My cultural portfolio of

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My cultural portfolio of
Poland
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People
Character Key national characteristics

• adaptable
• able to make the best of what is available
• devoted to style
• self-critical - they know themselves inside-out
• argumentative
• undisciplined, not follow-through
• mad romantics
• famed as magnificent fighters

Geopolitics is the chief architect of the polish
character!
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Map of Poland
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Borders

• There are 7 nations bordering on Poland
• Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine,
  Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany.
• Add two more neighbors across the Baltic
• Denmark and Sweden.
• That makes a total of 9 neighboring countries.
• Geography teachers are rumored to have a
  special salary supplement for the extra
  preparation they have in order to teach Poland's
  history of shifting borders at given times and
  which rivers are in and out.

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Poland in Europe
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Most famous people in Poland

• Lech Walesa
• Marshal Poniatowski
• Frederic Chopin
• Pope John Paul II
• Czeslaw Milosz
• Nicolas Copernicus
• and the most famous of all
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie

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Stamps of Poland

• The history of a country can be found on its
  stamps.  National icons, historical persons or
  events are commemorated on stamps. Virtually
  every stamp has a story to tell. 
• The stamps of Poland have particularly
  interesting stories to tell.

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Media

• TVP broadcasts two general TV channels
• (TVP 1 and TVP 2), a network of regional
• channels (TVP 3) and one international
• channel TVP Polonia. A new cultural channel
• TVP Kultura started in 2005 and a new sport
• channel TVP Sport was launched in 2006.
• TVP 3, TVP Polonia, TVP Kultura are
• available free across Europe,
• Poland has more than 5,000 press titles
• including national and regional dailies,
• weeklies, monthly agazines, and the
• specialized press.

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Quotes about the Poles

• There are few virtues that the Poles do not
  posses and
• few mistakes they have ever avoided
• Winston Churchill
• Not a nation, but an unsound state of mind
• Quentin Crisp

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Polish Cuisine "Jedzcie, pijcie i
popuszczajcie pasa"... "Eat, drink and loosen
your belt".
Poles boast that their two basic products are
bread and sausages.

• Bigos, Pierogi, Zrazy, golabki, kotlet schabowy
• Sernik, szarlotka, makowiec
• Vodka, the national drink, helps you to digest
  the food.

• A good Polish cook can make gourmet soup
• from a rusty nail.

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Polish products
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Polish Traditions and Customs

• Smingus Dyngus on "Easter Monday is also called
  Wet Monday"
• On this holiday, it is a tradition to try and
  pour water on friends and
• family. It's thought that those who got
  thoroughly drenched were
• those who would be blessed with good fortune.
  They would be
• cleaned of all evil and illnesses.

Barbórka, St. Barbara Feast - Miner's Day
December 4th One of the most celebrated days
St. Barbara is a patron of coal miners.
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Smingus Dyngus
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Barbórka
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Drowning Marzanna
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• Dances
• Góralski
• Krakowiak
• Kujawiak
• Mazur
• Oberek
• Polka
• Polonaise
• Zbójnicki

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Polish Sportsmen Women at Athens Olympic Games
2004 Polish Golden Silver Medallists

• Otylia Jedrzejczak, swimmer,
• She won 2 silver medals (100-m butterfly, and
  400-m
• freestyle) and one gold medal in her big race
  with a
• wonderful finish - the 200-m butterfly.
• Robert Korzeniowski won Men's 50 km walk
  finishing
• in 338.46..

Poles also won a gold medal in rowing - Tomasz
Kucharski and Robert Sycz won Men's Lightweight
Dbl Sculls.

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Important places
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Architecture
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Monuments
Memorial to the Poles murdered in the Russian
gulags.
Bolesaw I the Brave, first King of Poland
Sigismund III Vasa Column
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UNESCO World Heritage sites of Poland

• Cultural
• Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and
  Extermination Camp (1940-1945) (1979)
• Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork (1997)
• Centennial Hall in Wroclaw (2006)
• Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica (2001)
• Cracow's Historic Centre (1978)
• Historic Centre of Warsaw (1980)
• Kalwaria Zebrzydowska the Mannerist
  Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and
  Pilgrimage Park
• Medieval Town of Torun (1997)
• Muskauer Park / Park Muzakowski (2004)
• Old City of Zamosc (1992)
• Wieliczka Salt Mine (1978)
• Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland (2003)

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• The Pianist a 2002 film is an adaptation of the
  autobiography of the Jewish-Polish musician
  Wladyslaw Szpilman. The film is a co-production
  between Polish, French, German, and British film
  companies.The story had deep connections with
  director Roman Polanski because he escaped from
  the Krakow Ghetto as a child after the death of
  his mother. He ended up living in a Polish
  farmer's barn until the war's end. His father
  almost died in the camps, but they reunited after
  the end of World War II.
• The majority of the piano music heard at the film
  is Chopins music.

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Krzysztof KieslowskiZbigniew Preisner

• SONG FOR THE UNIFICATION OF EUROPE
• I Corinthians 131.?a? ta?? ???ssa?? t??
  a????p?? ?a?? ?a? t?? a??????,Tho the languages
  of men I-speak, and of angels,a??p?? de µ? ???,
  ?????a ?a???? ???? ? ??µßa??? a?a?????.love not
  I have, noisy gong I-sound and cymbal
  clanging2.?a? ea? ??? p??f?te?a? ?a? e?d? ta
  µ?st???a p??taand tho I-have prophecy, and
  understand the mysteries all?ste ???
  µe??st??a?, a??p?? de µ? ???, ??d?? e?µ?.so-as
  mountains move, love not I have, nothing
  I-am4.? a??p? µa?????µe?, ???ste?eta?the love
  suffers, behaves-with-decency,? a??p? ?? ?????,
  ?? pe?pe?e?eta?, ?? f?s???ta?,the love not
  jealous, not boastful, not full of
  pride7.p??ta st??e?, p??ta p?ste?e?, p??ta
  e?p??e?, p??ta ?p?µ??e?.all bears, all believes,
  all hopes, all endures8.? a??p? ??d?p?te
  p?pte?. e?te de p??f?te?a?, ?ata?????s??ta?.the
  love never ends. or though prophecies,
  deconsecratee?te ???ssa?, pa?s??ta?. e?te
  ???s??, ?ata?????seta?.or languages, cease. or
  knowledge, deconsecrate13.???? de µ??e?
  p?st??, e?p??, a??p?, ta t??a ta?ta.now then
  remain faith, hope, love, the three theseµe????
  de t??t?? ? a??p?.greatest of those the love
  (x3)

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European Football Championship 2012
Poland/Ukraine
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Polish EU presidency

• On the 1st July 2011 Poland will assume the
  rotating six-month presidency of the European
  Council.
• Consisting of six arrow heads directed upwards
  (perhaps symbolic for growth / progress), the
  logo was designed by the Polish graphic artist
  Jerzy Janiszewski, who created the recognisable
  Solidarnosc/Solidarity logo which can be seen in
  the Polish flag flying leftwards above the red
  arrow.

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Polish money
Frederic Chopin on Polish banknotes
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The City of Ruins

Warsaw after the German destruction

• The City of Ruins
• An animated reconstruction produced by the Warsaw
  
• Rising Museum, which shows a birds eye view of
  Warsaw
• after the German destruction. The whole city,
  with all its
• circulating life, is a compelling symbol of the
  will of the
• Polish people.
• Today, the picturesque old town of Warsaw is a
• formidable reconstruction made by the Polish
  Communist
• government in the 50s of the last century,
  mainly based on
• paintings by the Venetian Bernardo Bellotto,
  Polish court
• painter since 1764, who drew it rather for the
  sake of
• aesthetics than urban fidelity.

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The City of Ruins