KF's Washington DC Center - Upcoming Events

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Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 7:00 pm

Public Diplomacy in Polish Foreign Service

Presentation by Mariusz Brymora - Polish diplomat, currently Deputy Director of the Department of Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Brymora used to work as an academic teacher and translator of English, councilor and deputy mayor of his native city of Radom, Poland.

Between 1999 and 2008 he served as deputy Consul General of Poland in Chicago and the Cultural AttachĂ© at the Embassy of Poland in Washington DC.

Mariusz Brymora is a co-author and editor of "400 Years of Polish Immigrants in America" published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the first Poles coming to Jamestown, Virginia. He is the author of the short history of "The Embassy of Poland in Washington DC".

With film screening "Poland? Yes!"

Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 1:30 pm

Piano Concert Spring Series Part II

The Kosciuszko Foundation and Washington International Piano Arts Council once again joined their forces to present to you outstanding performers: Christopher Shih and Thomas Yu.

            

Christopher Shih of Ellicott City, Maryland - Physician and pianist, winner of 2011 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, 2008 International  Competition for Piano Amateurs (Paris), 2007 Boston International Piano Competition for Exceptional Amateurs and 2006 Washington International Piano Amateurs Competition

Thomas Yu of Montreal, Canada - Winner of 2010 Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition (New York), 2009 Bösendorfer International Piano Competition for Amateurs (Vienna) and 2006 International Competition for Outstanding Piano Amateurs (Paris).

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Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 6:00 pm

Celebration of Color in Nature and Cities

Art exhibit with Music and Poetry. Presenting works by Agnieszka Praxmayer -  Polish-French painter born in Cracow (Poland), graduate of  the State Art College - PLSP in Cracow and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.

Featuring poetry by Anna Nejman - presented by the author

With music by Andrzej Krawiec

Tickets: $20/$15 KF Members and Students

 

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Friday, May 18, 2012 - 6:00 pm

Chef Allison Sosna's Tasting Event

Allison Sosna - Recognized by Jamie Oliver and Alice Waters as a leader in the American school food movement, Allison presents the ultimate talents of both community outreach and high culinary performance. With experience at some of the best restaurants under her belt (Inn at Little Washington, Hook, Dean and Deluca), Allison brings her talents to Pine Restaurant, showing us her interpretation of the Polish cuisine from her childhood. She continues her activism work through Pine's social venture, MicroGreens, which teaches schoolchildren how to cook healthy, wholesome meals on a SNAP (food stamps) budget.

Exclusively for KF Members. If you are not a KF Member yet sign up here

RSVP: thekfdc@gmail.com or 202-785-2320

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Monday, June 18, 2012 - 6:30 pm

Polish Classes

Summer Session of Polish Language and Culture classes at the Washington Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation will start in the week of June 18th, 2012 and end in the week of August 9th, 2012. There will be 8 classes in the session. All classes start at 6:30pm and end at 8:20pm.

If you are interested  in taking Polish language class please contact Basia Bernhardt at:  basiabernhardt@yahoo.com or visit www.learnpolishdc.com

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