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The following posting was sent on November 12, 2005

IN THIS ISSUE:

Calendar of Polish events in Northern California
Polish Saturday language schools in the Bay Area
How to obtain a certificate from Institute of National Remembrance
Polish art exhibit at BERKELEY ART MUSEUM, Berkeley, California
Media watch, by Ted Mirecki

We will be happy to announce any event connected in any way to Polish community. Please make sure the organizers will inform us about event directly at poloniasfo@yahoo.com . Some events are not listed due to personal preferences of the organizers. We are open to list any event. In order to avoid mistakes the information must be submitted directly by the organizers.

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Polish Saturday language schools in the Bay Area

There are 4 schools where people can send their children for learning Polish language, history and culture. Podajemy kontakt i prosimy wszystkich chetnych o zglaszanie sie do kierowniczek poszczegolnych szkol:

Union City, Grazyna Koralewska 1-408-866-6864
Walnut Creek, Danuta Pokalski 1-925-825-9609 cell: 1-925-286-8498
San Jose, Barbara Stamberg 1-408-929-2919
San Francisco, Ewa Kozak, telefon do parafii 1-415-252-5799

Kazda ze szkol prowadzi rowniez zajecia z harcerstwa w roznych grupach wiekowych od skrzatow, poprzez zuchy do harcerzy. Mlodziez rokrocznie wyjezdza na biwaki oraz zimowiska. Wiecej informacji o harcerstwie znajduje sie na stronie internetowej http://misservices.com/zhp/

How to obtain a certificate from Institute of National Remembrance

Several people asked the following or very similar question about how to obtain the IPN certificate clearing the name from any doubts about being involved with communist secret police:
[in short, you just write one email to: o.warszawa@ipn.gov.pl , simple]
[ NO FEES, NO LETTERS, NO NOTARY, NO TRAVEL, NO COST - S I M P L E ]

>PoloniaSF Subscriber wrote:
>
>w jaki sposob mozna zalatwic zaswiadczenie , o ktorym Pan pisze?
>czy moze Pan podac jakies informacje na ten temat
>dziekuje

From: "www.PoloniaSF.org"
To: PoloniaSF Subscriber
Subject: RE: [PoloniaSF_News] Two Polonia PAEC organizations invite for their events
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:20:19 -0800 (PST)

Jest to bardzo proste.
Osoba zainteresowana pisze email do: o.warszawa@ipn.gov.pl z prosba o zaswiadczenie z powodu zbieznosci nazwiska i imienia z lista Wildsteina. Podac nalezy pelne dane osobowe: imiona, nazwisko, date i miejsce urodzenia, imiona rodzicow. Jak sie poda nazwisko panienskie matki to w przypadku publikacji przez IPN na internecie moga zaciemnic to nazwisko. IPN wszystkie dane sprawdzi i przysle zaswiadczenie poczta. Mozna rowniez pisemnie poprosic o umieszczenie zaswiadczenia na stronach IPN. Przyklad: http://www.ipn.bip.net.pl/?a=577

Polish art exhibit at BERKELEY ART MUSEUM, Berkeley, California

November 20, 2005 – February 27, 2006
ACCLAIMED CONTEMPORARY POLISH PAINTER
IN HIS FIRST U.S. SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITION
"WILHELM SASNAL/MATRIX 219"

Sunday, November 20, 4 p.m. - Artist’s Talk with Wilhelm Sasnal, curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, and Jordan Kantor, artist, associate professor at California College of the Arts and former assistant curator of drawings at MoMA, New York
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/education/219/content.html
"WILHELM SASNAL/MATRIX 219" features new works by renowned Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal. Best known as a painter, Sasnal uses mass-media photographs, video, film, and animation as source material for his work.
About exhibit:
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/219/index.html

BERKELEY ART MUSEUM, 2626 Bancroft Way (just below College Avenue near the UC Berkeley campus) Berkeley, California, 1-510-642-0808

Media watch, by Ted Mirecki

Comment: Poland's disenchanted killed off 'New Europe'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1602405,00.html

Polish leader's anti-gay stance threatens EU voting rights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1599957,00.html

Conservatives Take Power in Poland
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, Associated Press
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR2005103101011.html

PO says it will vote against the PiS government
http://www.warsawvoice.pl/newsX.php/1060

Europe vs. Europe
By Richard W. Rahn
http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20051030-100355-1298r.htm

Inquiry Into Whether C.I.A. Held Terror Suspects in Eastern Europe
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/05/international/europe/05europe.html

Europe Looking Into Report of C.I.A. Jails
By JUDY DEMPSEY & JAMES KANTER
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/04/international/europe/04europe.html

Nations Urged to Answer Prison Allegations
By JAN SLIVA, Associated Press
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-cia-secret-prisons,1,2931155.story

EU accepts denials of 2 members on CIA prisons
International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/04/news/cia.php

'Body of Copernicus' identified
Scientists say they have probably solved the mystery of where the father of modern astronomy was buried.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4405958.stm

Copernicus's Grave Is Reported Found
By REUTERS
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/international/europe/06coper.html

Pope put on the road to sainthood
Adam Easton, BBC News, Warsaw
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4409070.stm

Two TV films about John Paul II are in preparation.
See the "Footnotes" section
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/arts/03arts.html

Lenin back on his feet by popular demand
By Nick Allen in Moscow
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/02/wlenin02.xml

[The Polish plumber story just keeps going and going...]
Don't panic: there are plenty of Polish tradesmen to go around
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/11/02/lpanic02.xml

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