http://www.polishculture.org.uk The best of Polish Culture in the UK, Ireland and Beyond Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:35:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en GRZEGORZ KARNAS ANGLO-POLISH QUARTET @ JAZZ CAFE POSK
 Saturday 11 July, 8.30pm, £5  Jazz Cafe POSK
 238-246 King Street, London W6 0RF   
 Tube: Ravenscourt Park – District Line  Polish vocal star Grzegorz Karnas is set to make his mark on the London Jazz Scene with an exciting Anglo-Polish project.  Like a more quirky, subversive Kurt ... http://www.polishculture.org.uk/listings/grzegorz-karnas-anglo-polish-quartet-jazz-cafe-posk/ HOT D'JAZZ TRIO 25TH BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 3-5 July  A leading gypsy swing group from Poland is set to make their UK debut feature in the 25th Birmingham International Jazz Festival from 3rd to 5th July (the festival runs from July 3 to 12) The Hot D’Jazz Trio from Cracow, Poland, was formed ... http://www.polishculture.org.uk/listings/hot-d%e2%80%99jazz-trio-25th-birmingham-international-jazz-festival/ POLISH NEON
 ILONA KARWINSKA  PAST EXHIBITIONS Palace of Culture & Science, Warszawa
 10-25 November 2007 Vinyl Factory Gallery, Soho, London 
13 October 2007 Capital Culture Gallery, Covent Garden, London
 23 May - 23 June 2007 FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS CCR Abbaye de Neumunster, Luxembourg
 1-11 October 2009 THE WORK When Warsaw was rebuilt after WWII it was done so under the utilitarian architectural model ... http://www.polishculture.org.uk/listings/polish-neon-2/ CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION 1989-2009 You won't fool the Children of the Revolution. (Marc Bolan, 1972) Revolution is like Saturn: she devours her own children. (Georg Büchner, 1835) 
Over the course of 1989, from June to November, and on into 1990, the cold-war status quo was radically brought to an end by a series of ... http://www.polishculture.org.uk/listings/children-of-the-revolution-1989-2009/ DESIGNING DEMOCRACY: POSTERS AND THE POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE 1989-1991 As part of the Children of the Revolution 1989-2009 series, over 250 posters from the Victoria and Albert Museum relating to democratic change in Europe are now available on the V&A website. Cataloguing the Collection Cataloguing the posters is a work in progress. ... http://www.polishculture.org.uk/listings/designing-democracy-posters-va/ SWAVA HARASYMOWICZ - PEN PAPER SCISSORS V&A Friday Late Friday 26 June 2009, 18.00-22.00 Victoria & Albert Museum, Prints Room  Krakow born and London based artist Swava Harasymowicz got a double win at this year's Victoria and Albert Museum Illustration Awards winning for her work for the Guardian Weekend magazine and a Penguin Books ... http://www.polishculture.org.uk/listings/swava-harasymowicz-va-friday-late/ The 35th Annual Conference The Joseph Conrad Society (UK) London, 2-4 July 2009  The Joseph Conrad Society’s 2009 Annual International Conference, its 35th, will be held on 2-4 July at two venues in London. The third Philip J. Conrad Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Andrea White. As is traditional, the winner of ... http://www.polishculture.org.uk/listings/the-joseph-conrad-society-the-annual-international-conference/ Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra (ERSO) Sunday 28 June 2009, 6.30pm, St Johns Waterloo   Andrzej Panufnik: Concerto Festivo Walton: Symphony No 1 Conductor: Peter Stark Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1931 by organist and education visionary, Ernest Read. The Orchestra tackles a range of ambitious repertoire to an impressive standard, giving five concerts a ... http://www.polishculture.org.uk/listings/ernest-read-symphony-orchestra/  at 69 South Audley Street and 9 Balfour Mews  For his third show at Sadie Coles HQ, Wilhelm Sasnal is showing a series of new paintings and a 16mm film. Two main themes emerge from this new body of work, those of food sovereignty and earthly idylls. Paintings of coffee mounds, unmarked barrels, ... http://www.polishculture.org.uk/listings/wilhelm-sasnal-exhibition/ Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, The Guardian takes a look at the transformations which have swept eastern Europe through the lens of fiction, with short stories from Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic. In the second of The Guardian's stories, Michał Olszewski takes his ... http://www.polishculture.org.uk/listings/a-new-europe-chocolate-by-michal-olszewski-the-guardian/