Polish Heritage Club welcomes you!
Spring pussy willows
Polish crocuses
Polish cutouts
POLISH EASTER TRADITIONS
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Easter Palms
the most beatiful in Łyse
(Kurpie region)
Polish Easter Palms
undying tradition
Wilno, Lithuania
Easter Eggs
Museum in Gliwice
Upper Silesia
Easter Eggs
Museum in Ciechanowiec
Podlasie Region
Easter Eggs and "Pająki"((spider-like chandeliers)
National Museum
of Ethnography, Warsaw
Easter Food Blessing
in Krasiczyn Castle
Podkarpcie region
Easter Food Blessing
St. Mary's Basilica
Main Square, Kraków
Śmigus Dyngus
Wet Monday
Milówka, Silesia
Śmigus Dyngus
with firefighters
Kazimierz Dolny
Crocuses bloom
on high meadows
in Tatra Mountains
April Music @ Movies
Chopin Connections: Garrick Ohlsson
Mad-PolKA Productions with the support of The Polish Heritage Club-Madison and Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago presents:
Auguścik and Bester Duo:
Concert of Eastern-European accordion world music
from the PHC flyer: "Grażyna and Jarek perform Polish folk songs and F. Chopin's tunes based on traditional Polish music from the collection of 19th century Polish ethno-musicologist Oskar Kolberg, a "Polish Alan Lomax". His works inspired them to create their latest musical collaboration, this time outside of their respective jazz and klezmer musical idioms. Their arrangements evoke the soul of Polish music while paying tribute to the classical music sensitivities of both musicians."
WHEN: April 17, 2014 6pm
WHERE: The Brink Lounge
POLISH CONTEMPORARY FOLK MUSIC
Two recent issues of the UK-based magazine SONGLINES include reviews and CDs recorded by Polish contemporary folk groups:
- the March 2016 issue (#115) contains CD with mostly live recordings of the winners place of the "New Tradition Festival" competition taking place in Warsaw every May;
- the April 2016 issue (#116) includes CD "Silesian Roots" featuring various musicians from Silesia (a region in south-western Poland) playing diverse musical styles.
Check the Mad-POLKA Productions release for more information
18th Annual Wisconsin Film Festival (April 14-21 2016) presents
COSMOS by Andrzej Żuławski
From festival notes: "The highly anticipated first film from Andrzej Żuławski (Possession) in fifteen years sadly became the last when the Polish maverick died in February at 75. Fortunately, Cosmos is as crazed and audacious a final salvo as one could hope for, proving the iconoclast auteur retained his edge to the last. No one else made movies as charged and uncompromised as this, and one can easily perceive the fifteen years’ worth of ideas, energy, and sheer filmmaking brio Żuławski poured into this cinematic maelstrom. An adaption of the famously “unadaptable” modernist novel by Witold Gombrowicz..."
"Locarno Interview: Andrzej Żuławski
" after winning the Best Director award in Locarno 2015"
The 5 Best Andrzej Zulawski Films
" written upon his passing on February 17, 2016
"Cosmos"review in The Holywood Reporter
and Variety (the name of Gombrowicz misspelled)
Detailed information about two screanings in our calendar:
April 15 11:15am UW Cinematheque at Vilas Communications Hall
April 19 8:30pm Sundance Cinema 5 at Hilldale Shopping Center
May 15th was the deadline to apply for the
PHC SCHOLARSHIP
Announcement of winners coming soon
Poland as Guest of Honor
at BookExpo America (BEA) 2016
CHICAGO (McCormick Place), MAY 11-13, 2016
The prominent showcase of Polish book industry at BEA (the largest book fair in North America) was a great celebration of Polish writers and publishers. In addition to educational sessions and exhibits held as part of the BEA, the Polish Book Institute and the Polish Cultural Institute New York hosted a series of meetings "Books from Poland" with some of the most interesting Polish writers and literary artists as well as prominent members of the Chicago literary community.
The series opened on May 10, 2016 with the "Discovering Poland" event including the presentation ceremony of 2016 Found in Translation Award going this year to Bill Johnston for his translation of Twelve Stations, an epic, book-length poem by Polish contemporary poet and translator, Tomasz Różycki.
Click here for the FULL SCHEDULE of the "Books from Poland" events that took place at various Chicago venues on May 10-14, 2016.
The largest US-based publisher of books on Polish themes, Aquila Polonica Publishing, also organized a series of adjunct events and prepared for the occasion an invaluable CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ABOUT POLAND published recently in English.
The "Outstanding Pole" award
for the PHC member
Professor Wacław Szybalski, the honorary member of the Polish Heritage Club of Wisconsin-Madison, has received the "Outstanding Pole" (Wybitny Polak) statuette after winning the title in 2012. The award ceremony took place on May 4, 2016 during reception commemorating the Constitution of May 3, 1791 and held in the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City.
As it became already an ingrained patriotic tradition, prof. Szybalski stressed in his letter read on the occasion that he accepts the award in honor of the royal, capital, Polish city of Lwów where he was born and spent his formative years (click here to read the letter).
During the same ceremony, the commemorative statuettes received also the 2016 winners of the "Outstanding Pole" title in the New York region. In this and other regions, the title is awarded annually in five categories: Science, Culture, Business, Personality and the "Young Pole."
The “Outstanding Pole” Competition has been established in 2010 by the Polish Promotional Emblem Foundation “Poland Now” (Fundacja Polskiego Godła Promocyjnego "Teraz Polska "). to recognize, promote and popularize the achievements and successes of Poles at home and abroad.
The international edition of the contest started in 2011 to include also Poles living beyond Poland's boundaries (about 1/4 of all Poles) and all people cultivating Polish heritage. Currently, the competition takes place in the USA, UK, Austria, France, Holland and Norway. But as its popularity grows, new regions join the contest.
In the United States, the competition has expanded last year from the New York and Chicago regions to the West Coast. The contest's organizer is Pangea Network USA an organization aiming to help young professionals develop business acumen through power networking.
author: IRENA FRACZEK
The due date for scholarship applications has been extended
APPLICATIONS FOR THE PHC SCHOLARSHIP
ARE NOW DUE ON JUNE 15, 2024
Visit our scholarship page for details
On Friday, April 26 (10 am)
registration begins for
Wianki Workshop:
Making a Crown of Flowers
Instructor Basia Pulz will demonstrate how wianki (floral head wreaths) are made in Poland. Take this opportunity to make one for yourself and take it home along with printed educational materials. The workshop will be held in Alicia Ashman Library on May 11, 1-3pm.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Check our calendar for more details
2024 SPRING FESTIVAL
PHOTO GALLERY
To see the pictures, click on the red title OR the picture above.
Check also post with video on the WKOW website: "Madison community embraces Polish Spring Festival" or watch the aired WKOW video on youtube.
2023 PHC Wigilia PHOTO GALLERY
Click on the red title above OR the photo to see pictures from the PHC Wigilia, where we shared OPŁATEK (Christmas wafer), exchanged Christmas wishes, hosted Święty Mikołaj (St. Nicholas) and enjoyed other Polish tradtions.
By popular demand, below are the links to the 2023 program with a variety of information about Polish Wigilia traditions and the recipe for creamy hearing with apples and coriander seeds.
2023
CHRISTMAS MARKET
PHOTO GALLERY
To see the pictures, click on the red title above OR the picture to the left.
To see the pictures, click on the red title above OR the picture to the left.
Click on the red title above
to view the 2022 Spring Festival photos
Contact us at phcwisconsin@gmail.com
(608) 571-5727
Recent Events
2021 PHC Picnic
2020 Int'l Festival
2019 Wigilia
2019 Christmas Bazaar
2019 Spring Festival
2018 Poppy Seed Pastry Class
2018 Wigilia
2018 Christmas Bazaar
2018 Willy St. Fair & Parade
2018 Spring Festival
