Update: This is the first live Polish Festival after the pandemic, and it needs many more volunteers! Please help if you can. The Polish Festival will be serving a lot of great Polish food, but that needs a lot of preparation! The Polish Home Association and the Culinary Workshops ask for assistance in food prep before the Festival. Please come to the Polish Cultural Center to one of these sessions: Tuesday, July 5 from 2
Seattle Internation Film Festival presents the famous Three Colors trilogy by the Polish master Krzysztof Kieślowski. The movies, inspired by the French tricolor of blue, white and red are intricate riffs on the motto of Liberté, égalité, fraternité that the colors symbolize. The movies, starring Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy and Irene Jacobs, have been newly remastered to the 4k quality. All three movies screen at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. The movies were set to
The Parklane Gallery in Kirkland presents Silent Voices – a painting exhibition by Irena Jablonski. Jablonski was born and raised in Poland, then worked as a structural engineer in South Africa. She moved to the United States in 1990s and started her artist education in California. Now based in the Seattle area, she has been represented by the Parklane Gallery for about a decade. Jablonski has always been intrigued by the human vulnerability in coping with
The restaurant and the bar at the Polish Cultural Center have 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 9, 2022. More: Polish Cultural Center website
The 18th Avenue Theater presents the play in Polish “Przygody pchły szachrajki” based on a classic poem for kids by Jan Brzechwa and directed by Anna Kułakowska. There will be two performances of the play. The premiere is on Friday, June 24, 2022, at 6:30 pm, and the second show is on Saturday, June 25, 2022, at 2 pm. Tickets are on a Pay what you can basis and can be purchased at Eventbrite. The
Dear Friends, After a pandemic delay of over two years, we have said the final farewell to our beloved Isia. She wanted to be buried with her parents in the family grave in Poland. The funeral took place on June 1, 2022, at the small church and its cemetery in Krzynowłoga Wielka in northern Masovia. This is the farewell that Ryszard delivered at another mass in Warsaw: Pozegnanie-Isi, Farewell-to-Isia. And below are the two songs
Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra presents a “serene cheer and warm sunshine” concert that includes Brahm’s Symphony no 2 and the Violin Concerto no. 4 by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz. Joanna Kurkowicz is a renown violinist with a wide repertoire, who is also an active propagator of Grażyna Bacewicz oeuvre. More: concert page and tickets, artist’s website, Williams College concertmaster profile
This is your chance to attend a course of Polish during the summer Polish School at the Polish Cultural Center The school offers separate courses in Polish for children and adults in July and August. Classes are at weekly meetings that are 2 hours each, price is $100 a month. Please find detailed info here, or contact the school at polishschool@polishhome.org or 206-775-5039 Washington Academy of Languages at the City University Polish 1 is offered
The 2022 New York Polish Film Festival has an online edition for viewing selected movies in the contiguous United States running from June 7 to June 28, 2022. Online watching is $9. The streaming program includes the following movies: Leave No Traces / Żeby nie było śladów (2021, 154′) dir. by P. Matuszyński. the Grzegorz Przemyk story Back Then / Zupa nic (2021, 154′), dir. by Kinga Dębska, satire on Communist Poland Reflection / Odbicie