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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 World Summer Olympics of Polish Communities is undoubtedly the biggest sports event of the Polish diaspora. It will take place between 2nd and 9th August 2015 in Silesia. The Olympic Games are organised by the Wspólnota Polska Association and the Silesian Voivodeship Marshal Office.

XI Winter Olympics of Polish Communities – Karkonosze 2014 will take place from 23 February – 2 March.2014. The Association “Polish Community” admitted province Dolnośląskiemu as an organization of XI Winter Games of Polish Communities in 2014.

The portal DobraPolskaSzkola.com conducts the social campaign “We speak Polish at home!”, which aims to popularise the needs of talking with children in Polish. We want Polish parents to pay more attention to this issue and encourage their children to talk in Polish, and improve their pronunciation.

The dust has settled, the planes with participants have departed, and yet there are still months of work ahead. It has taken me some time and distance away from my constantly ringing phone and hundreds of daily emails to reflect. I actually don’t yet feel its time to reflect, as it feels like I am still on the PolArt Honeymoon.