Hellada Gallery / Hellada Art Center

09/13/2026

All new, the 2026 Polish Film Festival Los Angeles poster revealed!

Everyone is invited to the Gala Opening Reception and Award Ceremony on November 12th, 2026.
Film screenings will follow from November 13th through 15th. All new films in four categories; Feature, Short, Documentary and Animation - together, over 40 films! This year it will be the 27th annual film festival. Let's support the event, let's contribute to Polish cultural heritage.

Passes to the Gala Celebration are available to the public by making a donation of minimum $100/person at https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3K2ECW22ARVUE . Also, by calling 562.435-5232 or by sending a check to PFFLA, 117 Linden Ave, Long beach, CA 90802. Everyone who is 25 years of age or younger will be admitted for free.

PFFLA Team.

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Poster graphic design: Piotr Karczewski, Poland.

05/29/2026

WHAT IS ART?

YOU ARE INVITED TO free, 1hr community presentation open to all interested in art.

Every Sunday, 3:00 PM at Hellada Gallery, 117 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802. T: 562.435-5232

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Art is a process that belongs only to people. Every one of us is born with the ability to create and imagine. It is well known that toddlers and children are forever involved with this beautiful exercise. What may seem surprising – they do not need encouragement to do so – and… rather the opposite happens. The parents and the society trims such behavior due to commonly expected norms to be implemented. That is how the only source of self-doubt, our own philosophy and our own points of view is slowly dissolved.
Here are two incredible facts about art that are almost always omitted:

- ART IS THE ONLY NATURAL WEAPON AGAINST RADICALIZATION.
Trimming exercising art comes with learning the societal obligation and group responsibility, job requirements, financial obligations and much more. Eventually most of us stop practicing art just about when we are 18. Not practicing art opens the door to the replacement - brainwashing and propaganda. Especially when it comes to ideology and dogma. The only source of our own ideas is art. Without art we are only followers.

- PEOPLE WHO GAVE UP ON ART, STILL HAVE THE CHILDHOOD-ART IN THEM.
That is so true. There is always hope for all of us. At any time, we can start practicing art. Writing poetry or drawing for example. That will test us (on an individual level) if we already become followers of other people’s ideology. If we copy others - it would mean - we need plenty of work with art.
Why do you think there is no church promoting art classes? Why is there no dictatorship promoting art classes? Why is there no religion promoting art classes?

Every time the art exercise is removed from our life – we become powerless against brainwashing and propaganda.
Where art flourishes – there is no need for war.
Where art flourishes - there is a chance for happiness.

Marek Dzida
Hellada Gallery Director
117 Linden Ave, Long Beach.
www.hellada.us
T: 562.435-5232

05/15/2026