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See the Events Calendar for all entries and latest information. Community Sunday events free with Museum admission (suggested $5 per adult and $3 per child and to members). For more information, call (603) 924-4555. Nearly 100 years ago his relatives worked the farms and factories of the lower Connecticut River Valley. On weekends friends and neighbors gathered together for a house party with music played on accordion and violin. Gary has chosen a different path with his pursuit of traditional Polish American folk music. He uses the piano accordion to express his Polish musical heritage, which is a marriage of old country Polish village music with rural New England musical traditions. The joining of folk elements of two separate worlds is a result of the journey from Poland to America. At age 9 Gary began his professional career and at age 10, he traveled around New England performing with a vaudeville act called The Hog Hollow Hooters. Since then his solo recordings have landed him national performances with various cultural organizations. In May of 2000 Gary was nominated by Congressman John Sununu to represent NH in a performance at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. In July of 2000 he performed throughout Romania on a tour sponsored by the Smithsonian Folklife Center, the State Department, and the Governor of NH. In addition to performing for choral and dance groups, Gary performs 1960's surf rock, traditional ethnic, and his accordion compositions with the Portsmouth based group, The Serfs. Gary also hosts a 1950's style ethnic radio show, Polka Party, weekly at WUNH-FM in Durham. Gary's music has been featured in Paramount's 2005 Bad News Bears and the CBS production of the television series, Love Monkey. Poland to America is part of the Mariposa Museum's Matryoshki in Monadnock, celebrating the cultures of Russia, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Exhibits and activities are available before and after the performance, which is included in the Museum admission $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for children. Matrioshki in Monadnock is made possible through the generous sponsorships of C&S Wholesale Grocers, Lake Sunapee Bank, NH Ball Bearing, Monadnock Community Bank, Ocean Bank, Markem Corporation and the Peterborough Rotary Charitable Fund. For more information contact us at (603) 924-4555. Matryoshki in Monadnock is open through August 24th. Russian displays highlight the nesting doll or "matryoshka", icons and samovars, illustrations from Russian folk tales, ceramics, the lacquerware of Palekh and the painted wooden wares called "khokhloma". The Polish window features the armor of the Polish Winged Hussars. Superb costumes from the entire region are displayed in our textile gallery and on mannequins on the main floor. One display is devoted to the faiths of Eastern Europe, with a focus on Judaism. Mummers from Bulgaria and Romania, beautiful decorated eggs from Romania, Russia and Ukraine, and an Albanian cradle are among the other artifacts on view. Matryoshki in Monadnock includes performances of folk music and dance of the Balkans and Eastern Europe and a special classical performance by Croatian flutist Ivana Zahirovic and guitarist Jose Lezcano on August 6th. Marina Fuller will offer a program and workshop on painting matryoshki on July 27th, accordionist Gary Sredzienski presents a musical history of Poland on August 17th and there will be participatory Balkan Dance with Marcia Van Cleave on August 24th. Many residents of the Monadnock Region have lent artifacts from their personal collections for Matryoshki in Monadnock, including Roland and Joanne Lajoie, Bob and Marie Abernethy, Beth Bradford, Allen Hollander, Dick and Marie Adler, Erik Jadaszewski, Patricia Tompkins, Zaiga Upitis-Greenhalgh, Grace Raczek and Virginia Bankuti. Sponsors for the performance series are C&S Wholesale Grocers, Lake Sunapee Bank, NH Ball Bearing, Monadnock Community Bank, Ocean Bank and the Markem Corporation. For more information contact us at (603) 924-4555. The museum exhibit, Sacred Place‹the Cultures of India, Tibet and Nepal, will highlight the arts and traditions of South Asia and the Himalayas with artifacts from friends of the museum as well as the museum's permanent collection. Included in the exhibit will be bronzes of Hindu deities and Buddhist figures, Tibetan Buddhist thangkas, singing bowls and prayer wheels from Tibet, puppets and masks from the great Hindu epic the Ramayana and colorful dolls. The museum gallery will exhibit the richly ornamented textiles and clothing of the region from gossamer saris to a wedding dress heavy with metal thread. Sacred Places will continue through mid-January. During those months the Mariposa will host special performances of Indian dance and music as well as presentations on the cultures and festivals of the region such as Diwali, the Indian Festival of Light. The Mariposa's annual fundraiser entitled Perceptions of Peace will be held on October 25th at 7:00pm. The gala party will feature an auction of peace mandalas created by local and international luminaries. The visiting monks' Gaden Jangtse Monastery was established in 1409 in Lhasa and was the second largest monastery in Tibet, at one time housing 7,000 monks. Nothing of the original monastery remains today as it was destroyed during the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959. Rebuilding the monasteries in India was made possible by the Indian government's donation of land. The Gaden Jangtse Monastery, built in South Central India initially for about 300 monks, now serves over 2,600. During the monks visit the Mariposa Museum will host school groups and will be open to the public for extended hours: Friday 11:00am-9:00pm; Saturday and Sunday 11:00am-5:00pm; Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 8:00am-5:00pm with a closing ceremony Wednesday at 4:00pm. The fee for the Monks visit and exhibits is included in the regular museum admission of $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for children. First Friday from 5:00-9:00 is free and refreshments will be served. KidCraft will be Mandalas from 5:00-6:30. For more information contact us at (603) 924-4555. See the Events Calendar for all entries and latest information. other cultures, the world will know more peace and less war. 
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