International Culture

The national cultural institutes and diaspora cultural centres that keep a public door in London, with the libraries, galleries, film programmes and language classes they run, and the international festivals that return to the same ground each year. Much of what they put on is free.

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Polish Social and Cultural Association

The largest Polish centre outside Poland: a theatre, a gallery, a jazz club and a library begun in 1942.

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Known to everyone who uses it as POSK, the association was built by the Polish community that could not go home after 1945 and is the biggest Polish institution anywhere outside the country. The King Street building holds a theatre that programmes plays and concerts, an art gallery, a jazz club in the basement, a restaurant and a bookshop.

The Polish Library was founded in 1942, while the war was still on, and specialises in what the emigration published - the books, journals and pamphlets printed in London because they could not be printed in Warsaw. It is one of the largest Polish libraries outside Poland.

Where
238-246 King Street, W6 0RF
Country
Poland
Nearest station
Ravenscourt Park · 2 min walk

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