„If I hadn’t taken my bandura with me, I wouldn’t have been myself” recalls Olga Pylypiv who had to flee war-torn Ukraine. On International Music Day, look at how 🇵🇱 provides shelter for Ukrainian musicians and creates conditions to develop their music careers. In wartime, music is a way of expressing their 🇺🇦 identity and protecting cultural heritage. 🎹 🎻 🥁
#InternationalMusicDay #StandWithUkraine
September 23 was the last day of the Consul General, Jarosław Łasiński’s mission as a head of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles. He will be truly missed.
We also had the pleasure to organize the Oleszkiewicz Trio jazz concert to mark the end of the Consul General’s mission after 4,5 years of his service in LA.
Poland has great artists, and we are proud and happy whenever they play with wonderful and talented American artists. At the Oleszkewicz Trio performance, we witnessed amazing 🇵🇱 🇺🇸 spirit.
About the Oleszkiewicz Trio 🎶 artists:
Darek "Oles" Oleszkiewicz (Bass)
Poland’s native, in the 80s, has been working with some of the best Polish jazz bands. In 1988, Oleszkiewicz arrived in Los Angeles. After graduation from the California Institute Of The Arts in 1992, he accepted a teaching position at the Institute, where he teaches bass ever since. Oleszkiewicz is also a jazz faculty member at the University Of Southern California. He has recorded more than 100 albums and performed hundreds of concerts throughout America, Europe, and Asia. Several of the recordings were nominated for Grammy Awards.
Tina Raymond (Drums)
A unique voice in the Los Angeles contemporary improvised music scene, Raymond blends traditional jazz vocabulary with African polyrhythm and classical percussion technique. She performs, adjudicates, and presents workshops worldwide and has shared the stage with many jazz luminaries including Bobby Bradford, and David Binney Rova Saxophone Quartet, among others. Raymond is the director of Jazz Studies at California State University, Northridge. She is an active member of the Jazz Education Network.
Alan Pasqua (Piano)
A Steinway Piano artist, Grammy Nominee, and Professor of Jazz Studies at USC Thornton School of Music. He has played and recorded with Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, and Paul Motian among others. He has been a member of the bands of Bob Dylan and Santana. Some of his other pop
It was a stab in the back. #OTD in 1939 the Soviet Union invaded Poland which had already been countering the German aggression. The Soviets brought repressions, mass killings, and deportations of the local population. „The invasion was dressed up as a military intervention. Rather similar to what we see today with the Russian invasion of Ukraine” says Roger Moorhouse, British historian and author specializing in the history of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and WW2. History likes to repeat itself. #StandWithUkraine #StopRussiaNow
#polishhistory #PW1944 #ww2 #sovietunion #17września
Wywiad z Haliną Butler, ps. Halszka, harcerką - łączniczką i sanitariuszką batalionu "Zośka" jest kontynuacją cyklu "Heroes Among Us", który przedstawia relacje naocznych świadków wydarzeń z historii Polski i świata, zebrane i opracowane przez polsko-amerykańską młodzież na spotkaniach z bohaterami żyjącymi wśród nas.
Autorami projektu są harcerki i harcerze z Ośrodka ZHP w Martinez w Kalifornii (Hufic Kraków i Mazowsze): Jonathan Loyd, Ania Metkowska, Patrycja Operacz, Iwona i Ryszard Urbaniak oraz Adam i Alex Warda.
Realizacja projektu: MarGo Photography. Projekt został sfinansowany przez Konsulat Generalny RP w Los Angeles.
Link do pełnego wywiadu z Haliną Butler znajduje się w komentarzu.
#PutinHungerGames - Global Food Crisis
As a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the world’s breadbasket has shrunk massively.
The unprovoked invasion on 🇺🇦 caused a severe shock to its grain exports, which decreased 20 times since the beginning of the war.
#PutinHungerGames
#HungerMadeInRussia
Warsaw in 1944 and Warsaw in 2021
On August 1st, 1944 the Warsaw Uprising broke out.
It took countless lives and left a depopulated city in ruins and flames.
But remember, Warsaw has risen.
Here you can compare the Warsaw ‘map’ from 1944 and 2021.
It is a project from Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego.
More at https://korzeniemiasta.pl/
Polish-American concert in Denver
We are happy that after a difficult time of global health crisis, the Polish-American community in Denver, CO showed persistence, and now is enjoying open air concert. Thank you Honorary Consul Tomasz Skotnicki for making it happened.
Who knows, maybe this is how the new tradition is emerging?💡🎶🎺🎸🥁
At the beginning of her Alpine career, mountaineering specialists claimed that women were not suited to high-altitude climbing. Rutkiewicz broke this stereotype.
In 1986, she became the first woman in the world to climb #K2, one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. In 1978, she was the first European woman to conquer Mount Everest. She loved challenges.
She wanted to conquer all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks ("eight-thousanders") – she called the project her "caravan to dreams". In the end, she climbed eight of them. Apart from Mount Everest and K2, she reached the summits of Nanga Parbat, Shishapangma, Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I, Cho Oyu and Annapurna I.
She often climbed alone, taking difficult routes and without the use of oxygen. She perished on the way to the summit of Kangchenjunga (8586 m), #OTD in 1992, at the age of 49.
Her name is Wanda Rutkiewicz – a legend of both Polish and world Himalayism. 💪👩
Learn more: link in the comment.
#OutstandingPLWomen🇵🇱 #Poles4theWorld
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Dziękujemy Państwu za udzial w konkursie dot. obrazu Jana Matejki: "Konstytucja 3. Maja 1791".
Dziękujemy za wszystkie poprawne odpowiedzi. Ze wszystkimi skontaktujemy się mailowo, potwierdzając nagrodę. Jak tylko uda się Państwu ułożyć puzzle, prosimy opublikować ich zdjęcie w mediach społecznośćiowych i oznaczyć konsulat w poście.
#OutstandingPLWomen🇵🇱
From the 1980s she helped patients who lost in different accidents fingers, hands, feet, legs, and those with extensive facial burns.
A distinguished specialist in microsurgery, plastic surgery, and transplantology, in 2008 she led the team of doctors which during a 22-hour operation replaced 80% of the face of a female gunshot victim. It was the most extensive face transplant to date, requiring connecting numerous bones, muscles, nerves, and blood vessels. The patient’s jaw and palate, upper lip, cheeks, nose, and lower eyelids were completely rebuilt, allowing her to recover the senses of taste and smell along with the ability to breathe, speak and eat independently.
Her name is Professor Maria Siemionow. She carried out the first full-face transplant in the 🇺🇸 and… it is her 71st birthday today! 💪👩🎂
Learn more: https://issuu.com/msz.gov.pl/docs/9_maria_siemionow_pl_en
#OutstandingPLWomen - voting rights
International Mother Language Day 2021
30th anniversary of Visegrad cooperation
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021 Los Angeles
Życzenia świąteczne i noworoczne sekretarza stanu Szymona Szynkowskiego vel Sęka
#PoLANDofITmasters #4 - economic growth!
PoLANDofITmasters - Polish School of Mathemathics