Forty something years later revolutionary musical "Hair" returned to New York where it was premiered on October 17, 1967. On Saturday matinee on February 2010 the theater is still full and the audience ( every age group is represented starting with young kids) very excited. In a tradition of great Broadway performances all cast (Gavin Creel as Claude, Will Swenson as Berger) is fantastic and they deserved as well as a director Diane Paulus and a choreographer Karole Armitage to be honored the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Great songs, dance, laugh and reflection on history and change.

On February 7th in Bridgeport, CT more the 300 hundreds Poles gathered to participate in the 70 anniversary of deportation to Siberia during WWII. It was very moving to see survivors, their families, children and grandchildren as well as a members of the Polish community in Connecticut exchanging greetings and stories about those tragic events.

I have been waiting for new Peter Weir movie "The Way Back" for more then a year. The Australian director ( winner and six time Academy Award Nominee), my favourite since I saw "Picnic at the Hanging Rock", is working on film based on the novel by Slavomir Rawicz about seven prisoners escaping Siberian labor camps during WWII and and their epic journey to freedom. With amazing director and stunning cast: Colin Ferrel, Ed Harris and Saoirse Ronan it will be moving journey for its audience too.
For seven years I have been working on collecting interviews with Poles deported to Siberian labor camps, mines, special gulags, kolkhozes during WII for visual archives of Polish Army Veterans Association in New York City.
After the invasion of Soviet Army Eastern part of Poland on September 17 1939 over 1, 700, 000 Polish people were deported to different parts of Siberia from 1939-1941. Among them were politicians, civil servants, soldiers, officers, policemen, teachers, doctors, lawyers, intelligentsia, landed gentry, aristocrats, tradesman, artist, craftsmen shopkeepers and farmers. All with their families, they represented all Polish society.
Thousands died from hunger, exhaustion and various diseases. Thousands were murdered by the Soviet system. Thousands disappeared with out a trace.
Survivors were forced into silence for decades.
The visual archive of Polish Army Vetrerans Association consists more then 80 interviews with survivors, their life at Siberia and their epic journey to freedom.
To meet those real life heroes and to see pieces of those deeply moving and tragic stories please visit: www.youtube.com/pavany09english

The one and only David Bowie at Never Records

All about stars and divas- part of Never Record exhibition at former Tower Records

Do you remember old Tower Records at Broadway and 4th? It was such a great place to listen to the music, browse, hang out with friends.
It closed in 2006. But now the door are open again and the old familiar space hosts multi media, multi artist installation exhibition created by artist and musician Ted Riederer. Come and see artistic reproductions of a record store of past era with its music, posters, video rojections, fake albums, trash bins and even a statue of a record store clerk.

Joyful, prosperous and abundant 2010!!!