Incredible Polish Festivals

The Polish-Americans have a rich history in Milwaukee, and so they polish Fest, rich of a celebration in culture, art and food. The fresh ways of the search of the organizers of the festival to demonstrate to every year the Polish culture. The offerings relative to this year include an object exposed in Liberace and readings of the poetry of Jeff Poniewaz, who work is influenced by its childhood in the lateral vicinity of the Polish south of Milwaukee. But the traditionalistic ones do not have to worry – the police of the Polka still will be in the hand to demand that you dance. Within the festival In early years 80, a group of Milwaukeeans, including Ted Sobanski, decided that the Polish population of the city needed its own festival celebratory, similar what the Italians of the community had created with a new event, Italian Festa, in the arguments of Summerfest. There Polish Fest had its principle in the initial idea 1982.The was to celebrate the culture, with the possible goal to open a cultural center, “Polish director Lidia Sobierajski de Fest this. The Polish center of Wisconsin has been open in Franklin from 2000, and the festival continues extending every year. Sobanski, 94, died the 13 of June. The pamphlet for the festival relative to this year includes a greeting to its memory. New matter — Polish Fest relative to this year has an area of game of the extended children, finishes with golf miniature, the face-painting and the inflatable centers of the activity, including a giant inflatable slide. “Polish Fest is very family-friendly,” Sobierajski this.

– New to the menu of the east festival year is zapiekanka, emparedado done in front opened of the bread of pizza. In Poland, it has sold by the salesmen of the sidewalk. Except the site it stops. — Crepes of the potato, pierogi, Polish sausage – how you choose? In Polish Fest, you did not have. A sampling of the traditional kitchen, to ask salesman in the support of Polonez a Polish plate ($9), that includes pierogi two, col stuffed, the Polish sausage, sauerkraut and one crepe of the potato. Several other salesmen of the food also offer their own discs of the model. — The last year, Polish Fest introduced the tests of the alcohol sponsored by Stawski Imports. For $10, the tasters obtain three varieties of vodka and Mead. This year, tests P.M. is in 8 Friday; in 2, 5 and 8 P.M. Saturday; and 2 and 5 P.M. Sunday. A slice of the Polish life to see the Polish popular artists in the work – making everything of the cut of paper to the metallurgy create the main garlands of the leaf – stops by the cultural village of the festival. Many of the works will be available for the purchase. “We took many from pride in our objects exposed in the cultural village, and I think that there is much to learn and to see both on Polish culture and culture Polish-American,” Sobierajski this.

Here’s the show of polish “mountainers”:

Filed under: Travel on August 2nd, 2007