In this episode you will hear:
- How the Polka dance is not what it seems to be
- Why some Canadians invest so much time and effort to learn Polish?
- How a photographer sees her work in our image obsessed world
- How a famous Polish immigrant helped to change Canada
Interviews:
• Iwona Malinowski, President of the Polish Teachers Association in Canada, talks about the Polish language School she runs and which we visited to interview her students
• Maggie Habieda, a photographer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, talks about her work at her Fotografia Boutique studio in Oakville, Ontario, and her ideas about images
Also in this episode:
• Polka is a very popular dance, also in the US, but it’s not Polish
• Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski was a renowned Canadian engineer and a truly Renaissance man with major contributions to Canada
• The skylark – a very popular Polish bird, unknown in North America