The We Are The History Keepers! workshop on preserving history, both for families and organizations, changes its formula and switches to shorter, 2-hour monthly sessions tackling a single topics . These are all online interactive sessions on a Saturday before noon. This is the second session in the series. The organizers describe content of this session as follows: Okay, so you know what to do with your physical collections, but what about digital files? Instructors
This local club is for readers who would like to discuss Polish literature in English. The book for the meeting is Eden by Stanisław Lem, first published in 1958. This classic sci-fiction book, similar in a way but less known than Solaris, regards exploration of an alien planet of Eden. Its main theme is an inherent difficulty in ability to understand an alien world and a civilization that seems to have very little in common
Situation changes quickly indeed! Our last week tips how to find a vaccination appointment are already obsolete. The vaccination site in Wenatchee and Kennewick are still available, but there is a better way to find an appointment provided by local tech volunteers. Their new WA COVID Vaccine Finder site aggregates information from different places offering vaccinations near your zipcode. Event more importantly, the sites are marked “Available”, ” “Waitlist” etc. as appropriate, saving on incessant
The Wspólnota Polska Association and the Świat na Tak Foundation in Poland invite children and teachers from Polish schools abroad to the 2021 edition of the annual contest “Be a Pole”. The students can prepare a work of visual art, a short poem or essay in Polish or a video clip illustrating one of the contest topics, such as a Polish proverb they have learned. The list of topics for different age categories etc. can
Jeannie Opdyke Smith shares her mother’s incredible journey of courage and resilience. A true story of how one Polish Catholic teenager saved over a dozen Jews during the Holocaust. Irene’s story became a Broadway play in the nationally acclaimed production “Irena’s Vow” and her memoir, “In My Hands” is used in classrooms across the country. . The Israeli Holocaust Commission named Irene one of the Righteous Among the Nations. She was presented with the Israel Medal
The Polish Scout Troop Kaszuby in Seattle is celebrating the World Thinking Day observed by the Girl Scouts of the USA since 1926 on or around February 22. This year, the troop invites all current and former scouts and their parents to a Holy Mass at the Polish Parish in Seattle that will also have a special intention for Martha Golubiec. Mrs. Golubiec, who died last month, was the founder of the Polish Scout Troop
The Polish Genealogical Society of America (PGSA) invites you to the webinar Working with a Polish Researcher presented by Dorena Wasik. This is an introduction for people who would like to start looking into their family roots in Poland. Besides this webinar, you can also watch the very interesting YouTube video Polish Genealogy produced by the GenalogyTV. It is another 101 intro to the subject that I found very informative and encouraging. GenealogyTV’s Connie Knox
The book for the meeting is Matka Polka by Anne Applebaum and Paweł Potoroczyn. It is an extensive interview that Applebaum agreed to do with Potoroczyn, a friend she shares many common interests with. Applebaum is a Pulitzer winning author (for Gulag: a History), who published several books, essays and articles about history and politics of East European countries. The book is the first one where she discusses her life, decisions, political interests and her
Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2021 and NW Film Forum present the movie Triple Trouble / Tarapaty 2 (2020, 87′) directed by Marta Karwowska. Triple Trouble is a family (age 9+) heist and who-done-it movie featuring adventures of teenager detectives Julka and Olek familiar to the audiences from the 2017 Double Trouble / Tarapaty movie. This time the duo tries to discover who stole a Monet painting from a museum in Poznań while also dealing with
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites you to a lecture Interhuman History: How Magdalena Grzebałkowska Rewrites the Aftermath of World War II in “Poland 1945: War and Peace” by Prof. Beth Holmgren. Magdalena Grzebałkowska, 48, is an award winning writer and a reporter for Gazeta Wyborcza daily. The book was a finalist to the 2016 Nike Polish literary award and won the Gazeta Wyborcza Reader’s Award. The book is available on Amazon and Barnes &
This concert by Radek Nowicki Quartet is a part of The Great Improvisations series presented online by the Jazztopad Festival in partnership with Polish Cultural Institute New York. The quartet includes Radek Nowicki (sax), Michal Tokaj (piano), Michał Jaros (bass) and Michal Miśkiewicz (drums). Radek Nowicki is a tenor and baritone saxophone player with his own, characteristic tone. He performed with Tomasz Stańko and Zbigniew Namysłowski and is the winner of many jazz awards. The
Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association (SGSCA) is preparing a presentation about Martha Golubiec’s contributions to the SGSCA and its programs. She was a co-founder of the organization. Please share your pictures, stories, fun facts, video clips and other memories that can be used in the tribute to Martha.More: Please contact the SGSCA President, Zbigniew Konofalski. Read Martha’s obituary.
Tips from Polish community members: if you want to get vaccinated quickly and don’t mind a trip across the passes, go to a COVID-19 mass vaccination site in Wenatchee or Kennewick. Wenatchee opens signups on Sundays for service M-F, and typically you can get an appointment a day or two ahead. Kennewick has appointment slots available all the time, even on the same day.More: WA mass vaccination sites
The PHA Election Committee kindly asks the PHA members who haven’t voted yet to send their ballots back as quickly as possible. For the PHA elections to be valid, at least 50% members need to cast their votes. The following is the appeal from the electoral commission: Dear Members of the Polish Home Association, We thank all of you who already mailed in the ballots. At the same time, we would like to kindly remind
This event was rescheduled to April 27, 2021. The UW Henry Jackson School of International Studies presents a lecture Anti-Gender Politics And Right-Wing Populism in Poland by Elżbieta Korolczuk. Dr. Korolczuk is an Associate Professor of sociology at the Södertörn University in Stockholm and American Studies Center at Warsaw University. The European Union has set impressive standards on gender equality, providing legal frameworks for equal pay, investing in work/life balance and childcare, and allowing for
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a webinar in the Polish Contemporary Literature series My Country’s Other Names: Poland’s New Wave Poets of the 1970s. The event includes talk by Jarosław Anders followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Małgorzata Pośpiech. In the late 1960s a new poetic formation emerged in Poland, known as “New Wave” or “Generation 1968”. The talk will cover works by Adam Zagajewski, Stanislaw Baranczak, Ryszard Krynicki, and Ewa Lipska. Jaroslaw Anders