Urszula Lang and Prof. Andrzej Kozek, two members of Kosciuszko Heritage, gave a presentation at the Australian National University in Canberra on July 28.
The presentation “The Significance of Mt Kosciuszko as a Special Place to the Polish Community in Australia” addressed the theme of this year’s ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium: “Valuing Heritage: Advocating for Community Attachment in Planning.”
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The 2013 Kosciuszko festival has been added to the events section of the VisitNSW website.
VisitNSW is described as “the official tourism site for Destination New South Wales, a department of NSW Government”. The listing means that the festival has the potential to reach many new prospective participants, as the website attracts over 7 million visits a year.
Next year’s Kosciuszko festival will celebrate the centenary of the first Mass on Mount Kosciuszko.
The proposed festival events include a solemn Mass on the mountain, a fraternity flight, a special piano recital with a guest from the U.S., a concert, a laser show, and more.…
The work of Kosciuszko Heritage was praised at the 44th Congress of the General Council of the Polish Community of Australia, on June 2, 2012.
The president of the General Council, Janusz Rygielski, commended Kosciuszko Heritage for its efforts in building bridges between different multicultural communities in Australia, especially between the Aboriginal and Polish communities.
A recent submission to the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) has been successful at last and, after 45 years, the ADB has finally rectified incorrect statements in the biography of Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki written in 1967 by Helen Heney.…
Felix Molski, a member of Kosciuszko Heritage, has met two American cultural figures connected with Kosciuszko: Roy Eaton and Alex Storozynski.
At a literary meeting with Alex Storozynski, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, Felix discussed the activities of Kosciuszko Heritage with Roy Eaton, an American pianist, composer and producer.
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