Welcome to the Paderewski Festival and Competition!
Sponsored by the Gifted Music School, this event celebrates Paderewski's legacy and keeps it alive through festivities, a competition, and lectures.
When: January 22, 23, and 24, 2020
Where: Assembly Hall, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah
Piano competition: Students ages 5-18 and open to pianists...
Invitation from Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois at Chicago
Please join us for a one-day symposium organized by the faculty and graduate students in Polish studies at UIC, including Fulbright Visiting Professor Katarzyna Bojarska, titled “Objects and People: Symposium on life & death among things.”...
Poland & the US in Defense of Freedom: From Defeating Communism to Preserving National Sovereignty
EM -
Free event but reservations are required
Date And Time
Fri, May 3, 2019, 9:00 AM CDT
Location
The Blackstone Hotel - Train Rooms
636 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
Following the fall of Soviet communism, Poland and the other countries of East-Central Europe regained their sovereignty and, with it, the freedom to choose their alliances...
About 30 years ago, Czesława Kolak started working at Chicago’s Foreman High School. She fell in love with the students and paused working towards her doctor's degree. The occupation, which was to be short-lived and casual, turned into a mission to save Polish youth lost in a new environment. Today, many pupils...
Join the RTA for Transit Employee Appreciation Day
CHICAGO - Today the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is asking riders to celebrate and appreciate the hard-working transit employees at Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, and Pace Suburban Bus and ADA Paratransit.
The RTA has created personalized “thank you” cards that can be given to...
“The Divine Plan: Reagan, John Paul II and the Dramatic End of the Cold War’’ will have its Michigan debut March 15-16 at the Orchard Lake Shrine Chapel where the saint celebrated Masses during visits in the 1960s and 1960s.
The new documentary by nationally known historian Paul Kengor and...
AccuWeather predicts there will be 1,075 tornadoes in 2019, which is nine percent more than the 987 tornadoes in 2018. However, the figure is six percent fewer than the U.S. annual average of 1,141.
The 525 tornadoes expected from March through May is almost exactly the normal average of 526...
Stała Baza Wojskowa USA w Polsce / U.S. Permanent Military Base in Poland
The Warsaw Institute Foundation -
Powstanie stałej bazy wojskowej miałoby duże geopolityczne znaczenie nie tylko dla samej Polski i relacji polsko-amerykańskich, ale dla całej Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Do obozu zwolenników stałej bazy wojskowej USA w Polsce, oprócz najbardziej zainteresowanej Polski, zaliczają się Litwa, Łotwa, Estonia, Rumunia czy Ukraina, czyli kraje najbardziej zagrożone rosyjską agresją.
Kontekst polityczny
Polska...
2019 Best of Show Winners Announced
CHICAGO (Feb. 20, 2019) - The 111th edition of the Chicago Auto Show officially closed to the public on Monday, Feb. 18, concluding a successful 10-day run of the nation's largest and best-attended auto show. The Chicago Automobile Trade Association, producer of the show,...
CHICAGO — Environmental activist Erin Brockovich will participate in a talk titled “An Evening With Erin Brockovich” as Northeastern Illinois University presents the fifth installment of the Daniel L. Goodwin Distinguished Lecture Series on Feb. 25. The free event will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium on...