Spring Market – Polish Association

Date: Sunday, 10 September, from 1pm –

Place: Dom Polski, 1 McDonald Street, Morningside

Tui among kowhai flowers. Photo: B Scrivens

Even though we have still hardly settled into winter, your new committee has confirmed that we will host a Spring Market on the second Sunday of September, when we anticipate that the coldest days will have been behind us.

Our regular market shoppers know that we support Polish entrepreneurs, and showcase Polish products. For our stallholders, we have created a WhatsApp group. This will allow you all to keep in touch and updated with any of the tweaks and turns that we in Auckland have become accustomed to.

If a current stallholder, or anyone who would like to become a stall-holder, has not yet heard from our new market co-ordinators, please email them: Gosia Stechly at malgorzata.stechly@gmail.com, or Anna Biegańska at pierogi.making@gmail.com.

As usual, food tops the list when it comes to what will be available from our stallholders: We know that the promise of kiełbasa, pierogi, and traditional Polish baking delicacies (and beer) will draw in the crowds. Our kitchen will also be producing hot pierogi meals for eating on site.

All the profit we make will go towards fundraising for a much-needed accessibility toilet in our hall. This includes all the proceeds from the kitchen and stalls run by the committee, so do pause there too.

Because we want to try to make as much profit as we can for our fundraising, we have decided to make our pierogi in-house. Other Polish communities in New Zealand turn this activity into a social occasion, and we see no reason not to do the same. We have not made a date yet, but anyone who would like to help and teach, or help and learn, how to make pierogi should contact Anna Biegańska at her address above.

11 September, from 2pm

What more promising time of the year than when the days draw longer and warmer?

As you may have heard, we are celebrating the extra spring in our steps with a market to confirm the fact that Auckland Dom Polski’s doors are again well and truly open. Our Mix & Mingle function last Sunday made it clear to us that we are more than ready to reacquaint ourselves with one another, and our culture.

Our regular market shoppers know that we support Polish entrepreneurs, and showcase Polish products. As usual, food tops the list when it comes to what will be available from our stallholders: We know that the promise of kiełbasa, pierogi, and traditional Polish baking delicacies (and beer) will draw in the crowds. Our kitchen will also be producing hot pierogi meals for eating on site.

All the profit we make will go towards fundraising for a much-needed accessibility toilet in our hall. This includes all the proceeds from two stalls run by the committee, so do pause there too. Both promise miscellaneous collections that are still being assembled or, in the case of our gardening stall, grown.

We want to encourage the youngest members of our Polish community to do their own bit to encourage the bees and monarch butterflies that are beginning to forage in our gardens again, and we will be giving away seven specially-prepared bee-friendly sunflower seeds to the first 20 children whose parents buy them a swan plant – or two – for their monarch butterfly buddies.

There might just be a competition or two involved in this for later in the year… Watch this space.

See you there!