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Last weekend (May 4-5), after the pompous parade on May 3, the celebrations of May 3rd Constitution Day were continued at two-day 3-May Day festival held in Copernicus Center.

The International Theatre Day was established in June 1961, during IX World Congress of the International Theatre Institute in Helsinki, which worked under the aegis of UNESCO. The day of celebration was set for March 27th, in the anniversary of the opening of the Theatre of Nations in Paris. Since then, the Theatre Day is celebrated every year by more than one hundred national theatre centres in the whole world.

“The story of the third stair” is a part of a collection of short stories written within the project “Bloggers write the books”. In this project participated a group of twenty-seven people, who lead their blogs every day, but at the same time they already have some experience in writing fiction. The authors have written the stories, where the leitmotiv are sketches from life. As a result the anthology of short stories was published in the form of an e-book by the publishing house RW2010.

As part of the ‘Polish makes chic!’ exhibition, the Emigration Museum in Gdynia is proud to present the profiles of Polish immigrants who in the 20’s and 30’s earned approval and recognition in an unconventional way within film, visual arts, design, fashion and music.

The nineteenth-century tradition depicts the archetypal portrait of a composer. A demonic dandy, and a sentimental neurotic man all through his short life. Unstable, his love is unrequited, but he finds consolation in numerous love affairs and romances. Stanisław Moniuszko was the polar extreme to this image. A sedate and good-natured man, limping, short-sighted, and with a big family, he had grown old too soon. Although his talent was not as great as Chopin’s, and never as famous, Moniuszko has left to his compatriots that, what in his temporary times was considered as a sign of musical honour – The National Opera.