April 4-30, 2018 - "California Blooming," 12 rose photographs at Hellada Gallery, Long Beach, CA. Group show.
February 4-April 17, 2017 - "Rose of Roses" Photography Exhibition and accompanying events, at the Backdoor Gallery, Sunland, CA.
September 1-23, 2013 - "Shadows, Leaves, Roses" Photography and Poetry Solo Exhibition at the Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia, CA
May 21-26, 2013 - "Sound of Music" Group Photo Exhibition at Paderewski Piano Competition, Colburn School of Music, Los Angeles, with the KRAK Art Group
2000-2003. Initiator and organizer of a Manuscript Donation Campaign for the Polish Manuscript Collection at USC. Solicited, received and publicized donations from
over 40 composers and their families in Poland, France, and the U.S., the collection increased to over 300 documents.
2002-2003. Curator of a one-year exhibition, Paderewski: A Portrait of a Musician, organized to increase the status of Polish music at USC and promote the Center internationally. Also writer and editor of the Exhibition Program and PR materials.
October 2000. Curator of a Polish Manuscript Exhibition at USC, highlighting recent donations to the Manuscript
Collection. Wrote and edited the Exhibition Catalogue.
November 1998. Organizer and Manager of International Conference: Polish-Jewish Music! Bringing together 20
scholars from five countries to discuss the topic for the first time, the conference included public panel discussion and 2 concerts. Proceedings published online in the Polish Music Journal.
October 1997. Organizer and Program Director of Gorecki Autumn: A Residency including three concerts, public lectures
and seminars. The event was described as No. 1 in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Times in December 1997.
May 1995. Organizer and Program Co-Chair, Festival of Polish Music at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, with five
concerts as part of a joint scholarly conference of the Canadian University Music Society and other organizations.
January 4, 2020. "Helena Modjeska’s Bilingual Morality Tale of 1896" at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association, New York.
March 28, 2019
. "Who was Helena Modjeska?" Lecture to accompany Helena Modjeska Exhibition, Laguna Art Museum, California. $7 admission tickets.
January 5, 2019. "Defining Poland through Music: American Musical Celebrations of the Centennial of Poland’s Regained Independence" Paper at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association, Chicago, Il.
September 8, 2018. "PAHA’s communication media, challenges and opportunities of the digital age," Presentation with Stephen Leahy at the 75th Anniversary Conference of PAHA at Loyola University Chicago.
January 6, 2018. "Poland 1918-2018: Remembering Ignacy Jan Paderewski." Keynote Presentation at the Awards Ceremony of the Polish
American Historical Association, Washington D. C.
January 6, 2018. "The Myth of the Third: Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki in California" at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical
Association, Washington, D.C.
October 20, 2017. "Obecnosc Polonii amerykanskiej w sieci internetowej: formy i funkcje" The Presence of American Polonia in the Internet: Forms and Functions. Presented
at the Fifth Congress of Polish Scientific and Scholarly Associations in the World, Krakow, Poland, Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci.
June 2017. "Tansman in 'Tempo Americano,' 1941-1946" at the Sixth Congress of Polish Studies. Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, Krakow, Poland.
June 2017. "Gorecki Conducts Gorecki in Los Angeles, 1997" - at the Sixth Congress of Polish Studies. Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, Krakow, Poland.
March 14, 2017. "The American Years of Alexander Tansman, 1941-1946" at the International Conference "Homage to Aleksander Tansman," Wroclaw, Poland.
January 6, 2017. "Following Paderewski: An Album of Autographs and Clippings from Brighton, England, 1890-1911" at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association, Denver, Colorado.
November 25-27, 2015. "Szymanowska and the Circle of Duchess Maria Czartoryska Wirtemberska," at the 3rd International Conference about Maria Szymanowska, 3e Colloque international sur Maria Szymanowska et son temps "Talents au Feminin: Mythes et Realite" organized by the Maria Szymanowska Society and the Polish Academy of Sciences - Paris Station.
January 2-4, 2015. "The Impact of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's American Years on Spiewy Historyczne," at the 72nd Annual meeting of the Polish American Historical Association, New York.
June 19-20, 2014. "On Fashion, Portraits, and the Professional Image of Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831)," The Fifth World Congress of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland, June 22, 2014.
April 28-29, 2014. "'Les Chants historiques' de Niemcewicz, et tout particuli�rement - ceux de Maria Szymanowska" at the 2nd Internaional Conference about Maria Szymanowska, 2e Colloque international sur Maria Szymanowska et son temps
Paris, Polish Academy of Sciences.
January 3, 2014. "Jewish Composers of Polish Music in 1943" - Paper read at the 71st Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.
November 17-18, 2013. "Jewish Composers of Polish Music in 1943," invited paper for "The Musical Worlds of Polish Jews, 1920-1960: Identity, Politics and Culture," Arizona State University, November 17-18,
2013.
June 30, 2013 - "Maria Szymanowska: The Court Pianist of the Tsarinas" Lecture with pianist Wojciech Kocyan, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
"On the State of Polish Music in 1942" - paper read at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Boston, MA, September 6-8, 2012.
"A Century of Musical Exiles and Emigrants: From Jan Pychowski to Marta Ptaszynska" at the International Conference "East Central Europe in Exile: Patterns of Transatlantic Migrations" - Gdansk, Poland, University of Gdansk, June 3, 2012.
"Created by Stalin, Embraced by Emigrants: Mazowsze and Slask and Polish Folk Dance in California" at the Fifth Workshop "American Ethnicity: Rethinking Old Issues, Asking New Questions," Krakow, Poland, Jagiellonian University, May 29, 2012.
"Defining Polish Culture in California: The Fortieth Anniversary of the Modjeska Club" at the Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association
Chicago, Il., January 6, 2012.
"Genius and the Virtues of 'Sense and Sensibility' in the Image of Maria Szymanowska" paper read at the First International Symposium on Maria Szymanowska, "Maria
Szymanowska Colloque," Paris, Academy of Sciences, October 1, 2011. The conference report in Polish Music Newsletter December 2012.
"A Polish-American Composer: Who is Marta Ptaszynska?" at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, Arlington, June 11, 2011.
"Defining Polish Culture in California: The 40th Anniversary of the Modjeska Club" at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, Arlington, June 11, 2011.
"The Image of Chopin's Death in Art and Poetry" - paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association, Boston, Mass., January 8, 2011.
"The Image of Paderewski: An Archangel, Idol, Statesman." Paper read at the Chopin & Paderewski
2010 International Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, November 12, 2010
"Chopin in Polish-American Poetry: Lost Country, Found Beauty." Paper read at the semi-annual conference
of the Polish American Historical Association, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, June 26, 2010.
Poets at Azusa Pacific University's
"Fryderyk Chopin in Music and Poetry," February 16, 2010. Erika Wilk, Mira Mataric, Susan Rogers,
Taoli-Ambika Talwar and Maja Trochimczyk read their poems from Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse, February 16, 2010. Photo by Gene Schultz, Jr.
"From 'Eternal Eloquence' to 'What Does He Know?' - Images of Chopin in English-language Poetry." Paper and presentation of anthology Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse at the 3rd International Chopin Congress, February 25-March 1, 2010, Warsaw, Poland.
"An Archangel at the Piano: Paderewski's Image and his American Audience." Paper read at the 124th annual meeting of the Polish American Historical Association, San Diego, January 8, 2010.
"Celebrity in Decline: Paderewski's Musical and Political Reception in America 1919-1939" ("Rozne wymiary wielkosci: Muzyczna i polityczna recepcja Paderewskiego w Ameryce 1919-1939,") paper read at the Third Conference "Topos narodowy w muzyce polskiej, 1919-1939", Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw, Poland, November 16-17, 2009.
"From 'Eternal Eloquence' to 'What Does He Know?' - Images of Chopin in English-language Poetry." 67th Annual Meeting of the
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Jersey City, New Jersey, June 2009.
"1968 - Operation Danube, ISCM, and Polish Music." International Conference "Polish Music After 1945" Christ Church University, Canterbury, U.K., May 2, 2009.
"Marta Ptaszynska's Music for Percussion." 63rd Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, New York, 3-4 June 2006.
"The Impact of Polish State Ensembles, Mazowsze and Slask, On Folk Dance Movement in the U.S." Session on "Polish Dance in the U.S." at the 62nd
Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Pittsburgh, 3-4 June 2005.
"Paderewski and Nossig, Szymanowski and Fitelberg: Polish - Jewish Collaborations in Music."
Session on "Jewish Presence in Polish Music" at the 62nd
Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Pittsburgh, 3-4 June 2005.
"Chopin, Paderewski and Southern California," presentation at "The Image of Poland" seminar, University of La Verne, May 14, 2005.
"Lutoslawski's Manuscripts in Los Angeles: Compositional Revisions to Novelette and Paroles tissées," Symposium of International
Musicological Society, Melbourne, Australia, 14 July 2004.
"Towards Poland's National Style: Paderewski or Szymanowski?" presented at a session on "Karol Szymanowski," Third International
Conference on 20th Century Music, Nottingham, U.K., June 26-29, 2003.
"Poland's National Composer: Szymanowski or Paderewski?" presented at a session on "Polish National Composers" at the 61 Annual Meeting
of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 6, 2003.
"How Paderewski Plays: Chant d'amour and the Aestheticism of America's Gilded Age." Society for American Music, Tempe, Arizona, 27 February 2003.
"From Mrs. Szymanowska to Mr. Poldowski: Career Choices of Nineteenth-Century Polish Women Composers." Session "Seen and Heard? Women Painters, Performers, and Composers in Poland,"
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Meeting. 21-24 November 2002, Pittsburgh.
"How Paderewski Plays: Chant d'amour and the Aestheticism of America's Gilded Age." American Musicological Society. Columbus, Ohio, 31 October- 3 November 2002.
"Paderewski in Poetry: From Master of Harmonies to Poland's Savior." Session on "Paderewski and Sembrich."
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June 2002.
"Paderewski and Stojowski: A Musical Friendship," Session on "Elsner and Stojowski."
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June 2002.
"Towards A National Musicology - Scholars and Polish Music" invited paper for a commemorative
conference "History in Musicology - Musicology in History" dedicated to Prof.
Michal Bristiger, Institute of Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences; 10-12 December 2001, Warsaw, Poland.
"Musical Poetry of Cracow: Ewa Demarczyk and 'Piwnica pod
Baranami.'" Interdisciplinary panel,
"Socialist or Magic Realism? Artist and State in Post-war Krakow," during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies" in Arlington Virginia, 17-20 November 2001.
"Folk Song and the Polish Nation: A 20th-Century History." Symposium during Polish Music Festival "In Solidarity", University of California, Santa Barbara, 29 April 2001.
"Passion, Mourning, and the Black Angels: Ewa Demarczyk as the Voice of the Nation," at Symposium on Polish (post)modern music during a festival
"Poland: Music, Lyric, Nation," University of Chicago, Franke Institute for the Humanities, 21 April 2001.
"Political, Aesthetic, and Ethical Aspects of Henryk Gorecki's "Catholic" Music.
Session "Catholic Music in Slavic Europe," National Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 9-12 November 2000, Denver, Colorado (Also a respondent at another session at the same conference).
"Bogurodzica' Reborn: A Medieval Anthem in Contemporary Polish Music." Intercongressional Symposium, International
Musicological Society, Budapest, August 2000 (paper presented in absentia).
"Constructing the Immigrant Self: Polish Jewish Composers in the U.S." Session on Jewish and emigre composers at the 58th Meeting
of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. 600th anniversary of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 16-18 June 2000.
"Plato, Stalin and Friends: Censorship in Music." Panel on Censorship and Propaganda in the Arts,
USC Arts Festival, "The Indelicate Line," USC, Los Angeles, 29 March 2000.
"From Circles to Nets: on the Signification of Spatial Sound Imagery in New Music"
International Symposium "Sound in Space" - CREATE, Computer Music Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, 18-19 March 2000.
"Postcommunist and Postmodern: New Music from Poland" Special Session at the 1999 Meeting of
the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, November 1999.
"Defining a Nation: Polish Communities and Symbols in Music" Panel Session at the 1999
Meeting of the AMS, 4 November 1999 (Session Chair and Organizer).
"From Art to Kitsch: Reflections on the Imitations of Chopin's Style" presented at the 2nd
International Chopin Congress, organized by Polish Chopin Academy and F. Chopin Society in Warsaw, October 1999.
"Chopin and the Polish Race: Political Dimensions of Chopin Reception" presented at session on
"Chopin Appropriated" at The Age of Chopin: The Chopin Sesquicentennial Symposium
Indiana University, Bloomington, September 1999.
"Chopin and Women Composers." Special Session "Context and Reception of Chopin's Music" at the Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute
of Arts and Sciences in America, New York, June 1999.
"Parallels and Intersections: Constructing New Forms in Polish Art and Music." Colloquium of Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLa
and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (in preparation of the 2002 exhibit), Los Angeles, June 1999.
"Poles without the Polka: Cultural Identity of Polish Composers Immigrating to the U.S. during and After World War II."
Paper read at the 1999 Meeting of the Sonneck Society for American Music. Forth Worth, Texas, 13 March 1999.
"Penderecki's Ubu Rex and Surrealism in Polish Music Theater." International Conference on Penderecki's Musical Theatre, Cracow, Poland, September 1998.
"Composing in Color: Marta Ptaszynska's Liquid Light." Invited paper for the 1998 "Frau Musica Nova"
Conference about "Women Composers of Our Time", Cologne, Germany, October 1998. Conference web site:
http://members.aol.com/FrauMusica. Paper also read at the Annual Joint
Meeting of the Northern/Central and Pacific/Southwest Chapters of the AMS, USC, 24 April 1999.
"The Identity Question: Polish Jewish Composers in California." International Conference "Polish/ Jewish/Music!" November 1998, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Also Conference Organizer and Chair of the Program Committee.
Bogurodzica Reborn: A Medieval Anthem in Contemporary Polish Music. Paper read at an Interdisciplinary Conference The Yearning for the Middle Ages. Org. by Dorothea Redepenning and Annette Kreutziger-Herr, University of Heildelberg, Germany, April 1998.
Neoclassicism and Avant-garde?: The Aesthetics of Grazyna Bacewicz"
Presented at Women in Music: Music History Symposium during A Day with Women's Music, organized by the Polish Music Center, USC School of Music, Los Angeles, April 1998.
"Henryk Gorecki's Multi-Ethnic Concept of Polish Musical Identity"
Special Session:"The Appropriation of Folk Music by Eastern European Composers" Invited paper. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January 1998.
"Gorecki and the Paradigm of the Maternal.
Presented at the Gorecki Phenomenon: A Music History Symposium, Gorecki Autumn at USC,
1-5 October 1997, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; also the whole festival's program chair and organizer.
Also presented at the Joint Meeting of Southern and Northern Pacific Chapters of the AMS, University of
California, Santa Cruz, April 1998.
"New Insights into Lutoslawski's Concept of the Sound Plane" 1997 Joint Meeting of the American
Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory, Phoenix, Arizona
(31 October, 9:00-12:00; AMS/SMT Session "Lutoslawski and Schnebel").
Conference Program
"Spatiality of Sound and Stream Segregation in Contemporary Music." Paper presented at the
16th International Congress of the International Musicological Society,
Study Session: "Auditory Scene Analysis: Future Directions for Musicological Research"
London, Royal College of Music, 14-20 August 1997.
"Dans la Nuit: The Themes of Night and Death in Lutoslawski's Oeuvre."
Invited paper for the 1997 International Lutoslawski Conference, University of Warsaw, Poland, 27-28 June 1997.
"Inter/national Features of the Polish School of Sonorism in the 1960s." Presented at the
Session "National Style and International Attitude to Music," the Fifth Conference of the
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Memory, history and critique:
European identity at the millenium, 19-24 August 1996, Utrecht, The
Netherlands.
"A Mystic in the Cathedral: Musical Memory in Andriessen's Hadewijch." Presented at the
Session: "The 20th century and the Middle Ages: Cases of musical memory,"
the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas,
Memory, history and critique: European identity at the millenium, 19-24
August 1996, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
"Poland and Holland: Inter-nationalism in New Music" Presented at the Session
"Ethnicity and Internationalism in the Arts," the Fifth Conference of the International
Society for the Study of European Ideas, Memory, history and critique: European
identity at the millenium , 19-24 August 1996, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
"Birdsong, Music, Ecology: Reflections on the Aesthetics of a natural art."
Presented at the Haliburton Soundscape Workshop, of the World Forum for
Acoustic Ecology, Haliburton, Ontario, 29-31 July 1996.
"A Triumph of Modernity: Xenakis's Kraanerg at the Opening of the National Arts
Centre." (Paper co-authored with James Harley) Annual Meeting of the Canadian University Music
Society, Brock University, St. Catharines, 2 June 1996
"The 'Woman Composer' Debate from a Polish Perspective."
Annual Meeting of the Canadian University Music Society, Brock University, May
1996.
"'The living universe:' Natura naturans, natura naturata and Bartok's nature music
idiom."
British Musicology Conference, King's College, London, 18-21 April 1996.
"Romancing Hildegard: Postmodern appropriations of a medieval composer."
(co-authored with Catrena Flint) at an Interdisciplinary Conference, The Middle
Ages in
Contemporary Popular Culture, McMaster University, Hamilton, 29-31 March
1996.
"Canadian music in a Canadian space: R. Murray Schafer's The Princess of the
Stars."
22nd Meeting of the Sonneck Society for American Music, Washington, D.C., 21-24
March
1996.
"Natura naturata and Natura naturans: musical representation and structural symbolism
in Bartok's nature music idiom." Invited paper for the International Bartok Colloquium,
Szombathely, Hungary; 3-5 July 1995.
"From Postmodernism to Ecomusicology: Towards a New Paradigm in Music Research."
Spring Meeting of the AMS New York State--St. Lawrence Chapter, University of
Ottawa, 8-9 April 1995.
"Bacewicz, Picasso and the Legacy of Desire."
The First UK Critical Musicology Conference "Goodbye great music?" Salford,
United
Kingdom, 1-2 April 1995.
"The work of music revisited: Roman Ingarden's phenomenological aesthetics."
1994 Annual Conference of the Canadian University Music Society, Calgary, Alberta,
3-6 June 1994.
"American experimental tradition re-examined: Henry Brant's spatial music."
1994 Conference of the Sonneck Society for American Music, Worcester,
Massachusetts,
6-10 April 1994.
"On the use(ful/less)ness of analysis for the performance of 20th-century music (Xenakis,
Bartok, Stravinsky)." 1993 Conference of the Canadian University Music Society,
Carleton
University, Ottawa, May/June 1993.
"Technique of comedy in Verdi's Falstaff."
Spring Meeting of the NYS--SL Chapter of AMS, SUNY-College at Oswego, March
1993.
"New music and ideology in Poland--case study: The ISCM World Music Days of 1968."
Special Session on "Music, Ideology, and the State in Socialist Europe, 1945-1991" at
the
Annual Meeting of the AMS in Pittsburgh, November 1992.
"The technique of spatial sound movement in the instrumental music of Iannis Xenakis."
Fall Meeting of the NYS--SL Chapter of AMS, SUNY at Albany, October 1992.
"The concept of musical space in music theory and aesthetics (1930s-1980s)."
12th Congress of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics, Hochschule
der
Kunste, Berlin, Germany, July 1992.
Maja with Lois P. Jones at the Poets Cafe, KPFK Radio, October 2, 2010.
January 8, 2016 - "Family Stories,", "The Odds" and "Incense," from Slicing the Bread read at the 72rd Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association in Altanta, GA
February 2012 - Three Postcards from Paris, reading at the
Bolton Hall Museum, in Tujunga recorded by Poetry.LA
September 2011 - Three poems in the 40th Anniversary Audio Tour of the Pacific Asia Museum, to listen call the Museum's number and enter the number of the stop: "A Box of Peaches" written on the Gau Prayer Box, poem accompanied by Rick Wilson on Nepalese flute, tel. 626-628-9690, 455#; "An Embroidery Lesson" written on the Chinese courtier's robe with dragons, accompanied by Rick Wilson on Chinese flute, and followed by a reading by Mari Werner, call 626-628-9690, 464#; and "Smiling Buddha" - #445.
May 2010 - "An Ode of the Lost," dedicated to Adam Mickiewicz and all Polish exiles, and "A Portrait in Brackets". The first reading as Poet Laureate at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23, 2010.
September 2009 - "Illuminata" ("I want that crown") accompanied by Rick Wilson, posted on the website of the Pacific Asia Museum's award-winning Audio Tour of the Permanent Collection, Himalayan Art (Yab Yum and Crown).
Poetry Readings
See an additional list of readings and other events on the Events page.
October 25, 2020, "We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology" on Zoom, presented by Village Poets of Sunland Tujunga
October 11, 2020, "We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology" on Zoom, presented by the Flintridge Bookstore
February 15, 2019. "Grateful Conversations" Group Reading at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice.
November 25, 2018. "Krak Art Group" Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Poland's Regained Independence and "Grateful Conversations" Anthology Reading at Monthly Village Poets
reading at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga.
October 7, 2018. "Grateful Conversations" Anthology reading at the Flintridge Bookstore, La Canada. Group reading.
October 6, 2018. "A Gathering of California Poets Laureate," chaired by Dana Gioia at McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga. Reading "In Morning Light" from
the "Grateful Conversations" anthology.
April 28, 2018. "Altadena Poetry Review" Group Reading from the anthology, Altadena Public Library.
April 29, 2017. "Poetry and Cookies" event - reading "Under African Sky" from the Altadena Poetry Review. Anthology 2017 at the Altadena Library.
April 23, 2017. "Passing of the Laurels 2017" - Event co-host and reading "Today (We are)" at the Poets Laureate of Sunland Tujunga event, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga.
February 25, 2017 - "Shandy and Eva among the Roses," reading of love poems from Rose Always and other poems, at the "Rose of Roses" Photo Exhibition, Back Door Bakery and Cafe, Sunland, CA
February 14, 2017 - "An Evening of Poetry and Roses" with Poets on Site, at the "Rose of Roses" Photo Exhibition, Back Door Bakery and Cafe, Sunland, CA
September 19, 2016 - First Reading from The Rainy Bread, at the Generations Remember 2016 Conference in Warsaw, Poland, organized by the Kresy Syberia Foundation.
February 24, 2016 - "Black History Month" reading with Beverly Collins, at Phoenix House Venice.
January 8, 2016 - "Family Stories," "The Odds" and "Incense," from Slicing the Bread read at the 73rd Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association in Altanta, GA
November 30, 2015 - "A Study with Cherries", "The Lady with an Ermine, and "An Invitation to the Dance" with Edoardo Torbianelli, antique pianoforte, International Szymanowska Symposium, Polish Academy of Sciences, Paris, France.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 6 p.m. "Give it all away..." A Poetry Workshop at Phoenix House Venice, with Jessica Wilson and Juan Cardenas Wilson.
Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. "Poetry Palooza at McGroarty Arts Center" - one of the features in Village Poets group. McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga.
Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 4:30 p.m. "Westside Women Writers go Eastside" Featured reading at Village Poets
Monthly Reading, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA.
With Lois P. Jones, Kathi Stafford, Susan Rogers, and Sonya Sabanac.
Saturday, August 15, 2015, at 6 p.m. "Poetry Palooza on Franklin" -
one of the features of event hosted by Seven Dhar, Scientology Center, Hollywood.
Slicing the Bread Book Tour
Friday, February 20th, at 8:30 p.m. Santa Monica Third Fridays at the Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading Hosted by Elena Secota Featured Poet, with Joe Camhi
The Rapp Saloon, 1436 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Sunday, February 22nd, at 4:30 p.m. Village Poets Monthly Reading. Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, CA 91042. Featured Poet.
Thursday, February 26th, at 7:30 p.m. Ventura Ventura Poets Reading hosted by Phil Taggart "Voices of Survivors"
with Ed Rosenthal reading from "A Desert Hat" - E. P. Foster Library, 651 East Main Street, Ventura, CA 93001 Phone (805) 648-2716
Friday, February 27th, at 8:00 p.m. Featured poet at Poetry Open Mike, Host Victor Sotomayor, Sylmar
Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural, 13197 Gladstone Avenue "A" Sylmar, CA 91342
Sunday, March 15th, at 4-6 p.m. Louis Jane Studio, Pasadena Poets And Verse – An Exploration Of Life's Journey with Guest Artist: Lynda Pyka, and poets Cindy Rinne, Lois P. Jones, Deborah P. Kolodji, Taoli-Ambika Talwar, Gerda Govine and Kathabela Wilson
Louis Jane Studio, 93 East Union Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
Sunday, April 19th, at 2:00pm Moonday Poetry Hosted by Alice Pero and Lois P. Jones "Woman in Metaphor" Group Reading from an Anthology edited by Maria Elena B. Meyer
Flintridge Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 1010 Foothill Boulevard, La Canada Flintridge, CA 9101
Saturday, May 9th, 3 p.m. Saturday Afternoon Poetry, Pasadena, hosted by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasadena Public Library, 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena
Saturday, May 16th, 8 p.m. Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice "Crossing Dark Borders: The Poetry of Shadow,
Shade and Long Night." Lisa Cheby, Georgia Jones-Davis and Maja Trochimczyk celebrate the publication of their new chapbooks. Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA 90291 (310) 822-3006 www.beyondbaroque.org
Saturday, June 6th, at 4 p.m. Unbuckled Poetry in North Hollywood hosted by Radomir Luza. "Voices of Survivors" – a joint reading with Ed Rosenthal, author of The Desert Hat and survivor of being lost in the Mojave Desert.
10943 Camarillo Street, North Hollywood
Tuesday, June 9th, at 8 p.m. Palace Poetry Group hosted by Linda Griggs - Featured Poet at DeWitt Community Library, near Syracuse, NY.
January 8, 2016 at 5 p.m. Polish American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Downtown Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia.
Other Readings
Monthly Poetry Readings at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, introducing featured poets, last Sunday of each month, villagepoets.blogspot.com
January 10, 2014 - Foothills Poetry Festival, with Elsa Frausto and others at Sunland Tujunga Library, reading poetry in translation.
October 25, 2014 - "Woman in Metaphor" Group Reading at Beyond Baroque, Venice.
July 19, 2014 - "Paws for Poetry" Animal Poetry Reading and Exhibition at the La Crescenta Public Library, with Village Poets and Guests.
July 4, 2014 - Sunland-Tujunga Fourth of July Parade, Poets Convertible with new Poet Laureate, Elsa S. Frausto and Village Poets.
April 29, 2014 - Two Romantic Poems at the Maria Szymanowska Salon in Paris, Polish Academy of Sciences, part of the Szymanowska Conference.
September 1, 2013 - Reading at the Opening of the Exhibition "Shadows - Leaves - Roses" at the Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia
July 4, 2013 - Sunland-Tujunga Fourth of July Parade, Poets Convertible with Dorothy Skiles, Marlene Hitt and Joe DeCenzo
April 29, 2013 - Co-Inspirators: Poets, Artists, Musicians - group reading at the Pasadena Public Library, Wright Auditorium, with Rey R. Luminarias, Susan Dobay, Kathabela Wilson, and others
April 20, 2013 - Village Poets at La Crescenta Public Library, group reading with Joe DeCenzo, Marlene Hitt, and Dorothy Skiles
April 17, 2013 - Westside Women Writers at Topanga Public Library, group reading with Millicent Borges Accardi, Kathi Stafford, Susan Rogers, Sonya Sabanac and Lois P. Jones
March 2, 2013 - "Colonnade Gallery Exhibition Opening" Group Reading of Poets on Site at the Opening of the "Inspired by Nature" exhibition at the Colonnade Gallery, Pasadena.
February 21, 2013 - "Poets Cafe Listening Party" Reading of Poets featured on Poets' Cafe KPFK, the Wilson's Salon
February 9, 2013 - "Impressions of China," Group Reading of Poets on Site at the opening of Susan Dobay's Exhibition at Altadena Public Library.
Monthly events of Helena Modjeska Arts and Culture Club, 2010-2012, organizer and manager of 36 events; for details visit the
Modjeska Club Website
December 15, 2012 - "The Place of Stones" inspired by Richard Stewart's sculptures in Il Bandito Park, forthcoming in a book
of poetry and photographs The Rocks of Rancho Tujunga, recorded for a documentary film on Stewart.
December 14, 2012 - "Poets on Site" group reading at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA.
July 22, 2012 - "Meditations on Divine Names" group reading from the new anthology by Moonrise Press at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, CA.
June 30, 2012 - Featured Poet at the Catalina Branch of Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena, CA.
May 30, 2012 - "Aliens in California" - Poetry inspired by the art of immigrants, featured solo reading illustrated by artwork and photographs by Susan Dobay, Henry Fukuhara, and others, solo reading
at the American Corner, Gdansk, Poland.
April 15, 2012 - "Passing of the Laurels" Ceremony to end the two-year term as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA.
Other poets: Dorothy Skiles (new Poet Laureate), Kathabela Wilson, Just Kibbe, Joe DeCenzo and Marlene Hitt.
February 18, 2012 - "On Awakening" - Group reading from an anthology of poetry inspired
by a series of Susan Dobay's paintings, Poets on Site event at the Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia, reading four poems.
December 30, 2011 - "Paris, Szymanowska and Water Lilies" at Kathabela and Rick Wilson's Salon, Pasadena; the first reading of poetry inspired by Ron Libbrecht's Paris and Monet's Water Lilies
October 1, 2011 - Maria Szymanowska Salon, Paris, Polish Academy of Sciences, part of International Conference,
The Woman of Europe: Maria Szymanowska, reading "The Shooting Star," "An Ode of the Lost," and "How to Make a Mazurka""
September 24, 2011 - "One Hundred Thousand Poets for Change" reading by Westside Women Writers in Tarzana, California, a part of an international project of poetry for peace.
September 2011 - Three poems in the 40th Anniversary Audio Tour of the Pacific Asia Museum, to listen call the Museum's number and
enter the number of the stop: "A Box of Peaches" written on the Gau Prayer Box, poem accompanied by Rick Wilson
on Nepalese flute! 626-628-9690, 455#; "An Embroidery Lesson" written on the Chinese courtier's robe with dragons,
accompanied by Rick Wilson on Chinese flute, and followed by a reading by Mari Werner, call
626-628-9690, 464#; and "Smiling Buddha" - call 626-628-9690, 445#.
September 2009 - "Illuminata" ("I want that crown") accompanied by Rick Wilson, posted on the website of the
Pacific Asia Museum's award-winning Audio Tour of the Permanent Collection, Himalayan Art (Yab Yum and Crown).
August 19, 2011 - Featured Poet at the Rapp Saloon, Santa Monica, with host Elena Secota
August 13, 2011 - Poetry Corner at an Annual Watermelon Festival, Sunland Park, poetry for children, organized with Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga
August 8, 2011 - Featured Poet at Moonday West Poetry Readings, with Lucia Galloway, Pacific Palisades
August 6, 2011 - Poets' Picnic in Benicia, California - Poets Laureate Reunion
July 11, 2011 - Guest Poet in Upward Bound Poetry Class by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Occidental College
May 28, 2011 - "The Spiritual Quartet" in Ventura, group reading with Lois P. Jones, Susan Rogers, and Taoli-Ambika Talwar.
May 31, 2011 - The Spiritual Quartet group reading in Ventura, CA, with Lois P. Jones, Susan Rogers and Taoli-Ambika Talwar.
March 31, 2011 - "Ascension" dedicated to Barbara Koziel Gawronski, part of A World Tour of Women at Caltech Diversity Center, Pasadena, reading of poets from the Caltech Poetry Journal vol. 2
Ascension (A Memorial Poem) dedicated to Barbara Koziel-Gawronski (1946-2009), read at the Passing of the Laurels
Ceremony, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, California, April 25, 2010: http://youtu.be/9gB9Yj9acaM
March 30, 2011 - Maja Trochimczyk on the Poet's Cafe, interview with host Lois P. Jones, broadcast on KPFK, 90.7 FM.
March 27, 2011 - The Spiritual Quartet with Lois P. Jones and Susan Rogers, accompanied by William Lenaburg "Dr. Blues" at Village Poets Monthly Reading, Bolton Hall Museum,
February 9, 2011 - "Imagine Poetry" reading of poetry inspired by art, with guitar accompaniment by Dr. Blues, Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council Meeting, Tuju
January 8, 2011 - "Growing up Polish, Becoming American" selected poems at a special session at the Polish American Hstorical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass.
December 11, 2010 - "Christmas Poem," at Little Landers Society's Annual Christmas Party, Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga.
December 4, 2010 - "Indigo: Poetry and Japanese Pottery in Blue and White" gropu reading at a Pacific Asia Museum Exhibition, presentation of a chapbook edited by Kathabela Wilson
November 13, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries IV" group reading at the Chopin and Paderewski Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, Ill.
October 17, 2010 - "Healing from the Ashes" Poetry Reading at the Special Exhibition, a benefit for the victims of Station Fire, with artwork based on
artifacts found in the fire, Village Poets, 3:00 p.m.
September 26, 2010 - "Haiku Anthology" reading, Bolton Hall, Tujunga, Village Poets Monthly Series, 4:30 p.m.
September 12, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries III" group reading at Beyond Baroque, with 11 other poets, 3 p.m.
August 15, 2010 - Summer Poetry at the Lions' Club Watermelon Festival, Sunland Park, 2 p.m.
Reading "Mountain Waltz" at APC Fine Arts Gallery,
Poets on Site Event, Torrance, September 2009.
June 5, 2010 - "Poetry Booth: Maja and Friends" at Puppetry Festival, McGroarty Art Center, Tujunga.
May 23, 2010 - "Village Poets Open Reading" at Bolton Hall, Tujunga, 4:30 p.m., presentation as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga
May 8, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries II" Music and Poetry at a book publication party, group reading with Chopin's music played by pianist Wojciech Kocyan,
Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles, CA. See photos in Picasa web album: Chopin II Photo Album.
May 8, 2010 - "Awards Ceremony for Local Volunteers," Los Angeles Councilman Paul Krekorian, Field Office, Sunland-Tujunga. Reading of an occasional poem
written especially for this event, "Mountain Watch."
May 1, 2010 - "Spiritual Quartet" - Group reading with Lois P. Jones, Susan Rogers, and Taoli-Ambika Talwar, The Church in Ocean Park, Santa Monica. See
photos in Picasa web album: Spiritual Quartet.
April 25, 2010 - "Passing of the Laurels" Ceremony, as newly elected Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga
for 2010-2012, McGroarty Art Center, Tujunga. See the Picasa Photo Album. Read Maja's occasional poem, "What I Love in Sunland" (Word download).
See the first reading of What I love in Sunland at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/I1DFKCDZ83s
April 23, 2010 - "Tour of the World" Reading for Earth Day celebration, Ten Thousand Villages, Pasadena, event of Poets on Site. Reading of: "An Ode of the Lost" and "What I like in Poland."
April 18, 2010 - "Indian Miniatures" Exhibition at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, Poets on Site Project. Reading of three poems: "Fearful Symmetry in Blue," Condemned" and "A Foreign Tale."
April 11, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries I" Music and Poetry at a book publication party,
group reading with pianist Neal Galanter, at South Pasadena Public Library, CA. See the Chopin I Photo Album (Picasa web album site).
February 16, 2010 - Chopin in Music and Poetry at Azusa Pacific University, featured poet, reading from Chopin with Cherries, with poets
Susan Rogers, Mira Mataric, Taoli-Ambika Talwar, and Erika Wilk
February 13, 2010 - Poets on Site group reading at two exhibitions at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena
February 4, 2010 - Featured Poet at Beyond Baroque, Venice, California.
January 9, 2010 - "Immigrant Experience in Poetry" special session at the Annual Meeting of the Polish-American Historical
Association, San Diego; with Oriana Ivy, Lillian Vallee, and Linda Nemec Foster.
September 26, 2009 - APT Gallery, Torrance, Poems for the 12th Annual Henry Fukuhara Annual Watercolor Workshop at Manzanar Internment Camp" Poets on Site chapbook event.
August 22, 2009 - Permanent Collection Tour, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, Poets on Site Chapbook Publication Event.
August 2, 2009 - Kath Abela's Poetry Salon, Pasadena - Chopin in Poetry Book Project Presentation
July 22, 2009 - Upward Bound, Occidental College, guest poet for a high school class of Don Kingfisher Campbell
July 12, 2009 - Ganesha: The Remover of Obstacles, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, 2 p.m. Poets on Site Chapbook Publication Event, with South Indian dance and music.
June 6, 2009 - Featured Poet at Emerging Urban Poets, Pasadena Public Library, Santa Catalina Branch, 999 E. Washington Blvd., 2 p.m.
May 30, 2009 - Group Reading for "Bodies Mapping Time: New Portraits of Women" by J. Michael Walker,
at Avenue 50 Studio, 131 N. Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA 90042, 7:00 p.m., including a new poem "For Lois"
May 23, 2009 - Memorial Day Weekend Small Press Festival, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill St.
Santa Monica, CA 90405. Reading and Moonrise Press presentation
April 4, 2009 - Altadena Public Library, Poetry and Cookies Publication Party
April 2, 2009 - Napa Elementary School, Northridge, 5th Grade - Poets in the Classroom, site visit and teaching session, reading 4 poems (The Crown, In Passing 6, haiku, The Arrow)
March 7, 2009 - Pasadena Public Library, Catalina Branch, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly no. 41, Publication Party,
October 26, 2008 - Pasadena Central Library, guest host, reading "Colors of the Fall" collection and guests.
September 5, 2008 - APC Fine Arts Gallery Torrance, reading for Henry Fukuhara Workshop chapbook
September 12, 2008 - Featured Poet, Allendale Branch, Pasadena Library, reading from Rose Always.
August 5, 2008 - Featured Poet, National Night Out, Allendale Branch, Pasadena Public Library, semi-staged reading from Rose Always, with Engleman
August 16, 2008 - Torrance Fine Arts and Graphics Gallery, Exhibition from the 11th Annual Henry Fukuhara Workshop: Expressions and Interpretations of Alabama Hills, Manzanar, and Keeler
August 23, 2008 - Chaffey Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, California, Milton Zornes in Asia Exhibition - India, China, Burma (the War Years)
July 26, 2008 - Fine Arts and Graphics Gallery, Torrance, Three Generations Exhibition, Poets on SiteChapbook reading
May 5, 2008 - Pacific Asia Museum, Rengetsu Exhibition, Poets on Site Chapbook reading
April 2008 - San Marino Gallery, Milton Zornes Exhibition, Poets on Site Chapbook reading
March 2008 - Pasadena Museum of California Art, Milton Zornes Exhibition, Poets on SiteChapbook reading
January 28, 2008 - Featured Poet, Monday Night Poetry, Santa Catalina Branch, Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena
Exhibitions and Conferences
