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   2008

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  December 31 Polish - American New Year's Eve Party in Chateau Polonez
  December 31 New Year's Eve Party in the Polish Parish - Wieczor Sylwestrowy w sali parafialnej
  December 27 Polish Song and Dance Ensemble ŚLĄSK performance in the Polish Church.  ŚLĄSK in the Burzynski Clinic.
  December 13 Polish children participated in Christmas Recital at Vosswood Nursing Home.
  December Mariusz Smolij's new CD Mariusz Smolj's newest CD features Budapest Concert Orchestra, MAV, and viola soloist Gilad Karni. 
  December 7 Spotkanie polskich dzieci z sobotniej szkoly parafialnej ze swietym Mikolajem
  December 5 Polish community friend and supporter, MARCUS LEUCHTER,  passed away on December 5, 2008 at age 99.  MORE
The boy from Zborowice”, Marcus Leuchter used to call himself, has passed away. It was by an accident my wife and I have found that Marcus used to be a neighbor of my wife’s grandfather Konarski (...)  MORE
  November 16 Polonia Thanksgiving Celebration!
  November 9 Uroczysta Msza św. w intencji Ojczyzny z okazji rocznicy odzyskania niepodległości przez Polskę w 1918 roku oraz piknik parafialny, 9-go listopada 2008.   Photos 1   2  3
  November 2 Polish School Children at the Texas Renaissance Festival 2008, 11/2/2008, photos1, photos2
  November Eleventh Houston Polish Film Festival  2008 - Fr 11/7 - Sun 11/9 - Thur 11/13 -  Fri 11/14
  November Portal Kresy.pl opublikował pogawędkę z Ewa Thompson na temat polskiego republikanizmu: Należy przypominać, że Polacy są dziedzicami wspaniałej tradycji.
  November 2 Polish School Children at the Texas Renaissance Festival 2008, 11/2/2008, photos1, photos2
  November 1 1 listopada 2008 odbyl sie w Houston III Konkurs Chopinowski dla Doroslych Pianistow Amatorow.
  October Iwona Jankowski's exhibit "Hästens rike", Skogås (Sweden), presenting 40 pictures of the series named "Mottled Horses"
  October 26 400th Anniversary of American Polonia Celebration in the Polish Parish: Holly Mass for American Polonia, Picnic, “The Live Oak Tree” dedication.     photos1, photos2, photos3, photos4
  October 25 400th Anniversary of American Polonia Celebration
Polish Children - Gala Banquet
  October 12 Polish children performance at the Slavic Heritage Festival, October 12, 2008   Photos 2
  October Images of Spain is Edward Trybek's second solo CD and showcases the music of Spain. Featuring over 63 minutes of music and selections by Malats, Rodrigo, Narvaez, Milan, Albeniz, and Tarrega. Check out www.edwardtrybek.com for more information, and to purchase this CD.
  October 6 6-go pazdziernika 2008 po walce z nieuleczalna choroba zmarl nasz KOLEGA - DONEK MANEK. Byl wsrod nas, bywal, istnial - dzis GO juz nie ma....
Moj przyjaciel, Donat Manek, Przyjaciele wiedza ze: "Spieszmy sie kochac ludzi, tak szybko odchodza.."   Pozegnalismy Go w sobote 11-go pazdziernika.
  October 5 Pasowanie na pierwszoklasiste w Sobotniej Szkoly ParafialnejOctober 5, 2008
  September 19 19 wrzesnia 2008 w Galerii Adi Art w Lodzi odbylo sie otwarcie wystawy prac malarskich Iwony Jankowski, zatytulowanej „Polo w Sztuce”. MORE
  September After hurricane IKE photos - More photos - Photos taken in Houston suburbs
  September Ewa Thompson's article published in the book published by Edinburgh University Press "A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires"
  August 24 Uroczysta Msza św. pod przewodnictwem biskupa Vincenta  Rizzotto, D.D., i obrzęd błogosławieństwa związany z rozpoczęciem budowy Domu Parafialnego. 
  August W wieku 61 lat zmarł w Chicago długoletni dyrektor wykonawczy Kongresu Polonii Amerykańskiej Les Kuczynski MORE
  August 14 Artykul Dr. Ewy Thompson opublikowany w tygodniku "Wprost":  o Gruzji i niebezpieczenstwie dla Polski ze wzgledu na postawe Rosji.   MORE
  August 13 Jan Karon, dlugoletni i wielce szanowany czlonek houstoniskiej Polonii, zmarl 13 sierpnia, 2008r. w Lexington, Kentucky, w wieku 89 lat.  MORE  Zobacz  NEKROLOG
  July One of the greatest Polish actors, Jerzy Stuhr, has accepted their invitation to the eleventh Houston Polish Film Festival.   MORE
  July Kiev's "Ukrainian Week" just published an interview with Dr. Ewa Thompson, whose book "Imperial Knowledge" has been published recently in Kiev.
  July Polish Houstonian Ziggy, founder Lone Star PL now involved in helping more children.
  July Kwartalnik "Teologia Polityczna" opublikowal artykul Dr Ewy Thompson na temat opcji rozwoju demokratycznej Polski 

  July 18

Adam Golka performance in the Polish Church
  June 28 Marek Pijarowski conducted Johannes Brahms' Concerto for Violin and Cello and Wojciech Kilar's "Orawa" in Moores Opera House.  MORE
  June Tomasz Golka has been named Music Director of Williamsport Symphony Orchestra.
With every movement and each note, classical music has the ability to delve into one's soul and bring forth a myriad of deep emotions and passion. 
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  June After recent concert in Houston Adam Golka performed in Boulder (Denver), Colorado. This concert's review should tell those who never heard Adam playing, what kind of artist he is and encourage everybody to come to the concert on 7/18/2008.
  June 21
Richard Sienko celebrated his birthday by helping Polish Children:   http://www.lonestarpl.com   Thank you!
  June 21 Houston Chronicle about Adam Golka and his Houston concert on June 21, 2008
  June 8 Holy Mass in honor of this year's our Parish and Polish community graduates celebrated in Our Lady of Czestochowa Polish Church
  June 2 Ground Breaking Ceremony of new Parish Hall - Polish Heritage Center in Houston in the presence of the President of Poland Lech Wałęsa
  May 24 - 26 Nauczycielki Szkoly Polskiej im. Mikolaja Kopernika w Houston uczestniczyly w Zjezdzie Nauczycieli i Komitetow Rodzicielskich w Bostonie.  MORE
  May Adam Molski's journal kept during the trip to ECUADOR     Pictures from the trip
  Ewa Thompson's  "Postmodernizm, pamiec, logocentryzm," (Nie)obecnosc. Pominiecia i przemilczenia w narracjach XX wieku has been published in Warsaw: ELIPSA, 2008.
  May 18 First Communion in Our Lady of Czestochowa Polish Church
  May OPUS 27 PRODUCTIONS and BULLETPROOF FILM proudly announce that their documentary production, CHILDREN IN EXILE, has received another award, a Platinum Remi Award from the Worldfest Houston International Film Festival. MORE
  May 16 Polish Bridge Club May Evening  5/16/08
  May 15 Spotkanie podsumowujace Drugi Doroczny Festiwal Polski. (...)   MORE
  May Mother's Day in the Restaurant Polonia
  May 3 Houston's Second Polish Festival
If you have broadband Internet connection and Real Player installed you can play short videos from the Second Polish Festival:
1 - Morning Hours      2 - Food, Music and more..   Polish Texans about our Festival (new Photos!)
  April 25 Dariusz Pawlas performed in Project Launch Autism Benefit Concert in The Woodlands.   PHOTOS
  April Read Marek Chodakiewicz's article written after his visit and lecture in Houston.  MORE
  April 2 Trzecia rocznica smierci Jana Pawla II.  Pope John Paul II died on April 2, 2005.  We will always remember.   Photos 1 - 2
  March 28 "Zaproszenie do tanca..." - koncert Andrzeja Grabca z udzialem Aliny Klimaszewskiej i Adama Golunskiego.
  March 27 Od roku 2006 dzieci z Polskiej Szkoly im. Mikolaja Kopernika z Houston uczestnicza w miedzynarodowym konkursie Math Kangaroo  MORE
  March 22 Easter Food Blessing is one of the traditions most Polish people in Houston treasure, carry on and enjoy every year.     Photos 1, Photos 2, Photos3
  March 15 Polish School Children trip to the Sugar Land Ice & Sport Center,     Photos 1 - Photos 2
  March Published in "Washington Times" - Ewa Thompson's commentary on Donald Tusk's visit in Washington DC.
  March 9 Pokaz Mlodych Talentow.  Dzieci graly na roznorodnych instrumentach i recytowaly polska poezje.   Wystapil rowniez znany juz wszystkim chor dzieciecy pod kierownictwem  Kasi Chalasinskiej.
  March Former Polish president and Nobel peace laureate Lech Walesa  was discharged Tuesday from a clinic in Texas, four days after doctors fitted him with a pacemaker, hospital officials said.
"It has been a long time since I have felt this good," Walesa said before leaving the Debakey Heart and Vascular Center in Houston for Mexico, where he is due to attend a youth conference.   MORE  - In the News - Photos1 - Photos 2
  February "Ameryka Wybiera 2008" - a right-on-time Warsaw University blog, where you find opinions and predictions of Polish professors and American journalists on upcoming elections. One of them:  a voice of Dr. Ewa Thompson. 
  February "Washington Times" published new Ewa Thompson's commentary The Lobby Archipelago dedicated to Alexander Solzhenitsyn and presenting a new view on the upcoming elections, particularly on the lobbying practices.
  February 15-16 The winner of the I Individual Ping Pong Tournament Houston 2008 is Tomasz Bochus who won all games. In the final game he won with  Miroslaw Kidawa (second place).  Third place took Jozef Kloc, and fourth - Cezary Kubicki.  MORE
  February 15 Polish  Bridge Club February Evening
  February 9 Published in Dziennik - Europa - Ewa Thompson's article "Po upadku"
  February 8

Tenth Annual Piano Concert featuring Miss. Kimberly Kong, laureate of the 2007 Kosciuszko National Chopin Piano Competition. Reception

  February 6 Neal Ascherson's lecture “EUROPE: HEIR TO THE AGES OR PREGNANT WIDOW?”  The lecture was about illusions and visions of what Europe was and may become.
  February 5 Sledzik w Polskiej Parafii - Polonia Restaurant gift to the New Parish Hall fund.2/5/2008
  February Polish Houstonian Leszek Gorski has been pictured on the pages of Fort Bend County Focus.  He made a history ... MORE
  Travel Notes by Stefan Nesterowicz translated to English by Houstonian Ela McNeilly has been published by Polish Genealogical Society of Texas and can be purchased online www.pgst.org
  February 8

Tenth Annual Piano Concert featuring Miss. Kimberly Kong, laureate of the 2007 Kosciuszko National Chopin Piano Competition.     Reception   

  February 5 Neal Ascherson's lecture “EUROPE: HEIR TO THE AGES OR PREGNANT WIDOW?”  The lecture was about illusions and visions of what Europe was and may become.
  February 5 Sledzik w Polskiej Parafii - Polonia Restaurant gift to the New Parish Hall fund.
  February Published in the February issue  of  Dziennik - Europa:   Ewa Thompson's article "Po upadku"
  January 27 Christmas Songs Concert performed by Polish Parish Children Choir
  January 26 Zabawa Karnawalowa in the Polish Parish   ..w sali parafialnej zamienionej  w pałac Królowej Śniegu..
  January 18 Bridge Club January Evening
  January 14 Traditional "Opłatek" in the Polish Parish.  Polish group "Adonai" performed during the gathering.

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