Polonaise time to start....
Polonaises were already created by Baroque composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, like Italian and French dances, it began to be very fashionable. Due to its nobility it reigned at European courts. Today in Poland it is a traditional dance that opens school balls, such as proms. It is also danced during other important celebrations and anniversaries.
Agricultural employment during the spring, Warsaw, 1874
Biblioteka Narodowego Instytutu Kultury i Dziedzictwa Wsi Oddział w Puławach posiada cenny księgozbiór, który liczy około 360 tysięcy jednostek bibliotecznych, w tym 207 tysięcy wydawnictw zwartych, około 139 tysięcy wydawnictw ciągłych i 12 tysięcy zbiorów specjalnych.
There was no wedding without harmony
We will present another video about the participants of the Folk Artists Scholarship Program Edition. Today we invite you to listen to a story about traditional wedding music starring the three-row harmonium.
Grandma and grandpa's day - listen to your elders
Although Grandmother's and Grandfather's Day in Poland is a relatively new invention - the holiday was established in the 1960s. - in our society we have centuries-old traditions of showing respect to the elderly. Let's take a look at how elderly people used to function in the countryside. Has much changed?
Window stools from Podlasie cottages
We invite you to another video presenting the beneficiaries of the second edition of the Creative Scholarship program. Today we move to Podlasie to learn about traditional house decorations characteristic of the region.
Parliamentary Grandmother's and Grandfather's Day
On Sunday, January 19, on the occasion of the upcoming Grandmother's and Grandfather's Days, the Sejm and the Senate opened their doors to Seniors and their families for the second time. Plenty of attractions awaited the guests. This year's theme was Polish folk culture.
Folklore: a handbook for those engaged in folklore studies, Krakow 1901
Biblioteka Narodowego Instytutu Kultury i Dziedzictwa Wsi Oddział w Puławach posiada cenny księgozbiór, który liczy około 360 tysięcy jednostek bibliotecznych, w tym 207 tysięcy wydawnictw zwartych, około 139 tysięcy wydawnictw ciągłych i 12 tysięcy zbiorów specjalnych.
Regional culinary heritage and quality products - webinars.
We would like to invite you to a series of lectures on regional culinary heritage and quality food products. To begin, we propose a meeting with culinary customs from the West Pomeranian region.
Redoubts - masquerades of eighteenth-century Warsaw
Redoubts are carnival masked balls started in Warsaw in the 17th century by an Italian named Salvador, held in an elegant establishment run by him. They were attended by everyone with everyone, i.e. people of higher and lower status.
Is it all the same what one believes? And other spiritual dilemmas.
You can often hear the words - "it doesn't matter what you believe in, it's enough to be a good person". Can one agree with this? Is it necessary to insist on issues of doctrine, morality? What is really important, and what can be left out? Thoughtlessness and inability to justify one's faith and the attitudes that result from it leads to its diminution, disappearance, and even deters those who would like to believe.
