Join us and celebrate together our tradition on our 60th anniversary of the Polish Bazaar! Eat delicious, traditional food, and conventional Polish pastries and get gifts, traditional crafts, t-shirts, and much more for yourself or family and friends! Delicious dinners of pickle soup, white borscht, pierogi, and more were served
Salon of Poetry at the Polish Home presents a night of poetry and music. Leszek Chudziński writes in both Polish and English. He has authored two books of poetry: Niedzielni Poeci (Sunday Poets, 2018) and Podlesie (2022). His writing has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including Frog Pond, No Longer Strangers: Haiku Northwest Twenty-Fifth and Thirty-Fifth
This movie – produced by local filmmaker Aniela Sidorska Jr. – has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2025 Academy Awards. “Porcelain War” already earned the Golden Space Needle and Best Documentary awards at the 2024 Seattle International Film Festival, as well as the US Grand Jury
Please join famed ceramist Sylwia Tur this Friday from5 to 8pm for a soft opening of the Seattle Restored Artist Residency at 1121 First Avenue (one block south from Seattle Art Museum). In the artist’s own words: Along with 4 other artists, I am in the process of transforming the
Due to late change in leadership, this year’s festival goes over one weekend only. The movie selection looks good though and the guest list includes Andrzej Chyra. Below is the schedule for the 32nd Seattle Polish Film Festival. Because of a technical issue at Egyptian all movies are screened at
The fall bazaar comes to the Polish Cultural Center at its usual first weekend of November, organized by the Polish Women’s Club. Similar to the last year, the Polish bazaar will last one day. Other than that, it is expected to feature the usual: booths with amber and jewelry, arts
This is the second of the Bandonegro events at the Polish Cultural Center. After a very successful visit to Seattle last year, Bandonegro comes again with two different events. On Friday, 10/25/24 you can tango the night away, while on Saturday, 10/26/24 you can listen to their concert! At once
Friends of Kino OKO would like to honor Alexandra Monk who passed away recently. Aleks / Ola was a co-founder of Kino OKO and presented Polish films for several years. In her memory we would like to show a movie which she – a true fan of Japanese cinema –
Dust off your party shoes and get ready to groove to the tunes of DJ Borsuk! “Domówka u Syreny” features all the crucial ingredients for a great traditional Polish house party: music, beer, food, and open dancing. The Syrena Seattle Traditional Polish Dance Ensemble will also treat partygoers to a
The 28th Portland Polish Festival invites you, your family, and your friends to experience the food, dance, and music of Poland. The two-day Polish Festival in Portland is happening again after a long break caused by Covid and other issues. This is a family event, suitable for all ages and
Polish born and raised Kalina Winska is the Artist in Residence Program at Recology King County. Her “Gleanings / 2024” exhibition runs from September 6 to September 14. This is what the artists says about her exhibition. “A certain beauty and fragility emerge in these otherwise rigid forms, when they
Polish Festival Seattle returns to its usual venue at the Seattle Center Armory and the Mural Amphitheater this year. The festival will open with a parade from the Mural Amphitheatre to the Armory Food & Event Hall at 12 p.m. There will be the usual attractions – folk group performances,
Dom Polski i Szkoła Polska im. ks. Jana Twardowskiego w Bellevue serdecznie zapraszają na monodram „Wisława Szymborska: Poezja i życie” w wykonaniu Agaty Pilitowskiej. Spektakl ten został przygotowany z okazji setnej rocznicy urodzin poetki. Dodatkową atrakcją przedstawienia będą nagrania wideo z udziałem Marii Nowotarskiej. Agata Pilitowska i Maria Nowotarska (córka i
Celebrate Poland’s and modern Europe’s first constitution, of 1791, with music, dance, theater, and delicious food! Seattle’s Polish Constitution Day assembly will feature a piano recital by acclaimed pianist Mateusz Krzyżowski playing award-winning renditions of the works of Szymanowski, Paderewski, and Chopin. There will also be rousing performances of traditional
Seattle’s latest and most exciting word in chamber music is the extraordinary wind ensemble Viridian Winds, who will be presenting a night of “Musica Polonia”. The melodies of a flute, an oboe, a clarinet, a horn, a bassoon, and a piano will seamlessly intertwine in the stylings of Chopin, Bacewicz,
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee and the UW Slavic Dept invite everybody to an evening with Jerzy Jarniewicz, one of Poland’s most acclaimed poets, translators and critics. He will be reading his poems in Polish and in English from his volume “Landless Boys” translated by Piotr Florczyk. Update: read the
Third Place Books is thrilled to invite you to meet writer and translator Jennifer Croft at Third Place Books Ravenna store. She is an International Booker Prize-winning translator of Olga Tokarczuk. Her debut novel, ‘The Extinction of Irena Rey’ is a propulsive, beguiling story about eight translators and their search
River Seattle presents Giordana Falzone and Agata Jędrzejczak in a modern dance performance. The work, “to upada”—”it falls” is an improvised, or spontaneously composed, piece that explores collective and personal memory, the places where one thing blurs into the other, and the act of finding encounters or decisions in between the moment
Polish Cultural Center invites you to an enchanting recital concert paying homage to the famous singer Anna Jantar whose life was cut short tragically in 1980 at the age of 30. Before her death she was one of the most popular Polish singers, with multiple golden disks and song-of-the-year awards.
Mark your calendars for a wonderful piano duet performance featuring the electrifying chemistry between two gifted musicians at the top of their game. Piotr Różański and Grzegorz Mania will transport you with their thoughtfully curated menu of musical delights, from Paderewski to Żeleński to Tansman–and more. Piotr Różański, who teaches