Cordially invites you to an evening of music from

The Polish Tatry Mountain Troupe

An evening of lively Polish ‘Góralski’ Music is guaranteed. Come along
and experience an evening of traditional music from the region of the
Tatry Mountains in Poland.

Sunday, November 15
6pm
Murray’s Bar at 33-34 O’Connell Street.

Entry EURO 5, no charge for IPS members

In cooperation with Iwa & Krzysiek Wisniescy and The Polish Embassy in Ireland

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An evening of lively Polish ‘Góralski’ Music is guaranteed. Come along and experience an evening of traditional music from the region of the Tatry Mountains in Poland.

Sunday, 15th Nov, 6pm , 33-34 Murray’s Pub, O’Connel St.

in Cooperation with: Polish Embassy in Ireland, Iwa & Krzysiek Wisniewscy WaterPOL

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THE WOMEN’S AID 16 Days Campaign Theme for 2009 is ‘Breaking the Silence around Domestic Violence’. Our campaign logo reflects the reality of ‘home’ for the 1 in 5 women in Ireland who experience physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse in intimate relationships.

Women’s Aid will focus on the reality of the abuse many women experience behind closed doors, when the world isn’t looking. We will, through a series of campaign actions, encourage everyone to take part in the campaign and to make women’s voices heard.

The 16 Days Campaign provides us all with the opportunity to break the silence around domestic violence. We hope you can join with us. By organising events in our local communities that highlight the issue of domestic violence and promote the services available for women, we make the issue visible, we give hope to women who are suffering and we hold perpetrators of abuse to account.
Our series of actions include:

The 16 Days of Action Newsletter: Women’s Aid has produced and distributed 2000 newsletters since late September to promote the campaign and to encourage groups and individuals to take part. The newsletter has been sent to all CDPs, FRCs and all violence against women support services, as well as to other campaigning organisations, politicians, the media, trade unions, libraries and student organizations.

The 16 Days Online: This year, the 16 Days Campaign Blog (www.womensaid.ie/16dayscampaign) is even bigger and better. Live since 5th October, check out the site regularly for up to date information on events taking place nationwide, national and international statistics, downloadable campaign tools and media resources. The blog will feature accounts from campaign organisers throughout the country as well as messages of support from well known people from the world of politics, non-governmental organisations, the media and others.

If you are planning an event, no matter how big or small, send the details to16days@womensaid.ie and we will post it to the blog. If you’d like to send any personal accounts, media coverage or photographs we’ll make sure they are included.

Women’s Aid will also promote the campaign and the blog through our own pages on Facebook and Twitter. Go to www.womensaid.ieto follow us.

Women’s Aid are organising a number of other campaign actions during the 16 Days and we will update the information on the blog closer to the time.
‘16 FACTS FOR 16 DAYS’ Email Campaign: Join the thousands of people who receive the daily ‘16 Facts for 16 Days’ email to get the latest national and international statistics on violence against women delivered to your inbox each day of the campaign. Women’s Aid encourage recepients to forward the emails to friends, supporters and members during the campaign. Sign up today – email16days@womensaid.ie or phone 01-8684721.

Women’s Aid Public Awareness Campaign: This year Women’s Aid will use the 16 Days Campaign to promote the Women’s Aid National Freephone Helpline and our one to one support and court accompaniment services. The campaign will also raise public awareness of the prevalence and nature of domestic violence in Ireland. This will include a concerted media campaign, online advertising and a national postcard campaign which will profile the 16 Days Campaign and raise awareness of domestic violence throughout communities in Ireland. Shortly before the 16 Days Campaign starts, Women’s Aid will send packs of 20 postcards to groups and individuals nationwide. We hope that these postcards will be distributed widely within local communities.

If you have any queries or would like to support the campaign please email16days@womensaid.ie or phone 01-8684721.

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1. Proposal of DCC: Lets Walk & Talk- A Step towards Integration
2. Training: Integration Guide for Immigrant Youth and Parents

website: www.letswalkandtalk.ie.

The programme involves 7 organised walks in the city  on a weekly basis led by a team of walk leaders who are all volunteers from the community.

In addition  a series of themed walks are also organised around particular aspects of the city and often linked to events such as talks, film  and theatre.

In 2009 over  15,000 people took part.

The programme promotes:

-Health and  well being

-Social Inclusion and friendship

-Awareness , knowledge and appreciation of the city.

The Office for Integration would like to further promote the programme among the immigrant community of the city and use it as a mechanism to promote and strengthen integration as a mainstream activity.

I would like to convene a meeting of interested  representatives of the immigrant community to consider how best such a model would be developed in co-operation with the programme co-ordinator Ronan O’Donnell.

I would be pleased if you would circulate the proposal within your network and request confirmation of interest by 8th^th Feb 2010 to ioana.lupascu@dublincity.ie

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If you have ideas about how to celebrate femininity and International Women’s Day, please drop us an email at emilia.marchelewska@gmail.com.

With the support of: Cairde, Dublin Multicultural Centre, Forum Polonia, Lycs, Migrant Rights Centre and many others.

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Saturday 6 March 2010
Liberty Hall (SIPTU), Eden Quay

Forum Polonia (FP) celebrates its 2nd successful year! To commemorate this event, FP will hold a convention aiming to:

• Exchange information among representatives of social organisations which represent Polish immigrants in Ireland
• Familiarize oneself with the needs and challenges met by Polish communities and activist groups in Ireland
• Reshape the mission and objectives of Forum Polonia

Outline Schedule

10.30 Registration & Refreshments

11.00 Official welcome and opening ceremony by Tadeusz
Szumowski, the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in
Ireland

11.20 – 11.35 Report on current Forum Polonia activities (Emilia Marchelewska)

11.35 – 11.50 Introduction of participants

11.50 – 12.20 Update on Forum Polonia members’ projects and programmes: new services, schemes, etc.

12.20 – 12.35 Coffee break

12.35 – 13.35 Group discussion on the needs and challenges met by Polish migration and activist groups in Ireland

13.30- 14.30 Lunch break

14.30 – 15.00 Networking in NGO sector: the benefits of self-organisation (Monica Anne Brennan, Integration and Information Centre for Ireland)

15.00 – 16.15 Networking workshops of Polish communities and their objectives:
• Familiarisation with Forum Polonia members’ needs and their impact on the Organisation
• Reshaping Forum Polonia’s mission statement and objectives in light of the needs and expecations of Forum Polonia members
•
16.15 – 16.30 Break

16.30 – 17.15 Being a social entrepreneur in Ireland – Gerry Loughrey
17.15 – 18.00 Grants and application procedures – Anna Pas, Polski Express

Integration Reception

Organisers:
Emilia Marchelewska (Cairde, Evening Herald, IPS) , Anna Paś (Polski Express), Barnaba Dorda (Siptu), Tomasz Machura (POSK), Beata Molendowska (My Cork), Sebastian Widel (IPS), Marta Słotwińska (GIPA)

PARASOL Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre provides professional services in a welcoming and respectful environment.

The Centre was established in May 2008. It is located in the centre of Dublin in a convenient and easily accessed area, close to public transport, with on street parking available for clients.

The Centre’s practitioners are committed to providing a high quality and confidential services in counselling and psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families. Sessions can be conducted through either English or Polish.

Our aim is to provide a safe, trustful and ethical service, within which an effective therapeutic relationship can be developed.

Counselling and therapy can be provided on a range of issues including:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Bereavement and loss
• Family and relationship difficulties
• Stress
• Trauma, violence and abuse
• Adult Child of Alcoholics (ACA)
• Loneliness and adaptation issues
• Sexuality
• Eating disorders
• Decision making difficulties

adress: 35 FITZWILLIAM PLACE, DUBLIN 2

telephone: 0866693094 / 0872172793 / 0858375461

e-mail : cpp.parasol@gmail.com

web: www.parasol-centre.com

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Family show
Part 1 start at 4.30pm
Dinner start 7.00 pm to 8.00pm with music
Part 2 Start 8 pm to 00.30am

Part1

Family show
Start 4:30 pm to 7:30pm
1. Sarah Carroll – Traditional Irish dance
2. Jenny Aleinic -Latvian teen-singer with the song ” The Little Mermaid”
3. Afro-Irish Kiddios ” African street dancers
4. Justyna Kosmulska -Polish singer singing in Gaeilge and Polish ( guitar)
5. Traditional dance show ” Vereney” – with the Russian dance ” Kalinka”
6. Irish singer, plays several musical styles singing – Ciara Moran
7. Paul Woodward& Nial & Alex Irish band playing (several music styles)
8. Bartek dancing – Michael Jackson -Another part-( impersonator)
9. Michal Kulbaka with Solar Flux
10. Traditional dance show ” Vereney” – with the Ukrainian dance
11. Sarah Carroll – Traditional Irish dance

3 Courses dinner with music and pianist
Order for 3 days before
Start 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Part 2

Start 8 pm to 00:30
1. Sarah Carroll – Traditional Irish dance
2. Traditional dance show ” Vereney” – with the Russian dance ” Kalinka”
3. Irish singer, plays several musical styles singing – Ciara Moran
4. Paul Woodward& Nial & Alex Irish band playing (several music styles)
5. Bartek dancing – Michael Jackson -Another part-(impersonator)
6. Michal Kulbaka with Solar Flux
7. Traditional dance show ” Vereney” – with the Ukrainian dance
After show time for dances ( DISCO)

Tickets family
Family ticket: children an adult 12 EUR
Family ticket: two children with two adult’s 24 EUR
Family ticket: three children with three adult’s 36 EUR
Youth under the age of 18 until 7:4o
Children under 4 years old free
Parents can take your kids to home and come back!!!

Tickets from 4:30pm to 00:30am 12 EUR

3 courses Dinner with musicians from the piano, 20 EUR, orders for 3 days before
One dish 13 EUR
Finger food 5 EUR

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All That I Love (Wszystko co kocham), dir. Jacek Borcuch

Special Presentation - 28 Feb 2010 – 14:00 (100 mins)

at Cineworld

Jacek Borcuch, the film director will meet the audience after the screening

Poland, 1981: Behind the Iron Curtain, Janek (Kosciukiewicz), the teenage son of a navy captain, forms ATIL (All That I Love), a punk-rock band whose songs express a frustration with socialism and a desire for freedom, echoing the sentiments of the risin Solidarity movement. At the same time, Janek finds love with Basia (Frycz), a young woman whose father is part of the movement and disapproves of Janek’s military family. When growing social turmoil leads to martial law, Janek’s relationships and ATIL’s music cause serious consequences for his family members, lovers, and friends.

Jacek Borcuch refreshes the coming-of-age film and its familiar tropes — teenage rebellion, first love, and sexual exploration — by setting it within a sobering socio- historical context. His camera captures a conflicting sense of potential change and stifling paranoia, with freedom just out of sight for his protagonists. All That I Love is a bracing, potent reminder that the personal can’t be easily separated from the political.

Q & A session with Jacek Borcuch, the film director, will follow the screening!!!

For bookings:  http://jdiff.ticketsolve.com/shows/23497788/events

Snow White And Russian Red,(Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną), dir. Xawery Żuławski

25 Feb 2010 – 20:45 (108 mins)

at Lighthouse Cinema Smithfield

This adaptation of the controversial literary debut by the then 18-year-old Polish writer Dorota Maslowska tells the story of a tough nationalist, homophobe, racist and anti-semite called Silny (Szyc). His girlfriend Magda leaves him and he gets together with the satanist virgin Angela. Together, they hang out in the nihilistic environment of drug-dependent urban wretches, whom Silny regards with a wry commentary fed on black humour and paranoia.
Snow White and Russian Red is a poetic, direct and disturbing portrayal of love, hopelessness and political burnout in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. It’s just as frenzied and insane (in the positive sense) as the novel and even incorporates author Masłowska into the plot – playing herself. This praiseworthy attempt to adapt a challenging literary model for the screen unquestionably preserves the clarity and spirit of Masłowska’s original work.

For bookings: http://jdiff.ticketsolve.com/shows/23497723/events

The screenings of Polish films at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival have been proudly supported by the  Polish Film Institute in cooperation with the Polish Embassy in Dublin.

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