In this episode you will hear:
- How a young Canadian musician, a Juno award winner, sees Poland after living and working there
- How the inhabitants of Cracow deal with dragons
- How a Canadian actor/playwright wrote a play about his Jewish roots after making a visit to Poland which changed his way of thinking about his identity and all he had ever learned about Poland
Interviews:
• Ariel Bialski (Heights Beats), a Toronto DJ, musician, composer, music producer, actor, comedian, now living in Poland, talks about the Warsaw music scene
• Michael Rubenfeld, a Jewish Canadian playwright and actor, talks about his play “We Keep Coming Back” about his and his mother’s first trip to Poland and its meaning
Also in this episode:
• Why adults study Polish in Toronto? A student’s story
• Kraków (Cracow) is famous for its legend of Smok Wawelski – the Wawel Dragon. Wawel is the royal castle in Kraków, which used to be the capital of Poland
• Buczybas – a traditional musical instrument from the Kashubia (Kaszuby) region of northern Poland
