January; 2012
Issue
89
In This
Issue:
*Greetings from Consul General
*Photo contest
*Alaska Exhibit
*American Milosz
*Conference on Holocaust
*Archeology project in the U.S.
Dear Readers,
Happy New Year, we hope that 2012 is a fruitful and productive year for all of our readers. As the New Year takes wing, the Consulate is looking forward to a year-long cooperation with the Aviation Museum in Krakow, watch this space in coming months for more details. We will also be emphasizing our work with educators and young people, a real treat for us and also very important for the future of Polish-American relations.
This month, we will warm up the winter weather with photo exhibits from Alaska (in summer) and Colorado. We also invite you to submit your own photos to the contest below. Please remember also to visit our website at http://krakow.usconsulate.gov/ and our Facebook site to learn even more about the activities of the Consulate.
Sincerely,
Allen Greenberg
Consul
General
Allen Greenberg
World Wetlands Day Photo Celebration.
Showcase the beauty of wetlands along with your talent! Submit your best photos to a World Wetlands Day photo celebration under this year’s theme “Wetlands Tourism: A Great Experience,” sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in partnership with the Ramsar Convention Secretariat. From January 3-20, 2012 upload your best photo(s) to our Flickr site in one of four wetlands and tourism-related categories: wildlife, landscapes, plants, and tourists (one per category per participant). ALL are invited to mark your favorite photo in each category through January 22. The top photos in each category will be showcased on U.S. Department of State, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Ramsar Convention Secretariat and its International Organization Partners’ websites and social media platforms around the world on World Wetlands Day, February 2, 2012.
Visit Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/StateDepartment.OES and http://www.flickr.com/groups/WWD2012PhotoCelebration for instructions and more information.
"Alaska – Beauty of the Wilderness" Exhibition at the Krakow Public Library
On Janurary 13, at 12:00 Vice Consul Nadia Ziyadeh and Public Library Director Jerzy Wozniakiewicz will open an exhibition of photographs by Sebastian Bielak, Krakow Technical University researcher, who spent several months on an internship in Alaska. Dr. Bielak travelled through the wilderness of that state and will deliver a presentation describing his unique experience. The presentation will be followed by a documentary in English “Alone in the Wilderness” . The exhibition will be on display in the Krakow Public Library in Rajska 1 until the end of February.
“American Milosz” Exhibition Inaugurates the Oswiecim Library New Series of Literature Programs
On January 19, at 12:00 Consul Nadia Ziyadeh together with Mayor of Oświęcim Janusz Chwierut, City Library Director Leszek Palus will open an exhibition dedicated to Czeslaw Milosz and his time and life in America. The exhibition, curated by Jacek Czarnik of the Lower Silesia Regional Library, contains photographs taken in the seventies and eighties by the poet’s brother Andrzej Milosz and poet, Adam Lizakowski. The opening ceremony will be followed by a lecture on the literary heritage of Czeslaw Milosz given by professor Krzysztof Zajas who will inaugurate the Oswiecim Public Library new series of literature programs titled “Dismantling literature: three quarters about texts". The exhibition will be on display until the middle of March in Oswiecim Public Library, Nojego 2B.
Conference on Teaching about Holocaust
The Jan Karski Association in Kielce, the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw and the U.S. Consulate in Krakow invite teachers to the conference: "Teaching about Holocaust in Connection with Local History." It will be held in Kielce on January 19 at High School no 6 im. J. Słowackiego, Kielce, ul. Gagarina 5.
The program of the conference will include lectures and presentation by the representatives of the Jan Karski Association, specialists from Warsaw and Krakow Universities and workshop conducted by a teacher from High School no 6 in Kielce who participated in the U.S. Study tour last year. The evening part of the conference will be devoted to the meeting: “The Anatomy of Genocide” with Wojciech Tochman and Konstanty Gebert.
For conference program details and applications, please contact anna.sawicka@charaktery.com.pl or phone: 41 3432839.
Colorado Project by Jagiellonian University Archeology Students Showcased in Dobczyce
On January 26 at 12:00 Consul General Allen Greenberg together with Dobczyce Mayor Marcin Pawlak will open an exhibition of photographs taken during an archeology project conducted in the summer of 2011. During a seven-week project, seven students from Jagiellonian University, under the leadership of Dr. Radek Polanka, studied ancestral Pueblo settlement patterns in the lower Sand Canyon area of Colorado and documented their trip. The exhibition features photos of their archeology work performed on ruins from ancient Native American tribes. Dr. Palonka will share his experience and observations. The exhibition will be on display until the end of February in the Center for Education and Sport in Dobczyce, Os. Szkolne 43.
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