The Polish Society has been a community hub in Glasgow’s West End since 1954.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00The building basically belongs to the society that has been given 70 years ago
00:06by the Scottish politician to Polish people who has been, you know, basically
00:14army officers who's been fighting in Second World War and come, came to
00:21Scotland, you know, to fight for our freedom and your freedom.
00:26Yes, and after war there was quite a lot of places like this, the Dom Polski, the
00:34house for Polish soldiers, they stay here, but this place I think it's just one of
00:41the last one. I'm not saying in all UK but I think in Scotland it's maybe one
00:47or two more in Scotland and here, as Rafał mentioned earlier, we'll be having
00:5570th anniversary of existing and we are second, third generation, but we arrived
01:03here not long ago, right, so, but the spirit of this Polish culture is still
01:12here and we're trying to continuing this in all kind of different playgroups.
01:18Basically the idea is just to kind of continue what the, what the people
01:24started 70 years ago, so basically that was the place for the Polish people to
01:29meet and cultivate the culture and heritage and etc. So we're trying to
01:39continue that but by having the various events or kind of cyclic types of events.
01:47So we've got, we've got a Polish school in here, we've got a playgroup, we've got
01:52a seniors club, we've got an art club. Dancing group Polonez that's
01:58practicing the classic dance which name is Polonez. There's a cinema club
02:06that we're trying to put some movies and yeah, basically I don't know, we don't
02:10want to forget about any Polish lessons here run by teachers. So we basically have
02:18a Polish lessons for people, for Scots or people with Polish heritage or any
02:25other nationalities who would, you know, have this idea of learning Polish. They
02:30could come here and learn Polish. We've got English lessons for Polish people
02:36or any other nationals. Recently people from Ukraine who came here also kind of
02:43uses, use our facility to learn English.