The Young Polanie Dance Group is coming out from the pandemic hibernation and looks for new talent in all age groups: kids, teenagers and young adults. The Young Polanie / Młodzi Polanie group has been a proud part of the Polish community of Seattle for almost fifty years and had passed the test of time. The group cultivates authentic Polish culture through dance and music. Under Barbara Strutynski’s leadership, it has been a dance ensemble
The We Are The History Keepers! workshop on preserving history, both for families and organizations, changed its formula and switched to shorter, 2-hour monthly sessions, each tackling a single topics. These are all online interactive sessions on a Saturday before noon. This is the third session in the series. The organizers describe content of this session, Caring for and Digitizing Legacy Audio-Visual Materials, as follows: Learn tips and strategies for the preservation of audiovisual collections
Local artist Amanda Drewniak participates in the ShoreLake Arts Edible Book Festival contest. She has recreated the Polish-American children’s story of the White Stork Migration and their mission to find the Golden Anklet on Cookie Lollipops! Amanda is an artist and a whimsical filmmaker residing in Shoreline. Check her website! Please vote for her piece! The entries will be available for viewing and for voting from 9 am on March 27 to 4 pm on
This local club is for readers who would like to discuss Polish literature in English. The book for the meeting is My First Suicide / Moje pierwsze samobojstwo by Jerzy Pilch, first published in 2006. The book, is a set of ten stories distinct but sometimes connected through common characters from the author’s past. This is a prose highlighting his background, nostalgic of the past and self-reflecting. Jerzy Pilch (1952-2020) is one of the best
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents a lecture Fr. Jan of the Ladybug: A Story of Fr. Jan Twardowski by Anna Cholewinska, discussing his life and poetry. Jan Twardowski (1915-2006) was a Roman Catholic priest and a poet. Even though he published his first poems in the 1930s, it was not until the 1990s when he became popular and widely recognized. The opening line from one of his poems “Śpieszmy się kochać ludzi –
The Kosciuszko Foundation presents a webinar “Henryk Sienkiewicz in the Digital Age” by Bartlomiej Szleszyński. Dr. Szleszyński is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, with interest in digital platforms; he is a deputy director of the Digital Humanities Centre. Does Henryk Sienkiewicz, a man from the age of steam, have his place in the digital age culture? Is this writer, Nobel prizer, whose novels were once absolute bestsellers still
The Austin Polish Society invites everybody to an online presentation in Polish about the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America in New York. The Institute was created in 1943 as a major research institution in America focusing on modern Polish history. It has an impressive archives of original documents covering Marshal Józef Piłsudski, the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1922, the Silesian Uprisings of 1919-1921, Polish WWII politicians and generals etc. Its collection also includes extensive photograph and
The Center for World Music in San Diego presents the online event The Roots of Revival: A Story of Poland’s Village Music featuring the Janusz Prusinowski Kompania band. This hour-long virtual live presentation of music and dance will bring you on a storied journey from the roots of Poland’s ancient village music to its present-day revival. Janusz Prusinowski Kompania will share this nearly extinct musical tradition’s heritage and how intergenerational collaboration brought about its revitalization.
The Polish book for the meeting is Kasacja by Remigiusz Mróz. It’s the first book from the legal thriller series featuring Joanna Chyłka, Esq. The book has been praised by fellow crime novel writers and critics both for a gripping tale and for being on par with Grisham’s legal thrillers. Mróz is a very popular crime novel writer, with several series under his belt. These include a series with detective Wiktor Foster, another one with
Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) presents the webinar Poles in Seattle 1890-2020: Continuity and Change that is part of its ongoing online webinar series. The webinar, moderated by Prof. Dorota Praszalowicz of Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, will cover the following topics: Polish Studies at the University of Washington: the Past and Present, by Prof. Katarzyna Dziwirek, the UW Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures The Polish Home Association in Seattle: The Forgotten Stories, by
Crew Treks, the local tourist outfit for hardy souls is back in business! Crew Treks offers thrilling trekking and climbing adventures and takes you to the remotest alpine wilderness in the world! From Machu Picchu and Patagonia in the Western hemisphere, to Kilimanjaro and Everest Trek in the East. Experience the breath-taking beauty of the most rugged and serene landscapes on the planet, and walk the same exhilarating trails taken by the earliest alpine explorers!Find
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival presents the film about Stanisław Ulam Adventures of a Mathematician (2020, 102′), directed by Thor Klein. Dr. Ulam was a Polish-American who participated in the WWII Manhattan Project and later made crucial theoretical and design contributions to the development of the hydrogen bomb. His family in Poland perished in the Holocaust. Stanisław Ulam was a brilliant mathematician and a member of the famous Polish Lwów School of Mathematics, active in
The Kosciuszko Foundation and the Jagiellonian Law Society present a webinar “Lex is Rex? The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth” by Robert Frost. Dr. Frost is a professor of history and philosophy at the Aberdeen University, UK. Poland and Lithuania, early medieval adversaries, were joined first in 1386, when the Polish Queen, Jadwiga married Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania; both Jogaila and Lithuania were christened as part of the deal, with Jogaila, now King Władysław Jagiełło, becoming
The Polish Home Association decided to open the dining room at the Polish Cultural Center on Friday nights starting on March 5, 2021. It will open under the new chef, Anna Horodetska and a new name “Marmolada”. The capacity is limited due to COVID-19 restrictions for spacing etc. to below 25%; however, an online reservation system is available to help with avoiding the lines. The menu is also limited for now, but your favorites such
The Polish Home Association decided to open the dining room at the Polish Cultural Center on Friday nights starting on March 5, 2021. It will open under the new chef, Anna Horodetska and a new name “Marmolada”. The capacity is limited due to COVID-19 restrictions for spacing etc. to below 25%; however, an online reservation system is available to help with avoiding the lines. The menu is also limited for now, but your favorites such
Poland and the United States have an agreement about Social Security systems for their citizens; Poles living in the USA can receive Polish social security benefits managed by the Polish state insurer ZUS as well as American benefits. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ZUS moved to online its 2021 consultation tour of American cities for the retirees trying to obtain both the American social security and the Polish pension. Since February 1, 2021, one can make
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