November; 2011
Issue
87
In This
Issue:
*Greetings from Consul General
*Conrad Festival
*Ellen Banks' paintings
*Photo Exhibition
*International Education Week
*American Film Festival
*Archeology students' exhibit
*"American Milosz" exhibit
Dear Readers,
Literature and teaching are front and center in the Consulate's activities in November. Krakow's Conrad Festival, with which the Consulate has partnered this year, will bring great American authors to Krakow at the start of the month. Audiences in Wroclaw will enjoy cutting edge new movies during the American Film Festival in the middle of the month and we'll finish the month with performances by Sephardic singer Gerard Edery in Krakow and Wroclaw. In November, we also celebrate International Education Week with educational advising events throughout the district. As always, I encourage you to follow our activities on our Consulate webpage and by becoming a fan of the Consulate on Facebook.
We wish everyone safe travels around the All Saints' Day holiday and a happy Independence Day.
Sincerely,
Allen Greenberg
Consul
General
Allen Greenberg
The Conrad Festival Brings American Writers to Krakow
The United States Consulate General has partnered with the Krakow Festival Bureau and Tygodnik Powszechny Foundation to organize the Conrad Festival, to be held from November 2-6, 2011. The Festival is an international literature festival to which writers from various countries, writing in various languages are invited to share their thinking and writing with Polish audiences. Among guests of the 2011 edition of the Conrad Festival will be four American writers: Eva Hoffman, Susan Bernofsky, Michael Fried and Walter Benn Michaels.
More info: http://www.conradfestival.pl/en/13/232/297/programme
Paintings by Ellen Banks on Display in Labirynt Gallery No.2 in Krakow
Together with Labirynt Modern Art Gallery, the Consulate General invites you to a meeting with the artist and the opening of an exhibit of paintings by American artist Ellen Banks on Friday, November the 4th , 2011 at 18:00 at the Gallery in Brzozowa 9/1.Banks’ paintings takes music as their inspiration. Many titles of her paintings bear the names of composers or of particular pieces. In the artist’s own words “Music is my still nature, my landscape, my creative act.”
Information on Ellen Banks http://ellenbanks.net/
Photo Exhibition "USA in Your Lens" in Gliwice
The photo exhibit “USA in Your Lens” featuring the best photos sent to the contest "USA w Twoim Obiektywie" (USA in Your Lens) will be opened in the Gliwice Polytechnic at 17:00 on November 7, 2011. Poles who traveled to the United States submitted photos showing American life as they experienced it: busy city scenes, alongside landscapes and monuments. The exhibit will be on display at the “Zakamarek” Gallery, ul. Kaszubska 23, Gliwice until December 3.
International Education Week 2011
Each year in November U.S. Consulate in Krakow celebrates International Education Week, a joint project of the U.S. Departments of State and Education that promotes opportunities for foreign students to study at U.S. universities and colleges.
This year the Consulate's Public Affairs Office in cooperation with several educational institutions in Krakow consular area is organizing a series of seminars on university studies in the U.S. The aim of the seminars is to reach out to high school and university students who might be interested in continuing their education at U.S. universities.
The seminars for the high school students will be held at the schools with extended English language programs, bilingual classes and IB programs in Wroclaw, Krakow and Kielce. The program will include presentations on the U.S. educational system, criteria for choosing the right school, the college application process, funding opportunities, standardized tests and other related topics. The speakers will be American diplomats, Fulbright students and educational advisers from U.S. Consulate General in Krakow, U.S. Embassy and Fulbright Commission in Warsaw.
The seminars for university students will be held at Silesian School of Technology in Gliwice (Politechnika), Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Targi Mobilnosci), Opole School of Technology and School of Management and Computer Science in Rzeszow (International Day.)
For details about the seminars, please contact Educational Adviser at: 12 4245140 or KrakowEducationUSA@state.gov
American Film Festival in Wroclaw
The newest trends in American cinematography will be showed during the American Film Festival held in Wroc³aw November 15-20 2011. American films at Polish cinemas are mainly commercial productions distributed globally by major film studios. Wroclaw festival will introduce new names, independent authors, new talents and trends. Aside from showing the latest productions, AFF will also have an educational aspect. It will present famous directors’ and actors’ retrospectives, a variety of genres and important themes of American cinematography: American Dream, African -American issues, war and pacifism and music culture. These shows will create a background for the contemporary films and present the links between the present and the past of American cinema. The festival will be accompanied by a number of seminars, lectures and discussions on social, political and cultural issues of contemporary U.S.
For the detailed program of the festival please see the website: http://www.americanfilmfestival.pl/
Exhibition Showcases Work of Jagiellonian Archaeology Students
During a seven-week project this summer, seven students from Jagiellonian University, under the leadership of Professor Radek Polanka, studied ancestral Pueblo settlement patterns in the lower Sand Canyon area of Colorado and documented their trip. In honor of Native American Heritage Month, join the Consulate on Tuesday, November 22, at 18:00 at Srodmiejski Osrodek Kultury, Mikolajska 2, to see photos of their archaeology work performed this summer in Colorado on ruins from ancient Native American tribes.
Gerard Edery's Concerts in Wroclaw and Krakow
The Embassy is sponsoring a concert tour of Poland by Gerard Edery, an amazing artist of world music and an expert on the music of the Sephardic Diaspora. He will give a concert in the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow on November 30 and in the White Stork Synagogue in Wroclaw on December 1. Detailed information will be available on the Consulate Facebook later this month.
More information about Gerard’s work: www.gerardedery.com
“The American Milosz” Exhibition Opening at Dlugoleka Public Library in Dolnoslaskie Region
On Thursday December 1st, 2011 at 16:00 Consul for Press and Cultural Affairs Benjamin Ousley together with Ewa Bubien, Director of the Public Library in Dlugoleka will open an exhibition dedicated to Nobel Laureate for Literature Czeslaw Milosz. The exhibition, curated by Jacek Czarnik, contains photographs taken in the seventies and eighties by the poet’s brother Andrzej Milosz and poet, Adam Lizakowski. The event is organized in honor of the Milosz Year celebrated in Poland in 2011 in recognition of the centennial of Milosz birth. Milosz’s poetry was honored by President George H. W. Bush with the highest award granted for contributions to culture by the U.S. Government, “The National Medal of Arts.”
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