Polish Weekly - Alicja Karlic

04/09/2025

You are invited!

The KF Michigan Chapter Presents: Spies In My Blood – An Evening with Alex Storozynski

📅 Saturday, September 20, 2025
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 The Galeria
3535 Commerce Rd, West Bloomfield
Township, MI 48324

Join us for a captivating evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and acclaimed author, Alex Storozynski, Chairman of the Kosciuszko Foundation’s Board of Trustees and author of "Spies In My Blood: Secrets of a Polish Family’s Fight Against N***s and Communists"

✨Admission is free | Refreshments will be
served.
➡️ RSVP to [email protected]

The memoir is available for purchase on Amazon (click link in comments). Several copies of the book will also be available for purchase at the event.

Watch the book trailer in comments.

We look forward to seeing you!

💫 Co-sponsored by the Polish Institute of
Culture and Research at Orchard Lake.

03/09/2025

The goal of my archival research was to ask myself: How did the Polish diaspora in the Detroit metropolitan area respond to the events of August 1980 in Poland?

In August 1980, in the heart of communist Poland, a movement was born that changed the course of history. Solidarity wasn’t just a trade union—it was a spiritual awakening of...

03/09/2025

“Those relations for me, for Poland, for Poles, are very important,” Nawrocki said.

President Donald Trump has affirmed that the United States will keep a robust military presence in Poland as he held a warm meeting with Karol Nawrocki, the new president of the American ally in Europe.

03/09/2025

03/09/2025

"Polish Diaspora Identities in Archival Home Movies" will be a lecture by Doctor Agata Zborowska, a cultural historian. On Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 12:00-1:20 PM, Room 555 Weiser Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Zborowska visited the Archives at the Orchard Lake Schools in July, looking for materials about Father Stanley J. Milewski.
https://ii.umich.edu/polish/news-events/events.detail.html/136416-21878642.html

03/09/2025

Dzisiaj spotkanie Prezydentów 🇱🇷 🇵🇱
Prezydent Karol Nawrocki już w Waszyngtonie.

03/09/2025

Z archiwum Tygodnika Polskiego, sierpień 1980 roku. Kogo rozpoznajecie na zdjęciu? Polish Scouting Organization of Michigan - Obwód ZHP Michigan

03/09/2025

Nadal można dołączyć! Szczegóły 👉 https://polonia.tvp.pl/.../jeszcze-mozna-zglaszac...

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Bohaterem czternastej odsłony akcji będzie poezja Jana Kochanowskiego – Mistrza z Czarnolasu, którego fraszki, pieśni i treny poruszają nas od pokoleń.

🗓️ Rekordowe zainteresowanie – ponad 5 tysięcy wydarzeń zgłoszonych w Polsce i w środowiskach polonijnych na całym świecie.

📍 Inauguracja tradycyjnie w warszawskim Ogrodzie Saskim z udziałem Pary Prezydenckiej.

📚 Nadal można dołączyć! Szczegóły 👉 https://polonia.tvp.pl/kultura/jeszcze-mozna-zglaszac-wydarzenia-do-tegorocznego-narodowego-czytania,88680521

03/09/2025

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski presented U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio with a 1989 "High Noon" poster, signed by former Polish President L**h Wałęsa.

The poster – depicting a defiant Marshal Will Kane, wearing a Solidarity badge and holding a ballot, a stand-in for Poland’s struggle – made one message clear: the country’s high noon was near.

02/09/2025

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02/09/2025

PEN International’s 91st Congress in Kraków

PEN International brings together writers worldwide to promote literature and defend freedom of expression. PEN International is now active in over 100 countries.
Founded in London in 1921 by Catherine Amy Dawson Scott, with novelist John Galsworthy as its first president, PEN originally stood for Poets, Essayists, Novelists. It quickly expanded to include Playwrights, Editors, and all literary voices. Early members included literary giants like Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw, and H.G. Wells.
The PEN Charter, adopted in 1948, calls on members to use their influence to dispel hatred, promote equality, and protect the “unhampered transmission of thought” across borders.
The event's motto is “Freedom of Words – Words of the Free.”
This year, organizers said discussions will focus on "freedom of speech in a world plagued by crises and unrest" and "censorship and repression of writers," as well as authoritarianism, manipulation, and the "power of literature in times of crisis."

The 91st Congress of PEN International opens in Kraków today with a debate between Nobel Prize-winning writer Olga Tokarczuk and Burhan Sönmez, a Kurdish novelist from Turkey who serves as president of the global writers’ association.
Photo Credit: REUTERS

https://www.pen-international.org/news/tokarczuk-sonmez-kurkov-shehadeh-and-others-at-freedom-of-words-words-of-the-free-pen-internationals-91st-congress-in-krakw-poland

02/09/2025

Kieślowski, who died in 1996 at the age of fifty-four, was among the most influential Polish filmmakers.

Sunday marks the third and final day of the 14th edition of Hommage à Kieślowski, an annual festival dedicated to world-renowned Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski.