The Polish Cultural Center celebrates this year’s Fat Thursday with a special dinner and a sale of Polish pastries of the season: pączki (Polish doughnuts) and faworki (fa-vor-kee) a.k.a chrust (hroost), traditionally prepared for Fat Thursday and later for Easter. Also on sale: makowiec (poppy seed cake), oponki (donuts), and rurki z kremem (wafer rolls with whipped cream). The dinner menu includes: pickle soup, Ceasar salad, pierogi, cabbage rolls, Polish cutlet in mushroom sauce and
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs and the Jagiellonian Law Society present the lecture Lemkos and Ukrainians by Prof. Jan Pisuliński. This lecture is part of the series Ethnic Minorities in Polish Lands. The lecture focuses on Lemkos (Łemkowie), a minority group in south-eastern Poland and also in the neighboring Slovakia, and also on Polish-Ukrainian relations. Professor dr. hab. Jan Pisuliński is a Polish historian and currently an assistant professor at the University of Rzeszow, Poland.
The UW Dept. of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) presents its Winter Concert: Movement Actuation, featuring Marcin Pączkowski and other artists. The program includes recent work and world premieres exploring gesture made sound, spaces made of movement, and algorithms of artistic expression. Pączkowski, a research associate at DXARTS, is a composer, conductor, digital artist and performer exploring ambisonics, computer music, electro-acoustic music and live electronics. He created an ingenious interactive electronic system converting gestures to
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the lecture “A Singular Spirit: Józef Czapski, His Art and Life” by Eric Karpeles. Czapski (1896-1993) was a painter, a writer and a Polish military officer who in vain searched for Polish officers infamously massacred at Katyn during the WWII. He also wrote about his experience in the Gulag system and after the WWII, he became a co-founder of the Literature Institute in Paris, the publisher of Kultura. Czapski
Local Polish Culinary Workshops group invites everybody to the Polish Home to a session making faworki (fa-vor-kee) or chrust (hroost) – the traditional pastries for Fat Thursday and later for Easter. (Fat Thursday is the Polish Mardi Gras; it falls on the Thursday before the Mardi Gras Tuesday). All culinary output will go on sale on Fat Thursday, also at the Polish Cultural Center. The session will be running from 12 noon till 8 pm,
Third Place Books presents a virtual meeting with Olga Tokarczuk and translator Jennifer Croft discussing The Books of Jacob. Third Place Books partnered with Community Bookstore and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith to welcome Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft for a discussion of their latest book, The Books of Jacob—the astonishing, 900-page volume from Poland’s most well-regarded novelist. This event will be broadcast live on Brookline Booksmith’s Zoom platform. Registering will provide
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the lecture The Crisis of Democracy in Interwar Poland, The Obstacles to the Establishment of a Democratic and Pluralistic Polish State, focusing on the political system in Poland between the WWI and the WWII, by Prof. Antony Polonsky. The First World War was widely seen as a victory for democracy over autocracy. Yet almost none of the new states which emerged in East-Central Europe after 1918 were able successfully
Polish Cultural Center and Swing It Seattle present a Valentine Swing It Saturday dance party. Come swing dance to live music with Johnatan Doyle Trio from 8:15 to 11:00. No partner or experience needed – come join the fun! Schedule: 7:00 pm – Early Check-In/Vaccination & Booster Certification 7:30-8:00 pm – Beginner Drop-In Lesson 8:00-8:15 p – Late Check-In/Vaccination & Booster Certification 8:15-11:00 – pm Dance The bar will be open upstairs for the event.
Polish Home Association invites everybody to a Valentine evening of romance and good Polish food. You can have it both – a romantic dinner downstairs and a lot of fun with your belle or beaux dancing upstairs! Join us just for our Valentine’s Day Dinner from 6 pm with a special menu for this day or for an all-evening dance at our Valentine’s Day Party from 7 pm to 11 pm at the ballroom of
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Kaszëbë by Tomasz Słomczyński, published in 2021 by Wyd. Czarne. The book focuses on the Polish region of Kaszuby, with its own Kashubian language and customs. The region is frequently compared to Silesia for its difficult history of mixed Polish-German heritage while sticking to its Polish roots. Tomasz Słomczyński is a journalist and a writer who devoted himself to
Polish Cultural Center and Swing It Seattle present the monthly Swing It Saturday dance party. Come swing dance to live music with T.O.P. Swing Band from 8:15 to 11:00. No partner or experience needed – come join the fun Schedule: 7:00 pm – Early Check-In/Vaccination & Booster Certification 7:30-8:00 pm – Beginner Drop-In Lesson 8:00-8:15 p – Late Check-In/Vaccination & Booster Certification 8:15-11:00 – pm Dance The bar will be open upstairs for the event.
Polish Choir Vivat Musica! invites everybody to rehearsals that are happening twice a month on Wednesdays from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. The choir is currently under a professional direction of Justin Bichell. If you would like to join the choir, please come to a practice at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski on one of the following Wednesdays: February 9 & 23 March 9 & 23 April 6 & 20 May 4 & 18
At the annual meeting of the Polish Home Association held on January 30, 2022, Erik Lidzbarski has been reelected for the PHA President position and Jola Paliświat was elected for the Senior Vice-President position. Roman Rogalski has been reelected as the Treasurer. Congratulations! A full list of the 2022 PHA Election results for all the Officer and Trustee positions can be found on the PHA website here More: for more information, please contact Polish Home
This is the annual meeting of the members of the Polish Home Association. It is also an election meeting for the Board of Trustees and the Officers position. Please see the PHA website for the election committee announcement, candidate list and other info. This year’s meeting follows a hybrid formula – members can attend by Zoom or in person. Similarly, voting can be done by mail or in person at the meeting. More: please visit
Valiant Integrated Services is searching for Polish language instructors to provide instruction in listening, reading, writing and speaking skills, as well as regional and culture subject using modern communicative methodology. These are fulltime positions in support for the military with posting at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord and in Tacoma. Security clearance is required. More: please see detailed job description and requirements here
Szkoła Polska im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Seattle poszukuje nauczycieli języka polskiego do prowadzenia nastepujacych zajęć: zajęcia dla dzieci w sobote rano zajęcia dla dorosłych w tygodniu wieczorem online. Zgłoszenia oraz pytania prosimy kierować do Dyrektora Szkoły Mileny Dickens na adres polishschool@polishhome.org lub telefonicznie 206 775 5039 Więcej informacji na temat szkoły jest dostępnych tutaj
The first time Jan Lisiecki came to play at the Benaroya Hall, in 2012, he wasn’t even 17. The young Polish-Canadian was taking international concert halls like a storm. He’s been hailed by the BBC music magazine as “perhaps most ‘complete’ pianist of his age ” and the Benaroya intro asserts that his “interpretation and technique speak to a maturity beyond his age”. Lisiecki’s solo concert is in the Seattle Symphony recital series. The program
The Kosciuszko Foundation Tuition Scholarships support American students of Polish descent for graduate level studies, such as masters and Ph.D. studies, at colleges and universities in the United States. Scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $7,000 are awarded on a competitive basis for one academic year. Funding is for full-time studies. Scholarships are for the Fall 2022 – Spring 2023 academic year. ELIGIBILITY United States citizens and permanent residents (green card holders) of Polish descent who are beginning or continuing
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the panel discussion Perspective of Poland that is part of Studying Poland Today series. This seminar discusses issues that appear continually to bother many Poles, whether living in Poland or elsewhere. Why, for instance, do many Poles seem disappointed that Poland does not play a greater role in the world? Is their disappointment justified? Do Poles in fact have a realistic view of Poland’s place in the world? How
The University of Washington has established the Maria Kott Endowed Professorship of Polish Studies at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. This is the first endowed professorship of Polish Studies on the West Coast of the United States and is in perpetuity, which assures that the Polish language and culture will be taught at the UW as long as the University exists. Recruitment for the position will start in the fall. In December 2021,