Wendy Rader-Konofalski, recently featured at the Polish Home Art Gallery, now has a new art exhibit at Bothell Caffe Ladro 18610 Bothell Way Lots of large new work and a variety of smaller landscapes. Come for the art, have a cup of coffee, and say hello to Wendy. All her
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
Polish Home Association presents the movie “Mensch” about Prof. Ludwik Hirszfeld, who created the scientific foundation for the blood groups. He is the author of dividing different bloods into groups A, B, AB, and O, which has been accepted and implemented all over the world. Hirszfeld discovered the serological conflict
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
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
The World Affairs Council of Seattle invites everybody to an evening with NGO leaders and activists from Poland at the Polish Cultural Center. The evening is hosted by the Polish Honorary Consul Teresa Indelak Davis; also attending is Ukrainian Honorary Consul Valeriy Goloborodko. This remarkable group of ten Polish leaders
Update: the movie has won the Best Documentary and the Golden Space Needle awards at SIFF and can compete at the 2025 Oscars. Congratulations! The movie streams at SIFF till May 27. Seattle International Film Festival presents the documentary movie “Porcelain War” co-produced and co-written by the local filmmaker and
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the lecture “Women of the People: Serfdom, Female Agency and Film Representation in Poland after 1945” by Dr. Michal Oleszczyk. One of the 2023’s biggest box offices hits in Polish cinemas was the animated adaptation of Władysław Reymont’s Nobel Prize-winning 1904 novel “The Peasants.”
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
The Polish Scout Troop “Kaszuby” invites you to Camano Island for the opening of the Nature Walk Trail commemorating Scoutmaster Martha Golubiec. Martha Golubiec was the founder of the Polish scouting organization in Seattle in 1986 and served as its Scoutmaster for 24 years before passing the torch to a
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
Klub książki zaprasza wszystkich zainteresowanych do udziału w dyskusji. Marcowe spotkanie klubu książki poświęcone jest dyskusji na temat książki „Sydonia. Słowo się rzekło”, napisanej przez wybitną pisarkę Elżbietę Cherezińską. Autorka, bazując na starych dokumentach, rekonstruuje historię Sydonii von Bork, szlachcianki należącej do najstarszego rodu szlacheckiego Pomorza, żyjącej w Księstwie Pomorskim
World Affairs Council in Seattle invites you to the presentation “The Challenges for the New Democratic Government in Poland” by Dr. Henryka Bochniarz. Poland experienced a significant transformation last year, as voters, particularly women and young people, voted out the populist Law and Justice Party (PiS). The eight-year tenure of
The UW School of Music presents The Zarębski Piano Duo – Grzegorz Mania and Piotr Różański – in a free lecture-recital of music by contemporary Polish women composers. The idea behind the lecture-recital program is to popularize piano duets for four hands, written by contemporary Polish women composers. This type
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
Wendy Rader-Konofalski, recently featured at the Polish Home Art Gallery, now has a colorful solo art show at Victor’s Celtic Coffee Shop in Redmond at 7993 Gilman Street. She is showing a large variety of brand new paintings including a large triptych called “We the People,” as well as numerous
This is a special kickoff event of the 31st Seattle Polish Film Festival coming on October 13-22! Watch shorts created by students from Gdynia Film School, have a glass of wine (on SPFF), get a festival pass 50% off (one night only offer!) or win one of the 3 full
The Polish Cultural Center presents Ada Witczyk and Wyatt Smith in a baroque music concert featuring authentic baroque violin and French double keyboard harpsichord. This one-hour recital includes the following violin compositions played by Ada Witczyk with a harpsichord accompaniment by Wyatt Smith: Erik Valdemar Sköld (b. 1991) – ‘The
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