An adult group that meets on the first Friday each month, looks at various types of wycinanki or cut-outs, using paper and scissors, a traditional Polish folk art $10pp includes a cuppa. A warm welcome awaits you. Try something new, come create with paper and scissors. New members are welcome any time as we work at our own pace, materials and designs provided. We meet on the first Friday of the month. Polish decorative paper cut-outs belong to the most beautiful in the world. Traditionally they were made by hand, without drawing the design first, cutting out using sheep-sheering scissors.
- New members can watch a short presentation
- Designs based on the Lowicz and Kurpie regions of Poland
- Beginners workshop is also available throughout the year, gather your group together and make a booking, a date and time to suit you.
- Ideal class for children’s birthday parties too! 8plus, can be available on some Saturdays
For enquiries and bookings please phone 533 3530 or email us.
Museum hours Tue to Fri 10-4 and Sun12-5
Enjoy your school holidays with this amazing film. ‘ In Desert and Wilderness’ is an adaptation of the popular young adult novel, in Polish called ‘W pustyni i w puszczy’ written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Beautiful photography. Film recommended for 7-8 years+
The main characters are fourteen year-old Stas Tarkowski and eight-year-old Nel Rawlinson who are thrilled to be with their fathers in the exotic land of Egypt. The palm trees and beaches offer a welcome change from the chills of Europe and the children are fascinated by the different languages and religions that make up the cultural fabric of North Africa….
For more details give us a call
Museum Hours: Tues – Fri 10-4 Sun 12-5
by Lindy Fisher
In house lesson: Identity/Migration: Polish children arrive in 1944
You are warmly invited to a Teacher Only Session for the Learning Outside The Classroom, PHTM educational programme called Stefania For Schools’ based on the book Stefania’s Dancing Slippers by Jennifer Beck and illustrated by Lindy Fisher.
Primary / Intermediate teachers and home educators are invited to visit the Polish Museum for a presentation, in preparation for student visits in 2017 . Experience the ‘Stefania for Schools’ lesson called Identity/Migration: Polish children arrive in 1944 with slideshow, objects and artworks, linked to the NZ school curriculum.
These free sessions are also available on request for your school team.
For bookings/enquiries and alternative dates email phtmuseum@ihug.co.nz or call Lynette on 533 3530.
This programmes is age appropriate from Years 3-8, age group 7-13 years old
Coffee/tea available.
Museum building
‘Stara Basn’ or ‘When the Sun was God’ is an outstanding story, with fast action, bloody battles, romance, territorial feuds, exceptional visual scenes and spectacular costumes.
Stara Basn, produced and directed by Jerzy Hoffman, presents us with one of Poland’s oldest legends on film. This is a story from Poland’s prehistory pagan time; a story that has been told and re-told and Hoffman does a fantastic retelling of this story on film, giving the viewer an indication of how Poland was back then.
In this powerful tale, the fates of the characters interlace in an everlasting fight between the good and the evil and in the human passions of love, hatred and the greed for power.
If you enjoy historical movies you have to watch this one..
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.
Zosia, a contemporary and smart young woman has an unusual gift, a gift of making every man fall in love with her.
They are all ready to abandon their normal, everyday lives and surrender to the temptation and fight for Zosia’s heart.
And she knows how to use her hopeless admirers’ blind attraction.
But she meets Mateusz, then she discovers what love is, how strong it can be and how deeply it possesses time, thoughts and the heart.
An adult group that meets on the first Friday each month, looks at various types of wycinanki or cut-outs, using paper and scissors, a traditional Polish folk art $10pp includes a cuppa. A warm welcome awaits you. Try something new, come create with paper and scissors. New members are welcome any time as we work at our own pace, materials and designs provided. We meet on the first Friday of the month. Polish decorative paper cut-outs belong to the most beautiful in the world. Traditionally they were made by hand, without drawing the design first, cutting out using sheep-sheering scissors.
- New members can watch a short presentation
- Designs based on the Lowicz and Kurpie regions of Poland
- Beginners workshop is also available throughout the year, gather your group together and make a booking, a date and time to suit you.
- Ideal class for children’s birthday parties too! 8plus, can be available on some Saturdays
For enquiries and bookings please phone 533 3530 or email us.
Museum hours Tue to Fri 10-4 and Sun12-5
Pan Tadeusz or Mr Tadeusz, recounts the story of two feuding noble families and the love between Tadeusz Soplica (the title character) of one family, and Zosia of the other. Beautiful scenes and period costumes make this a must see…
The subplot involves a spontaneous revolt of the local inhabitants against the occupying Russian garrison.
The story takes place over the course of five days in 1811 and one day in 1812 at a point in Polish history, when Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth had already been divided between Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The scene is set in the Lithuanian village of Soplicowo.
A 10 year Karol Wojtyla in the 1930’s in Poland, has dreams, many dreams. One by one they are shattered. First, by the loss of his mother and brother. Then by the outbreak of war and the death-fleeing exodus that ensued. And finally by the first sign of Jewish persecution.
These events will mark Karol’s long journey from worker, to poet and to teacher. A journey full of encounters that eventually leads him to become the man we all knew. A man who has marked an era. A man who has made history.
Karol Wojtyla, whose tireless fight for humanity and basic fundamental rights begins with the German invasion of his native Poland in 1939.
Appalled at the brutal treatment afforded his Jewish friends, Karol turns to his religion as a means of making a difference in the world, and with the help of several other like-minded individuals mounts a non-violent, but extremely effective, anti-Nazi resistance.
Ordained as a priest at war’s end, Karol finds himself fighting another form of Godless totalitarianism, this one from the Communists who have overtaken his country.
Ultimately, Father Karol Wojtyla’s noble mission culminates in his being elected as Pope John Paul II in 1978 and it was surely no coincidence that Poland’s liberation was now but a matter of time.
2 screenings – watch in one sitting on Sunday 13th August 2-5pm or return Wednesday afternoon 16th August 1-4pm
Polish Museum, 125 Elliot St, Howick phone 09 533 3530.
Entry by cash donation or internet banking
This film is being shown on the exact feast day being August 15th.
‘Our Lady of Czestochowa’, is a religious film showing the history of the monastery and sanctuary of Jasna Gora in Czestochowa, Poland. The film takes you on a tour of Poland’s greatest religious shrine, including those places which are not accessible to ordinary visitors. This film helps to understand the unique phenomenon of the Jasna Gora sanctuary
The Black Madonna Icon is a 122 x 82cm painting on a wooden panel which is shrouded by richly ornamented jeweled robes, legends and miracles.
It is believed that Poland is under protection of The Black Madonna painting. A famous Catholic icon celebrated by Polish people on 15th August each year.
Story about a Pilgrimage to Czestochowa, Poland
The tradition of pilgrimages to Czestochowa, a famous Marian sanctuary (also commonly known by the name of Jasna Gora, or the Bright Mountain) is a long and diverse in Poland.
The most characteristic form of devotion is the summer walking pilgrimages to the sanctuary, when people from all over the country set off to walk in organized groups to this very special place. The experience involves hours or days of walking but there’s much more to do than just walk. The friars organize lectures on the way, focusing on various aspects of Catholic spirituality.
Perhaps the most striking feature of such an experience, it is the attitudes of people you inevitably meet on the way. From sharing drinking water or carrying your backpack for a while, to just being there to listen when you need it – but also inhabitants of local villages that pilgrimage passes through offer vast assistance, provide meals and places to stay overnight. Thus the way to the sanctuary becomes at least equally important to finally reaching it – another nice parable to the Christian way of life.
The experience is open to anyone who would like to participate in the pilgrim each August. There are some foreign guests – from the US, France, Finland, Philippines. Just bring yourself a pair of comfortable shoes – and you can start walking. Text by Kamila (Warsaw, Poland)