U.S. Embassy Warsaw

Kolja Saksida (Slowenia) - ArtsLink 2008 - w MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) w Nowym Jorku

Nowojorska organizacja CEC ArtsLink, jeszcze do 1 grudnia, 2009 roku przyjmuje podania na dwa bardzo ciekawe programy: ArtsLink Residencies 2010 i ArtsLink Independent Projects. ArtsLink Residencies to elitarny,
5-tygodniowy program rezydencji
w jednej z uznanych organizacji artystycznych w Stanach Zjednoczonych, gdzie artyści przyjeżdżający z zagranicy współpracują z goszczącymi ich Amerykanami. ArtsLink Independent Projects to osobny program w ramach którego oferowane są dotacje w wysokości do 5 tys. USD przeznaczone na konkretne projekty dla wybranych kandydatów spełniających odpowiednie kryteria. Tutaj można znaleźć więcej informacji na temat kryteriów i wymaganej dokumentacji (informacje po angielsku).

Ze względu na ogromne zainteresowanie programem i dużą konkurencję, należy spodziewać się rygorystycznego procesu selekcji kandydatów, jednak gorąco zachęcamy do składania podań.

The U.S. Embassy and the Polish-American Fulbright Commission will sponsor a conference on Perspectives in Polish – U.S. Academic Exchange, at the Warsaw University Library (ul. Dobra 56/60) on November 18^th. The conference is part of International Education Week, announced by the State Department and EducationUSA program. The morning session is tailored to representatives of Polish universities, scholars and international relations offices, while the afternoon session to prospective Polish students. The conference will expand knowledge on the many possibilities of academic cooperation between the United States and Poland and will continue the dialogue on exchanges among universities and students from Poland and United States. Speakers will include Counselor for Press and Culture Lisa Helling; Cultural Attaché Chuck Ashley; a representative of the Consular Section of the Embassy; Dr. Donald C. Martin, the author of the ‘Road Map for Graduate Study’; current Fulbrighters (Polish and U.S. university professors and scholars) as well as a representative of The Kosciuszko Foundation and Fulbright Executive Director Andrzej Dakowski.

Various brochures, leaflets and publications on education in the US, scholarships and financial aid for international students will also be available.

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is in Germany today to mark the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that symbolizes the collapse of communism throughout Europe. To mark this historic event, the Atlantic Council hosted the “Freedom’s Challenge: A Gala Banquet and Awards Ceremony” yesterday in Berlin, which was attended by Lech Walesa on behalf of the Polish people. Secretary Clinton attended the gala as keynote speaker. View the Secretary’s Travel Diary Blog on visiting Berlin (in English).

Also view the Department of State’s International Information Program’s Publication: The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later (in English), which highlights events that led to the collapse of communism in Poland and throughout Central and Eastern Europe.

“I Will Remember That Day All My Life” by Adam Michnik

Excerpt: “I wrote it was a great holiday: In the perennial struggle between man and barbed wire, today man triumphed and the barbed wire was defeated.”

“Those Were The Days, My Friend” by Anna Husarska

Excerpt: “November 9, 1989, is the date most potently associated with the end of the unjust oppression of half of Europe. But the Wall began to crack back in 1980 when the Polish trade union Solidarity was created at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk…”

Legacy of 1989 Must Be Defended by Janusz Bugajski

“Although Solidarity was temporarily stifled and driven underground, its mass membership and farsighted leadership demonstrated that the days of Soviet-imposed communism were numbered.”