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 !
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
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…..
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…..
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 !
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.
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.
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.
Talk: Out of Poland – A Holocaust Story
Part of the AUCKLAND HERITAGE FESTIVAL 2017: A H F comes to Howick
Author Jenny Harrison shares the discovery, research and writing of her book ‘Out of Poland: When the best revenge is to have survived’. “For years the brown leather suitcase had lain hidden under the house. Someone had placed it there, away from prying eyes, behind the aching twist of floor joists and gurgling pipes. When it was finally opened it would prove to be a Pandora’s Box. The present-day Siegel family knew nothing of their relatives only that they had lived and died in Poland during WW2. It was only when the suitcase was opened they finally learnt their father’s dreadful secret. He had fled to New Zealand. But did he really escape? Or was he forever haunted by what he had left behind?” Stay for morning tea, meet Jenny and look around the museum galleries.
Wednesday 4th October 10.30 to 11.30am, doors open 10am
Stay after and met Jenny, plus wander the galleries within the museum.
Free entry. All welcome.
Hosted Visit, open to individuals and small groups: join our popular guided tour of the galleries. Hear an introductory talk and watch the film ‘Poles Apart’.
The museum will open 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 The museum will stay open till 4pm. Price is $10 per person. Morning tea / coffee / biscuits included. Bookings not required.
‘Poles Apart’ (1 hour) tells the poignant story and background of 733 Polish children and 102 adults who came to live in Pahiatua, New Zealand, 1944. These survivors were forcibly deported from Poland to Russia during World War 2 then evacuated to Persia during a short amnesty. They eventually found a home in New Zealand.