Polish Home Assn. presents an Andrzejki and Wine Tasting Party at the Polish Home. Andrzejki in Poland is the last party of the season, on the St. Andrew’s Eve, and its traditions include fortune telling with wax poured on water. Dancing to the music from CDs. The main attraction of the evening, besides the aforementioned fortune telling, will be wine tasting. Flights of wine (samplers) will be available with appetizers pared with the wine! Also
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 website are main coordinators for the event. Local Polish organizations such as Polish Home Association and Seattle Polish Foundation are participating in this event and
Washington Academy of Languages at the City University of Seattle has a native Polish instructor and has been offering Polish classes. Dr. Ewa Krawczyk will be teaching Polish 1 in the spring quarter on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:20 pm Polish 1 Ewa Krawczyk Tue 6:30 – 8:20PM 1/4/22 3/8/22 in-person class You can register for the language classes at the Washington Academy of Languages without being admitted as a student of the City University
Kamila Kanczugowski, the well known and liked chef in the Polish community, accepted a new position at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski; for now it is on a temporary basis. She has already started, so you can drop by to enjoy your favorite Polish dishes right away. Kamila is mostly known from Sebi’s Bistro in Seattle, which has been the Kanczugowski family business since 2013, renown for it’s Polish and European cuisine. Kamila is
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 literary lens to a discussion of identity/self of immigrant and ethnic women. What is it that women fiction writers reveal to us about their Polish
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, to the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. It will cover the German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September 1939 and
The Polish Home Association presents a Polish October fest in November! Come to the Polish Home taste flights of beer (samplers), for a great selection of Polish beers and the Polish street food – zapiekanki (cheese or other foodstuffs toasted on a bagette), Polish Dogs (a hot dog with a Polish sausage) and more. Games! Attractions! If you haven’t played beer pong with Żywiec, here is your chance! This event is a fundraiser for the
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 1918-1921. After initial Polish successes, the Red Army got the upper hand in Ukraine and Belarus and invaded newly independent Poland. The country seemed on
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, located in the Nowogródek region, from which the famous poet Adam Mickiewicz hailed, now is part of Belarus. Konwicki (1926-2015) was a writer, screenwriter and
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 John Golubiec
The local Polish Choir Vivat Musica! presents a recording with a medley of Polish patriotic songs celebrating Poland’s Independence Day on November 11. The date commemorates the anniversary of Poland regaining its independence in 1918 after over a century of partitions. You can listen to this recording on YouTube.
Polish Cultural Center and Swing It Seattle present the monthly Swing It Saturday dance party. Come swing dance to live music with Nate Omdal Sextet from 8:15 to 11:00. No partner or experience needed – come join the fun! Intro dance lesson at 7:30 pm. The bar will be open upstairs for the event. Swing It Wednesday: besides this longer monthly Swing It Saturday dance party at $20, there is also a series of dances
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. Other than that, it is expected to feature the usual: booths with amber and jewelry, arts and crafts, Polish crystals and Boleslawiec pottery as well
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 Workshop with the following program MORNING SESSIONS / Presented by University of Washington Archivists and Librarians Researching Family and Local History Using Archives and Special Collections
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,” robots that closely resemble human beings but are even more perfect than humans. They are intended to eventually replace humans in space flights. Somewhat apprehensive
Dear Members of the Polish Home Association and Friends of the Polish Home, As an acting president of the Polish Home Association, I would like to share my thoughts and feelings with you today. Today is “Dzień Zmarłych”, the day on which we visit cemeteries to remember and pay respect to our loved ones that we lost. It is also time to reflect and remember members we lost this year. We are in the second