Events & workshops

Dec
20
Sun
Christmas in Poland – family and adults
Dec 20 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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Workshop for families and adults too, all Welcome.

‘Christmas in Poland’  Stories Traditions and Decorations, using paper and wool

  • Make wool spiders and paper chains with a twist for your own Christmas tree.
  • Create your own unique paper Christmas start to hang
  • Taste the Polish ginger biscuit called Pierniki
  • Learn some Christmas Eve traditions, watching the first star and Wigilia supper

Workshop is available for adults and/or children during the week a time and date to suit you…..

Mar
13
Sun
Let’s celebrate Easter with traditional crafts
Mar 13 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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A family fun activity, for bookings phone 533 3530   $8 per person starts 2pm and finishes 4pm, 2 hours of craft

  • Design your own Polish Easter Egg        What is pisanki? It’s a Polish word for…?
  • Create an Easter Palm from paper        Taste Mazurek, a Polish Easter cake
  • What is smingus-dyngus? It’s something fun!

Adults without children are welcome too !

 

Mar
20
Sun
Let’s celebrate Easter with traditional crafts
Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Painted Easter eggs photo Ellen for website

A family fun activity, for bookings phone 533 3530   $8 per person starts 2pm and finishes 4pm, 2 hours of craft

  • Design your own Polish Easter Egg        What is pisanki? It’s a Polish word for…?
  • Create an Easter Palm from paper        Taste Mazurek, a Polish Easter cake
  • What is smingus-dyngus? It’s something fun!

Adults without children are welcome too !

 

Nov
18
Fri
3D Christmas stars workshop
Nov 18 @ 10:00 am – 12:15 pm

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Come join us, the ‘Friday Paper Cutters’ adult group extra class for Christmas, making 3D stars for your Christmas tree.

We  usually meet on the first Friday of the month for the traditional Polish paper cut-out technique  called Wycinanki.

All materials supplied for the 3D class

Bookings appreciated so I can prepare materials  for you, 09 533 3530

Includes a cuppa All Welcome

Dec
11
Sun
‘Christmas in Poland’ workshop for family/adults
Dec 11 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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Stories Traditions and Decorations, using paper and wool

Workshop for families and individual adults too

  • Make wool spiders and paper chains with a twist for your own Christmas tree.
  • Create your own unique paper Christmas start
  • Taste the Polish ginger biscuit called Pierniki
  • Learn some Christmas Eve traditions, watching the first star and Wigilia supper

Workshop is available for adults and/or children during the week a time and date to suit you…..

Dec
18
Sun
‘Christmas in Poland’ workshop for family/adults 2016
Dec 18 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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This workshop starts at 2pm and runs till 4pm, please ring to book.

Stories Traditions and Decorations, using paper and wool

Workshop for families and individual adults too

  • Make wool spiders and paper chains with a twist for your own Christmas tree.
  • Create your own unique paper Christmas start
  • Taste the Polish ginger biscuit called Pierniki
  • Learn some Christmas Eve traditions, watching the first star and Wigilia supper

Workshop is available for adults and/or children during the week a time and date to suit you…..

Apr
2
Sun
Let’s celebrate Easter with traditional crafts
Apr 2 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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A family fun activity, for bookings phone 533 3530   $8 per person starts 2pm and finishes 4pm, 2 hours of craft

  • Design your own Polish Easter Egg        What is pisanki? It’s a Polish word for…?
  • Create an Easter Palm from paper        Taste Mazurek, a Polish Easter cake
  • What is smingus-dyngus? It’s something fun!

Adults without children are welcome too !

 

Apr
9
Sun
Workshop: Easter Traditions of Poland
Apr 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Creative Polish Easter Workshop2

A family fun activity, for bookings phone 533 3530   $8 per person starts 2pm and finishes 4pm

Looking for something more than chocolate eggs. Join us in a fun and creative 2 hours of crafting and more, for all the family. Individual adults without children are welcome too!

  • Design your own Polish Easter Egg        What is pisanki? It’s a Polish word for…?
  • Create an Easter Palm from paper        Taste Mazurek, a Polish Easter cake
  • What is smingus-dyngus? It’s something fun!

To secure your place please contact us, by phone or email, thanks.

 

 

Jul
25
Tue
Guided Tour, Talk and film ‘Overcoming Fate’
Jul 25 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Join our popular guided tour of the galleries, includes talk & film’ Overcoming Fate’

With Subtitles.

Hosted visit, open to individuals and small groups up to 8.

The museum opens at 10am, we will serve morning tea and start with a talk at 10.15am, the event will finish around 12noon, with free time to wander the exhibits.

$10 per person. Morning tea/coffee and biscuits included. Bookings not required.

See this deeply moving, creative and contemporary film interpretation of the Polish Pahiatua children’s story, as recalled 70 years on.

‘The heroes of my film are Polish children who survived deportation to Siberia together with their families, and then, as a result of exile in wartime, went to the port of Wellington [in New Zealand]’ says director Marek Lechowicz. ‘Most of these children lost their loved ones and have not yet visited the homeland’.

This hauntingly creative interpretation of the children’s stories, recalled 70 years later by participants, is accompanied by documentary footage and contemporary poetic and artistic works.

‘Overcoming Fate’ was filmed around New Zealand and in Poland. Screened nationwide on Polish television, it marks a milestone in national consciousness due to the former communist government’s suppression of Soviet involvement in the deportation of Polish families.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aug
22
Tue
Guided Tour, Talk and film ‘Overcoming Fate’
Aug 22 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Join our popular guided tour of the galleries, includes talk & film’ Overcoming Fate’

With Subtitles.

Hosted visit, open to individuals and small groups up to 8. Larger groups please book with staff.

The museum opens at 10am, we will serve morning tea and start with a talk at 10.15am, the event will finish around 12noon, with free time to wander the exhibits.

$10 per person. Morning tea/coffee and biscuits included. Bookings not required.

See this deeply moving, creative and contemporary film interpretation of the Polish Pahiatua children’s story, as recalled 70 years on.

‘The heroes of my film are Polish children who survived deportation to Siberia together with their families, and then, as a result of exile in wartime, went to the port of Wellington [in New Zealand]’ says director Marek Lechowicz. ‘Most of these children lost their loved ones and have not yet visited the homeland’.

This hauntingly creative interpretation of the children’s stories, recalled 70 years later by participants, is accompanied by documentary footage and contemporary poetic and artistic works.

‘Overcoming Fate’ was filmed around New Zealand and in Poland. Screened nationwide on Polish television, it marks a milestone in national consciousness due to the former communist government’s suppression of Soviet involvement in the deportation of Polish families.