THE POLISH ARTS AND CULTURE FOUNDATION

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If you live in the vicinity of Calgary, Alberta, mark the dates Friday-Sunday, October 26, 27, 28. A weekend of celebrating the 100th anniversary of winning ba...ck Poland's independence. Nobody does bigger or better events than Calgary's Polish community. "Poland in the Rockies" forever! More details to come. https://calgaryherald.com//special-calgary-events-mark-pol

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Happening on Broadway this Fall: the world premiere of "Auschwitz No. 432" at the 2018 United Solo Theatre Festival in the world-famous theatre district! Date/...time of show: Oct. 20, 2PM. Box offices will open in April. Hope to see you there. Here's our poster! Tej jesieni na Broadway'u: swiatowa premiera monodramu "Auschwitz No. 432" na Festiwalu Teatralnym UNITED SOLO 2018. Data/godz. spektaklu: 20-go pazdziernika, godz. 14:00 Rezerwacja biletow w kasach teatru od kwietnia. Do zobaczenia. Nasz plakat:

1918-2018 STO LAT, Poland. Today we celebrate International Women’s Day so let’s remember that Polish independence began with universal suffrage: Women got th...e vote at the same time that men did without any of the humiliating battles suffragettes elsewhere had to endure. The last century for the women of Poland has been exciting, exhilarating, tragic, difficult and joyful. In the early years girls flocked to schools where for the first time in 125 years they could be taught in Polish and many women filled teaching positions. They attended universities where they also filled academic positions, and, as with voting, they faced fewer restrictions than in other western countries -- though parity was still a long way off. Still, no less than a double Nobel laureate, Maria Skodowska Curie,the founded the Radium Institute (now the MS-C Institute of Oncology) in 1932 with funding from Polish Women’s Alliance of America. Women were writers, actors, artists, architects, lawyers, doctors, nurses, social workers, farmers, secretaries and cabaret stars, all the while being wives, mothers and usually the vital centre of the family. War interrupted studies and careers, and indeed all normal life. And yet, they persisted. Girls attended schools, albeit in secret and at great risk: one transport to Stutthof Concentration camp included 600 students from secret schools. Writers continued to write, among them Zofia Kossak and Krystyna Krahelska; Zofia Rysiówna, who was about to begin her theatre studies, joined the AK, performed in secret theatre performances with other young actors (among them Karol Wojtyla), rescued Jan Karski who was under guard by the Gestapo -- for which she was arrested and sent to Ravensbruck; nuns continued to care for orphans and war created so many more; architect Emilia Hiowa hid plans for Warsaw’s Old Town and took part in its reconstruction after the war while as a member of egota she designed ingenious hiding places for Jews in hiding and provided the Jewish fighting organization with plans for Warsaw’s canals of the sewer system; Dr. Zofia Garlicka was sent to Auschwitz for aiding Jews; Wadysawa Chomsowa, the Angel of Lwów worked in the legalization section of egota; social worker Irena Sendler had a team of nurses working with her; cabaret star Ordonka cared for Polish orphans in Tashkent and stayed with them on their trek to Iran and India. This list is just a small sample. Over 6,000 women were killed as members of the AK, thousands served in the Polish II Corps in the Middle East and Italy, and millions sheltered their families as much as they could. Polish women continued to be vital to Polish society after the war with Germany ended. Neither the early Soviet terror nor the ongoing Soviet control put an end to the creative life of the nation, women very much included. They rebuilt cities, staffed hospitals, and cared for the traumatized population. They were great theatre and film stars among them Maya Komorowska; continued in the resistance to Moscow, notably Anna Walentynowicz; and lawyer Hanna Suchocka was Poland’s first female Prime Minister in 1992-3. Olga Tokarczuk writes, Martyna Wojciehowska climbs mountains, Dorota Kobielska and Agnieszka Holland make films, and please add the women of your choice. Celebrate them all. See more

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SAVE the date! 19 May 2018, 4th annual BAY AREA POLISH HERITAGE FESTIVAL. Celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Poland's independence after 123 years of occupation! WHERE: Twin Pines Park, Belmont, California. See videos from previous years: https://www.youtube.com/results

Wigilia 2017, The Polish Arts and Culture Foundation. Dzikuje bardzo, Caria Tomczykowska