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Polish traditions in Texas

Among the Polish community in Texas and its supporters, events related to Polish traditions are becoming more and more popular. Here you can watch short reports from the annual Christmas carol singing and harvest festival at Chappell Hill. Harvest...

GAL Area Grecanica

The GAL (Local Action Group) Area Grecanica is an consortium established in 1997. The GAL Area Grecanica works within its own territory to build opportunities for sharing a common vision of development for institutions, citizens and businesses, and jointly...

Gerhard Rohlfs Museum of the Calabrian Greek

The museum was established in 2016 and it is dedicated to the German linguist, Gerhard Rohlfs, known for his influential work on Greek, proving that the Grecanico origins from Magna Graecia. The museum displays a collection of artefacts related...

Annual Latgalian cultural award BOŅUK

Every year, at the end of February, the remarkable activities, personalities, events and works of the previous year are honored and awarded with Latgalian yearly prizes Boņuks. In order to appoint the award winners, a bid for candidates is...

Latgalian Olympiad and Speech Competition

Currently, only a few schools in Latgale offer teaching Latgalian literary language, as well as the history and culture of Latgale, to children and young people. This happens thanks to the initiative of devoted teachers. Moreover, since 2000, the...

Tymoteusz Król

Tymoteusz Król started documenting his grandparents generation’s language when he was only 11 years old. This language is Wilamowicean, one of the smallest minority languages of Poland. Above you can see a short video in which Tymoteusz (an adult...

Polska Kapela in Texas

Polish music marks its lively presence among Texan Polonia. In this section, we present recordings of the traditional Polish songs, predominantly from Wielkopolska region.The songs were performed by Polska Kapela z Teksasu: Po Staremu. The band members are: Dr....

Latgale Congress

The Day of Latgale Congress has been celebrated in Latvia since April 2019, as a reminder of the significant decisions made at the Latgalian Congress in April 1917, which formed the basis of the Latvian state and Latvia’s Constitution....

Land of Free People – Polish Heritage in Texas

In Texas, USA there is the oldest Polish settlement in the United States: Panna Maria. There are also two other locations in the neighborhood, whose inhabitants declare being Polish descendants. Some of them speak Polish, using e.g. 19th-century Greater...