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Calendar of Events 2005
| January |
Jan.7-8 |
Polish American Historical Association, Annual Meeting in Seattle,WA.:
All meetings and sessions are held in the Seattle Convention Center
Phone: 248-683-1743
E-mail: paha@polishamericanstudies.org
Web Site: www.polishamericanstudies.org |
Jan. 7 |
9:00AM-11:00AM Executive Committee and Council Meeting,
Room 208.
11:00AM-12:00PM Annual Business Meeting, Room 208.
11:00AM-2:30PM Registration, outside Room 213.
2:30PM-4:30PM Session 1. Polish Woman: Memories and Realities,
Room 213.
Chair: Eugenia Pawlik Zeitlin, Los Angeles Public Library
Papers:
- Reluctant Heroines of the Solidarity Revolution
by Shana Penn,
Mills College Women's Leadership Institute
- Fourth-Generation Polish American Women: Gendered Ethnicity and Kinship
Formation by Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University
- Days after Death, from Daughter of Polonia by Eugenia Pawlik Zeitlin
- Romance and Reality of the Experience of an "Educational Agent" for Ameryka-echo by
Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
Comment: The Audience |
Jan. 8 |
9:00AM-9:30AM and 2:00PM-2:30PM Registration, outside Room 302.
9:30AM-11:30AM Session 2. Polonian Presentation of Self, Room 302.
Chair: Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Columbia College
Papers:
- The New Ethnic Neighborhood: Polka Festival as Imagined Community by Ann Hetzel Gunkel
- Changing Brooklyn Polonia by Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
- Blood, Coal, and Newsprint: Polish-American Identity and Labor Strife in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1897-1902 by Joseph P. McKerns, Ohio State University
Comment: The Audience
2:30PM-4:30PM Session 3. Polonian Relations with Non-Polonians,
Room 302.
Chair: Mary Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University
Papers:
- A Call to Prayer in Hamtramck by Karen Majewski, Orchard Lake Schools
- Using Geographical Information Systems to Examine the Attitudes toward Open Housing in Milwaukee, 1966-70 by Stephen M. Leahy, University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley
- American Outlook on Two Attempts to Establish Democracy in Poland in 1947 and 1989-90
by Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk
- The Great Cemetery War: The Bishop of Syracuse versus the Societies of St. Stanislaus and St. Casimir by James Pula, Purdue University North Central
Comment: The Audience
6:30PM-8:30PM Awards Banquet Polish Hall of Seattle
- Presidential Address by Mary Erdmans
- Slide Show Presentation by Tom Podl, Colors of Identity
- Presentation of Awards
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Jan. 9 |
Polish Club SF
Pot Luck Lunch 1:30PM 3040 22nd Street.
Christmas Songs and Verse, featuring Lilliana Osses Adams on harp.
Phone: (415) 648-9157
Web Site: www.polishclub.org
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Jan 11 |
Ruth Ellen Gruber, author of Virtually Jewish:
Reinventing Jewish Life in Central Europe (University of California Press),
speaks at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, California
and Presidio Streets, 7:30PM.
Web Site: www.jccsf.org |
Jan. 14 |
Cello and Piano Recital, Murphy Recital Hall,
Loyola Marymount Hall, LA |
Jan. 16 |
- ACF Annual Members' Meeting at 4077 Waterhouse Road, Oakland, 2:00PM-5:00PM
Refreshments will be served.
Phone: 510-599-2244
Web Site: www.polishculturesf.org
- WARSZAWA - Royal Castle Library - end of exhibit "AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP. Herbert Hoover and Poland" Hoover Institution Exhibit (curated by Zbigniew Stanczyk - Palo Alto)
Web Site: www.zamekkrolewski.pl
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Jan. 22 |
Lack and White Ball in Union City
7:00PM- 2:00AM. Tickets $15.00
Phone:
510-538-5399
Buffet and beverages available. Great music! Fundraiser for Union City
Polish School.
Jan. 23
Polonijny Potluck, Dom Polski, SF |
Jan. 23 |
Polonijny Potluck, Dom Polski, SF |
| February |
Feb. 5 |
33rd International Polonaise Ball in Miami Beach, Florida -
American Institute of Polish Culture. Fontainebleau Hotel.
"TRIBUTE TO POLISH OPERA" - Wieslaw Ochman,
Teresa Zylis-Gara, Malgorzata Walewska, and Krzysztof Penderecki will
receive the ACPC's Gold Medal for Excellence.
Phone: 315-864-2349
Web Site:
www.ampolinstitute.org
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Feb. 6 |
Polski Dom, SF, Program on the 60th anniversary of KPA
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Feb. 19 |
Friends of John Paul II Foundation Polonaise Ball
Marriott Hotel, Monterey 7:00PM-12:00AM
Dr. S. Kaminski , Chair |
| March |
Mar. 26 |
PACF SWIECONE
Traditional Easter Celebration
Place and time to be announced
(weather will determine this)
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| April |
Apr. 16 |
Annual Gala - Poland USA Promotion will take place at
Polish Consulate in New York
Web Site:www.poland-usaprormotion.org |
Apr. 19 |
Exhibition opening and reception:
"Emanuel Ringelblum and the Hidden Archives of the Warsaw Jewish
Ghetto," Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 7:00 PM,
with presentations by:
- The Hon. Krystyna Tokarska-Biernacik, Polish Consul General of Los Angeles;
- Dr. Eleonora Bergman, curator & deputy director, Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw.
Principal Sponsor: Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture.
For more information, check the JCCSF website - www.jccsf.org |
| May |
May 1 |
Los Angeles
Commemoration Mass at the Cathedral honoring the end of WW2,
Polish Constitution Day, Polonia Day and the continuing Consular exhibit
of The Warsaw Uprising - 60th Anniversary.
Web Site: www.polishconsulatela.com
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May 5 |
Annual Pritzker Lecture by Ewa Hoffman, acclaimed author of Lost in Translation, at the
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 7:00 PM.
For more information, check the JCCSF website - www.jccsf.org |
May 7 |
Gala Grande Polonaise Ball
Fairmont Hotel 6:00PM-1:00AM.
This year celebrating the Foundation's 39th Anniversary,
the 60th Anniversary of The United Nations.
Invitations to this Formal event will be mailed by Easter.
Phone: 510-599-2244 (call to reserve your ticket.)
Web Site: www.polishculturesf.org |
May 8 |
Polish American Congress Celebration of
Poland's May 3rd 1791 Constitution Day.
Golden Gate Park 1:00PM - 3:00PM, San Francisco |
| June |
June 25 |
PACF Swietojanki
Traditional picnic and celebration of St. John's Eve.
Place to be determined
Web Site: www.polishculturesf.org (for pictures and information) |
| August |
Aug. 28 |
PACF Founder's Day
Caria's Garden, Oakland 2:00PM-5:00PM |
| September |
Sept. 2-5 |
Polish Consulate Western Regional Invitational Conference
Scottsdale, AZ
Web Site: www.polishconsulatela.com |
| October |
Oct. 15 |
- Official Opening of the New DeYoung Museum,
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Web Site: www.thinker.org
- Los Angeles -Kozlo Music Theatre in Los Angeles - ELEKTRA .
Based on Gardzienice Antique Theatre.
Date to be announced.
Web Site:
www.polishconsulate.com
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Oct. 15-29 |
PACF MASKED BALL
Place to be determined
Web Site: www.polishculturesf.org |
| November |
Nov. 15 |
- PACF Polish Film Festival
Details by Spring.
Web Site:
www.polishconsulatela.com
- Los Angeles
MaestroStanislaw Skrowaczewski at USC
Details forthcoming.
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Nov. 11 |
Los Angeles
Polish Independence Day Concert at USC
Henryk Warski Repertoire. |
| December |
Dec. 4 |
Candlelight Christmas Concert, Oakland
Web Site:
www.polishculturesf.org |
Dec. 11 |
- ACF Traditional Wigilja
Old Krakow, San Francisco 2:00PM-5:00PM $45.00
- LOS ANGELES
"POLSKA CHOINKA" - Beverly Hills Town Hall.
Festival of Polish Culture : Dances, Polish Poster Art Exhibit, concerts, food and crafts booths, In cooperation with the Polish Tourist Office.
Date to be announced.
Web Site:
www.polishconsulatela.org
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