The 18th Avenue Theatre and Magdalena Gustowska-Kucharska invite all children and youth to an art contest related to its first play scheduled to have a premiere on June 24, 2022. The play in Polish is Przygody pchły szachrajki / The adventures of the Flea of a Chess Game” and hence the contest theme “What Hisses and Chirps in the Grass / Co w trawie piszczy” is to illustrate insects. The contest is open to all
2 BD, 1 BA, spacious 1000 feet apartment for rent on quiet residential street in North Capitol Hill. This is an upper level apartment with a great floor plan, two decks with great views of Lake Washington/Cascades and Lake Union/Olympics. Walking distance to South Lake Union business district as well as University of Washington campus. $ 2500 per month including utilities. If you are interested, please call or text Pawel at 206-328-8828.
Beginning of May is the traditional time for the big fundraising push known as GiveBIG – so please get your wallets ready! Seattle Polish Foundation (SPF) invites you to participate in this year’s Polish community fundraiser. The GiveBIG culminates on on official giving days of May 3-4, but you can donate now. As usual, SPF and other local Polish organizations launched a community-wide fundraiser at the GiveBIG site to benefit different local Polish events and
Join Polish-Americans from Seattle on a first-ever networking business conference aboard the cruise ship M/V Celebrity Solstice to Alaska. Participants from Western States and beyond are all welcome. Why Seattle? Gateway to the Pacific, Seattle is a leading center in computing, aerospace, biotech, e-commerce and coffee. Yes, Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon, Weyerhaeuser and Boeing all started here. The city is surrounded by spectacular nature with mountains, lakes, rivers, volcanoes and islands in Puget Sound. Inspired by
Last Friday, April 22, 2022, Polish Home Association (PHA) organized a gala dinner and auction “Bid for Ukraine” at the Polish Cultural Center in Seattle supporting the Ukrainian Association of Washington State. The event was a huge success with over 200 people attending, including Gov. Jay Inslee, State Senators Jamie Pedersen (Dem) and Chris Gildon (Rep), the honorary consuls of Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, The Netherlands and Slovenia, as well as prominent business and community
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar MAY 3rd Constitution, Its Genesis, Meaning, And Legacy by Dr. Elizabeth Zechenter and Marian Kornilowicz, Esq. The Constitution of May 3rd, 1791 is considered one of the essential achievements in the history of Poland, even though its life was prematurely shortened by the final partition of Poland, which erased its ability to grow and evolve. May 3rd Constitution is considered to be the first modern Constitution of
Update: this event raised about $950 for the Polish Festival. Polish Festival Seattle and the Culinary Workshops group present Adventures in Polish Cooking where you can learn how to make several different Polish recipes and then enjoy a meal together! The dishes covered in this session include: Ukrainian borscht (barszcz ukraiński – a vegetarian beet soup), cutlet de volaille (Kyiv style chicken cutlet), bread, krupnik (Polish style vodka recipe), makowiec (poppy seed cake), sernik (traditional
Polish Home Association and Kamila’s Kitchen invite you to a special Friday dinner at the Polish Cultural Center with a Ukrainian menu. The menu includes verenyky (dumplings), tushona kapusta z miastom (braised sauerkraut with pork and beef roast) and otbivni (breaded pork chop), among others, and all the income will go to Ukrainian relief. The second part of the fundraiser will be a charity auction at the Polish Cultural Center upstairs hall. Please visit the
Update: The fundraiser gathered 10 boxes of medical supplies, military first aid kits, solar powered chargers etc. by the end of April for the next humanitarian airlift from Seattle. Please donate medical supplies for Ukraine from the school’s Amazon wish list! This fundraiser is running till the end of April. The Polish School in Bellevue organized a fundraiser “Pomagamy Ukrainie” for Ukraine relief as a teaching moment for the kids and ended up on a
Update 2: The fundraiser gathered 10 boxes of medical supplies, military first aid kits, solar powered chargers etc. by the end of April for the next humanitarian airlift from Seattle. Update: the fundraiser was very popular, and the school decided to continue it. Please help by donating medical supplies for Ukraine from the school’s Amazon wish list! This fundraiser is running till the end of April. The Polish School in Bellevue organized a fundraiser “Pomagamy
With the pandemic restrictions going away gradually, the Easter basket blessings are more widely available than the last year. Below is a list of local Catholic churches observing this traditional Polish rite on Holy Saturday, April 16, 2022. St. Louise, Bellevue, at 2 pm Mary Queen of Peace, Sammamish, 10 am, Polish pastry and Polish community socializing afterwards St. Margaret, Seattle, 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm Sts. Peter & Paul, Tacoma, 11
Update Over $53,000 has been raised by 5/5/22; $30,000 has been wired to PAH in two tranches, $2,000 granted to the Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Assn to support City of Gdynia refugee relief, and $5,000 to the Ukrainian Association of Washington State for humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Donations are still coming in! Please support the fundraiser if you can. The refugee situation in Poland has become very difficult as about 2 million refugees stay in Poland. In support
Bellevue Arts Museum presents an exhibition Object Permanence connecting science and art and featuring two artists Timea Tihanyi and Sylwia Tur. The exhibition runs till May 29, 2022. Update: the discussion about the exhibition with both artists, scheduled in April, has been moved to May 8 at 3 pm; instead, on April 9 at 2 pm, Sylwia Tur will give private tour of her exhibition. Object Permanence is a space for dialogue and collaboration between two
After dipping the proverbial toes with a limited fall bazaar in November, the Polish Women’s Club decided to organize a regular spring bazaar after a two-year hiatus, with no pandemic restrictions or space limits. The old-new bazaar features the usual: booths with amber and jewelry, arts and crafts, Polish crystals and Boleslawiec pottery as well as booths by local Polish organizations. Frozen pierogi will be available as usual. The delicious bazaar food includes pickle soup,
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Przewóz by Andrzej Stasiuk, published in 2021 by Wyd. Czarne. The book is set in 1941 in the Polish countryside at the Podlasie border between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. This is Stasiuk’s first book after twelve years and is universally praised by critics for its outstanding
The Kosciuszko Foundation is looking for Teachers and Teacher Assistants for the Teaching English in Poland (TEIP) Summer Camps 2022. Children under 18 years old can accompany a family member or a legal guardian as a Peer Tutor. Apply and read more about the 2020 TEIP Program, current camp opportunities, dates and locations on the KF website here. Teachers are encouraged to teach English through their areas of expertise. The TEIP has taught conversational English via STEM, cooking, art,
The dining room and the bar at the Polish Cultural Center will be closed on Fridays April 8 & 15. On April 8, this is due to preparations to the Spring Bazaar on the next day. On April 15, by a long-time tradition, the Polish Home is closed for Good Friday and Easter. More: please visit the Polish Home website
If you need a new Polish passport, sign up for a reservation slot ASAP! The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles kindly informs that the long-awaited consular visit to Seattle, only to process passport applications, is scheduled for April 1 & 2, 2022. The Consul will be available at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski, by reservation only, 9 am to 5 pm on Friday and 9 am to 1 pm
It’s no April fool here: the restaurant at the Polish Cultural Center will be now open from 5 pm starting on April 1, 2022. You can check the menu here. You can make table reservation by contacting kuchnia@polishhome.org More: please visit this page
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar Poland-Ukraine, From conflict and rivalry to neighborliness by Prof. Norman Davies and Prof. Frank Sysyn. The lecture is part of the Studying Poland Today – talk series presented jointly by the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Project on Poland Past and Present (PPPP). The purpose of the series is, in general, to raise the level of expert knowledge about Poland in foreign countries and, in particular, to strengthen Polish Studies in the universities