ENCOUNTERS WITH POLISH LITERATURE Władysław Reymont (1867-1925) Poland’s second Nobel Prize winner for literature
https://instytutpolski.pl/newyork/2023/08/03/wladyslaw-reymont-with-anna-zaranko/
ENCOUNTERS WITH POLISH LITERATURE – Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1917) Poland’s first Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1905
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D5sEJJpTEk
KATE LASKY AND TOMASZ SKOWRONSKI, CHEFS FROM PITTSBURGH’S APTEKA RESTAURANT NAMED FINALISTS FOR JAMES BEARD AWARDS.
Kate Lasky and Tomasz Skowronski, chefs from Pittsburgh's Apteka restaurant, were named finalists for James Beard Awards. They were recognized in the Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic category, which covers Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia. This is the first time that Pittsburgh’s restaurant makes the cut for the final five in any of [...]
POLISH FILMS IN PITTSBURGH: Woman on the Roof & The Balcony Movie- March 24 and April 2
Woman on the Roof: Directed by Anna Jadowska, 2022 March 24th @ Harris Theater 7:30PM With Dorota Pomykala, Bogdan Koca, Adam Bobik, Maria Szadkowska-Malinowska. Based on a real story, Anna Jadowska’s exquisite drama is told in flashbacks revolving around Mira (Pomykala), a sixty-something woman that does laundry, buys fish food, and robs a bank one [...]
Prime Stage Theatre “Perseverance”: One Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Poland to Pittsburgh , New Hazlett Theater- April 15 & 16, 2023
Prime Stage Theatre, in partnership with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and the Kosciuszko Foundation will present an original play by L.E. McCullough adapted from the book Perseverance: One Holocaust Survivor's Journey from Poland to Pittsburgh by Lee Goldman Kikel about her father Melvin Goldman's experience as a Holocaust Survivor. The play will be presented at the New [...]
Dyngus Day Dash 5K walk-run, Saturday, April 15, 2023 at the Boathouse in North Park.
The Pittsburgh Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation’s third annual Dyngus Day Dash. Check Facebook page /website for registration information. This is a fundraiser for scholarships and cultural events. The event features the Chardon Polka Bank, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and treats from Pierogies Plus in McKees Rocks. For more information, contact race organizer Michele at mmrozek@ggic.com.
” March 68 ” Polish film directed by Krzysztof Lang at the Jewish Film Festival – Monday, April 24, at 7pm | The Oaks Theater
Love story against a backdrop of major anti-government students and intellectuals led protests in Warsaw in March of 1968. Hania and Janek, two Warsaw students uninterested in politics, fall in love as the city is engulfed in protests against the communist regime’s anti-Semitic policies and crackdown on civil liberties. Inspired by a moment in [...]
Encounters with Polish Literature-Leopold Tyrmand (1920-85) – hosted by David A. Goldfarb
Encounters with Polish Literature is a video series produced by Polish Cultural Institute in New York. The host David A. Goldfarb is an independent scholar of Polish literature and literary theory, and literary translator from Polish to Leopold Tyrmand (1920-85), author of one of the great novels of Warsaw who popularized jazz music in mid-twentieth-century [...]
A Tribute to Composer Frederic Rzewski Sunday, March 5, 2023 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM James Laughlin Music Hall, Chatham College
Ticket information: https://alia-musica-pittsburgh.mailchimpsites.com https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jul/12/frederic-rzewski-obituary Click on the Guardian obituary to listen to Frederic Rzewski playing his famous composition, a contemporary masterpiece; "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!"