Growing up in a multilingual family
Language Diversity in Amsterdam Growing up in a multilingual family The European Day of Languages is the inspiration for The Foundation Polish Culture NL in cooperation with OBA Oosterdok to organise an event to encourage the use of parental native…
Year of Lem
40 million books sold, translated into 49 languages! Their author would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. Stanisław Lem was a visionary, a brilliant writer of science-fiction literature who, a few decades ago, foresaw the emergence of social media,…
Fundraising Polish books for OBA
[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] Polish literature is extremely rich and Poland has five Nobel Prize winners in this field. We want every Polish, Dutch or English bibliophile to have access to the treasures of our literature. Polish branch in OBA – We…
A Broom and a Cross – Piotr Oczko
Professor Piotr Oczko of Jagiellonian University in Krakow is an author of an intriguing book “A Broom and a Cross’’. The Culture of Cleanliness in Holland, or the ‘’History of an Obsession”, recently translated by Paul Hulsenboom and published in…
Movie “Polish Traces in Amsterdam”
Amsterdam and Poland have more in common than meets the eye. Did you know that many buildings in Amsterdam are built on wooden trunks that came from Poland? Amsterdam and Poland share a long history that started with trade relations…
Podcast Afl. 2 – Poolse Paastradities
In Polen is Pasen een van de leukste feestdagen van het jaar. Wist je dat je in Polen tijdens Pasen kleddernat wordt? Wat doe je met een 30 meter lange paaspalm? Wist je dat paaseieren zo mooi zijn gemaakt dat…
Polish Oscar nominations
Another fantastic news for Polish film industry – ‘’Corpus Cristi” directed by Jan Komasa has been nominated for an Oscar this year!!! It has also received four nominations for European Film Awards, for: best film, best director, best leading actor…
Have you ever been to Gdansk?
Have you ever been to Gdansk? No? You must visit this cosmopolitan city as soon as travel restrictions get lifted! It has been home to Guenter Grass, German writer, born there in 1927 who is Nobel’s Prize winner in literaturein…
Visit National Museum in Warsaw.
Did you know that National Museum in Warsaw is one of leading art institutions in Poland? It is worth visiting not only because of remarkable art collection but also because of the building itself. Its modernist design makes it one…