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 works are for sale, so if you see anything that interests you, you can contact Wendy at wendyrk53@icloud.com. Or you can check out her website
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 Prize awarded at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. For Your Consideration: Porcelain War More information about the movie can be found here: Aniela Sidorska’s “Porcelain
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 that sometimes occurs between a mother and a fetus, which may result in a miscarriage or damage to a fetus. Consequently, he developed the way
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 and crafts, Polish crystals and Boleslawiec pottery as well as booths by local Polish organizations. You can also buy Christmas ornaments and wafers (oplatki), as
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 have been crumpled and flattened. Everything here has been mistreated and discarded because it is no longer needed, yet in this abandonment the materials take
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 and activists participates in an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) titled “Empowering Organizations Working with Refugees and Migrants in Poland“. The program, sponsored by the
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 the member of the Seattle Polish community Aniela Sidorska (Jr.). She was the principal producer and the creative force behind the movie. The film received
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.” This film offered a new and updated version of the central character of Jagna: a young woman in rural Poland of late 19th century. A
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 matka) przez wiele lat tworzyły teatralny duet przedstawiajacy sztuki Kazimierza Brauna, a na codzień występowały w teatrze polskim w Toronto. Jako duet, gościły też wielokrotnie
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 younger generation of leaders. Join the scouts on this special event on Camano Island, where you can walk the trail, sit around the fire listening
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 for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a Polish forest. Croft will be discussing her staff-favorite debut novel with its brilliant examination of art,
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 of letting go and the landing. We are also using music by the Polish group Sutari as part of the sonic landscape. There are two
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 na przełomie XVI i XVII wieku. Region ten przeżywał w tym czasie swój złoty wiek, a fala polowań na czarownice przetaczała się przez Europę, nie
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 PiS alarmed international observers and intensely divided Polish society as their illiberal reforms saw greater control of the judiciary and media as well as
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 of chamber ensemble has an important representation in the works of many Polish women authors, including Hanna Kulenty, Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk, Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz, Anna Ignatowicz-Glińska, and
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 and crafts, Polish crystals and Boleslawiec pottery as well as booths by local Polish organizations. You can also buy Christmas ornaments and wafers (oplatki), as
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 acrylic landscapes, abstracts and a variety of watercolors. The exhibit will run until March 31st, so you still have lots of time to come by
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 festival passes in our raffle! This is a free event, so see you there! These are shorts screened at this event: Resurrection | Wskrzeszenie directed
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 Spectre’ for baroque violin & harpsichord (4’) J.S. Bach (1685-1750) – Sonata for violin and Harpsichord No. 4 in c minor BWV 1017 (20’) Oscar
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′),