Polish Festival Seattle, after being forced to sit out its annual showcase at the Seattle Center in July this year, invites you to virtual Polish Christmas featuring Wigilia, Polish Christmas Eve traditions. Streaming from Facebook, YouTube and the Festival website from 2-5 PM PST. A series of short videos will tell the story of wigilia, show how to make traditional dishes, feature crafts, music and more. All brought to you during this time of social
The Kosciuszko Foundation is upholding its annual tradition of Christmas caroling, this year in a virtual edition. To keep the spirit bright please connect with the KF on Zoom on the last Saturday before Christmas to wish one another Merry Christmas, raise a toast, and sing our beloved Polish Christmas Carols as well as beautiful American Holiday Songs. The pianist Martin Labazevitch, and performers: Veronika Gajer, Anna Tarnawska and Waldek Izdebski as well as the hostess Barbara Bernhardt look forward
The Polish Film Festival of America in Chicago plans to announce the festival winning movies on Saturday, December 19, 2020. The winners will be available for streaming over this weekend, that is on Saturday and Sunday, December 19-20. On top of that, the Festival has announced that one additional movie will be available for screening over the same weekend: My Wonderful Wanda / Moja wspaniała Wanda, starring Agnieszka Grocholska It’s a family comedy produced in
December and January is usually an election season for the Polish Home Association (PHA) in Seattle with the annual meeting on the last weekend of January. The pandemic complicated things this year, but what I hear from PHA is that elections will happen by mail with the virtual meeting of members on Sunday, January 31, 2021. The following appeal has been issued by the PHA President, Mr. Erik Lidzbarski. Dear Members of Polish Home Association
Local Polish-American Cornish College of the Arts graduate, Kasia Pawluskiewicz is exhibiting a new series of contemporary paintings and fish prints created while working at sea as an artisan chef for the last ten years. Not a gathering but an experience! An outdoor exhibition Friday December 11th from 4 pm to 8 pm and Saturday December 12th from 10 am to 8 pm, with artwork illuminated when dark. COVID protocols applied. Bring masks and snow
PC gaming world is all aflutter about the Cyberpunk 2077 game from the Polish game studio CD Projekt Red from Warsaw, the company famous for the Witcher / Wiedźmin game series. The new game released on December 10, 2020 amped the ante with a movie-size budget over $314 million and is one of the most anticipated computer games ever per PC Gamer. This game runs on the most popular gaming engine in the world called
The Museum of the Moving Image and the Polish Cultural Institute New York present a program of five non-fiction movies Millennium Docs Against Gravity NYC. Few national cinemas have authored and challenged definitions of nonfiction film more persistently than Polish cinema. From Marcel Łoziński and Krzysztof Kieślowski to Anna Zamecka and Michał Marczak, the legacy of Polish nonfiction is long and consistently dynamic, led by both observational and narrative impulses, anthropological rigor and hybridized transgression.
This is another Polish movie program presented by the PFF Miami and the Polish Embassy. The three movie program includes The War of the Worlds – no, not about an invasion of Martians on the planet Earth but the invasion of the Bolshevik Russia on Poland in 1920. The War of the Worlds / Wojna światów, a very interesting documentary on the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1920 created by Mirosław Bork and Krzysztof Talczewski, is based
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a panel discussion Maria Skłodowska Curie – A Pioneer for Women in Science? The discussion will be moderated by Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Dr. Roald Hoffman. The panelists are Susan Queen – an award winning author of the biography Marie Curie: A Life, Dr. Maria Siemionow – a microsurgeon who performed the world’s first complete face transplant in Cleveland, OH and Dr. Keiko Kawashima – Prof. of history
Both annual Bazaars at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski in Seattle have been cancelled this year, but Polish Home Association came up with a vitual bazaar before Christmas instead. You can find a unique and thoughtful gift for your loved ones. Shop local and support our Polish artists and business owners! Polish Pottery is always an appreciated gift! Visit Lidia’s Polish Pottery or https://lidiaspolishpottery.com/ to find unique patterns and shapes of high quality hand painted pottery imported directly
Seattle-based monthly reading group Readings from the Heart of Europe will feature Magdalena Tulli’s novel Dreams and Stones / Sny i kamienie at its November meeting. All readers with an interest in the author or book are welcome to follow or participate in the discussion. Magdalena Tulli, 65, made her name in Poland in 2011 with her frank autobiography Włoskie szpilki / Italian High Heels; that book departed in style from her earlier, more metaphysical
The book for the meeting is “27 śmierci Toby’ego Obeda” by Joanna Gierak-Onoszko. Ms. Gierak-Onoszko is a Polish journalist who lived in Canada with her family for four years. Her first book is a result of her shock when she learned how the supposedly benevolent Canadian state was treating the First Nation peoples. Tony Obed is just one man from generations of Canadian First Nations whose life was broken by being removed from his family
Your favorite Christmas pictures and video clips are needed! The program for the virtual Christmas edition of the Polish Festival Seattle on December 20, 2020 is coming together nicely, with over dozen attractions running the whole gamut from the story of Polish Christmas Eve and Chopin’s scherzo with a traditional Polish carol motif, through the Virtual Polish Christmas Orchestra playing and a Canadian choir caroling, to a borscht and uszka cooking demos. One thing sorely
Polish Cultural Institute New York and Anthology Film Archives present a 2021 Oscar hopeful animated movie Kill It And Leave This Town / Zabij to i wyjedź z miasta directed by Mariusz Wilczyński. This is a North American premiere on the film and a two-week streaming run in the USA required to submit a movie to the Academy Awards. The last Polish contender in the Best Animated Feature category was Loving Vincent nominated in 2017. This
Salon of Poetry in Seattle presents the first poetry evening in Polish this year Poezja łączy ludzi. The program includes reading poems by members of the Salon as well as by members of the audience: please prepare your favorite poem supporting motto of this pandemic event: poetry connects people. As usual for the Salon meetings, music will be complementing poetry – local pianist Marzena Szlaga will play Debussy’s Clair de Lune and Beethoven’s Adagio Cantabile
This new literature book club in Seattle is for readers who’d like to discuss Polish literature in English. The book for this meeting is Choukas by Zofia Nałkowska published in 1927. Choucas is a French bird name for jackdaw, in Polish kawka; the name is used symbolically for people and their sometimes strange behavior. The books examines the role of minorities in different societies and situations through its different characters and is set in Swiss
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites you to a lecture Women and the Writing of Polish Jewish History before the Holocaust by Prof. Natalia Aleksiun-Madrzak. The lecture discusses social and cultural backgrounds of Polish Jewish female historians and their contributions as a minority historians, public intellectuals and Jewish women finding their place during interwar period in Poland, 1918-1939. Dr. Aleksiun-Madrzak is a Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Touro College in New York, with a
Update: you can now watch this webinar on the FIU zoom channel here (it starts at 0:00:30 sec of the recording). The American Institute of Polish Culture in Miami (AIPC) and Florida International University (FIU) present the second webinar that is part of the Blanka Rosenstiel Lecture Series on Poland Shifting Political Landscapes in Europe: Poland’s Role. The keynote speaker is the renowned historian and best-selling author, Norman Davies, PhD; Polish Ambassador Piotr Wilczek will
Update 11/19/2020: This PHA fundraiser was quite successful despite the coronavirus discouraging people from attending. Sixteen people showed up to don different folk costume attires and to get their pictures with different backdrops. The event raised about $300 for the folk dancing groups. Paulina and Maciej are very grateful to everybody who came in and supported the dancers! If you could not come or stayed at home due to the pandemic, you can still support
At the special meeting discussing the pandemic impact, the Trustees and Officers of the Polish Home Association decided that the dining room and the bar at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski will be closed until January 8, 2021.