In this episode you will hear: About a program which allows talented Polish teenagers to study in best British high schools and then continue their education in top universities in the world. David Bowie and “Warszawa” How a young Canadian filmmaker’s interest in Warsaw made him move there and resulted in a number of documentaries about its past Interviews: • Grzegorz Nawrocki, a Polish journalist, president of the British Alumni Society in Poland, talks about an important educational initiative organized by this organization • Eric Bednarski, a historian and filmmaker born and educated in Canada, now living in Warsaw, talks about his films related…
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Hundreds of thousands of young Catholic pilgrims are heading to Kraków in Poland for six days of music, prayer and spiritual masterclasses, with Pope Francis headlining an event labelled by some as “Glastonbury with God”. More than 330,000 pilgrims have registered for […]
Hundreds of thousands of young Catholic pilgrims are heading to Kraków in Poland for six days of music, prayer and spiritual masterclasses, with Pope Francis headlining an event labelled by some as “Glastonbury with God”. More than 330,000 pilgrims hav…
This story was featured in: Episode 16 Chris Rutkowski is a Canadian science writer and educator with degrees in astronomy and education. Since the mid-1970s, he’s also been studying reports of UFOs and writing about his investigations and research. He has eight published books on UFOs and related issues, including Unnatural History (1993), Abductions and Aliens (1999), A World of UFOs (2008), I Saw It Too! (2009) and The Big Book of UFOs (2010). He has appeared on numerous radio programs, podcasts and documentary TV series, including Unsolved Mysteries, UFO Hunters, Sightings, Eye2thesky, The Paracast, Discovery’s Close Encountersand A&E’s The Unexplained.…
Grzegorz Nawrocki is a graduate of International Studies Centre of the University of Cambridge, UK where he earned his Master of Philosophy diploma in European Studies. Prior to that, he graduated from Broadcast Journalism in Preston (Postgraduate Diploma, University of Central Lancashire, UK) as well as American Studies Center (Master of Arts diploma, Warsaw University, 1997) and English Philology (B.A., Jagiellonian University, Cracow, 1994). He is a laureate of British Chevening Scholarship (twice – in 1997 and 2001) funded by the British Foreign Office and a scholar of the Leader in Civil Society programme run by the Robert Schuman Institute in Budapest (2000). He completed a…
In this episode you will hear: How a Canadian astronomer of Polish descent has been recording UFO sightings for 27 years. About something as Polish as storks and Polish vodka How Poles have embraced Oxford style debates. Interviews: • Chris Rutkowski talks about the annual Canadian UFO Survey created and published by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research and his work in the last 27 years • Grzegorz Nawrocki, a Polish journalist, president of the British Alumni Society in Poland, talks about Oxford style debates organized by the organization Also in this episode: • Why adults study Polish in Toronto? A student’s story • Amber – Polish gold…
This story was featured in: Episode 15 Michal Kobialka is a Professor of Theatre in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance at the University of Minnesota. He has translated Tadeusz Kantor’s writings into English and written extensively about his work. He has published over 75 articles, essays and reviews in journals all over the world. He has presented papers on medieval, eighteenth-century and contemporary European theatre, as well as theatre historiography at various regional, national, and international conferences. He is the author of two books on Tadeusz Kantor’s theatre, A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990 [University of…
In this episode you will hear: How Polish avant-garde theatre is studied and admired all over the world How Polish soups are perfect for hot summer days – part one of our biweekly series: Smacznego, Eating Polish How tragedies from the past can bring people from different cultures together For full length interviews and all visuals, please visit: stories Interviews: • Michal Kobialka, professor of Theatre at the University of Minnesota, has translated Tadeusz Kantor’s writings into English and is world’s top expert on his work • Eli Rubenstein, religious leader of Toronto’s Congregation Habonim, author, community leader, director of the…
This story was featured in: Episode 14 Lucyna Artymiuk Lucyna Artymiuk was born in Melbourne in 1961. Her parents were war migrants, her father having arrived on the SS Strathnaver in 1948 while her mother having migrated to Australia in 1958. Lucyna was brought up in a bilingual and bicultural home with extensive exposure to the Polish community as her parents were both active in organisations and were also highly visible within community structures. During her childhood Lucyna displayed an interest in writing and and literature which led her to her tertiary education at Monash University where she completed a…
This story was featured in: Episode 14 and Episode 15 Eli Rubenstein Eli Rubenstein is the religious leader of Congregation Habonim, a small liberal synagogue in Toronto founded by Holocaust survivors from Germany and other eastern European countries. He has served the Congregation since 1988, and helped shepherd its growth from an 80 family Congregation to its current size of 300 families. Eli Rubenstein is National Director of the March of the Living, an annual educational program that gathers thousands of Jewish youth from around the world in Poland and Israel to mark two of the most significant dates in the…