KING JAGIEŁŁO IN NEW YORK
1939-2016
A Celebration on the 77th Anniversary of
Stanisław Ostrowski’s Statue
A Symposium held under the Patronage of The Honorable Anna Maria Anders, Senator of the Republic of Poland, Secretary of State
Plenipotentiary of the Prime Minister for International Dialogue
October 29, 2016
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York
PROGRAM
10:00 – Greeting – Consul Katarzyna Padło10:10 – Introduction – Grzegorz Worwa, President of the Polish American Congress LI Division
10:20 – Senator Anna Maria Anders
10:30 – 11:45 – Stanisław Kazimierz Ostrowski and Polish Art Deco
Jan Loryś, Consultant to the Polish Museum of America
Krystyna Nowakowska,Ph.D., Muzeum in Legnica (Emeritus)
11:50 – 13:05 – King Jagiełło and his Concept of a Unified Europe
Piotr S. Górecki, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
Robert I. Frost, Ph.D., Burnett Fletcher Chair of History, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
13:10-14:10 – Award and Presentation
13:20 – 14:10 Lunch Break
Film, board games and book display in central hall
14:15 – Introduction –
Janusz Romański, Phd., President Polonia Technica
14:25- 15:40 – Historical Sculptures in the Public Domain
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Director, Art, Design and the Public Domain, Graduate School of Design at Harvard University
Gediminas Urbonas, Director, MIT Program of Art, Culture and
Technology
15:45-17:00 – Conservation work on the King Jagiełło Statue/ Polish
Conservators in the World
Matthew C. Reiley, Associate Director of Conservation, Central Park
Conservancy
Joanna Pietruszewska, Aegis-Restauro
17:00 – Closing Remarks –
Iwona Drąg-Korga, Ph.D., President of the Józef Piłsudski Institute
Compere – Krystyna Piórkowska
Rededication of the King Jagiełło Monument in Central Park
October 30, 2016
08:00-12:00 – Historical game –starting at the Kościuszko Foundation (15 East 65th Street ) concluding at the King Jagiełło Monument – Miroslaw Mikłowski
Location – King Jagiełło Monument (Turtle Pond, entrance at 79th and Fifth Avenue)
Monument unveiling
12:00 – Welcome – Host – Consul Katarzyna Padło of the
Consulate General of Poland
12:05 – Historical background of the monument – Rev. Father Tadeusz Lizińczyk, OSPPE, Parish of St. Stanislaus,
Bishop and Martyr, Manhattan
12:15 – Unveiling – Senator Anna Maria Anders
Polish and American anthems – Angelus Choir
12:25 – Rededication – Rev. Father Tadeusz Lizińczyk, OSPPE
12:30 – Marie R. Warsh, Director for Preservation Planning, Central Park
Conservancy – Comments of the Conservation Process
12:40 – Presentation of the “Battle of Grunwald” by children from the PSD-Yonkers, Zuzanna Golec, scenario, Iza Laskowska, Polish Theatre
Institute arrangement Bogurodzica, children joined by the Angelus Choir
Wreath-laying at the monument – Eastern Breakfast Group
1:10 – Polish and Lithuanian songs, Angelus Choir
Presentation on the King Jagiełło swords by Wojciech Budzyński
Banner of Jasna Góra, reenactment group
1:30 – Central Park Folkdancers – Polish and international folk dances – with public participation
1:45 – Photo ops
2:00 –End of official observances
Ballads with guitar accompaniment, Picnic near the monument
Central Park Folk dancers, folk dances with public participation at Turtle Pond plaza near the King Jagiello Monument
Compere Jerzy Leśniak
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