Chopin Theatre kontynuje swoja tradycje udostepniania bezplatnych biletow dla polskich emigrantow.

Tym razem na spektakl " Dream King" w wykonaniu Teatro Vista, na spektakl w sobote 10-g0 czerwca o godz. 8.00.

Zabawny i fantazyjny spektakl zamieszcza rowniez polskie tlumaczenie. Grane 5 dni w tygodniu przedstawienie jest wysoce rekomendowane przez chicagowskie media.

Wspanialy, czarujacy, zabawny i gleboko wzryszajacy spektakl - Chicago SunTimes

Dream King wzruszy Cie i jednoczesnie zabawi - Chicago Reader

Dream King zabierze Cie na Magiczny musical - Third Coast Review

"No other music festival in Chicago feels quite like the All Souls event...it's loud and raucous, soft and introspective, freely experimental and openly nostalgic.." - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune

Featuring Joachim Mencel on "Brooklyn Eye US Tour" with Pete McCann, Ugonna Okegwo and Quin Kirchner.

Tickets $52, $38 (Students).

More info: All Souls Jazz, 773-457-7267

Sobota 10/01 8.00. Niedziela 10/02 3.00

Komedio - Dramat "Marlin Monroe -Czy naprawde tak bylo " to od 60 lat tajemnica / zagadka , prawda ? , tez chcemy wiedziec jak bylo naprawde . Wspaniala aktorka o ktorej - po tylu latach , ciagle sie mowi . Brak milosci to odwieczny temat tego swiata. Zapraszamy.

Bilety $40 

Nelson Algren fountain cover on the Polish Triangle, which is located across from Chopin Theatre, has seen better days. It was deteriorated, unsafe and depressing. So we decided to do something about it to make you smile!....

Dear Friends,

We hope you're spending Thanksgiving weekend in happiness and safely surrounded by your closest ones during these critical times. Perhaps this also could be a time for reflection of our bigger, human family as well.

Recently I was honored to be a very small part of this extraordinary exhibition, Begins A Scar, a collaboration between world renown photographer Sandro Miller and poet and recipient of Library of Congress Bobbitt Prize Patricia Smith. It confronts the issue of name calling and the scars that follow. I have been identified by some of those names but I fully realize that other peoples "names" are much more devastating and have long lasting effects on their lives.

Hope that those powerful photographs and overwhelming poem brings more empathy to the subject.

Photos - Sandro Miller.  Poem - Patricia Smith

21st YEAR

Mon 11/4/19 @ 7p - "No other music festival in Chicago feels quite like the All Souls event...it's loud and raucous, soft and introspective, freely experimental and openly nostalgic.." - H. Reich, Chicago Tribune

Tickets $52, $38 (Students). More info: All Souls Jazz, 773-457-7267

Kaeyra invites you to celebrate her 18th birthday. Lot of music, special guests and surprises. After party with food and birthday cake.

Doors 8pm, Concert 9pm
Tix: $30/$10 (age 18, under)

W związku z wydaniem wizy koncert został czasowo odroczony. Prosimy o kontakt z organizatorem, HUB kultura w hubkultura@gmail.com, 773-370-2015.  (Due to a Visa issue this concert has been temporarily postponed.  Please contact the organizer, HUB Kultura at hubkultura@gmail.com, 773-370-2015).

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To będzie niezwykły koncert. Subtelnie ułożony. Z piosenkami filmowymi, polskimi przebojami oraz autorskimi utworami artystki.   Olga Bończyk w Chicago już 2 i 3 lutego 2019 r. Bilety na www.hubkultura.com lub pod nr. tel. (773) 370-2015

Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) presents it's Annual Awards Banquet on Saturday January 5th at 7pm at Chopin Theatre.  Reserve -  pien.v@polishamericanstudies.org or JacquesM@ccsu.edu.

Tickets are $45/ppl. Awardees are complimentary.

(Note: This Awards Banquet is held at separate location from the Conference. Details below)

TEATR NASZ z Chicago zaprasza na spektakl „Bal w operze" w inscenizacji i reżyserii Andrzeja Krukowskiego.
Ten poemat Tuwima, choć napisany lekko i rytmicznie, ze względu na tematykę jaką ze sobą niesie, sprawia reżyserom niemałe trudności realizacyjne. Andrzejowi Krukowskiemu, dzięki Jego niesamowitej wizji udało się temu tekstowi nadać drugi wymiar. Spektakl pomimo, że grany po polsku, jest tak bogaty wizualnie, że widz władający innym językiem będzie poruszony obrazem, który zobaczy. Momentami zabawnym, ale przede wszystkim wzruszającym i skłaniającym do krytycznego myślenia.

Ten spektakl nie pozostawia nikogo obojętnym na to co zobaczy.

Jak napisał Piotr Kukuła w recenzji dla Dziennika Związkowego „ten spektakl po prostu trzeba przeżyć".

„Bal w operze" to katastroficzny poemat Juliana Tuwima, przez wielu krytyków oceniany jako arcydzieło XX-wiecznej literatury polskiej. Napisany w 1936 roku, w całości wydany dopiero w 1982 roku.

Datek/Kotylion: $38

20TH YEAR
Mon 11/5/18 @ 7p - "No other music festival in Chicago feels quite like the All Souls event...it's loud and raucous, soft and introspective, freely experimental and openly nostalgic.." - H. Reich, Chicago Tribune

Tickets $52/$38. More info: All Souls Jazz, 773-457-7267

Fri June 15th @ 7pm - Chopin Theatre invites you to join us for a absolutely casual evening of film with good food, cocktails and dance music as award winning filmmakers Adrian Prawica & Rafal Muskala celebrate the release of their new documentary film "A Night on Milwaukee Ave."  Event is co-sponsored by Polish American Congress IL Division who cordially invites its members as well as all of Polonia to relive those happy, vibrant times of Polish music clubs along Milwaukee Avenue.  You'll see rare footage of live performances and interviews with the music Kings & Queens of those times.

Limited tickets, one night only! Tickets $40 includes screening, food, other activities.  Cash bar. 

More info - 847.825.6222 (Ewa Cholewinski) or 847.212.2661 (Jacek Graca)

Sun June 20th 2pm - 4pm. ABC Music Academy holds Finalist Competition with youth presentations of classical works.

More details/reservations - Joanna Szepelawy 630-440-0161

Fri May 11th, 8p - Join us for a evening of film, live music and fun at the historic Chopin Theatre in Wicker Park as award winning filmmakers Adrian Prawica & Rafal Muskala celebrate the release of their new documentary film "A Night on Milwaukee Ave."

Tickets $45/ea. More info: 773-724-0867 or amerykafilm@gmail.com

Mon, 3/26/18 7pm to 10pm - Enjoy a talk with award-winning author, Bernadette McDonald on one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated and reclusive mountaineers, Voytek Kurtyka. 

Afterwards stay for JUREK, a film chronicling the life of Jerzy Kukuczka considered among the world's best mountain climbers (85 mins. In Polish with English subtitles).

The night ends with a complimentary reception, cash bar and book signing.

Tickets $10/ea

Private piano recital - invitation only

Sun Nov 19th @ 7p - Andrzej Dylewski releases a new CD, My American Mirage, a homage to  Chicago's Cardinal Club where Polish music and American Rock & Roll flourished.

Tix $20.  More info: 773-405-3190

Sep 2nd, 10am - Chopin Theatre hosts its 3rd annual discussion series, "The End and the Beginning".  This year's theme -- "Phony War and Fake News", will focus on the world's media reaction to the attack on Poland and the outbreak of WWII  -- which ultimately cost over 70 million lives worldwide.  The aim of our event is to commemorate the tragedy of the Nazi invasion of Poland but at the same time put into broader discussion how media shape reality, what is the nature of propaganda and how fake news can be a perfect tool of social manipulation.  

Complimentary event. Reservation encouraged.

Teatr Scena Polonia przedstawia
AMERYKAŃSKA PRAPREMIERA wyśmienitej komedii o
DAMSKO-MĘSKICH relacjach pt. ,,MĘŻCZYZNA IDEALNY"

Komedia, która odkryje przed Wami wszystko to, czego chcieliście się dowiedzieć o relacjach damsko-męskich, ale baliście się zapytać!

BILETY: 630 201 8821 www.scenapolonia.com

Sat May 20th 10a-3p - ABC Music Academy presents Finalists Competition with youth presentations of classical works.

More details/reservations - Joanna Szepelawy 630-440-0161

KAEYRA.com - "This concert is dedicated to all the artists that sadly passed away. I will be covering and arranging classics from Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Prince and more. I will be joined extraordinary singer Chris Lee who plays in Hamilton. And the amazing band,  Charlie Coffeen and friends. All money gathered on this concert goes towards my EP coming soon"

Sun May 14th @ 5p

Tix $10 (students); $25; $40 VIP

Sat Jan 14th 8pm - Although, according to the calendar Christmas days are over, the Christmas spirit is still in the air. In the Polish tradition Christmas carols are alive throughout the whole of January. Following those customs, "CONSONANS" group with vocalist Barbara Panecka invites you to an evening of Polish and American Christmas carols and songs.

Tickets $20; more information 773-771-2220

Sat Jan 30th - Special benefit performance of Slawomir Mrozek's "Out at Sea" about four men stranded on a raft whom must decide, through various political manipulations, whom to justly devour.  Tickets $25/$30 (at door).  All proceeds benefit Polish Museum of America. 

Sat 1/16 has moved to 630pm, Jackson Junge Gallery 1389 N. Milwaukee (3 blocks N of Chopin Theatre). Sun 1/17 has been cancelled.

Dec 12-Jan 16, Sat 8p; Sun 4p(no shows Jan 2 & 3) - Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy about 4 people stranded on a raft trying, through various social and political manipulations, to decide whom they can justly devour.  There are many different intrepretations of this comedy most of them very relevant to the upcoming Presidential election.   

"Out at Sea" has previewed at Chopin  Theatre and presented at School of the Art Institute Chicago; University of Ill Chicago; NIU-Dekalb; Indiana Univ Northwest; Loyola University Chicago; Chicago High School for the Arts and in living and conference rooms across Illinois. 

The 2015 production is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago, WPB SSA#33 and Chopin Theatre.

Sat Feb 27th - Chopin Theatre has the pleasure to celebrate the birthday of the great Polish composer and pianist, Fryderyk Chopin with music and a birthday party.  

With Grazyna Auguscik Group presenting famous jazz interpretations of Chopin's music along with other jazz tunes.  Evening begins with up & coming musicians Caroline & the Priority led by pianist/vocalist Caroline Baran.   And Roosevelt University faculty member and international winning pianist Jana Pavlovska performing her favorite Chopin Nocturnes.  Complimentary reception is due to the generoisty of Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago. The night concludes with a special, for this occassion, designed cake created by Oak Mill Bakery and Champagne toast. And of course Zywiec beer.

Tickets - $25/$15 (students)

Wed Dec 16th @ 230p - Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy about 4 people stranded on a raft trying, through various social and political manipulations, to decide whom they can justly devour.  There are many different interpretations of this comedy most of them very relevant to the upcoming Presidential election.    

Chopin Theatre is touring this one-act production. “Out at Sea” has already been staged at Indiana University Northwest, Northern Illinois University, Loyola University’s Lakeshore Campus, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago High School for the Arts, and Studio Gang Architects.  Coming soon to an unexpected, intimate location near you!

   
This 2015 production is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago, WPB SSA#33 and Chopin Theatre.

Tue Dec 1th @ 5p - Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy about 4 people stranded on a raft trying, through various social and political manipulations, to decide whom they can justly devour.  There are many different interpretations of this comedy most of them very relevant to the upcoming Presidential election.    
 
Chopin Theatre is touring this one-act production.  “Out at Sea” has already been staged at Indiana University Northwest, Northern Illinois University, Loyola University’s Lakeshore Campus, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago High School for the Arts, and Studio Gang Architects.  Coming soon to an unexpected, intimate location near you!

   
This 2015 production is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago, WPB SSA#33 and Chopin Theatre.

Tue Dec 15th @ 12n - Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy about 4 people stranded on a raft trying, through various social and political manipulations, to decide whom they can justly devour.  There are many different interpretations of this comedy most of them very relevant to the upcoming Presidential election.    
 
The Chopin Theatre is touring this one-act production.  “Out at Sea” has already been staged at Indiana University Northwest, Northern Illinois University, Loyola University’s Lakeshore Campus, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago High School for the Arts, and Studio Gang Architects.  Coming soon to an unexpected, intimate location near you!

This 2015 production is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago, WPB SSA#33 and Chopin Theatre.

Sat Dec 12th @ 8p - Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy about 4 people stranded on a raft trying, through various social and political manipulations, to decide whom they can justly devour.  There are many different interpretations of this comedy most of them very relevant to the upcoming Presidential election.   

Chopin Theatre is touring this one-act production.  “Out at Sea” has already been staged at Indiana University Northwest, Northern Illinois University, Loyola University’s Lakeshore Campus, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago High School for the Arts, and Studio Gang Architects.  Coming soon to an unexpected, intimate location near you!

This 2015 production is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago, WPB SSA#33 and Chopin Theatre.

Polish cult-like masterpiece, The Saragossa Manuscript, got its second life thanks to the financial support of admirers Martin Scorsese, Jerry Garcia and Francis Ford Coppola.  The film also was favorite of Luis Bunuel. The 3 hour digitally restored version showcasing Poland's most famous actors screens this Sunday Nov 29th @ 3p.

There will be a discussion and reception supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago.  This complimentary evening commemorates 200th anniversary of death of the flamboyant Polish Count J.N. Potocki, author of the book the film is based on.  

Reservations encouraged. Please register below:

Mon 11/16 @ Studio Gang Architects -  Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy featuring 3 hungry men on a raft whom, through manipulation and absurd elections, must decide whom to eat.  

Chopin Theatre chose this play to open its 25th season. "Out at Sea" has previewed at Chopin and presented at NIU-Dekalb; Indiana Univ Northwest; Loyola University Chicago; Chicago High School for the Arts and in living rooms. Upcoming shows at School of the Art Institute, Studio Gang Architects, and other locations near you.  

The 2015 OUT AT SEA Tour is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago and Chopin Theatre

Fri Nov 6th 415pm @ 116 S. Michigan Studio 803 - Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy featuring 3 hungry men on a raft whom, through manipulation and absurd elections, must decide whom to eat.  

"Out at Sea" opens the 25th Season for Chopin Theatre and has also been presented at Northern Illinois University Dekalb; Indiana University Northwest; Loyola University Lake Shore; Chicago High School for the Arts and in living rooms. Upcoming shows at School of the Art Institute, Studio Gang Architects, and other locations near you.  

Free & Open to the Public

The 2015 OUT AT SEA Tour is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago and Chopin Theatre.

Thu Oct 29th @ 330pm Daley Library 801 S. Morgan , Rom 1-470 - Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy featuring 3 hungry men on a raft whom, through manipulation and absurd elections, must decide whom to eat.  

Chopin Theatre chose this play to open its 25th season. "Out at Sea" has previewed at Chopin and presented at NIU-Dekalb; Indiana Univ Northwest; Loyola University Chicago; Chicago High School for the Arts and in living rooms. Upcoming shows at School of the Art Institute, Studio Gang Architects, and other locations near you.  

Free & Open to the Public

The 2015 OUT AT SEA Tour is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago and Chopin Theatre.

Mon Nov 9th @ 7p - "No other music festival in Chicago feels quite like the All Souls event, which features multiple bands on upstairs and downstairs stages of the Chopin Theatre...listeners flow from one performance room to another, they pause to talk, sip beverages, munch on food and otherwise intermingle. Music and conversation intertwine".  - Chicago Tribune

Sun Oct 25th 630pm @ Holmes Student Center's Diversions Lounge Theatre - Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy featuring 3 hungry men on a raft whom, through manipulation and absurd elections, must decide whom to eat.  

"Out at Sea" opens the 25th Season for Chopin Theatre and has also been presented at Northern Illinois University Dekalb; Indiana University Northwest; Loyola University Lake Shore; Chicago High School for the Arts and in living rooms. Upcoming shows at School of the Art Institute, Studio Gang Architects, and other locations near you.  

The 2015 OUT AT SEA Tour is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago and Chopin Theatre.

Fri Oct 23rd 5p @ Bergland Auditorium - Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy featuring 3 hungry men on a raft whom, through manipulation and absurd elections, must decide whom to eat.  

"Out at Sea" opens the 25th Season for Chopin Theatre and has also been presented at Northern Illinois University Dekalb; Indiana University Northwest; Loyola University Lake Shore; Chicago High School for the Arts and in living rooms. Upcoming shows at School of the Art Institute, Studio Gang Architects, and other locations near you.  

Free & Open to the Public

The 2015 OUT AT SEA Tour is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago and Chopin Theatre.

Thur Oct 15th Dumbach Hall, Loyola University Chicago (Lake Shore Campus)  - Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy featuring 3 hungry men on a raft whom, through manipulation and absurd elections, must decide whom to eat.  

"Out at Sea" opens the 25th Season for Chopin Theatre and has also been presented at Northern Illinois University Dekalb; Indiana University Northwest; Loyola University Lake Shore; Chicago High School for the Arts and in living rooms. Upcoming shows at School of the Art Institute, Studio Gang Architects, and other locations near you.  

Free & Open to the Public

The 2015 OUT AT SEA Tour is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago and Chopin Theatre.

Fri Oct 9th @ 330p  -  Chopin Theatre presents Slawomir  Mrozek’s “Out at Sea”, an extremely smart and brilliantly absurd comedy featuring 3 hungry men on a raft whom, through manipulation and absurd elections, must decide whom to eat.  

"Out at Sea" opens the 25th Season for Chopin Theatre and has also been presented at Northern Illinois University Dekalb; Indiana University Northwest; Loyola University Lake Shore; Chicago High School for the Arts and in living rooms. Upcoming shows at School of the Art Institute, Studio Gang Architects, and other locations near you.  

Free Student Admission

The 2015 OUT AT SEA Tour is supported in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago and Chopin Theatre.

Taking into consideration the ways in which the city can be approached as a polyvalent cultural text, the organizers of Cities East and West: New Maps for Research invite proposals for papers on all aspects of city life, with a focus on cities in the Polish historical space. The goal of the conference is to examine urban enclaves not as monolithic areas of habitation but rather as places of intersection, collision, coexistence, and exchange between classes, races, ideologies, ethnic groups, artistic styles, and private modes of everyday living.

Contact Anna Szawara for information and reservation - Szawara@UIC.edu

November 10, 2014

"No other music festival in Chicago feels quite like the All Souls event, which features multiple bands on upstairs and downstairs stages of the Chopin Theatre". - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune .

Jazz musicians this year are Piotr Nalepa Breakout Tour; Krakow Jazz Nonet; Maciej Fortuna; Antykwariat Quintent; Le Percolateur; Xazz; Tad "TeeMack" Janik Band; Lemon Blues and others

Tickets - $50 ($55 at door) - More information 773.457.7267

ABC Music Academy presents its Sixth Annual Piano Competition on Saturday May 31st with finalist performances Sunday June 1st. 

For details, Joanna Szepelawy, 630-440-0161
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Monday April 14th - Direct from National School of Music in Krakow, Krakow Jazz Nonet presents a Spring concert combining Jazz standards, Classical Music and Polish compositions including works of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Bronislaw Kaper, Benny Golson and Janusz Bielecki. 

The evening begins with piano performance by Marcin Januszkiewicz.

Tickets $20.  Reservations 773-836-8686 or 773-282-1188

April 7th and 8th - The Polish 1920s were a period of both tremendous promise and profound dislocation. After years of devastating war and over a century of partition, Polish society embarked on a bold project of self-creation, a process of reunifying what had been divided and projecting broad outlines for future development that came to be seen as a kind of resurrection.

This international conference on The Roaring ‘20s in Poland brings together scholars of the interwar period to explore this pivotal decade in an interdisciplinary context.

Schedule below.

Tuesday March 18th  -  DKF Cornelia Film club invites you screening of "The Girl in Sneakers", a subtle film about a rebellious Saudia Arabian girl whom exposes the foundations of the ultra-conservative culture.  With Polish Subtitles. 

$12 for guest; Free for members (annual membership $60)

More Info Zybsek Banas 312-304-2217

Polonijny Wieczór z „Nutcracker” - W niedziele 15 grudnia o godz.3.00 Chopin Theatre organizuje kolejny „ Polski wieczór” dla polonijnych rodzinTym razem polonijna widownia bedzie mogła zobaczyc słynny już  spektakl House Theatre „Nutcracker” grany juw Chopin Theatre przez czwarty świąteczny sezon.

 Critic's Choice – “Przedstawienie złaczy twoją rodzine ” -  Chicago Tribune
" Ten Nutckracker bez watpliwości zafascynuje każdą grupę wiekową „ - Chicago Sun Times
Highly Recommended - Wyobraznia I pomysłowość. Miałem łzę w oku po pięciu minutach - Chicago Reader
 Znajdziesz więcej autentycznego swiatecznego ducha w pierwszych 3 minutach
niz w 2 godzinach innych światecznych show - Examiner.com
Four Stars – Niezwykle kreatywna wyobraznia - CBS
 
Bilety na ten dodatkowy polonijny spektakl są dostepne w specjalnej cenie $25 ( Reg. 35-45 dol.)
na http://PoloniaNightwithNutcracker.eventbrite.com Info. 773-278-1500 . Ilość miejsc ograniczona.

Sunday Dec 1st at 6pm - Consonans Band presents evening of musical interpretations of Polish historical songs and American cabaret classics.

Tickets $30/ea.  More information - 773-771-2200

Sunday Nov 3rd at 6pm - Consonans Band presents evening of musical interpretations of Polish historical songs and American cabaret classics.

Tickets $30/ea.  More information - 773-771-2200

Sep 22nd ~ Prusniowski Trio performs an exhilaring, impromptu and intimate performance at Pregnant Buffalo Lounge of Chopin Theatre following their appearance at 2013 World Music Festival.

Wednesday, Sep 18th at 630pm - UIC presents a Roundtable Discussion lead by Prof. Robert Frost, of Scotland's University of Aberdeen,  "Out from the shadows. Writing the History of Poland 1945/1990/2013" about the difficulties facing historians who worked in the People's Republic of Poland (1945-1989).   Joining Prof. Frost are Prof. Jolanta Choińska-Mika of the University of Warsaw and Dr. Karol Mazur of the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising 1944.

Complimentary reception follows the discussion.

Free admission but reservation encouraged - Anna Szawara (szawara@gmail.com)

Tue March 19  at 7pm -  DKF Cornelia Film club invites you screening of Asad the Somali pirate themed film nominated for Best Live Action film for Academy Awards.  With Polish Subtitles. 

$12 for guest; Free for members (annual membership $60)

More Info Zybsek Banas 312-304-2217

 Polish jazz blossoms at the Chopin Theatre - "No other music festival in Chicago feels quite like the All Souls event, which features multiple bands on upstairs and downstairs stages of the Chopin Theatre. As listeners flow from one performance room to another, they pause to talk, sip beverages, munch on food and otherwise intermingle. Music and conversation intertwine at the All Souls Jazz Festival, and a single language predominates: Polish. - Howard Reich Arts critic, Chicago Tribune 11/13/12.

$40/$45 at door 

Sat 9/22/12 - Loyola University Chicago's Polish Studies program presents "The Literature of the Polish Experience in America", the inaaugural lecture of Dr. John Merchant.   A reception follows the lecture.  And in keeping with the tradition of Chopin Salon, pianist Jana Pavlovska performs "The Fantasie" by Robert Schumann.

To reserve your space - Bozena McLees, bmclees@luc.edu

Sun 9/9/12 11am - Anna Grebieniow, a member of the Polish National Hot Air Balloon team, presents a film on her bike trek expedition. Complimentary attendance.  Light breakfast and meet/greet precedes the discussion at 9am.  $10/person.  Event is in Polish.

More information - info@chopintheatre.com or 773.278.1500

Wednesday May 30th 930pm -  The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland invites you to a complimentary screening of "Venice" featuring actress Magdalena Cielecka and written by Jan Jakub Kolski.  The two hour film, which is Poland's entry  2012 International Screening festival, will be screened at Chicago Cultural Center May 30th at 630pm followed by a Q/A.

A gathering afterwards at Chopin Theatre includes additional discussion and complimentary reception with Ms. Cielecka.

Tue April 24th at 7pm - DKF Cornelia presents an evening of live music, film screenings and dicussion with London based performer and songwriter of Polish origin, Katy Carr.  A reception compliments of Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago follows.

Suggested donation $15/$8 students and seniors

Reservations: Zbigniew Banas 312-304-2217

Sun April 22 6pm - Sun April 22 6pm - The Hejna Chair in Polish Language and Literature at University of Illinois at Chicago cordially invites you to a video presentation of "History of Media Art in Poland" by Piotr Krajewski.   A reception compliments of UIC immediately follows.

Complimentary admission with reservation suggested - Agata Kopacka, akopacka@uic.edu

Mon Jan 30th - Polish Teachers Association organizes a ceremony to say farewell to Vice Consul Aleksandra Krystek.  Chopin Theatre organizes a piano serenade presented by Macedonian pianist Jana Pavlovska.

Jan 17th 730pm Free admission  - Pan Tadeusz Szermer,  od ponad 65 lat zwiazany z moim rodzinnym miasteczkiem, Bielawa, wspominany jest głównie jako trener sportowy.   
 
    Dzisiaj,  siedząc w swoim maleńkim pokoiku, na pytanie, dlaczego ludzie Go słuchali, pan Tadeusz Szermer odpowiada:  „Tego właśnie ja nie wiem." Aby znaleźć odpowiedź na to intrygujące mnie pytanie, spotykam się z przyjaciółmi i byłymi wychowankami pana Szermera.  Zapiski pana Tadeusza czyta Stanisław Wojciech Malec.

And in keeping with the tradition of Chopin Salon, the evening includes short recital of F. Chopin by Macedonian pianist, Jana Pavlovska.

Mon 11/14/11 at 8pm - You are invited to an evening with Dr. Lukasz Kaminski, President, The Institute of National Remembrance .   The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Marek Suszko, Loyola University Chicago.  And in keeping with the tradition of Chopin Salons, a short recital of the melodies of Warsaw will be presented by pianist Jurek Jablonski.

The event is free.  More info 773.278.1500 or info@chopintheatre.com

Monday Nov 7th - Thirteenth Annual jazz festival of international and local musicians.  This year's guest Tomek Grochot Quintet featuring Eddie Henderson.    Chicago's All Souls fest looks, feels and sounds like no other jazz soiree in this city.." - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune 11/9/10

$40 - AllSoulsJazz.com .  More information 773-457-7267

Sponsored in part by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago;  Adam Mickiewicz Institute;  Chicago Sister Cities International and Zywiec USA.

Barbara Wachowicz – Mistrzyni Mowy Polskiej obdarzona tytułami „Pisarki losu polskiego”
i „Ministra Patriotyzmu”.  

And, in keeping with tradition of Chopin Salon, musical students of Tadeusz Kosciuszki will perform works of F. Chopin.

Sun Oct 9th 2pm - DKF Cornelia prezentuja Ekspedycja Syberia 2009.  Relacja z wyprawy i spotkanie z podroznikami Mateuszem Damieckim i Pawlem Dlugleckim.Film and discussion in Polish. And in keeping with our salon tradition, a short piano recital by Jana Pavlovska of Macedonia.

Complimentary event with reservation required 312-304-2217.

Wed 9/28/11 - Invitation for Polonia to meet Piotr Mucharski, editor-in-chief of "Tygodnik Powszechny" weekly.  The discussion  entitled "Who are you, Pole?" will be moderated by  Grzegorz Jankowicz.  In keeping with the tradition of Chopin Salon, a complimentary reception follows the discussion.

Sobata 12/31/11 - Znakomita kolacja ,wyszukane napoje, wspaniala atmosfera, dużo, dużo tańca ale przede, wszystkim  znakomity ponad godzinny program z 15 znanymi z ABC, CBS i NPR  artystami kabaretowymi.

Bilety $75/100 - 773.278.1500

8pm - Mario Granville, an African American self taught classical pianist, closes the L.A debut of Four Clowns with a tribute to F. Chopin. 

$10 includes complimentary concert

5/25/11 7pm - Wojiech Lorenc presents his thesis film "YouTupolis" a satirization and sci-fi web series about YouTube.  And in keeping with the tradition of Chopin Salon, the screening will be preceded by piano recital by Anthony Zediker featuring the works of F. Chopin.  The evening also includes a complimentary reception.

Tue 5/17 at 730p (In Polish) - Documentary film on life and times of Krzysztof Klenczon, lead vocalist for Czerwone Gitary, one of the most popular rock bands in Poland and often considered the Polish equivalent of The Beatles.   In keeping with the tradition of Chopin Salons, memorial concert presented by original members of Klenczon's Chicago band.  Reception and discussion with director Helena Giersz and sister Hanna Klenczon follows.

Tickets $20/15.   773-520-1389 or info@chopintheatre.com

7 1/2 Cinema is Chopin Theatre's film series of independent films screened at 730pm.

Sun May 1st - ABC Music Academy presents Finalists Competition with youth presentations of works J.S. Bach. 

The competition opens with a recital from pianist Maralgua Darjaa of Mongolia and a graduate of Frederic  Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. A reception follows the competition and awards ceremony.

Event is open to the public but reservation encouraged 630-440-0161

10am - Zapraszaja na filmowy brunch plus spotkanie z polskim
rezyserem filmow dokumentalnych
W programie swiatowa premiera roboczej wersji krotkiego

Dokumentu o Somalii
Tytul roboczy: No Direction Home; 2011, dialogi i napisy polskie

And in keeping with the tradition of Chopin Salon, pianist Kyle Greer will present short recital of the works of F. Chopin.

Stan Borys oraz Chopin Theatre zaprasza publicznosc Chicago na pokaz filmu pt. " Wolnosc jak plomien" w sobote 26 marca o godz. 8.00 oraz niedziele 27 marca o godz.4.00.  

Bohaterem filmu jest Stan Borys  -  legen­darna gwiazda pol­skiej piosenki, która mówi o swojej filozofii życia,  o wol­no­ści w sztuce, w piosence, w poezji. W fil­mie m. in. występują: Katarzyna Grochola, Karol Stras­bur­ger, Emilian Kamiń­ski, Woj­ciech Fibak, Mar­cin Daniec, Marek Siudym.

Bilety $15.00. Reserwacja 773-278-1500 lub Info@ChopinTheatre.com

Polish American Chamber of Commerce's annual holiday gathering.  This year's special guests included mayoral candidates Former Senator Carol Mosley Braun; former School Superintendent Gerry Chicago and Congressman Danny Davis.  Tix $65/$55.

 During 12th annual All Soul's Jazz Festival, Taiwanese pianist Hsiao Ling Lin provides a special tribute to F. Chopin in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.  Noted Polish American author Victoria Granacki provides a multimedia presentation as tribute to 150th anniversary of I.J Paderewski's birth. 

Free admission with the purchase of a All Soul's Jazz ticket (value $40).

W sobote 23 pazdziernika Chopin Theatre zaprasza na spotkanie  z jednym z najwybitniejszych poetow mlodej generacji Miloszem Biedrzyckim ktory jest obecnie stypendysta slynnego miedzynarodowego programu literackiego na Iowa University.  Szanowny gosc podzieli sie rowniez wrazeniami swoich ostatnich 15 lat ktore spedzil w Syrii, Egipcie i Arabi Saudyjskiej jako  ekspert w dziedzinie przemyslu naftowego.

Spotkanie  rozpocznie sie branchem o godz.10.00 rano w Chopin Theatre Studio. 773-278-1500 oraz info@chopintheatre.com

In this dynamic solo performance, Ewa Boryczko displays the extraordinary journey of famous Polish actress Helena Modjeska, who comes to America in 1876 with the dream of performing on the American stage.  

Performances Sat 8/28 8p; Sun 8/29 3pm.     $25/$35 

Novelist, essayist, playwright, and public intellectual

“Stasiuk’s prose soars” Irvine Welsh, New York Times Book Review

“Stasiuk, exploring a region that so many have assumed to be irresistibly converging with the West, has mapped what Freud might have called its ‘genetic memory.’” Benjamin Moser, Harper’s Magazine

Prof. Andrzej Nowak, of Jagiellonian University, and  Poland’s leading historian of Polish-Russian history will speak on the subject of  whether, after centuries of painful and tragic coexistence, the two countries can  develop a new relation. 

Recommended by John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune  3/19/10. 

Chopin’s Brunch continues the great tradition of European salons presenting new artistic and intellectual ideas as well as being a center for  social exchange. 

Today's concert celebrates 200th anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin’s birth and is presented by Jacobs School of Music, IU – Bloomington.   Special guest pianist Edward Auer, first American prize winner International Chopin Competition in Warsaw

$25/$15 seniors, students

"PACC's monthly Business After Hours gathering on Tuesday March 16th was a remarkable occasion with regard to the number of guests who attended...the special venue, Chopin Theatre, lived up to its reputation as one of Chicago's venues that matter the most, and brought high praise from attendees".  - PACC Newsletter, 3/19/10

Zdrowych , Spokojnych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia
Oraz  samych radosci w nadchodzacym nowym roku
Zycza Zygmunt I Lela Dyrkacz
z synami Krzysztofem,Marcinem,Aleksandrem i Konradem.

"It's loud and raucous, soft and introspective, freely experimental and openly nostalgic.
Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune

Praca i staly pobyt w Kanadzie
(nadal pachnacej zywica)
Muszynski Law Office w Calgary
Pracawkanadzie.com

Joanna Szepelawy presents ABCD Music Academy students in Youth Classical Music Competition followed by a concert.  Complimentary admission. 

Chopin Theatre zaprasza na obchody Dnia Poloni swieta ustanowione przez Senat RP w uznaniu wielowiekowego wkladu Poloni. Specjalny gosc wieczoru - Bronisław Wildstein - slynny dysydent i publicysta znany z nieza-leżności, odwagi i polemicznej pasji.

"It's loud and raucous, soft and introspective, freely experimental and openly nostalgic...event attested not only to the creative vitality of Polish jazz but to its importance in this city" - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune 11/14/07

BBC producer and filmmaker Wanda Koscia will screen her historical documentary Battle For Warsaw '44 and discuss the filmmaking process.

2004 - Academy Award® Nominee Best Short Documentary

Children of Leningradsky was nominated for Academy Award® 2004 Best Short Documentary. Director in person!

Mr. Zygmunt Matynia, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago, and Mr. Zygmunt Dyrkacz, Chopin Theatre, invite you to a special presentation of the program Poland in the Rockies.

Black Magic by Arthur Trace
Exotic Dance by Sonja

Putting an Accent on Jazz - All Souls' Polish Festival gives each facet its due
By Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune 11/14/07

Chopin Theatre hosts a private screening of the new film by Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze

Chopin Theatre will commemorate one of the most important dates in the 20th Century, Sep 1st – the beginning of the 2nd World War

Screen Gems 3 1/2 Stars - Chicago Tribune ; Chicago Public Radio feature

Screen Gems, Chicago Tribune Like the films of the Dardenne brothers ("L’Enfant"), Fabicki’s portrait of a working-class life beset by warring circumstances unfolds like an eloquent improvisation. Chicago Public Radio "This weekend Chopin Theatre will host a film festival with films center around Post-revolution lives of Slavic peoples.

"Annual Jazz Festival this year featuring Krzysztof Scieranski, Grazyna Auguscik, Zach Brock, Ola Turkiewicz and more?

"Director Jacek Glomb, head of the Modjeska Theatre in Legnica, Poland, is something of a hometown hero. Even though his friend Zygmunt Dyrkacz

Celebration of the arrival of summer by European students. Art show, performance by artist Marcin Kwasny and music.

Annual Jazz Festival featuring the best musicians from Poland playing along with the best local jazz musicians.

I- Fest '05 is a first annual festival of international solo performances celebrating Individuality.

In "Behold the Man" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany. In Polish.
Just weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche set out to compose his autobiography, and Behold the Man remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In the this extraordinary work, Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome.

Critic's Choice - Chicago Reader

Critic's Choice - Chicago Reader "The tone of this whimsical Polish show is about as far from its gruesomely clinical title as it can get. Kuba Pierzchalski and Rachel Karafistan of Cosmino Teatr enact the dynamics of male-female relationships in a wordless 45-minute performance piece that begins with the woman

Annual piano recital for youth students of Bogdan Gadomski School of Music

A film on the life of Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, considered by many to be one of the greatest novelists and prose stylists in English literature.

6th annual Local and International festival of Jazz.

“ Prime imagistic theater comes in many languages. This Polish troupe performed "Four Dreams" in English, and for an hour the audience found itself inside a dream” - The Year’s Best Theater, Chicago Tribune 12/19/04
Highly Recommended - Chicago Reader 11/11/04

"I have read many descriptions of the Siberian odyssey and other forgotten wartime episodes. But none of them is more informative, more moving, or more beautifully written than "When God Looked the Other Way" Norman Davies, Author - Europe: A History and Rising 44

Three actors, no scene in typical meaning of the word, actors come in, go out - they are trying to have rehearsal. Two actors and director. Who is directing? who directed? Typical questions for Schaeffer's play - who is who? Who plays? What is real life?

Based on poetic Helmut Kajzar text. Performance tells the story about the passage of life.

Challenge. They challenge the music. They challenge each other. She plays classical violin. He counters with lightning-fast sonoric and rhythmic experiments. Simultaneously on piano.

First Prize (Grand Prix) for cabaret MUMIO at 14th Cabaret Festival

Kabaret Mumio has a stylistic finesse and creative intelligence displayed by very sensitive actors.

These two one-act plays from the renowned Poland playwright Slawomir Mrozek will be performed together.

These two one-act plays from the renowned Poland playwright Slawomir Mrozek will be performed together.

Best in a Year of Theater - Chicago Tribune 12/28/03
Critic's Choice - "Sometimes, under the radar, a troupe slips into town and you're lucky to catch them before they slip out again" - Michael Philips, Chicago Tribune 10/17/03

Grazyna Auguscik - singer, composer, arranger and producer. Andrzej Jagodzinski - composer and arranger.

Performance by 20 yr old Poland piano virtuoso, Winner of many international and national piano competitions

Annual Paderewski In the Park Piano Festival featuring piano recitals from some of today's most promising pianists. The festival celebrates the legacy of Chicago's Honorary Citizen and former Wicker Park resident Ignacy Paderewski. This 3rd concert features Piotr Zukowski playing the works of F. Chopin, F. Liszt and A. Skriabin

"Farewell Judas" by I. Iredynski, it is portrait of the people in complicated contemporary world. All values devaluation leads to cruelty; senselessness of existence still condemns them to defeat, such as the writer experiences himself.

A Very funny one-act by internationally renowned short-story writer and playwright Slawomir Mrozek. In "Out at Sea", three hungry men adrift in a raft - Fat, Thin, and Medium - discuss who among them should rightfully sacrifice himself to the appetite of the others.

59 countries hoted 1,029 readings of Lysistrata, Aristophanes' anti-war comedy, to protest the rush to war on Iraq.

The plot of "The Love to Three Oranges" is based on grotesque and absurd situations between the characters. Performance refesr to tradition of Italian carnivals.

Stowarzyszenie Wiecznych Studentow zaprasza an przedstawienie grupy Circus z Seattle pod nazwa"Circus Contraption."

Jezeli podobaly sie Wam Juwenalia 2002 i przedstawienie 500CLOWN MACBETH to zakochacie sie w CIRCUS CONTRAPTION.

Zapraszamy juz w sobote 21 wrzesnia do Chopin Theatre przy1543 W. Division w Chicago na godz 20:00. Po przedstawieniupodobnie jak na Juwenaliach zapraszamy na przyjecie.

Bilety: $12.00 Uwaga - All shows contain Mature Content

"Ferdydurke" is a stage version of Witold Gombrowicz's novel of the same name, one of the most important and also most shocking works of 20th- century Poland literature.

1st annual piano festival honoring acclaimed pianist, statesman and resident of Wicker Park. Piotr Zukowski (2) and Triology

The freshest new sound to come out of jazz-hip Poland in quite a while can be heard at the Chopin Theatre when three boys in their teens hit the Main Stage. Triology, a trio that grew out of a serendipitous meeting at a jazz workshop

Critic's Choice

"It seams like a lecture, but Peszek, using nothing but fire, water, flour, Ping-Pong balls, buckets, fishing line, a cello, and every inch of the stage - makes it looks easy. His virtuoso turn also happens to be mindless kinetic fun." - Chicago Reader