They come swinging back, don’t they! With the Governor lifting statewide restrictions, this is the first dance party at the Polish Cultural Center in the post-pandemic era. Polish Cultural Center and Swing It Seattle present the monthly Swing It Saturday dance party also featuring workshops and performances. Come swing dance
Win $100! If you needed a proof that the Seattle Polish Film Festival (SPFF) is coming back to town after a 2020 hiatus, this is it! The festival just announced its traditional art competition to design a poster for the 2021 SPFF coming in the fall. The SPFF is looking
If you haven’t noticed, there is now a new Polish theatre group at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski in Seattle. The preparation have been low key due to pandemic, but the group is slowly gathering members, technical staff etc. If you would like to volunteer, go for it, the
The restaurant and the bar at the Polish Cultural Center has closed for the summer. The summer break this year will last two months, through July and August. Both the restaurant and the bar should reopen as usual on the first Friday after Labor Day, that is on September 10,
This local club is for readers who would like to discuss Polish literature in English. The book for the meeting is Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, first published in Poland as Bieguni in 2007 and the book that made her name in the English speaking countries. Tokarczuk is of course famous
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a lecture A Lyrical Poet as a Political Writer: The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz by Prof. Bozena Shallcross and Prof. Andrzej Karcz. Milosz is of course the 1980 Nobel Prize winner for Literature and is known predominantly for his poetry. He has also
The Polish government’s National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) is announcing this year’s courses of Polish language and culture for students and teachers from abroad. The following Polish universities participate in this program: The University of Silesia in Katowice, which will organize an online course for students from August 1 to
Lani Phillips, who has been learning Polish Language at the University of Washington Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures for the last two years, has received the prize for the Best Student of Polish there. The prize is awarded by the Polish Women’s Club of Seattle. Congratulations! More: UW Slavic
Polish Public Television TVP and its U.S. film distribution partner, Fathom, present a nationwide screening of the 2019 documentary movie Of Animals And Men directed by Łukasz Czajka. Fandango shows that the film is available at multiple cinema theaters in Seattle, on Eastside and other local cities and towns on June 22,
Washington Academy of Languages at the City University of Seattle has a native Polish instruct and has been offering Polish classes. In the summer of 2021 the following two classes are offered, both starting at the beginning of July and ending at the beginning of September. Polish 1 Ewa Krawczyk
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Rowerem przez II RP by Bernard Newman, published in 2021 by Znak Horyzont. Filled with countless anecdotes, photos and personal observations, the book recounts Bernard Newman’s 3,000km route from Gdańsk to Kraków in 1934.
The T-shirts are here! Polish Festival Seattle has a virtual program this year, but you can order a nice festival T-shirt or a hoodie regardless. And the 2021 designs are really nice, so go for it! This year the design features our roosters in festive Polish costume patterns! Please consider
Hello! Seeking Polish or English speaking worker for packing and moving to a new home. Also cleaning both new and old home and other similar home jobs as required. I will provide my own cleaning equipment. I live in NE Tacoma/Browns Point moving to Gig Harbor. Could use one or two
The Cinematheque in Vancouver, BC presents another Stanisław Lem (1921, 2006) movie retrospective that includes the first biographical documentary about the famous writer: Author Solaris / Autor Solaris directed by Borys Lankosz. Borys Lankosz, of the Reverse / Rewers fame, presents a thorough biography addressing many of the less discussed
The Polish School in Seattle offers an online course of Polish language this summer. Dates: June 21- August 23, 2021, sessions on Mondays from 6 pm to 8 pmTuition fee $165 covers• 10 meetings online• Final exam• Certificate of attendance• Beginners or intermediate levelSize of group: Maximum 10 studentsPayment: PayPal
Update: online screening extended again, this time till June 30. This year, the New York Polish Film Festival is also presented virtually! The 16th edition will take place from May 26 – 29, 2021 at the Scandinavia House Theater, New York, and from May 29 to June 6 – online.
Easter Europe Express: Aug 16-25, 2021 With fast pace of vaccinations in the US we are on track for 70% of population being vaccinated by the end of June. Now, even though EU is behind our vaccination rates, they should achieve the same levels by the end of August. The
The 2021 Polish community-wide giving campaign coordinated by Seattle Polish Foundation and run as part of the GiveBIG was an unprecedented success! Almost $21,000 has been collected and this total does not include corporate matching, so the final amount will increase. All the campaigns at GiveBIG together received over $17mln.
Alternative-pop singer-songwriter, and multi-media artist, Magdalucca released her next music video for the song Tsukina Waguma from the album The Air Between. Magdalucca is enjoying a creative rebirth fluidly expressing her unique visions of music, visual art, and film. Her debut EP, The Air Between, offers enlightening and emboldening social commentary, personal revelation,
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a lecture Władysław Reymont Through the Prism of Film Adaptations (Andrzej Wajda and Others) by Prof. Tomasz Żukowski. Władysław Reymont (1867-1925), was a famous Polish novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924 for his epic depiction of the rural rhythm of