Month: November 2021

Support Polish Causes on Giving Tuesday, November 30

Giving Tuesday is a national charity event in the USA that happens on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It has become better known and more popular when different high-tech companies started to participate in it through matching gifts and encouraging their employees to participate. In our state, GiveBIG WA and its

The Polish American Woman: Writing Her Self

The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents a webinar The Polish American Woman: Writing Her Self by Prof. Grażyna Kozaczka, based on her book Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction. The author’s intro to the lecture: This talk, Polish American Women: Writing Her Self, will apply a

Poland: Where the World War II Began

The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a webinar in the Studying Poland Today series Poland: Where the World War II Began by Roger Moorhouse. The lecture will examine Poland’s fate in the opening two years of World War Two – from the signature of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in August 1939,

Movie “Battle of Warsaw 1920”

The Polish Cultural Center and the Seattle Polish Film Festival present the movie Battle of Warsaw 1920 / 1920 Bitwa Warszawska (115′), directed by Jerzy Hoffman and starring Daniel Olbrychski as Józef Piłsudski. In Polish with English subtitles. This 2011 film depicts the pivotal moment of the Polish-Bolshevik war of

Polish Book Club: “Bohiń”

The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Bohiń by Tadeusz Konwicki, first published in 1987. The book based on Konwicki’s family history depicts a forgotten corner of the now lost Polish Lithuania with its people and traditions and complicated history. Bohiń,

AD: Polandia Vodka on Sale in Seattle

The new Polandia vodka is available now at Downtown Spirits 2300 7th Ave in Belltown to buy. Our wheat vodka is imported from Poland with a smooth finish and aroma in a unique square 1 liter bottle is for sale at $ 22.99. Na Zdrowie!  More: for more info please contact

Polish Bazaar Returns

The fall bazaar is returning to the Polish Cultural Center at its usual first weekend of November, organized by the Polish Women’s Club. The ladies are playing it safe though due to the pandemic, and this year the Polish bazaar will last only one day, instead of the usual two.

Preserving History of Your Family & Community

The Ethnic Heritage Council and University of Washington Libraries with the Greater Kent Historical Society, the 4Culture Foundation, and City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture present a free workshop Preserving the Cultural and Historical Records of Your Ethnic Community, Organizations, and Families This is another We Are History Keepers

Movie “Pilot Pirx’s Inquest”

The Seattle Gdynia Sister City Association presents the movie Pilot Pirx’s Inquest / Test Pilota Pirxa (1978, 95′), dir. by Marek Piestrak and based on the short story by Stanisław Lem The Inquest from the Tales of Pirx the Pilot / Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie series. The movie is about “finite non-linears,”