IPS Annual Exhibition

This year the IPS Annual Exhibition is open to the public from the 14th of September and will also be included in Dublin Culture Night on the 21st. This year’s exhibition includes portraiture, landscapes, abstracts, surrealism and ceramics in a wide variety of media.

The exhibiting artist are Mandy Brennan, Camilla Fanning, Marysia Harasimowicz-Harris, Helena Johnston, Orla Kaminska, Deirdre O Broin Lennon, Andraj Mazur, Ula Retzlaff, Martin Reynolds, Maciej Smoleński, Katarzyna Wojcikowska.

This is an exhibition which brings together two cultures and offers a unique opportunity to see Polish and Irish art displayed together. This event is an important part of IPS integration strand which is supported by public events and activities presented throughout the year in Polish House.

Launch of Monitoring Integration in Dublin – 27th March

The Integration Centre in collaboration with Dublin City Council has produced Dublin City’s first Integration Monitoring Report. The report focuses on immigrants’ access to employment, education, housing and political & civic life as well as citizenship and residency in Dublin. The launch will be followed by workshop sessions wherein aspects of integration will be explored.

Where: Woodquay Venue
When: 27th March 2012, 11.30am-3pm
By whom: Lord Mayor of Dublin Andrew Montague

For further information or to RSVP for the event contact helena.clarke@integrationcentre.ie
When you RSVP please specify which of the below workshops you hope to attend:
1. Integration in employment
2. Integration in education
3. Social Inclusion
4. Civic and political participation

Programme for the launch of

11.45 – 11.50 Welcome – Pat Montague, Chairperson TIC
11.50 – 12.05 Keynote speaker – Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Andrew Montague
12.05 – 12.20 Speaker – Peter Szlovak, Head of Policy and Research TIC
12.20 – 12.30 Speaker – Michael Kilbride, O’Connell Secondary School
12.30 – 12.40 Speaker – Tosin Omiyale, Participatory Project Officer TIC
12.40 – 12.45 Speaker – Gerry Folan, Office of Integration DCC
12.45 – 13.15 Light lunch

13.15 – 14.15 Workshops
Workshop Facilitator
Education Mary Ryan, ELSTA
Employment & Training Stuart Duffin, One Family
Active citizenship Emilia Marchelewska, Cairde
Social Inclusion Ciara Mc Grath, Crosscare

14.15 – 14.30 Summary of workshops
14.30 – 14.35 Closing – Killian Forde, CEO TIC

Come & Enjoy a free pint on St. Patrick’s Day with the City of Poznan!

Come and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the City of Poznan, EURO 2012 host city, in the Porterhouse Temple Bar and the Porterhouse Nassau Street.

This Saturday, the City of Poznan invites you for a pint!!

Everyone at the bar who shows a voucher (distributed at the entrance) or shouts the password “Come & Enjoy!” will be served a complimentary beer, courtesy of the City of Poznan. This will be just a foretaste of the fun that awaits Irish Fans in June for EURO 2012 – you’ve got to be there!

Venue: Porterhouse Temple Bar and Porterhouse Nassau Street.

Saturday, 17th March, St. Patrick’s Day

During UEFA EURO 2012™ the City Stadium will host two Irish matches and the City of Poznan will welcome Irish fans and enjoy this great football celebration together with them. That is why, as early as this Saturday, Poznan will be integrating with the Irish in Dublin during the St. Patrick’s Day’s celebrations. This festival will undoubtedly give everyone the foretaste of what lies ahead in June 2012.

Saint Patrick’s Day will also be celebrated in Poznan. On Friday and Saturday evenings the City Stadium in Poznan, venue for two Ireland matches at UEFA EURO 2012™, will be dressed in the national colours of Ireland. In addition, 2,012 shamrock balloons will be released at the start of a run that will be taking place on Saturday.

“The event’s catchphrase refers to our slogan ‘Come & Enjoy UEFA EURO 2012™ in Poznan’. On St. Patrick’s Day we would like to show that the City of Poznan is open to different cultures and customs, knows how to have fun and is ready to welcome Irish people to Poznan during UEFA EURO 2012™. This day, which is of special importance for all citizens of Ireland, is intended to be a taste of what they will experience in Poznan in June”, explains Łukasz Goździor, Head of City Promotion Office

Discover Poland this Saturday 12th of Nov. in the Illac Library in Dublin

The Children’s Department in the Central Library, the Polish Embassy in Ireland and Forum Polonia would like to invite children to celebrate cultural diversity and the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
During an hour workshop children will get an opportunity to learn through fun, interactive games and activities about culture, history and the daily lives of the forty million Poles who live in Poland and the thousands that now live in Ireland.
We also hope that this intercultural education project will help to broaden understanding of cultural similarities and differences, and enable children to articulate their own cultures and histories.
This event is also supported by the Bilingual Forum Ireland.

Read more about ‘Discover Poland’ Educational Campaign Promoting Cultural Exchange and Social Integration.

For more details please contact the project manager Beata Molendowska on 01 873 43 33 or communication liaison Anna Pospieszynska.