association.

The Kensico Dam Plaza is located at the north end of the Bronx River Parkway. And, for the first time this year, cultural heritage festival-goers can ride Westchester County’s BEE-LINE bus to Kensico Dam Plaza on Sundays; call (914) 813-7777 for more information.

Admission and parking are free.

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TR Warszawa performs Macbeth, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn, June 17th through the 29th, 2008.

TR Warszawa, Poland’s most exciting theater company, arrives in New York with a spectacular production of Macbeth that boldly reinvents the classic for the twenty-first century. With a huge cinematic sweep, the production takes multi-media theater to the limit, directed by the gifted Grzegorz Jarzyna. A dramatic two-story set, video walls, special effects, an extraordinary, layered soundscape, and a deep well of acting tradition transform Shakespeare’s web of intimacy, politics and the supernatural into a contemporary living film.

TR Warszawa, formerly Teatr Rozmaitosci in Warsaw, has for decades been one of Poland’s best-known stages. It has secured a reputation as a contemporary theatre that is open to new ideas while preserving theatrical traditions. TR has made its mark in Europe and won numerous awards at national and international theatre festivals. Poland’s most popular stage directors —“ Grzegorz Jarzyna (artistic director since 1998, since 2006 also general director), Krzysztof Warlikowski, and Krystian Lupa —“ as well as the country’s most famous actors, work at TR.

St. Ann’s Warehouse will create an outdoor theater in the Civil War-era Tobacco Warehouse, located in Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, across the street from St. Ann’s Warehouse. This historic site’s romantic, open air and column-free structure is well-suited to St. Ann’s visionary programming, at the gateway to the Brooklyn Waterfront.

Macbeth will be performed in Polish with English supertitles.

St. Ann’s Warehouse is at 38 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn. For ticket information and directions, call (718) 254-8779.

This historic production is sponsored in part by the The Kosciuszko Foundation.

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Upcoming Polish-American events in the Albany NY area

St. Michael’s R.C. Church Parish Festival
20 Page Avenue
Cohoes, N. Y. 12047
Telephone: 518-237-5151

St. Michael’s R.C. Church in Cohoes, is having a Parish Festival on May 30th, 31st and June 1st, 2008. Hours are Fri. 5-10pm, Sat. 2-11pm, and Sun. 12-5pm.

A family oriented event with Polish-American food, amusement rides, dance group, Freckles the Clown, games of chance, raffle, and music/bands (Music Express, Echo & Donny P & Celebration). For mor information please visit the parish website or call Kazia at 518-588-0977.

Polish Community Center Polish-American Buffet

Join us on Friday June 13th, 2008 between 4-8 pm for a Polish-American buffet at the Polish Community Center located at 225 Washington Ave Ext in Albany NY. for more information please call our center at 518-456-3995 or visit our website.

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Mass For Anyone Touched By Adoption

A Mass for anyone touched by adoption will be celebrated by Rev. Msgr. Paul Burkard on Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. All are welcome to attend, Birth Parents, Adoptees, Adoptive Parents, Grandparents and other relatives.

Our Lady of Victory Basilica
Ridge Road & South Park Avenue
Lackawanna, NY 14218

Reception to follow the mass.

For more information, please call the Baker Victory Services at 717-828-9500 or the R.C. Diocese of Buffalo’s Pro-Life Office at 716-847-2205.

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New York City – Szymanowski’s oratorio, “Stabat Mater,” to be performed

Karol Szymanowski’s (1882 – 1937) magnificent oratorio, “Stabat Mater,” will be performed Wednesday, April 16 at 8 PM at St. Ignatius Loyola Church (980 Park Avenue, 83 / 84 Streets, Manhattan). Kent Tritle will lead the Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola and soloists in this great work, one of Szymanowski’s towering achievements and one of the outstanding choral works of the twentieth century.

Although it ranks with Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms” and Faure’s “Requiem,” the “Stabat Mater” is rarely performed; the most recent hearing in New York was nearly 20 years ago, and this is a rare chance to hear this wonderful composition. Tickets are $35. Preferred seating is $45, students / seniors $25.

The concert includes Camille Saint-Saen’s monumental “Organ Symphony” (Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78) and Joseph Jpngens “Hymn for Organ and Orchestra.” At 7 PM, renowned organ virtuoso Ken Cowan, Assistant Professor of Organ at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, performs a pre-concert organ recital featuring music by Widor, Ducasse, Saint-Saí«ns and Dupre.

Additional information is available at Sacred Music in Sacred Spaces, by E-mail, or by telephone at (212) 288-2520.

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Blogs4Life Conference

The Third Annual Blogs4Life Conference is scheduled for Tuesday, January 22, 2008 in Washington DC.

The Family Research Council is providing a first class meeting facility just a few blocks from the annual March for Life, the massive pro-life event which draws tens of thousands of pro-lifers (some estimate the crowd at well over 100,000) . A morning session is scheduled before the March with over a dozen well-known pro-life speakers including Kevin McCullough (MC), Jill Stanek, Judie Brown, Eric Scheidler, Barbara Curtis, Dawn Eden, Phill Kline, Michael New, Michael Illions, Maggie Datiles, Michelena Fredenburg, Peter Shinn and Rep. Chris Smith.

An afternoon session from Noon to 4 PM will be held in a luxurious room close to the Capitol building overlooking the March for Life. Internet access will be provided for live-blogging and a 50-inch flat screen monitor will broadcast the Rally and March for Life as it occurs. In addition, several pro-life leaders will be available for interviews and commentary.

If you plan to attend, please let us know by registering at Blogs4Life. Space in the afternoon session is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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Scholarship applications due

Another scholarship application season is upon us.

Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship applications are currently being accepted for academic year 2008-2009. The majority of Foundation scholarships support Master and Ph. D. studies. There are also a limited number of scholarships for undergraduate students covering a junior or senior year abroad in Poland. The Foundation also support research projects in Poland.

Scholarship details may be found at the Kosciuszko Foundation website.

The deadline for filing scholarship applications is January 15, 2008. All applicants will be notified of the results in May 2008.

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2007 Annual Polish Film Festival – Skalny Center, Rochester, NY

The Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester is proud to announce the 2007 Annual Polish Film Festival.

The festival is sponsored by a generous grant from the Louis Skalny Foundation.

All films are in Polish with English subtitles.

List of Films & Show Times

SOLIDARITY, SOLIDARITY (Solidarność, Solidarność)
Directed by 13 outstanding Polish directors, 2005
November 10, 3:30 & 7:20pm

This feature, the brainchild of Andrzej Wajda, is a joint venture of 13 great Polish directors to memorialize the events of August 1980, when Polish workers went on strike across the country and began a hard-fought campaign for workers’ rights. Each of directors shot a 10-minute-long film. The plots and their genre were up to the filmmakers. The resulting 2-hour-long film feature a wide variety of forms: from a video-clip through comedy and documentary to a rarefied interview with Lech Wałęsa that echoes the famous films by Andrzej Wajda: Man of Marble and Man of Iron. The result is truly fascinating, irrespective of what you know, or can remember, about Solidarity.

JASMINUM
Dir. Jan Jakub Kolski, 2006
November 11, 3:30 & 7:20pm

Kolski is at his best with this heartwarming, beautifully told bitter-sweet comedy.

A young woman, with a small daughter, arrives at a convent where she is restoring paintings. She works during the day but at night she experiments with alchemy and creates fragrances inspired by the mysterious monks who live at the convent and smell of the most incredible scents… . The inquiring mind of her charming five-year-old daughter wreaks havoc in the ordered life of the monastery, where people, buildings, and smells have their own secrets.

FORECAST FOR TOMORROW (Pogoda na jutro)
Dir. Jerzy Stuhr, 2003
November 12, 7:20pm

Poland’s most beloved actor, Jerzy Stuhr, directs and stars in this serious-minded comedy satire about a member of Solidarity who disappears to live as a monk in order to hide from repressions by the communist authorities.

Seventeen years later, accidentally found by his family and thrown out of the monastery, he does not like the new world he has to live in. During his long absence, his wife has settled down with a businessman, his son is developing a political career, his older daughter strips at a TV reality show, and his youngest daughter’s attention is focused exclusively on the internet.

Nevertheless, he tries very hard to adjust to the rapidly changing reality and to put his relations with his family on healthier basis.

COLONEL KWIATKOWSKI (Pułkownik Kwiatkowski)
Dir. Kazimierz Kutz, 1995
November 13, 7:20pm

This hilarious comedy depicts Poland during the Stalinist era and tells the adventuresome story of the title character, who travels around the country masquerading as an officer of the Polish Secret Police.

Kutz produced wonderful human portraits, including grotesque portrayals of Communist Party apparatchiks and functionaries of the State Security Bureau. The main character’s satiric use of the Communist Party lingo, as he turns its intended meanings inside out to manipulate the unwitting Party faithful, is another highlight of this film.

I AM LOOKING AT YOU, MARY (Patrzę na ciebie, Marysiu)
Dir. Łukasz Barczyk, 1999
November 14, 7:20pm

This film draws attention to important factors shaping the lives of young people after the collapse of communism in Poland: their dependence on parents and fear of the future.

Marysia is a Geology student; her boyfriend Michał works as a junior psychiatrist in a hospital. They are living together in rented accommodations and are supported by their parents. This dependency affects Michał’s self-confidence and perception of the future. He avoids making commitments, especially in terms of a family. He becomes unhappy when he learns that Marysia is pregnant. He tries to convince her to arrange an abortion, but she refuses. This is followed by Michał’s increased difficulties at work. During a speedily arranged wedding he has a mental breakdown and decides to quit his job as a psychiatrist.

All films were provided by Telewizja Polska SA

Ticket Information:

Tickets for the Little Theatre screenings can be purchased at the Little Theatre box office before each show (Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue, Rochester, NY, Telephone 585-258-0444.)

The ticket price is $8.00 for the evening shows and $6.00 for the matinée, students and seniors pay $5.00. Little Theatre Film Society members receive their membership discount.

For more information, please call the Skalny Center at 585-275-9898.

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14th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival

14th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival, 2007 at the Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

  • 4:00 p.m. Grand Opening
  • 4:15 p.m. The Lilpop Sisters and Their Passions (Siostry Lilpop i ich miłości) directed by Bożena Garus-Hockuba, 2005 (87 min., documentary): The story of the four Lilpop sisters from a well-known family in pre-war Warsaw. It is the portrayal of their more or less happy relationships. The movie, in focusing around a series of private histories, also reveals significant aspects of Polish history from pre-war times to the realities of the post-war immigrant community.
  • 6:00 p.m. Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) directed by Joanna Kos and Krzysztof Krauze, 2006 (105 min., drama): [12] A true story showing the crisis of the contemporary family life. The loss of a chance for a new flat, the lack of understanding between husband and wife, and the enormous efforts made to fulfill their desires lead to the breakdown of the family. The film tells about the necessity of empathy, the need for discerning and respecting the needs of other people as well as love, which is capable of overcoming even the most difficult, seemingly hopeless situations.
  • Intermission
  • 8:15 p.m. Breaking the Wall (Głową mur przebijesz) directed by Grażyna Ogrodowska and Leszek Furman , 2006 (45 min., documentary): A film about the Fighting Solidarity Organization: “It wasn’t a political party or any sort of secret resistance, we were just banging our heads against the wall of ideology, of Communism, of lies, and we managed to smash it”.
  • 9:15 p.m. Testosterone (Testosteron) directed by Tomasz Konecki and Andrzej Saramonowicz, 2007 (125 min., comedy): A quiet town prepares to welcome a famous wedding into its suburbs, only to discover that not everything is going to go as planned …

Sunday, November 11, 2007

  • 2:00 p.m. The 52 Percent (52 procent) directed by Rafał Skalski, 2007 (19 min., documentary): 52% is the perfect leg length to height ratio. This is one of the most important criteria for admitting children to the Russian Ballet Academy in Saint Petersburg. Ałła has two months to amend her proportions.
  • 2:30 p.m. What the Sun Has Seen (Co słonko widziało) directed by Micha ³ Rosa, 2006 (107 min., drama): The lives of three people in Polish Silesia, each of whom needs a large sum of money, become intertwined. They all want the same things: to change their lives, stand up for themselves and live their dreams.
  • Intermission
  • 5:00 p.m. Immensity of Justice (Bezmiar sprawiedliwości) directed by Wiesław Saniewski, 2006 (128 min., drama): Based on a crime committed in the 1990s: a television director was convicted to 25 years in prison despite the lack of evidence against him. This film attempts to describe the human nature: the of state of mind of people who, judging others, often determine their fate.
  • Discussion with Wiesław Saniewski, film director.

Biography of Wiesław Saniewski

Wiesław Saniewski, born 1948 in Wrocław, Poland, Saniewski graduated in mathematics at the Wroclaw University and went on to study screenwriting at the Lodz Film School, where he wrote several screenplays. He worked as an assistant to Andrzej Wajda. In 1971, he graduated with the short film `Big World’ (Wielki Świat) based on Alberto Moravia’s “Smells and a Bone”. His first feature film was completed in 1981,’ Free Lancer’ (Wolny Strzelec). It was his next film `Custody’ (Nadzór), made in 1983, that brought him international renown. The film received several awards at numerous film festivals: FIPRESCI Prize at the Mannheim Festival and a Gdansk Lion for the best debut, the best actress and the best cinematography. Saniewski’s films brought him into conflict with the authorities, and his films were banned until the fall of the socialist regime.

Tickets sold for blocks of films and events: $10 for adults, $6 for students and senior citizens.

All films with English subtitles.

Program subject to changes without prior notice.

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Zaborowski exhibition – Washington D.C.

New paintings by award winning Polish artist Michal Zaborowski will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Nevin Kelly Gallery, 1517 U Street, NW, in Washington, DC. The exhibition, titled “H20” will depict ordinary people in everyday activities associated with water.

The Nevin Kelly Gallery (Gallery blog) presents Michal Zaborowski’s paintings in Washington from October 11, 2007 through November 4, 2007.

Gallery owner Nevin J. Kelly describes Zaborowski as “a romantic impressionist with a contemporary voice; Zaborowski is one of the most talented painters working in Poland today.” The artist’s paintings depict what Kelly calls the “nobility of the mundane.” He paints ordinary people in ordinary activities, but he gives them such heroic import that one is compelled to look at them. He finds such beauty in these ordinary events—”-a man and a dog in a boat, or a woman with a toy balloon–that we wish we could trade places with them. The artist’s palette is subdued. There is a mixture of beauty and a gnawing sense of melancholy in his paintings, a combination so common in our everyday lives that we almost fail to notice it. Zaborowski reminds us that, even in moments of personal darkness, a moment of sublime beauty is just around the corner.

The artist began his career as a painter of church interiors, working in fresco. In 1986, he was awarded a scholarship of the General of the Palatine Order, which permitted him to work and study in Rome and at the Vatican. He has exhibited in Poland, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Monaco and the U.S (including New York; Palm Beach; Santa Fe; Washington, D.C.; Aspen and Vail). Zaborowski lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.

For additional information contact:

Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 U Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202-232-3464

Select images of Zaborowski’s paintings are also available on the gallery’s website.

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