June; 2010
Issue 72
In This
Issue:
*Consul General's message
*YLRC in Krakow
*Library Conference
*PaintFest in Sanok
*Vote for: Democracy is...
On behalf of my family and the entire staff of the Consulate General, I want to start this month’s Spotlight with a message of solidarity to victims of the flooding in May. The U.S. Mission to Poland worked with the Polish government to provide equipment for combating the flooding and made a donation of 50,000 USD to the Polish Red Cross. We will continue to look for opportunities to assist our affected Polish friends and neighbors.
On a more pleasant note, June starts with Children’s Day and I am happy to get to spend some time with some Polish elementary and high school students on that day. While we normally focus on Consulate initiated activities in this newsletter, I would like to congratulate the City Historical Museum of Krakow on completion of the Oskar Schindler Museum and its opening on June 10. The Consulate is proud of our role in working with the staff and helping to arrange visits of the curators to the United States during the planning of the museum. Warmer days usually turn thoughts to leisurely summer-time activities and vacations, but we know that it means lots of great cultural activities in Krakow and throughout our region. The Consulate will be involved in many of these activities, some of which are highlighted below, and we look forward to seeing you out and about.
Sincerely,
Allen Greenberg
Consul General
Allen Greenberg
Young Learners Resource Center
On June 1, Consul General Allen Greenberg will visit the Elementary School no 10 in Krakow to meet with the children on the occasion of International Children’s Day.
The Elementary School no 10 and U.S. Consulate in Krakow will soon open a Young Learners Resource Center, a resource for Polish teachers of English, teaching young children ages 4-11. The Center will provide teachers with an opportunity to improve their teaching methodologies and curricula for teaching English to young learners and will introduce books from U.S. publishers that are unknown or unavailable in the local teaching market. It will also have equipment with which teachers will be able to prepare their own materials and provide an opportunity for teachers to exchange ideas and establish networks. The Krakow center, which will be jointly operated by the U.S. Consulate and the City of Krakow, is planned to open in time for the next school year.
The Institute of Information and Library Science of Jagiellonian University and the U.S. Consulate General in Krakow are organizing an international conference on "Libraries, Information, Books: Interdisciplinary Research and Practice in 21st Century" on June 7-8 at III Campus, ul. Łojasiewicza 4 in Krakow.
The program of the conference includes a videoconference with Mary Talley, President Elect, DC/SLA 2010 and senior consultant from Information Management Consulting Services on "A New Model - Embedded Librarianship" on Monday June 7 at 15:00 at the U.S. Consulate General, Stolarska 9 in Krakow. Ms. Talley will give us some definitions of the concept of embedded librarianship based on her research and some insight into how different types of embedded librarians function in their organizations. If you would like to participate please contact U.S. Consulate at tel: 12 424 51 43.
More information about the conference is available at: http://www.inib.uj.edu.pl/eng/confer/2010/index.htm
videoconference
The Foundation for Hospital Art and the City Hall of Sanok will sponsor the second PaintFest® in Poland held this time in the center of the city with participants from Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia and the USA. Hospital staff, patients, families, Sanok community and foreign guests will be painting several murals on June 22, 2010 beginning 9:00.
The Foundation for Hospital Art is a non-profit whose vision is to make hospitals our most beautiful places for healing. The Foundation for Hospital Art designs the artwork and the volunteers complete the paintings at each PaintFest.
For more information, please consult the Foundation for Hospital Art website:
http://www.hospitalart.com/
Program of the Paint Fest is available at: www.um.sanok.pl and
http://szpitalsanok.pl
previous PainFest in Sanok
We are pleased to announce that Poland has a finalist in the Democracy Video Challenge for the second year in a row! "Democracy is Like a Keyboard" by Krzysztof Rzesniowiecki has made it through to the Finals, and it is now up to you to vote for the winner. Voting will be open until June 15. Last year's grand prize winner, Łukasz Szozda of Poland, travelled to New York, Washington DC and Hollywood in September 2009, where he and five grand prize winners from other regions around the world met with democracy activists and members of the film and television industry. With your votes, Krzysztof can have the same opportunity.
Vote now at http://www.youtube.com/democracychallenge
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