Dinner, talk and entertainment
Chlopi - Biesiada
- Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
- Time: 7pm for 7.30pm
- Member Price: £35
- Non-member Price: £45
- Entry price includes Dinner, wine and entertainment
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- Tickets: Available on New Ognisko ticket sale website see link below
Ognisko Polskie in conjunction with the Polish Cultural Institute present:
Chłopi Biesiada
A Polish country feast from Ognisko Restaurant and entertainment from Orlęta inspired by Władysław Reymont’s classic book
Orlęta - Polish Folk Song & Dance group
Orlęta is a unique Polish Folk Song & Dance group based in London, but also performing across the UK and abroad.
Orlęta present a truly entertaining show, whose joyous and exuberant performances delight and impress audiences. They bring to the stage the true spirit and spontaneity of a traditional Polish dance party.
Performances include concerts, multicultural events, festivals, corporate events, weddings, private functions and foreign festivals.
Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Władysław Stanisław Reymont, (7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the Nobel Prize laureate for Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants)
His work is widely attributed to the Young Poland movement, which featured decadence and literary impressionism. In November 1924 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Reymont’s last book, Bunt (Revolt), serialized in 1922 and published in book form in 1924, describes a revolt by animals which take over their farm in order to introduce “equality”. The revolt quickly degenerates into abuse and bloody terror. The story was a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and was banned from 1945 to 1989 in communist Poland, along with George Orwell’s similar novella, Animal Farm published in Britain in 1945.
