Polish Cultural Festival 23 -26 April 2009

Something I've been filming and editing for the Festival in April 2009. This is the short version but a longer version may be cut together and streamed from their website.

Polish Cultural Festival Website:
http://polishculturalfestival.org.uk/

The video has also been uploaded here (Same edit):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VPy9MhLy-cM

Back story for Non-UK YouTubers:
There has been a huge boost of Polish immigration to Scotland over the past few years and this is a festival to highlight Polish culture for the locals.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Polish
• Cultural
• festival
• edinburgh

[chadstur1991]

Don't pin my views on the SNP. I have my views as I do believe that there are too many of them within Scotland however, that doesn't mean I dislike them in anyway.

I actually believe that the Polish and Scottish do have a lot in common, and if you look up the history you see that a very large number of fishermen from Aberdeen immigrated to Poland.

[simozonelayer]

I'm very ware of our historical connection also briefly touched upon in the video. I mentioned SNP because you mentioned it on a video.

But getting back to your original comment though. To me, and in context of similar comments you'd made around YouTube, it sounded like a potentially 'loaded' or leading comment.

There's a time and a place for that but I didn't feel it was here, thats why I was annoyed to see it.

[chadstur1991]

There's such a thing as freedom of speech, or I'd imagine that's rather scarse in Glasgow!

[simozonelayer]

Freedom of speech is important, absolutely. but looking at your comments on other videos/channels across YTube I felt that the majority I read were based on blatant hatred towards anything not Scottish.

Scotland's alright as a country, its my country, but the point of this video was to illustrate the differences and similarities of Pole's and Scot's not a platform for your SNP views.

Great, you want independence but that's not the issue here so .. please ... elsewhere.

(I'm not from Glasgow)

[chadstur1991]

How many Polish people are there in Scotland?

Answer: Too fucking many!

[simozonelayer]

Sorry, I'll no have any wild nationalist BS on my vids. Take it elsewhere.

Thanks.

[simozonelayer]

Thanks Corrine & Neel, thanks indeed!

The track is 'Baranki (Z Dawna Dawnego, 2000)', by 'Orkiestra Sw. Mikolaja' a Polish Folk group.

[mungbeanmojee]

simon- this is great. What is the violin musak at the start? Corinne

great documentary - editing, subjects, scenes. 5 stars - Neel