If you missed it earlier, this is a reminder that Polish Cultural Institute New York and MUBI still present a selection of Stanisław Lem centennial movies. The series can be viewed on the movie platform MUBI, with a 30-day free trial period and different availability in different countries. In United States, the movies can be watched till July 31, 2022. For me, The Congress was hands down the best movie to watch. The Congress (2013,
Update: This is the first live Polish Festival after the pandemic, and it needs many more volunteers! Please help if you can. Hello friends, We would like to invite you to help us create the ultimate Seattle Polish Festival experience. The event will be held on Saturday, July 9, 2022, from noon to 7 pm, at the Seattle Center Armory and Mural Amphitheatre. 2022 is our first-in-a-while opportunity to celebrate Polish traditions like we used to. The event
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
Update: This is the first live Polish Festival after the pandemic, and it needs many more volunteers! Please help if you can. The Polish Festival will be serving a lot of great Polish food, but that needs a lot of preparation! The Polish Home Association and the Culinary Workshops ask for assistance in food prep before the Festival. Please come to the Polish Cultural Center to one of these sessions: Tuesday, July 5 from 2
Seattle Internation Film Festival presents the famous Three Colors trilogy by the Polish master Krzysztof Kieślowski. The movies, inspired by the French tricolor of blue, white and red are intricate riffs on the motto of Liberté, égalité, fraternité that the colors symbolize. The movies, starring Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy and Irene Jacobs, have been newly remastered to the 4k quality. All three movies screen at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. The movies were set to
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
The restaurant and the bar at the Polish Cultural Center have closed for the summer. The summer break this year will last two months, through July and August. Both the restaurant and the bar should reopen as usual on the first Friday after Labor Day, that is on September 9, 2022. More: Polish Cultural Center website
The 18th Avenue Theater presents the play in Polish “Przygody pchły szachrajki” based on a classic poem for kids by Jan Brzechwa and directed by Anna Kułakowska. There will be two performances of the play. The premiere is on Friday, June 24, 2022, at 6:30 pm, and the second show is on Saturday, June 25, 2022, at 2 pm. Tickets are on a Pay what you can basis and can be purchased at Eventbrite. The
Dear Friends, After a pandemic delay of over two years, we have said the final farewell to our beloved Isia. She wanted to be buried with her parents in the family grave in Poland. The funeral took place on June 1, 2022, at the small church and its cemetery in Krzynowłoga Wielka in northern Masovia. This is the farewell that Ryszard delivered at another mass in Warsaw: Pozegnanie-Isi, Farewell-to-Isia. And below are the two songs
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
This is your chance to attend a course of Polish during the summer Polish School at the Polish Cultural Center The school offers separate courses in Polish for children and adults in July and August. Classes are at weekly meetings that are 2 hours each, price is $100 a month. Please find detailed info here, or contact the school at polishschool@polishhome.org or 206-775-5039 Washington Academy of Languages at the City University Polish 1 is offered
The 2022 New York Polish Film Festival has an online edition for viewing selected movies in the contiguous United States running from June 7 to June 28, 2022. Online watching is $9. The streaming program includes the following movies: Leave No Traces / Żeby nie było śladów (2021, 154′) dir. by P. Matuszyński. the Grzegorz Przemyk story Back Then / Zupa nic (2021, 154′), dir. by Kinga Dębska, satire on Communist Poland Reflection / Odbicie
Klub książki zaprasza nowych członków do udziału w dyskusjach. Tematem spotkania czerwcowego jest książka Serce pełne skorpionów Wojciecha Engelkinga, wydana w 2021 r. przez W.A.B. Jest to historia pierwszej wielkiej miłości, która jednak podszyta jest kłamstwem, a w tle jest spisek polityczny z czasów PRL-u. Engelking, 30, jest z wykształcenia prawnikiem, a opublikował już trzy inne powieści. Współpracuje z wieloma czasopismami i tygodnikami jako niezależny publicysta. Jest współautorem podcastu filmowego “Woda w nożu”. More: o
The University of Washington Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the lecture Witchers, Strigas, and the Man on the Moon – Polish Legends in Contemporary Popular Culture by Dawid Junke, PhD. Slavic mythology has recently enjoyed unprecedented levels of global popularity, thanks to the very successful computer video game and the Netflix series called The Witcher; both have been based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s book cycle under the same title. The game produced by now world-famous CD
Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and Seattle Opera present a concert for the benefit of Ukrainian artists who have taken refuge in Poland. The PNB Orchestra, conducted by Emil de Cou and Alevtina Ioffe, will be joined by various artists for a one-hour performance featuring music from Der Rosenkavalier, Swan Lake, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, The Tender Land, and the Ukrainian folk tradition. (This performance does not include PNB dancers.) 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Pegaz
Klub książki zaprasza nowych członków do udziału w dyskusjach. Tematem spotkania majowego jest książka Gorzko, gorzko Joanny Bator, wydana w 2020 r. przez Znak. Jest to wielopokoleniowa, skupiona na kobietach, saga rodzinna osadzona na Górnym Śląsku,. Bator, 64, jest pisarką, eseistką, podróżniczką, specjalistką od antropologii kultury i gender studies. Pochodzi z Wałbrzycha, w którego okolicach często dzieje się akcja jej powieści. Jej najbardziej znane powieści to Piaskowa skała (nominowana do Nike) oraz Ciemno, prawie noc
There has been several fundraisers for Ukraine that our local Polish communities have been involved with; this is an update for the recent ones. The dinner and auction with Gov. Jay Inslee at the Polish Cultural Center on April 22 raised over $55,000 for the Ukrainian Association of Washington State The Polish Fundraiser to Support Ukraine run by the Seattle Polish Foundation raised over $53,000 as of 5/6. More info in the above article The Polish School
Komisja Spraw Emigracji i Łączności z Polakami za Granicą Senatu RP prosi o opinie Polonii dotyczące priorytetów i kierunków polityki państwa polskiego wobec Polonii i Polaków za granicą. List Senat RP zachęcający do wypełnienia ankiety na ten temat. Link do ankiety Termin zgłaszania uwag jest 15 maja 2022 r. More: strona Senatu RP
The Polish indie rock band Trupa Trupa is coming to Seattle to play at Barboza. The group advertises itself as an art-rock, psychedelic post punk band from Gdańsk, Poland. The group includes Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (vocals, guitar, also a published poet), Wojtek Juchniewicz (vocal, guitar), Rafał Wojczal (keyboards, guitar) and Tomek Pawluczuk (drums). Their latest album is B Flat A. According to The Guardian, “the band’s music blends off-kilter melodies, dense instrumentation and lyrical explorations of
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