Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar Women Fighters of Polish Independence by Anna Nowakowska-Wierzchoś. Dr. Nowakowska-Wierzchoś is An assistant-Professor at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, with interest in Polish social history, women’s and gender history. Her talk discusses different ways women engaged in the fight for Polish independence during 19th and 20th centuries, starting with the legendary Emilia Platter , and how that changed and expanded in the subsequent
There is a new pączki / ponchki maker in town: Mark Oliver opened his virtual Marek’s Bakery and Deli recently. His pączki come in the following flavors: plum, marionberry, cherry, yuzu, passion fruit, and peach. Currently the bakery delivers pączki to the following locations: George’s Deli in Seattle on Fridays Coffee and Cone in Kirkland on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays Check availability before you drive as his pączki fly off the shelves! Also check for a
The Polish Film Festival of America in Chicago, the first (since 1989), the best, and the biggest of the Polish movie festivals in the United States is on! This year, it has a hybrid form due to COVID-19. That is, some movies will be screened in an actual cinema theatres in Chicago, while some others will be available through streaming. The festival will even feature some movies that have not been released yet in Poland
The Ethnic Heritage Council and the UW Libraries present another edition of the We are History Keepers Virtual Workshop. This is a shortened version of the workshop on preserving history of local ethnic communities. Please check the workshop website for details of this program and of another one coming in September. There will be two sessions at the workshop, as per info below: Conducting and Preserving Your Oral History Projects UW Libraries archivists and librarians will guide you through
Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles is an annual piano festival honoring the famous virtuoso pianist, composer and politician Ignacy Paderewski (1860-1941). The 2020 edition of the festival is a two days event with all the events available online due to the pandemic with tickets available for token price of $5 or a possibly more generous donation. This year festival opens on November 6, which is the 160th anniversary of Paderewski’s birthday. The Gala Concert featuring
After successfully putting a toe in the water last week, Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski again opens its dining room and bar with a limited menu on Friday, November 6, 2020 from 5 pm to 10 pm. This is a temporary arrangement with volunteer chefs Teresa and Grażyna caused by the Polish Cuisine food truck not coming back this Friday or next Friday night. A new permanent chef is expected to take over around mid-November.
The 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (AAPFF) in Ann Arbor, Michigan goes completely online this year, and presents jury-awarded documentaries and short film as well as a selection of feature films and Q&A sessions with filmakers. The AAPFF is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund – Ann Arbor in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the University of Michigan Polish Student Association. The program includes the following movies and interviews available for screening from 4
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar The Transatlantic Lives of Polish American Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Marta Cieślak. Dr. Cieślak is is currently a Humanities Scholar at the Center of Arkansas History and Culture at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where she teaches modern, world and women’s history and runs a project investigating the unique experience of Polish female migrants in American cities at the turn
Update: APFF has been extended through December 27, 2020 with new movies added to the schedule. This pandemic autumn has become a great season to watch Polish movies in the USA with streaming offers coming from many places. Austin’s is another Polish film festival that decided on the hybrid formula that includes streaming of several films along with screening at a local cinema. Feature movies, shorts and documentaries as well as an interview are available
This episode seems to have been cancelled. In the printed November 2020 KCTS 9 program this half an hour slot is taken over by the premiere broadcast of an Italian food series. This is the final episode of the series broadcast by PBS since August. Flavor of Poland is a culinary-travel PBS television weekly series presenting the country of Poland to American viewers like they’ve never seen it before. Hosted by Aleksandra August, the series
The Jagiellonian Law Society and the Kosciuszko Foundation present a webinar Ethnic Minorities in Polish Lands by Prof. Marek Dziekan and Dr. Maria Kobielska. This is the first of a series of webinar on dealing with various ethnic minorities that have lived or are living in “Polish lands.” Poland is home to many ethnic minority groups, such as Tatars, Kashubians, Boikos, Lemkos, Roma, Jewish people, to name a few. All of these groups have fascinating
The Polish Literature Club is a new book club in Seattle for people who’d like to read and discuss Polish literature in English (yes!), organized by indomitable Paulina Phung. The book to discuss at this meeting is Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski, a controversial 1948 book about moral dilemmas of anti-communist resistance in 1945 Poland that was made into the world famous movie by Andrzej Wajda in 1958. Andrzejewski (1909-1983) was one of the writers
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski decided to put a toe in the water and open its dining room and bar with a limited menu on Friday, October 30, 2020 from 5 pm to 10 pm. This is a temporary arrangement with volunteer chefs Teresa and Grazyna caused by the absence of the Polish Cuisine food truck from the Polish Home parking lot starting this Friday. A new permanent chef is expected to take over around
Your help is needed! Polish Festival Seattle, after being forced to sit out the annual showcase at the Seattle Center in July this year, has come up with an exciting proposal for Christmas! There will be a virtual celebration of Polish holiday traditions on Sunday, December 20th from 2 to 5 pm. The exact program is being ironed out, but it should include cooking demos, ornament workshops, music, caroling, videos and more! These are the
The Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) present the webinar honoring Prof. Jack Szostak. Dr. Szostak is the 2009 Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine. He is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard and a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, among other positions. The event will feature the presentation of the PIASA Scientific Awards: The Casimir Funk Natural
Local event Polish women from the Seattle area organize a protest at the Polish Cultural Center parking lot on Tuesday against the new abortion law in Poland. The Constitutional Tribunal in Poland ruled before the weekend that terminating a pregnancy due to a damaged fetus was unconstitutional, nullifying most of the abortion law that has been in force since 1993. The only exemptions left are in case of rape, incest or danger to the mother’s
Polish Food Truck in the Seattle Area Polish Cuisine on Wheels NW provides delicious Polish food at different place in Seattle and other cities of the region. You need to look at the schedule to see where you can catch it. For current locations and times, please check our schedule at Polish Cuisine or visit the Polish Cuisine on Wheels facebook page or call 206-641-1537 for more info. Update as of Nov 10, 2020: The truck is now available daily
The book to discuss is Tajemnica Domu Helclów by Maryla Szymiczkowa published by Znak in 2018. Maryla Szymiczkowa is the pen name of Jacek Dehnel and Piotr Tarczyński. This fin-de-siècle mystery book has been praised by none other than the Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk as “an ingenious marriage of comedy and crime”. This event is in Polish. More: virtual Polish Book Club September meeting (PL), about the book and the author (PL). Please contact Paulina for the Zoom invite or
Update as of October 29 and November 5, 2020: the food truck is not coming to the Polish Cultural Center anymore. Hence, the Polish Home Association decided to open its dining room and bar with a limited menu on Friday nights on temporary basis. Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski is still in a suspended mode in regards to its many functions due to the pandemic, but it opens on limited basis on Fridays nights for
As many local readers are aware, the Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles, a longtime partner of the Seattle Polish Film Festival is on this year. It is happening entirely online from October 23 to 29, 2020. However, the LA festival decided that the streaming of the festival movies will be available only to viewers in California (recognized by the credit card address). More: Polish Film Festival LA website