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Events at the Albany’s Polish Community Center

Craft Fair

Get a head start on your Christmas shopping as the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Polish Community Center presents its Craft Show on Saturday, November 10th from 10am to 3pm. The Center is located at 225 Washington Avenue Ext., Albany, NY. The Center’s Polish/American kitchen will be open, and there will be a baked goods sale. Call (518) 456-3995 for more information.

Andrzejki Dance/bal Andrzejkowy

Andrzejki is the last party before Advent and a chance to have fun before the start of the Christmas season. The Polish Community Center will present its annual Andrzejki Dance on Saturday, November 24th from 7pm till 2am. The Dance features the band SYGNAL (Polish contemporary music – this is not a Polka band). Tickets are $30 per person and include the dinner buffet, snacks at midnight, and desserts. A cash bar will be available. For more information, please call Darius Figiel at (518) 235-6001. Note: There will be no tickets available at the door.

Radio City Christmas Spectacular

The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Polish Community Center is sponsoring a trip to the Radio city Christmas Spectacular in New York City. The trip will take place on Saturday, November 17th leaving at 6:30 am from the Polish Community Center at 225 Washington Avenue Ext., Albany, NY. The show begins at 10:00 am at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Participant will have free time for some Christmas shopping and site seeing. Buses will leave to return at 6:30 pm with an approximate arrival back at the Center at 9:00 pm.

Tickets are $105 for PCC members, $65 for children, and $140 for non-PCC members. Price includes an orchestra section ticket and the chartered bus trip. To sign-up, please contact Susan Matala.

SLĄSK Performs

The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Polish Community Center has tickets available for Sląsk – the internationally known Song & Dance Ensemble of Poland. Sląsk is conducting a tour of cities across the United States and Canada and will be appearing at Proctor’s Theater, 432 State Street, Schenectady, NY on Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 4pm. Ticket are $37, a 20% discount on the regular price of $46. Balcony and orchestra seats available. Please contact Susan Matala for tickets.

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History of the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland

Mr. Robert Cymborski has developed a website highlighting the history of the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland as well as records of those interred there.

For the past seven years Mr. Cymborski has inventoried the resting place of the famous and ordinary Poles buried in the Powązki Cemetery. He has taken and cataloged more than 100,000 images, and has recorded graves in 105 sections from the oldest parts of the cemetery. His website currently contains more than 23,000 records of burials. It is updated once a week on average.

Mr. Cymborski undertook this project because of the lack of any documentation on burials that took place between 1792-1944, that is from the foundation of the cemetery to the Warsaw Uprising. During the Warsaw Uprising all cemetery records were lost when the Germans destroyed the city and burned down the local office containing the entire archive of the cemetery. Additionally, Mr. Cymborski was motivated by the deterioration of older grave markers resulting from weathering and air pollution. Mr. Cymborski estimates that his work will continue for the next 10-12 years.

I encourage my readers to visit the website and support Mr. Cymborski’s efforts as you are able.

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Polish Film, Art and Book Festival

The Polish Chair at Canisius and the Polish Legacy Project are presenting the Polish Film, Art and Book Festival at Canisius College, 2001 Main St., Buffalo, NY from Wednesday, November 7th to Monday, November 19th. Presentations include:

  • Wed. Nov.7 – 7 p.m. “Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin,” Lecture by Dr. Timothy Snyder of Yale.
  • Mon. Nov. 12 – 7 p.m. Path to Glory (2011), Documentary film showing the epic story of the Polish Arabian Horse.
  • Thurs. Nov. 15 through Sat. Nov. 17, 1 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. and Sun. Nov. 18, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. – Book Fair – Thurs.-Sat. at Canisius. & Sun. Nov. 18 at Market Arcade Theatre. Books, DVDs & art on Polish topics for sale.
  • Thurs. Nov.15 – 1 p.m. – Andy Bienkowski & Mary Akers, talk about their book “One Life to Give…,” based on the experiences of Bienkowski as a child in Siberia.
  • Thurs. Nov.15 – 2 p.m. – Workshop by Bienkowski & Akers: “Writing Together: The Many Sides of Co-Authorship.”
  • Thurs. Nov.15 – 3:30 p.m. – Workshop by Wes Adamczyk, survivor of Soviet camps & author-“Writing From the Heart.”
  • Thurs. Nov.15 – 7 p.m. – Festival reception. Books, DVDs & art for sale.
  • Thurs. Nov.15 – 7:30 p.m. – Argentinian Lesson (2011), a film about an 8 year-old who moves to Argentina and learns about the world around him through 11 year-old Marcia.
  • Thurs. Nov.15 – 9 p.m. – Decrescendo (2011) Film showing the world of a nursing home through the eyes of a young therapist, who tries to find the meaning of his own life.
  • Fri. Nov. 16 – 6 p.m. – Wes Adamczyk presents “Living in the Shadows of Katyń,” about a family’s 10-year odyssey through multiple continents, and the Katyń Massacre.
  • Fri. Nov. 16 – 7:30 p.m. – Battle of Warsaw 1920 (2011) Film which tells the story of Poland’s battle vs. the Soviets through the eyes of two young people.
  • Sat. Nov. 17 – 4:30 p.m. – Workshop-Krysia Jopek: “Getting Your Work Published…”
  • Sat. Nov. 17 – 6 p.m. – Jopek, daughter of Polish WWII survivors, discusses her novel “Maps and Shadows”
  • Sat. Nov. 17 – 7:30 p.m. – Control Sample-Film about young Poles who live in four cities of Western Europe. Meet the Director.
  • Sat. Nov. 17 – 8:30 p.m. – 80 Million (2011) Film which portrays events of ten days before martial law.
  • Sun. Nov. 18 – 6:00 p.m. – Control Sample-Film
  • Sun. Nov. 18 – 6:30 p.m. – At the Market Arcade Theatre – In Darkness (2011) Film about one Catholic’s rescue of Jews.
  • Mon. Nov. 19 – 3:00 p.m. – Workshop-Poet John Guzlowski: “The Art of Listening: Writing Poems & Stories on Family.”
  • Mon. Nov. 19 – 7:00 p.m. – Siege-film by an American who documented Warsaw just before the Nazi invasion.
  • Mon. Nov. 19 – 7:15 p.m. – Guzlowski presents “Two Lives Shaped by World War II,”, the story of his parents’ lives as slave laborers in Germany.
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Solidarity and Martial Law in Poland presentation

“Solidarity and Martial Law in Poland” will be presented at Elms College (Alumnae Library Theater) in Chicopee, MA on Saturday, November 17th from 10 am to 5:30 pm. The program is free and open to the public. There is an optional luncheon (12-1 pm) available for $7.

This program will have several original activists in the Solidarity union movement speaking, as well as others:

  • Jersy Polak, official photographer for Solidarity 1980-1981
  • Andre Blaszcsynski, Moderator of the Conference of Solidarity Support Organizations 1983-1990
  • Neil Walsh, United States Information Agency in Warsaw 1972-76 and in Krakow 1978-1980
  • Wieslaw Olszak, Martial Law political prisoner

Workers and union activists should find this program especially important for its lesson that workers’ efforts can transform national and global history.

This program is a joint effort of the Kosciuszko Foundation (New England Chapter) and The Polish Center of Discovery and Learning in Chicopee.

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