Upcoming Events:
*Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Student Center, Regis South (Hughes Avenue), Canisius College Campus
An Evening with Joseph (Korzeniowski) Conrad celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth.
An interactive discussion on Conrad's influence and universal message featuring Mr. Melvin Schroeder and Dr. Kenneth Sroka of the Canisius College English Department.
Free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
If you are able, we would recommend reading some of Conrad's works. Suggestions include: Youth, Secret Agent, and Heart of Darkness.
*Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Montante Cultural Center, Canisius College Campus
Life in a Jar, an interactive theatrical presentation about Irena Sendler, a Polish rescuer of Jewish children during the Holocaust.
Suggested donation: $10 to benefit the Life in a Jar Foundation. A reception will follow.
Co-sponsored by the Canisius Center for the Global Study of Religion, Conversations in Christ & Culture Lecture Series and in cooperation with the Holocaust Resource Center which is also holding a performance on Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Am, 4660 Sheridan Drive.
About the play: In 1999 in Uniontown, Kansas, four high school students researched the remarkable story of Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who worked throughout the Nazi occupation of Poland to serve others by providing false documents, and later through the Zegota underground organization, to save Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Creating this theatrical presentation based on her life, the students have traveled all over the United States and Europe to offer this inspiring story. The play's title is drawn from her practice of keeping lists of the children's real names in jars, which she buried in a garden, so that the children who were adopted by Polish families or hidden in convents and orphanages could one day know their true identity. The students have maintained regular contact with the Nobel-Prize nominated Irena Sendler, and use the donations offered at their performances for the care of Irena and other rescuers.
*Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
Student Center, Regis North (Hughes Avenue), Canisius College Campus
A viewing of the movie, Zegota, the Polish underground organization established to help Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland which assigned Irena Sendler to the work she did.
Free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
*Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Horan O'Donnell Science Building, Classroom 107, Canisius College Campus (behind Old Main)
Poland and its New Government - A lecture by Dr. Slawomir Jozefowicz (Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar-in-Residence at SUNYAB).
Free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
Co-sponsored by the Department of European Studies at Canisius College.
*Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.
Montante Cultural Center, Canisius College Campus
Soprano Mary Beth Wrobel in Concert with pianist Rasa Stalygiene.
Donation: $10 to benefit the Canisius College Service Trip to a Polish orphanage. Tickets may be purchased at the Am-Pol Eagle office.
For more information contact Mary Lou Wyrobek at wyrobekm@canisius.edu or (716)888-5970