Events & workshops

Dec
17
Sun
‘Christmas in Poland’ workshop for family/adults 2017
Dec 17 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

 

This workshop starts at 2pm and runs till 4pm, please ring to book. $8per person including all adults.

Come celebrate a Polish Christmas with us, hear stories traditions and make 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…..

Mar
18
Sun
Let’s celebrate Polish Easter with crafts, in Howick
Mar 18 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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 !

(Please note:Children must be accompanied with an adult)

 

Mar
25
Sun
Let’s celebrate Polish Easter with crafts, in Howick
Mar 25 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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 !

(Please note:Children must be accompanied with an adult)

 

Apr
27
Fri
‘Hidden Treasures’ workshop family event
Apr 27 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Family workshop

Discover an Iron Age lake fort, Vikings and the hidden jewels of an emperor in Poland.

Poland has a long and rich history of fossils and artefacts buried in its rich multi-cultural heritage. Learn how some fascinating discoveries were made by ordinary people. See a re-created open air working museum in the slideshow presentation. Then construct your own craft treasures to take home.

To book: please ph 09 533 3530 or email phtmuseum@outlook.com

Ages 5-adult    (All children to be accompanied by an adult please)

$8 per person, including adults. Materials provided.

Cash or internet banking (sorry no Eftpos or credit card)

Held indoors at Polish Heritage Trust Museum, 125 Elliot St, Howick, Auckland

Free off-street parking, seating, restrooms and wheelchair access available.

Apr
29
Sun
‘Hidden Treasures’ workshop family event
Apr 29 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Family workshop

Discover an Iron Age lake fort, Vikings and the hidden jewels of an emperor in Poland.

Poland has a long and rich history of fossils and artefacts buried in its rich multi-cultural heritage. Learn how some fascinating discoveries were made by ordinary people. See a re-created open air working museum in the slideshow presentation. Then construct your own craft treasures to take home.

To book: please ph 09 533 3530 or email phtmuseum@outlook.com

Ages 5-adult    (All children to be accompanied by an adult please)

$8 per person, including adults. Materials provided.

Cash or internet banking (sorry no Eftpos or credit card)

Held indoors at Polish Heritage Trust Museum, 125 Elliot St, Howick, Auckland

Free off-street parking, seating, restrooms and wheelchair access available.

May
13
Sun
AOEF Exhibition: Ceramika 13-27 May 2018
May 13 @ 12:00 pm – May 27 @ 5:00 pm

This exhibition is part of the Arts Out East Festival 2018

View delightful styles of Polish ceramics, from hand-painted Boleslawiec blue dot tableware, famous in Europe for several hundred years, to regional Kashubian plates and a vintage folk-art floral teapot.

The other galleries in the museum will also be open.

Entry by Donation

 

May
17
Thu
AOEF ‘Folk Art Paper Cut-outs’ workshop
May 17 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

This Event is part of Arts Out East Festival 2018

Polish decorative paper cut-outs belong to the most beautiful in the world. Traditionally they were made by hand, without drawing the lines first and cut with sheep-shearing scissors.

Come create with paper and scissors:
•Take home 2 art works.
•Watch a short presentation
•Designs based on the Lowicz and Kurpie regions of Poland

$8.00 per person includes all materials.
Bookings preferred, please phone 09-533.3530 or email phtmuseum@outlook.com

Adults can lead into the monthly Friday paper-cutters group. Please contact PHTM for more details about FPC.

May
18
Fri
AOEF ‘Folk Art Paper Cut-outs’ workshop
May 18 @ 10:00 am – 12:15 pm

Event part of  Arts Out East Festival 2018

Polish decorative paper cut-outs belong to the most beautiful in the world. Traditionally they were made by hand, without drawing the lines first and cut with sheep-shearing scissors.

Come create with paper and scissors:
•Take home 2 art works.
•Watch a short presentation
•Designs based on the Lowicz and Kurpie regions of Poland

$8.00 per person includes all materials.
Bookings preferred, please phone 09-533.3530 or email phtmuseum@outlook.com

Adults can lead into the monthly Friday paper-cutters group. Please contact PHTM for more details about FPC.

Aug
2
Thu
The Soviet Story : Polish Films in Howick
Aug 2 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

”Soviet Story’ is the most powerful antidote yet to the sanitation of the past.

This film is gripping, audacious and uncompromising.’ The Economist

This is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.

Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th 1945. Its crimes were made taboo and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told till now.

Mature audience only.

 

 

Aug
16
Thu
Warsaw Uprising 44 & Forgotten Odyssey
Aug 16 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

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‘Battle of Warsaw – Uprising in 1944 / Bitwa o Warszawe – Powstanie w 44’ dir. Wanda Koscia (2005). History of the Warsaw Uprising, the bloodiest military action taken by the only underground army in occupied Europe.

The history of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising presented from the perspective of participants, mainly insurgents who in a lively, involved and emotional way talk about their experiences, fate of their friends and their beloved city. The story is also told from 2 other perspectives, a German soldier, who participated in the brutal suppression of the Warsaw’s quarter Wola and a British pilot and   member of the British Military Mission in Moscow.

Their accounts allow their views to reconstruct a dramatic story of the  uprising and the personal dramas of its participants.Produced in Poland and Great Britain. (47 min)

PLUS

‘A Forgotten Odyssey’ dir. Jagna Wright (2000). In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labour camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived.

They tell their stories. The main destinations of these transports were Archangelsk and Kazakhstan. In some cases, the deportees were just dumped in the middle of a forest and told to build their own shelters. In other cases, they were moved to various collective farms called “kolhozs” (collectivnoye hoziaystvo).

It is estimated that slightly more than 100,000 people were later transported to Pahlevi, Persia, via the Caspian Sea. Roughly half were soldiers and half civilians. This constitutes about 7 percent of all Polish citizens who were in Russia between September 1939 and June 1941.

How many remained in Russia, how many died, how many were allowed to return to Poland after the war can be only speculated. (52 min)