May 12, 2011

The fourth edition of the world festival of naive art will take place in the Katowice region of Poland. The owners of the gallery have won the bid to rehabilitate an old industrial coal mine and turn it into a large cultural space. Over the last three years the Festival in Katowice has become one of the main artistic events of the region, attracting visitors

May 24, 2010

You don’t have to go to Poland to learn how to make traditional Polish food. The Hamtramck area of Detroit is a great place to learn about the city’s Polish heritage. There are Polish bakeries and food markets specializing in Polish foods. St. Florian Roman Catholic Church is cathedral-like and beautiful especially the stained glass windows dominated by the

It is not for nothing that Gdansk, Poland has been labeled “Phoenix from the Ashes”. The photographs that hang in the Golden Gate, the stone passageway that leads into the heart of this medieval city, show a desecrated area lying in smoldering ruins. Not only has the total destruction at the hands of the Nazi’s been reversed, but the do-nothing,