Cieszyn/ From August 2nd, the 35th annual School of Polish Language, Literature and Culture

Students and teachers from countries including Brazil, China, Egypt, Georgia, and Morocco will participate in this year's Summer School of Polish Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Silesia. The four-week event will kick off for the 35th time at the university's Cieszyn branch on August 2nd.

As Maria Czempka-Wewióra, representative of the project, announced on Friday, this year's summer school will be a hybrid one – approximately 190 participants will be present on-site, and another 150 will connect online.

The summer school is taking place at the Cieszyn branch of the University of Silesia. The inaugural lecture, "Peasants and Peasant Women, or Kuciel-Frydryszak Complements Reymont," will be delivered on August 2nd by the university's rector, Professor Ryszard Koziołek. This will commemorate this year's centenary of the death of Nobel Prize winner Władysław Stanisław Reymont.

Students and teachers (including those from Polish schools abroad) from Europe, South and North America, Asia and Africa will take part in the summer school courses.

Many students will come from universities with which the University of Silesia and the School maintain intensive cooperation: from Rabat and Agadir in Morocco, from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, from several Chinese Polish studies centers (in Beijing, Xi'an, Shenyang, Harbin, etc.), from Curitiba in Brazil, and from several Polish programs in Germany, France, Italy, Georgia, the Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, and others.

Lecturers and teachers will come from places with traditional Polish communities – Argentina, Brazil, the USA, Great Britain, Ireland, and Hungary.

Polish language classes, workshops on knowledge about Poland, and methodological seminars will be accompanied by meetings, film screenings, trips (including virtual trips for remote course participants, but conducted live, in real time), concerts, picnics, and language games.

Teachers are scheduled to meet with principals of Polish schools abroad. Principals from New York, Beijing, and Paris will come to Cieszyn. Principals from schools in Riga (the Ita Kozakiewicz Polish School has 450 Polish students) and Budapest (the National Polish School in Hungary with branches in ten cities) will connect online.

Part of the program will be devoted to regional issues – participants will explore Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia during excursions. There will be seminars on prominent figures from Silesia, and fun and singing with the "Karlik" Ensemble. A monodrama, "Godajōm mi Helmut," performed by Sławomir Rosowski based on a text by Alojzy Lyska, will be performed.

Participants are to learn about Poland during lessons, at the cinema and theatre, while staging their own play, in conversations with school guests, or, for example, during an "evening with poets".

They will also test their skills by taking part in the traditional "Polish Test", which selects the Foreign Polish Language Champion (August 15) and will present their countries at the Meetings of Cultures and Traditions. (PAP)

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