The celebration took place at Fort Kleparz in Krakow. The artistic setting for the celebration was provided by the Topside Brass Band – the brass section of the U.S. Navy Band in Europe and Africa. There was plenty of traditional food, snacks and drinks and spirits. All in the American spirit.
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Polish-Belarusian picnic in Warsaw
In a secluded spot, familiar to residents of one of the banks of the Vistula River capital, representatives of Polish and Belarusian American exchange programs met for a summer picnic on Saturday, June 29, 2024. The initiative was sponsored by American Councils Lithuania, bringing together the Belarusian refugee community. A dozen Warsaw Alumni with Vice President Dariusz Góra responded to the invitation and met with an equally large representation of Belarusians residing in Poland.
Read MoreInternational Conference: “US and EU Perspectives on ESG: Towards a Sustainable World or a Dangerous Utopia?”
In the last days of June (28-29), Krakow hosted the international conference “2nd US-CEE Connection Weekend: US and EU Perspectives on ESG: Towards a Sustainable World or a Dangerous Utopia?”, which was organized by the School of American Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration of Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the Columbus School of Law of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. The Alumni Association was the Honorary Patron of the event.
Read MoreMeeting of Polish and Belarusian Alumni in Krakow
It was a wonderful meeting of Polish and Belarusian Alumni of the US Department of State programs.
And it all started with the acquaintance of Rafal Pieprzyk – President of the Alumni Association with Vadzimir Zarankin, who was the tutor of Belarusian Alumni at the US Embassy in Minsk. We had the opportunity to meet during the workshop “Alumni Focused Strategy Seminar: Best Practices, Success Stories and Alumni Associations” organized by the US Embassy in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. We were there in September 2018.
Read MoreAnnual General Meeting
On June 22, 2024, the Annual General Meeting of the Alumni Association took place.
After a couple of years of conducting online deliberations, we returned to meet in the ‘real’. We met to summarize the activities of our Association in 2023. We did not give up on connecting online with people from outside Warsaw, so we had the opportunity to test, for the first time in the history of Alumni, conducting the meeting in hybrid form. And it worked !
Read MoreAlumni Carnival 2024
It’s for the third time that January and February were an active period in our community. Because it was the time of the “Alumni Carnival”, i.e. a series of regional Alumni meetings with lots of fun, interesting events and talking over coffee & tea, beer & wine (of choice).
Read More17th Anniversary of the Polish Alumni Association Founding
On the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the Alumni Association, which falls on January 17, 2024, we present another portion of reports from Polish scholarship holders in the United States. Their testimonies, full of reflections, discoveries and emotions, reveal only part of their work, which – thanks to the interactive connections of our social media – you can explore on your own on social networking sites to which the links posted here refer.
Happy birthday, our little-to-be-adult Association!
Read MoreXMAS PARTY WARSAW 2023
On December 12, the Alumni celebrated the Xmas Party for the 9th time.
We were hosted by Avangarda Restaurant in Warsaw in beautiful interiors and at lavishly set tables. Many members of our Association came to the Xmas Party to meet, talk and have fun. Because traditionally, there was a Christmas counting game. It made sure that every participant left the event with a gift.
ALUMNI THANKGIVING 2023
“Alumni Thanksgiving” is always a family time with home-made food, tasty turkey and good drinks. But this time it was… fantastic! For the sixth time, we had the opportunity to meet in the Alumni circle, together with friends from the US Consulate General in Krakow and American Fulbrighters who came to Poland on their scholarships.
Read MoreJoanna Pottle’s exhibition during the “American Day” in Katowice
On October 5 The Alumni Association co-organized the artistic part of the event organized by the Regional Chamber of Commerce in Katowice – “American Day: Think BIG!”. We had the opportunity to invite the American artist Joanna Pottle to Katowice.
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