Polish Heritage Day in Sheffield
Posted on 23rd May 2018
After a great success last year Polish Community in Sheffield, including Polish Scouts, Friends of Scouting in Sheffield together with the Polish Students' Society at Sheffield University decided to respond to the appeal of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London again and organise Polish Heritage Day in Sheffield for the second time.
Official celebrations
On Sunday, May 6th, 2018, at the Sheffield Students' Union, Western Bank and Weston Park in Sheffield, we will celebrate the Polish Heritage Day for the second consecutive year. This is a perfect opportunity to celebrate our shared history and culture. There will be many attractions, both for adults and children. And it’s all free!
You will be able to taste some Polish delicacies, homemade cakes, see a number of exhibitions and dance some traditional Polish folk dances with Polish scouts. This year Poland '39 re-enactement group will come to Sheffield to spend the day with us and show us different artifacts related with Polish troops fighting during WWII. You will also be able learn more about Polish customs, traditions, culture and history. There will be many attractions for children, everyone will surely find something for themselves.
Website dedicated to Polish Heritage Day in Sheffield
We have launched a special website dedicated to Polish heritage Day in Sheffield – http://polishheritagedaysheffield.co.uk/. The site contains all the essential information about the celebrations itself. We encourage everyone to like our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/PhdSheffield and follow us on Twitter at @PhdSheffield and Instagram at phdsheffield. All up-to-date information on Polish Heritage Day and the celebrations itself is published together with the #PLHeritageDay hashtag. We encourage you to use this hashtag and track it. In the coming days, we will share with you many interesting facts connected with Polish traditions, history and culture. Share this information with your friends, family and friends and invite them to join us on 6th May in Sheffield.
Polish Heritage Day
Polish Heritage Day is an initiative of the Polish Embassy in London inviting to celebrate openness, appreciation, and better understanding between the Polish community and the wider British society. Taking place in various locations on 5-6 May 2018, celebrations will take the form of numerous events, shows, picnics, and lectures organised by the Polish diaspora in cooperation with local councils, Polish Saturday Schools, and Polish-language Roman Catholic parishes. Intended as an annual festival, Polish Heritage Day is planned for the weekend after the symbolic date of 3 May, when in 1791 Poland proclaimed its modern codified constitution as the first country in Europe and the second in the world after the United States – a symbol of freedom and equality. 2 May is also celebrated in Poland and in Polish communities around the world as the Polish Diaspora Day and Polish Flag Day. For more information about the project, follow #PLHeritageDay on social media and visit the virtual map below:
Project’s logo is based on the design of the white-and-red chequerboard – a symbol painted on the Polish airplanes during the Battle of Britain 1940. During the Battle, Polish pilots constituted the second largest Allied contingent after the British. During World War II and later in the time of communism, the United Kingdom was the refuge of the Polish Government-in-Exile and free Poles. The Polish community is a mixture of the descendants of those wartime and anti-communist exiles and those who decided to move to Britain after Poland joined the EU in 2004.
We hope to see you on 6th May in Sheffield!