DISCOVERING OUR SHARED HERITAGE
Polish Scottish Heritage Events 25 October – 2 November 2014
Festival is a part of Polish Scottish Heritage Project run by Polish Cultural Festival Association
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THANK YOU
With special thanks to all our partners Principal funding partner
Funding Partners Polish Connections Scotland
Programme partners
McDonald Road Library, Edinburgh
Media Partners
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TICKETS
VENUES
Booking your tickets
Contact us
Online polscotheritage.eventbrite.com
Polish Scottish Heritage Project Polish Cultural Festival Association 17/3 Colinton Road Edinburgh EH10 5DP
McDonald Library Telephone 0131 529 5636 All events are free Some require registration, please see individual events description for more details.
Sponsorship and Partnership Lidia Krzynówek lidia@polishscottishheritage.co.uk Mobile 07704077738
Venue information
Marketing, Media & Events Joanna Zawadzka jo@polishscottishheritage.co.uk Mobile 07963434441
The Scottish Parliament, Garden Lobby Edinburgh EH99 1SP
Research Jarek Gąsiorek jarek@polishscottishheritage.co.uk
McDonald Library 2–4 McDonald Rd Edinburgh EH7 4LU St Mary’s (Leith) Edinburgh Primary School Links Gardens Edinburgh EH6 7JG
Outreach Katarzyna Przybycień kat@polishscottishheritage.co.uk Event & Volunteer Coordinator Radek Słomnicki radek@polishscottishheritage.co.uk Mobile 07853207469
Please note This event will be filmed and photographed by professionals, for future use by the Polish Cultural Festival Association. In addition, members of the local and national media may be present. If you do not wish to be filmed or photographed, please make yourself known to a Polish Cultural Festival Association staff member and we will comply with your wishes as best we can.
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FAMILY EVENT
Wojtek the Bear’s Party No Boundaries School, Polish Scottish Heritage Project and St Mary’s (Leith) Primary invite you and your Teddy Bear (yes, bring your teddy bear with you) to an afternoon party with Wojtek, the bear soldier. You will be able to dress a real size brown bear, take your teddy through a proper military training, do some detective work and find out how big a bear’s paw is! The event will feature a captivating story telling session with book authors Jenny Roberts and Aileen Orr, prize draw and much, much more. Its free for all and kids even get a free snack!
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VENUE St Mary’s (Leith) Primary School DATE Saturday 25 October 2pm – 3pm: All drop in activities open 3pm – 3.30pm: Storytelling session 4pm: Deadline for questions/sticker cards 4.15pm – 4.30pm: Prize draw 4.30pm: All bear’s photo (kids with masks, face painting, big bear, cut-out bear, small bears…) TICKETS Free, but booking is required via Eventbrite: polscotheritage.eventbrite.com
STORYTELLING / FILM
Storytelling and Vintage Polish Cartoons Screening Dual language storytelling event. Two of our local schools P1 pupils will come along with their teachers and parents to celebrate this cultural and language connection. After the storytelling session, join us for a screening of vintage Polish cartoons. Meet Reksio the dog, the cheerful brothers Bolek and Lolek, Dobromir the inventor and a boy with a magic pencil. Great fun for both kids and parents. The event is for children 4–11 years old, all children must be accompanied by an adult.
VENUE McDonald Library DATE Thursday 30 October 3pm – 3.40pm: Storytelling 3.40 – 4.30pm: Cartoons screening TICKETS Free, but booking is required via Mcdonald Road Library 0131 529 5636
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EXHIBITION
City Lights PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
City Lights photography exhibition celebrating the renewed city partnership between Kraków and Edinburgh. This year the partnership agreement between the cities is being resigned and this unique collection of images is a tribute to their similarities and shared beauty. Exhibition was created by Alex and Gabiela Ingle as a part of Scottish Polish Cultural Association City Lights Project. Photographs Alex Ingle Music Paweł Odorowicz Multimedia Robert Motyka www.scotpoles.co.uk
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VENUE McDonald Library DATE Saturday 25 – Sunday 31 October 2014 TIME McDonald Library Opening Hours TICKETS Free, no booking required
EXHIBITION
Polish Scottish Heritage Exhibition The heritage shared by Poland and Scotland is a visible and integral part of Scotland’s historic environment. This exhibition will use podcasts, fi lm, photography and text to help you discover the stories of the places, events and people that connected our two nations. This event is being kindly sponsored by Jean Urquhart MSP & The Cross Party Group on Poland
VENUE The Scottish Parliament, Garden Lobby DATE Monday 27 – Friday 31 October 2014, 5pm – 6.30pm (open to public) TICKETS Free, but booking is required via Eventbrite. It will not be possible to enter the area where the exhibition is displayed without booking due to Parliament’s strict security.
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TALK
The Scots in Poland A Forgotten Diaspora AN ILLUSTRATED TALK BY WRITER AND BROADCASTER BILLY KAY, AUTHOR OF THE SCOTTISH WORLD
Drawing on a lifetime of exploring, writing and broadcasting about Scots, their culture and journeys across the globe, Billy Kay reflects on the history of the Scots in Poland. Billy will celebrate the historic cultural connections which developed between Poland and Scotland in the present and the past, and illustrate the talk with clips from his BBC Radio Scotland series Merchants, Pedlars, Mercenaries and Societies with Secrets. He will compare and contrast the Polish migration to Scotland of the present day with the heyday of the Scottish Brotherhoods which existed in twelve Polish cities in the 17th century. How many of the Poles living in Scotland today e.g. are simply Scots returning to their original homeland? Billy writes from a unique perspective, charting historical and cultural exchanges between Scots and Poles. Drawing on a lifetime of exploring, writing and broadcasting about Scots, their culture and journeys across the globe, Billy Kay reflects on the history of the Scots in Poland.
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VENUE McDonald Library DATE Tuesday 28 October, 6pm TICKETS Free, but booking is required via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ billy-kay-author-talk-billytalks-about-the-greathistorical-links-between-scotland-andpoland-tickets-13750176147
FILM
KinoKlub presents: The Hourglass Sanatorium A screening of Wojciech Has’s The Hourglass Sanatorium, organised in collaboration with KinoKlub, Edinburgh surrealist cinema collective. Bizarre and extraordinary, the story follows Joseph who visits his dying father in a dreamlike sanatorium and becomes lost in a series of his own memories and fantasies. The film is a loose adaptation of a novel by the Jewish Polish writer and painter, Bruno Schulz.
VENUE McDonald Library DATE Wednesday 29 October, 5.30pm TICKETS Free, but booking is required via Eventbrite polscotheritage.eventbrite.com
KinoKlub is Edinburgh's world surrealist cinema collective formed by Morvern Cunningham and Malgorzata Bugaj. We are committed to showcasing some of the best in surreal and experimental film from all eras and across the globe on a regular basis. www.kinoklubedinburgh.wordpress.com
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