The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s is Ireland’s biggest international festival. For 46 years, we have been showcasing and celebrating different cultures from around the world, covering all art forms and attracting audiences annually of 60,000. That’s why we’re delighted to be part of POLSKA! YEAR and we look forward to welcoming some truly exceptional artists from Poland to our festival in October. Graeme Farrow, Festival Director
16th – 31st October 2009
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POLSKA! YEAR at the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s events:
· Macbeth, Who Is That …
To celebrate Polish Cultural Week, Belfast City Council, Good Relations Unit, is hosting a lunchtime event exploring the experience and journey made by four People who left Poland for Belfast, following the expansion of the European Union in 2004. ‘The journey to Belfast’, will create an opportunity for participants to hear the real stories behind migration and the challenges of setting up a new life in a new city. Spaces are limited, to register your interest contact Leish Cox: coxl@belfastcity.gov.uk, tel. 90 320 202 ext 6028 by 6 May 2009 . A light lunch will …
THE RED BARN GALLERY in Belfast is to host the launch of Northern Ireland’s third Polish Cultural Week on Saturday 2nd May. The event will springboard a week long showcase of Polish cultural and artistic expression across all platforms.
In its second year of involvement with the project, the Red Barn, a photographic gallery, will host the powerful 802% Above the Norm exhibition, which features the work of photographers Henryk Makarewicz and Wiktor Pental from The Visavis.pl Photographers’ Collective. It casts a sharply ironic light on Poland’s years under communism …
Performance of music by great Polish composers including Chopin by Varsovia Piano Trio. Also there will be seven songs by Fryderyk Chopin from Opus 74 performed by Irish musician including: Fiona Flynn (Soprano), Mark Guinn (Tenor) and Gerry Doherty (Piano).
Varsovia Piano Trio was founded in 2003. All three members were graduated from Frederick Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where two of them with the doctor’s degree work with students. Varsovia Piano Trio prosperously performed in Poland, Slovenia, France, Turkey, Denmark, Romania and Moldova to conquer the esteem of the …
MAN OF MARBLE (Czlowiek z marmuru)
Wajda’s epic records two pages of history - the year 1952, when Poland became a People’s Republic and the height of the Stalinization period; and the year 1976, when a revealing reassessment of the times takes place through a camera team’s investigation into the fate of a former Worker’s Hero.
Man of Marble is the story of Mateusz Birkut, a Cracow farmer who comes to the new industrial town of Nowa Huta and becomes overnight a High Performance Worker as a bricklayer. Birkut’s gigantic portrait is …
Celebrate Polska! Year - free Polish food, display by Polish Youth Club COOLTURA, information on POLSKA! Year events, on the Polish community, a chance for students & staff in Belfast Met to network & get to know about all things Polish.
Venue: Belfast Metropolitan College, College Square East campus
Date: Monday, 12 May from 12.30 -1.30pm
