Local artist Kasia Pawluskiewicz has an exhibition of her paintings and prints at Heritage Distilling Co in Roslyn, WA through July 2023. The exhibition presents ten contemporary figurative oil paintings and a large collection of Japanese-style Gyotaku fish prints (see below) of sea creatures caught over the last ten years of Kasia’s career as a chef aboard luxury yachts, research and cargo vessels from the Bahamas to the Arctic circle. The artist is available for
This is another opportunity to see a painting exhibition by the local artist Wendy Rader-Konofalski. The exhibition is at Cafe Ladro Issaquah Highlands in Issaquah and runs for three months, from May 12 till August 11. The opening reception is on May 21, 2023, from 2:30 pm to 4 pm. The exhibition presents several abstract landscapes and other abstract acrylic paintings. The show is available during the coffee shop business hours. More: please visit Wendy’s
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee present the lecture “Textile as Text: Gender and Social Issues in Polish Textile Art” by Dr. Agata Stronciwilk. When attending the lecture, please come at 6:30 pm for the opening reception of the new generations’ Polish Poster exhibit, organized by Dr. Stronciwilk at the UW Allen Library North Lobby. The lecture starts at 7:15 pm. Sewing, embroidery, and weaving have been stereotypically considered to be women’s activities, limited to
Henry Jackson School of International Studies presents the lecture “Europeanization, Democratization, and Backsliding: Trajectories and Framing of Gender Equality Institutions in Poland” by Dr. Barbara Gaweda. This lecture is part of the Talking Gender in the EU in 2022-2023 lecture series that also covers Slovenia and the EU as a whole. Dr. Gaweda’s abstract of the talk: Since 2015, Polish governments have mainstreamed anti-gender equality rhetoric as a strategy to legitimize systemic changes and democratic
Wendy Rader-Konofalski is a local artist with another exhibition, this time at Victor’s Celtic Coffee in Redmond. The opening reception for her show “The Magic of the Unexpected” is on April 2, 2023, from 2 pm to 4 pm. The exhibition presents several of her large and medium abstract acrylic paintings and abstract mixed media collages on paper. The show, sharing space with a landscape photo exhibit by Les Williams, is available from March 26
The UW Slavic Department presents a lecture “Between Nomadism and Rootedness: Literary Topography in the Writings of Joanna Bator, Grażyna Plebanek, and Olga Tokarczuk” by Dr. Justyna Zych. One of the main common themes in the literary work of Joanna Bator, Grażyna Plebanek, and Olga Tokarczuk is travel. Their mobile protagonists – travelers, multiple migrants, cosmopolitans – traverse countries and continents, driven by freedom aspirations, existential quests, longing for adventure and Otherness, or pure escapism.
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
Wendy Rader-Konofalski is a local artist who has just opened her first solo exhibition at Caffe Ladro in West Seattle where she presents several of her acrylic paintings. This exhibition is available till January 31, 2023, during the caffe business hours – from 6:30 am to 6 pm on weekdays and from 6:30 am to 5 pm on weekends. Her smaller works can be also seen at the Parklane Gallery in Kirkland as part of
Klub książki zaprasza nowych członków do udziału w dyskusjach. Tematem spotkania gruniowego jest “SPATiF upajający pozór wolności” Aleksandry Szarłat opublikowana w 2022 r. przez Wyd. Czarene. Książka opisuje historię i znaczenie Klubu Aktora Stowarzyszenia Polskich Aktorów Teatru i Filmu w Warszawie. Spotykali się tam twórcy wszelkiej maści ale także znaczące osobistosci zycia politycznego i sportowego. ALeksandra Szarłat jest dziennikarką i autorką ksiażek dokumentalnych, zwłaszcza o osobach z kręgu celebrytów. More: blog klubu Klub ma spotkania
Klub książki zaprasza nowych członków do udziału w dyskusjach. Tematem spotkania listopadowego są dwie książki: “Tyłem do kierunku jazdy” Sylwii Chutnik oraz “Mondo cane” Jerzego Jarniewicza. Książka Chutnik to powieść obyczajowa o osobach idących w poprzek ustalonych kanonów. Natomiast książka Jarniewicza to tom poezji, który wygrał tegoroczną nagrodę NIKE. Sylwia Chutnik jest znaną feministką, która daje wyraz swoim poglądom w swoich książkach i felietonach. Jarniewicz jest poetą, krytykiem literackim i tłumaczem, oraz wykładowcą literatury na
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 only one day, instead of the usual two before the pandemic. 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
Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle presents an exhibition Form Follows Language by ceramist Sylwia Tur. Join Sylwia at the artist reception on September 1 between 6 and 8 pm. Below is an intro written by the artist Dear All, I would like to invite you to my third solo exhibition at Linda Hodges Gallery: “Form Follows Language”, where I continue my sculptural work of giving physical dimension to language. In my recent exhibition at the
Hania Rani is an award-winning pianist, composer and vocalist coming to Seattle right after playing at the Toronto Jazz Festival. The concert organized by Fremont Abbey Arts Center has been moved from Fremont to the St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral to accommodate a bigger audience; however, this a regular jazz concert also featuring Micaela Kingslight, a blues and rock songwriter and singer from Port Towsend, WA. Hania Rani, born in Gdansk, Poland as Hanna Raniszewska, shares
The Parklane Gallery in Kirkland presents Silent Voices – a painting exhibition by Irena Jablonski. Jablonski was born and raised in Poland, then worked as a structural engineer in South Africa. She moved to the United States in 1990s and started her artist education in California. Now based in the Seattle area, she has been represented by the Parklane Gallery for about a decade. Jablonski has always been intrigued by the human vulnerability in coping with
Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra presents a “serene cheer and warm sunshine” concert that includes Brahm’s Symphony no 2 and the Violin Concerto no. 4 by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz. Joanna Kurkowicz is a renown violinist with a wide repertoire, who is also an active propagator of Grażyna Bacewicz oeuvre. More: concert page and tickets, artist’s website, Williams College concertmaster profile
Bellevue Arts Museum presents an exhibition Object Permanence connecting science and art and featuring two artists Timea Tihanyi and Sylwia Tur. Join ceramicists Timea Tihanyi and Sylwia Tur for an in-gallery discussion of their exhibition on May 8 at 3 pm. A site-specific installation that includes porcelain sculptures, audio, and video artworks, Object Permanence serves as a space for dialogue and collaboration between Tihanyi and Tur, and an opportunity for visitors to discover convergences and
Bellevue Arts Museum presents an exhibition Object Permanence connecting science and art and featuring two artists Timea Tihanyi and Sylwia Tur. The exhibition runs till May 29, 2022. Update: the discussion about the exhibition with both artists, scheduled in April, has been moved to May 8 at 3 pm; instead, on April 9 at 2 pm, Sylwia Tur will give private tour of her exhibition. Object Permanence is a space for dialogue and collaboration between two
Polish Cultural Center and the Culinary Workshops group invite all the ladies, and gents, to a potluck social celebrating the International Women’s Day. Omikron cancelled or postponed the usual culinary get together, and Women’ Day is a perfect opportunity to catch up and meet at the Polish Home! Please come with a homemade dish ready to eat with a recipe with clearly written instructions to taste each other’s productions, share recipes, chat and have a