Poland is known for many beautiful "Kolędy" (Christmas Carols for Church) and "Pastorałki" ("Home" or "Pastoral" carols) that charmingly treat the Birth of Christ as if it occurred on Polish soil. The Karuzela Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Neil Stahurski, will present a concert of these carols at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Polish [...]
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PNC Performance Center on the campus of Duquesne University Featuring pianists: David Allen Wehr, Dean of the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University and and Dr. Robert Armstrong, classical musician and educator. All proceed benefits Teaching English In Poland program for Ukrainian refugees and disadvantaged Polish youth. Tickets: $25 Students $10 bit.ly/ChopinRecital Organized [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [email protected].
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 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 [...]
