Americans of Polish descent, Polish immigrants as well as a couple of “Poles by choice” – 30 people have told the story of their life in a unique project run by the Emigration Museum in Gdynia. Tomek Zerek, an artist and a photographer, together with a researcher, Doctor Anna Muller, spent a few months in a place that really fascinated them. Hamtramck, a small town in Michigan and a unique Polish community, has also become the pretext for our meeting with Doctor Anna Muller.
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We are talking with Karolina Bielawska, the director of a documentary entitled Mów mi Marianna (Call me Marianna) – the film about a woman who made a dramatic choice between living in harmony with her sexual identity and being with her family. It has been widely recognised and received numerous awards at international festivals. This week the audience at the 5th Play Poland Film Festival will have a chance to see it.
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.
The seventh edition of Bella Skyway Festival was all about celebrating the incredible human capacity of perceiving life in all its dimensions. Once again, its public had an opportunity to observe new trends in contemporary art, and to search for links between science and art based on high technology, which lifts audio-visual art to another level.
Mário Jorge da Câmara de Melo Caeiro, art director of Bella Skyway Festival tells us about the aim behind creating Bella Skyway Festival, cooperation with Polish artists and his artistic plans.
Paweł Luty from the Brief magazine is talking with Rafał Brzoska, CEO of InPost, about a stiff fight with the Polish Post monopoly, the possibility of delivering parcels by drones, the future of parcel pick-up stations and the potential of e-commerce.
Michał Sadowski, CEO at Brand24, is someone who doesn’t have to be introduced – a businessman with great aspirations, not only the local, but mainly non-local ones and the number one in the ranking of 50 most creative people of Polish business according to the “Brief” magazine.
Włodek Pawlik – Grammy Award winning Polish composer, jazz pianist and teacher. Composer and performer of dozens of original jazz albums, and composer of film and theatre music. In an interview with Anna Karahan, he talks about his inspiration, new projects and the freedom of choice.
Małgorzata Smółka – Polonus 2014 Award Laureate (culture), co-author of the Children’s Polish Poetry Festival and owner of the MMusic Polish-Dutch Concert Agency is talking with Anna Karahan about the Wierszowisko Festival, this year’s concert plans and new challenges
Urszula Dudziak on Poland and Poles. Interview conducted by Krzysztof Przybył and Adam Mikołajczyk