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 to live music with Jonathan Doyle Swingtet from 8:15 to 11:15. This event includes special swing performances from the Swing It Seattle community. No partner
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 for artists, photographers, graphic designers, etc., to submit designs for the 2021 Seattle Polish Film Festival poster. SPFF committee members, in partnership with members of
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 group is still recruiting! I don’t think the group knows yet what their first performance is going to be, but they have grown enough to
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, 2021. More: Polish Cultural Center website
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 as the 2018 Nobel Prize winner for literature. She has caught the attention of the English speaking world by winning the 2018 Man Booker International
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 translated into English many works by other Polish poets. As the author of The Captive Mind, a book of essays on politics and postwar Polish intellectuals
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 22 2021 (detailed information may be found here: https://www.sjikp.us.edu.pl/en/summer-school-of-polish-language-literature-and-culture/) and an on-line course for the Polish language teachers at the same time, i.e. on August 1-22. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
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 Department website
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, 2021. Of Animals and Men tells the true story behind the 2017 feature film, The Zookeeper’s Wife. This fascinating documentary sheds new light on the story from that
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 Tue 6:30 – 8:20PM 7/6/21 9/7/21 Polish 2 Ewa Krawczyk Wed 6:30 – 8:20PM 7/7/21 9/8/21 Cost is $400 and the deadline to sign up
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. Significant part of the journey traversed the regions that are not Polish anymore, such as the eastern wall legs that included Stanisławów, Lwów, Równe, Pińsk,
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 supporting Polish Festival Seattle by purchasing a 2021 t-shirt or hoodie! Select your style, color and size and it will be shipped directly to you.
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 workers. Flexible hours. I prefer a dependable handy person with a pickup truck if possible for moving small items, store pickups and putting together some furniture.
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 aspects of Lem’s life, starting with his Jewish roots and surviving WWII in then Polish Lwów, subsequent relocation to Kraków and starting his journalist and
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 Please see detailed course description for more info: 2021-PolishSchool-SummerCourse More: Please contact Milena Dickens 206 775 5039, milenap7@gmail.com
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. Special presentations include: Charlatan / Szarlatan (2020), dir. Agnieszka Holland Converstations with Kieslowski (1995), dir. Andreas Voigt The program includes the following movies: Corpus Christi
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 Eastern Europe Express trip is a GO! But! With heavy hotel occupancy rates and short inventory of rooms available, we will not be able to
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. Our community success is first of all due to extraordinary efforts by Bohdan Raciborski and Magdalena Wysocka who mounted a vigorous and inventive campaign on
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, and wisdom gleaned from tenets of Buddhism. Music video for Tsukina Waguma has been created and worked on for the last 3 years by 3
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 life in The Peasants / Chłopi. Nowadays he’s not being read much anymore, with movies being the main vehicle of conveying his books to modern