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Please join us,  the University of Pittsburgh Department of Slavic Languages and the Polish Falcons of America for an event with award-winning journalist Rita Cosby at Kent State University's First Energy Interactive Lecture Hall in Franklin Hall!

The lecture is free and open to the public. Following the lecture, Rita Cosby will sign her book, Quiet Hero, which is "her father's harrowing story as a WWII Resistance Fighter and Prisoner Of War.  After a daring escape, he and his comrades were saved by American forces.  An emotional story of a daughter finally discovering her own father."

Books will be available for purchase for $26 at the event. No credit cards will be accepted. All proceeds from book sales will benefit the Kent State University Friends of Poland organization.

Click below for directions to the event and for more about Rita Cosby and her book.

Please join us, Youngstown State University Journalism Department, Polish Youngstown, and the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and Temple El Emeth for an event with award-winning journalist Rita Cosby at l!

The lecture is free and open to the public. Following the lecture, Rita Cosby will sign her book, Quiet Hero, which is "her father's harrowing story as a WWII Resistance Fighter and Prisoner Of War.  After a daring escape, he and his comrades were saved by American forces.  An emotional story of a daughter finally discovering her own father."

Books will be available for purchase for $26 at the event. No credit cards will be accepted. All proceeds from book sales will benefit the Kent State University Friends of Poland organization.

Click below for directions to the event and for more about Rita Cosby and her book.

Please join us for an event with award-winning journalist Rita Cosby at Kent State University's First Energy Interactive Lecture Hall in Franklin Hall!

The lecture is free and open to the public. Following the lecture, Rita Cosby will sign her book, Quiet Hero, which is "her father's harrowing story as a WWII Resistance Fighter and Prisoner Of War.  After a daring escape, he and his comrades were saved by American forces.  An emotional story of a daughter finally discovering her own father."

Books will be available for purchase for $26 at the event. No credit cards will be accepted. All proceeds from book sales will benefit the Kent State University Friends of Poland organization.

Click below for directions to the event and for more about Rita Cosby and her book.

Sun-A Park - 2010 Winner of the Kościuszko Foundation Chopin Competition

8:00 P.M. Friday, September 17, 2010 - Kent State University- Ludwig Recital Hall

8:00 P.M. Saturday, September 18, 2010 - Cleveland State Univesity - Drinko Recital Hall

Tickets: $5 for students and seniors over 60

$12 for adults

Proceeds benefit the Joseph Divis Grant. This grant aids student volunteers from Ohio who are selected to participate in the Arts Enriched English Camp in Poland. This grant helps defray airfare costs to Poland.

Please visit www.thekf.org for more information

Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus, Cleveland

Bogna McGarrigle, Organist

Third Annual Awards Banquet and Fundraiser

The Ohio Chapter of The Kosciuszko Foundation cordially invites you to attend the Third Annual Awards Banquet and Fundraiser

in honor and recognition of Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship and Grant Recipients

"W dniu lmienin" and Fundraiser

The Peasant Prince

Alex Storozynski will be signing copies of his book, The Peasant Prince: and the Age of Revolution

Residents of Northeast Ohio are preparing to inaugurate a comprehensive arts enriched pilot program this summer in Zalecze, Poland that will be taught in English to High school students in Poland. Under the direction of Mary Kay Pieski, President of the Ohio Chapter of The Kosciuszko Foundation, this innovative 3-week program has received a $4500 grant from the Delta Kappa Gamma Educational Foundation to purchase instruments and supplies.

Additional sponsors are the Kosciuszko Foundation NYC, Kosciuszko Foundation Ohio Chapter, Polish Commission of UNESCO, and Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego, the Polish Scouting Organization.

Cleveland

 Winner of 2008 Polish National F. Chopin Piano Competition

The Kosciuszko Foundation's Annual Banquet and Awards Ceremony is the major fundraising activity supporting the educational and culture programs of the Northeast Ohio Chapter. The evening will celebrate Mr. Eugene Bak's dedication to the Polish-American community and his passion for Polish culture and heritage. Mr. Eugene Bak is the Founder and Executive Director of the Polish-American John Paul II Cultural Center and active member of the Kosciuszko Foundation.

In a program entitled: ZEGOTA Council for Aid to Jews Polish Resistance & Rescue in World War II Based on a 1998 film produced by Documentary International.

Jonathan was born in 1989, in Quito, Ecuador. At 11, moved to Spain and earned his precollege at Rodolfo Halffter Conservatory with Mateo Lorente. Floril continues his piano studies in New York as the recipient of the Harold and Helen Schonberg Pianist Scholarship at Manhattan School of Music.

In 2008, Floril was awarded First Prize and the Jan Gorbaty Memorial Prize -- for the best performance of Chopin's works -- at the 59th Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition.

Herodot Polonii Amerykańskiej: Mieczysław Haiman (1888-1949)

The Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Kościuszko Foundation in collaboration with the Polish-American Cultural Center cordially invites members and friends to this special program. Dr. Kaczorowska visits us on a book tour throughout Americas.

Join the Kosciuszko Foundation's Northeast Ohio Chapter for an exhibition of the work of the remarkable photographer Tomasz Kowalczyk. Click here for details.

John Paul II Cultural Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Special recognition for participants of the Teaching English in Poland Program
- Annual Fundraiser
- Katyn Essay Contest Award
- Special Honorees: Professor Jerzy Maciuszko, Ms. Christine Kuskowski

John Paul II Cultural Center, Cleveland, Ohio

An Introduction to the Life and Work of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999)

University of Akron campus, Akron, Ohio. Presented by Professor James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesto

of Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation