The UW Ukrainian Students United and the Ukrainian Association of Washington State present a film screening of the award-winning “Mr. Jones” to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Holodomor, Stalin’s famine-genocide that starved millions of Ukrainians to death between 1932 and 1933. The movie “Mr. Jones” directed by Academy Award winner Agnieszka Holland is a powerful drama that highlights the life of the journalist Gareth Jones and his courageous efforts to uncover the truth about the Holodomor. It serves
Claire Koleske’s play “An Inheritance of Light”, inspired by Polish history and folklore, is debuting on the Seattle stage with four performances from November 17 to 19. Maja Koleski, living through the war-torn Partitions of Poland, strikes a cursed deal with a Noonwitch in exchange for safe passage to America. But the curse does not stop with her life. It races forward in time through future generations without sparing any of Maja’s descendants. It is
The local Polish Scout Troop invites everybody to the Polish Cultural Center at for a celebration of the Polish Independence Day commemorating Poland emerging as an independent nation on November 11, 1918, after over a century of partitions. The program prepared by Iwona Bernacki consists of a medley of patriotic songs, poems and fragments of prose commemorating all heroes who fought for freedom of Poland. The program will be performed by the scouts and their
“Ashes and Diamonds”, a novel published in 1948, continues to provoke heated debates and sharp divisions. A masterpiece of Polish prose or crude propaganda? A politically motivated attempt to discredit the anti-communist underground after 1945, or a bid to portray the tragic choices faced by the generation of the Home Army? And who was the author whose life follows a strangely convoluted not atypical course: a respected Catholic writer before the war, Czesław Miłosz’s colleague
The 2023 New York Polish Film Festival has extended till July 15 the streaming of viewing selected movies in the contiguous United States. Online watching is $9. The streaming program includes the following movies: Niebezpieczni dżentelmeni / Dangerous Men (2022, 110′), Dir. by Maciej Kawalski, crime comedy Braty / Brothers (2022, 122′), Dir. by Marcin Filipowicz, poetic tale about coming-of-age Chleb i sól / Bread And Salt (2022, 100′), Dir. Damian Kocur Filip (2022, 125′),
The Polish Cultural Center invites you to the musical lecture “Chopin: Mortal Man, Immortal Genius” by Steven Lagerberg. This is an evening presenting a lecture on life of Frederic Chopin illustrated with his compositions performed by outstanding young pianists from the Pacific Northwest. The narrative will discuss stories behind some of the works and how Chopin’s passions and patriotism as well as his chronic illness inspired and affected his compositions. The following young pianists will
The 2023 Seattle International Film Festival is at our doors. This year, SIFF will show two Polish films, “Pianoforte” and “Filip” and also an American movie “Late Bloomers” with a Polish immigrant as one of the main characters. “Filip“, directed by Michal Kwiecinski (“Tomorrow We’re Going To The Movies” 2007, “Extras” 2006), breaks every film cliché about the Nazi era and the Holocaust. It is an unexpectedly sharp, jagged character study about a handsome young Polish Jew
This event is in Polish. Dom Polski w Seattle zaprasza serdecznie na akademię z okazji Dnia Konstytucji. W tym ważnym dla naszej Ojczyzny dniu, spotykamy się razem, by uczcić pamięć naszych przodków oraz podkreślić znaczenie Konstytucji dla wolnej i demokratycznej Polski. W akademii wezmą udział Konsul Honorowy Teresa Indelak Davis, harcerze, szkoła polska w Seattle oraz Chór Polski Vivat Musica. Podczas uroczystości usłyszymy polskie pieśni patriotyczne oraz przemówienia przywołujące na myśl ducha walki i jedności
Seattle Polish Film Festival presents the 2021 movie “Brigitte Bardot Forever” / “Brigitte Bardot cudowna“, by the renowned director Lech Majewski (“The Mill and the Cross“, “The Garden of Earthly Delights“, “Angelus“). The film stars are Kacper Olszewski, Magdalena Różczka and Joanna Opozda. The movie has won several awards at the international festival circuit in 2021 & 2022. The mid-20th century in communist Poland. Adam lives with his mother, who is persecuted by the state
The UW Slavic Department presents a lecture “Revolutionary Subjecthood of the Interwar Poetry in Poland: Traumatized Selves and Heterogeneous Subjectivities in Tytus Czyżewski’s Writing” by Dr. Agnieszka Jeżyk. This talk focuses on the influence that World War I had on the notion of subjecthood of one of the most important Polish avant-garde groups, the futurists. Even today contemporary criticism more frequently presents the first works of authors such as Bruno Jasieński, Jerzy Jankowski, and Tytus
The UW Slavic Department presents a lecture “Third Cinema in the Second World: Images of Anti-colonialism in the Polish People’s Republic” by Dr. Marla Zubel. This talk locates key elements of the politics and aesthetics of Latin American Third Cinema in anti-colonial reportage films made in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s. The point is not to posit an alternative origin of a form of militant cinema first conceptualized by Argentinian filmmakers Fernando Solanas and
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the movie “Radioactive“, directed by Marjane Satrapi based on the graphic novel “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout” by Laurel Redniss. This movie screening is part of a cycle of events about Marie Curie that includes an exhibition “The Lady of the Radium” and a lecture “Madame Curie – Destiny Fulfilled” by Hanna Karczewski, both at the University of Washington in Seattle. The
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents three events about Marie Curie: a lecture “Madame Curie – Destiny Fulfilled” by Hanna Karczewski, an exhibition “The Lady of the Radium” at the University of Washington, and a screening of the biographic movie “Radioactive” at the Polish Cultural Center. Admission is free for all these events. Marie Curie, born Maria Skłodowska, was the famous scientist who won two Nobel prizes, one in physics with her husband Pierre
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the exhibit “The Lady of Radium, The Life of Maria Skłodowska-Curie”. The exhibit follows key events from Curie’s life as a woman scientist and highlights her connections with the United States and different scientific institutions in America. This includes the important role that Marie Mattingly Meloney played in Curie’s successful fundraising tour for the Radium Institute, and her visits to the White House and St. Lawrence University. The
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs presents the webinar “Józef Piłsudski – the Founding Father of Modern Poland” by Joshua Zimmerman. Zimmerman is the author of a new Piłsudski biography of the same title. In the story of modern Poland, no one stands taller than Jozef Pilsudski. From the age of sixteen, he devoted his life to reestablishing the Polish state that had ceased to exist in 1795. Ahead of World War I, he created a
The Seattle Polish Scout Troop “Kaszuby” invite everybody to the Polish Cultural Center at 2:30 pm on Sunday November 13 for a celebration of the Polish Independence Day commemorating Poland emerging as an independent nation on November 11, 1918, after over a century of partitions. The program prepared by Iwona Bernacki consists of a medley of patriotic songs, poems and fragments of prose commemorating all heroes who fought for freedom of Poland. The program will
This is a live We Are History Keepers! workshop consisting of two different sessions. The morning session covers Oral History – its planning, conducting and preserving. The session after lunch covers managing and preserving historical records and artifacts of your organization or family. The morning session from 9:30 am till lunch will be presented by the University of Washington archivists and librarians covering different topics related to oral history. The after-lunch session as 1:30 pm
The Camas Public Library in Camas, WA presents an exhibition and book signing event organized by the Camas Sister City Organization. The book “Silesian Stories” has been written by Lloyd Halverson and printed in Polish and English by the City of Krapkowice, Poland. Krapkowice is a sister city to Camas. Book themes include resilience and connections between Silesia region in Poland and America, as well as episodes from the regional history. It is richly illustrated
Polish Cultural Center presents a commemoration of the first Polish Constitution enacted in 1791. This was the second constitution in the world, after the American Constitution and before the French one. It is known in Polish as the Constitution of the May 3rd. The program highlighting relevance of an independent constitution will consist of opening remarks by the Honorary Consul of Poland in Seattle, Teresa Indelak Davis, and viewing of a documentary film Trzeci maja,
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