The Polish Institute in Vienna is using Buch Wien 2015, an international book fair to be held in Austria on 12-15 November, to present German-language editions of some of the latest books by Polish authors.
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On October 22, at the Edinburgh Filmhouse a cultural feast was held, organized by Polish Art Europe. It tried to satisfy an appetite for cultural experience with support of the most outstanding representatives of the Polish School of Posters.
The Play Poland Film Festival is held under Link to Poland’s media patronage.
The third edition of the Emigrant Film Festival EMIGRA has ended. Prizes and awards were given at the Orangery of the King Jan III Sobieski Palace in Wilanów. The Grand Prix at this year’s festival was awarded for Andrzej Papuzinski’s film Counterpoint (Kontrapunkt).
Play Poland Film Festival is not only a wonderful festival of Polish cinema. Of course, screenings are at its core, however, parallel to these screenings, the festival also hosts exhibitions and features posters from the Polish School of Posters, including works of Henryk Tomaszewski, Franciszek Starowieyski, Waldemarz Świerzy, Jan Młodożeniec, among others.
The Quarter Too Ensemble is delighted to present WOJTEK, the Happy Warrior at Ognisko Polskie in London on Monday 23rd November 2015, a family show about Wojtek the bear who served in the Polish army during the WWII.
Jonathan Franzen – one of the most important American novelists, Hooman Majd – a cult Iranian-American writer, this year’s Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich, Wiesław Myśliwski – the double winner of the Nike Literary Prize, and Hanna Krall – a legendary Polish reporter are just some of the guests of the 7th Conrad Festival. This year’s most important literary event in Central Europe will take place in Krakow from the 19th till the 25th of October.
Ms. Barbara Borys-Damięcka is a theatre and television director, president of the Association of Theatre Directors of Theatre in Poland, President of the Pole of the Year in the Netherlands jury, Chair of the Council of Television Polonia, Senator (VII and VIII terms), working on the Committee for Culture and Media and the Committee for Emigrant Affairs and Liaisons with Poles Abroad. In an interview with Link to Poland, she talks about her everyday work, the emergence of TV Polonia, and the basis of success of Television Theatre.
Nearly seventy years ago Capitan Witold Aleksander Herbst stood on the sidewalk of the Oxford Street with notably absent Polish troops at the London Victory Celebrations, marking the end of World War II. As a result of shifting political alliances, the contributions of Polish forces, which so valiantly fought under British command during the war, were sadly forgotten. For one man among those wronged in 1946, the long-awaited recognition arrived on a warm October evening at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, with a premiere of documentary film, “Spitfire Liberator: The Alex Herbst Story”. Dedicated to one of the last living pilots of the legendary 303 and 308 Polish Squadrons, Captain Alex Herbst, who was shot down three times but even mistakenly thought to have been killed in action, the film is the result of several years of work.
It has been thought that the film should be in the form of a feature presentation, with a duration of approximately one and a half hours. Such an attitude is often represented by viewers when choosing the direction of their focus. However, it is vital that we pay extra attention to the screenings of short films as what is often invigorating for Polish cinema is expressed precisely in a shorter form.