Hello. I am looking for a kind, energetic person that loves organizing and running a home to help me scale. I am the mom of two wonderful children (ages 5 and 8). My husband and I both work from home and I am looking for someone that would enjoy being part of our family to assist me with everything around the house that needs doing that I am unable to do due to my work
The Seattle International Film Festival streaming presents the 2020 film Charlatan directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring Ivan Trojan. This fascinating 2020 movie tells a true story of Jan Mikolášek, a very well-known traditional healer in post WWII Czechoslovakia, who with his uncanny diagnostic skills and herbal mixtures to treat people draws crowds but attracts the attention of the Communist regime and gets arrested and put on trial. The film has won five 2021 Czech
Swing it Seattle started a series of weekly dance evenings at the Polish Cultural Center in Seattle. Swing It Wednesdays occur each Wednesday with the following schedule: 7:15 – 7:45 pm – Lindy Hop mixer lesson; refresh your Lindy Hop! Partner rotation required 7:45 pm – DJ / early check-in 8:15 – 10:15 pm dancing to live music the bar will be open for the event The bands for live music change from week to
One of the more popular features of Polish Festival Seattle is on – the festival has a virtual program this year, but this is real! The vodka tasting event, a perennial crowd pleaser at the Seattle Center festival will be held at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski on Capitol Hill this year. The capacity is limited due to the current COVID restrictions, so make your reservation online to secure your shots. Technically, this is
Polish Cultural Center presents an embroidery workshop, where you can learn traditional Polish patterns and how to make them. Sessions of this workshop will run at the lower hall of the building, while the vodka tasting event is running upstairs. There are three sessions available at 12, 2 and 4 pm, each lasting 45 minutes. During the workshop, the participants will learn basic stitches, commonly used in Polish folk art as well as differences in
Last year, the Polish Festival at the Seattle Center was cancelled due to COVID-19. This year, we are not out of the woods yet, but the Festival will happen! You can participate in the Festival in several different ways: Watch the Festival streaming program starting at 11 am. The main video, Dressed for Celebration, will showcase Polish national costumes and performances recorded for this year’s festival by the Lajkonik Dance Group (Arizona) and the Masurian
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a lecture Generosity of Narrative: Wiesław Myśliwski by Dr. Agnieszka Kramkowska-Dąbrowska. Wiesław Myśliwski (b. 1932) is one of the few living writers who made their debut more than fifty years ago and, due to the importance of their works published at that time, belong to the history of literature of the 20th century. At the same time, Myśliwski successfully entered the 21st century and settled there well. What is
They come swinging back, don’t they! With the Governor lifting statewide restrictions, this is the first dance party at the Polish Cultural Center in the post-pandemic era. Polish Cultural Center and Swing It Seattle present the monthly Swing It Saturday dance party also featuring workshops and performances. Come swing dance to live music with Jonathan Doyle Swingtet from 8:15 to 11:15. This event includes special swing performances from the Swing It Seattle community. No partner
Win $100! If you needed a proof that the Seattle Polish Film Festival (SPFF) is coming back to town after a 2020 hiatus, this is it! The festival just announced its traditional art competition to design a poster for the 2021 SPFF coming in the fall. The SPFF is looking for artists, photographers, graphic designers, etc., to submit designs for the 2021 Seattle Polish Film Festival poster. SPFF committee members, in partnership with members of
If you haven’t noticed, there is now a new Polish theatre group at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski in Seattle. The preparation have been low key due to pandemic, but the group is slowly gathering members, technical staff etc. If you would like to volunteer, go for it, the group is still recruiting! I don’t think the group knows yet what their first performance is going to be, but they have grown enough to
The restaurant and the bar at the Polish Cultural Center has 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 10, 2021. More: Polish Cultural Center website
This local club is for readers who would like to discuss Polish literature in English. The book for the meeting is Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, first published in Poland as Bieguni in 2007 and the book that made her name in the English speaking countries. Tokarczuk is of course famous as the 2018 Nobel Prize winner for literature. She has caught the attention of the English speaking world by winning the 2018 Man Booker International
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a lecture A Lyrical Poet as a Political Writer: The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz by Prof. Bozena Shallcross and Prof. Andrzej Karcz. Milosz is of course the 1980 Nobel Prize winner for Literature and is known predominantly for his poetry. He has also translated into English many works by other Polish poets. As the author of The Captive Mind, a book of essays on politics and postwar Polish intellectuals
The Polish government’s National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) is announcing this year’s courses of Polish language and culture for students and teachers from abroad. The following Polish universities participate in this program: The University of Silesia in Katowice, which will organize an online course for students from August 1 to 22 2021 (detailed information may be found here: https://www.sjikp.us.edu.pl/en/summer-school-of-polish-language-literature-and-culture/) and an on-line course for the Polish language teachers at the same time, i.e. on August 1-22. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Lani Phillips, who has been learning Polish Language at the University of Washington Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures for the last two years, has received the prize for the Best Student of Polish there. The prize is awarded by the Polish Women’s Club of Seattle. Congratulations! More: UW Slavic Department website
Polish Public Television TVP and its U.S. film distribution partner, Fathom, present a nationwide screening of the 2019 documentary movie Of Animals And Men directed by Łukasz Czajka. Fandango shows that the film is available at multiple cinema theaters in Seattle, on Eastside and other local cities and towns on June 22, 2021. Of Animals and Men tells the true story behind the 2017 feature film, The Zookeeper’s Wife. This fascinating documentary sheds new light on the story from that
Washington Academy of Languages at the City University of Seattle has a native Polish instruct and has been offering Polish classes. In the summer of 2021 the following two classes are offered, both starting at the beginning of July and ending at the beginning of September. Polish 1 Ewa Krawczyk Tue 6:30 – 8:20PM 7/6/21 9/7/21 Polish 2 Ewa Krawczyk Wed 6:30 – 8:20PM 7/7/21 9/8/21 Cost is $400 and the deadline to sign up
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Rowerem przez II RP by Bernard Newman, published in 2021 by Znak Horyzont. Filled with countless anecdotes, photos and personal observations, the book recounts Bernard Newman’s 3,000km route from Gdańsk to Kraków in 1934. Significant part of the journey traversed the regions that are not Polish anymore, such as the eastern wall legs that included Stanisławów, Lwów, Równe, Pińsk,
The T-shirts are here! Polish Festival Seattle has a virtual program this year, but you can order a nice festival T-shirt or a hoodie regardless. And the 2021 designs are really nice, so go for it! This year the design features our roosters in festive Polish costume patterns! Please consider supporting Polish Festival Seattle by purchasing a 2021 t-shirt or hoodie! Select your style, color and size and it will be shipped directly to you.
Hello! Seeking Polish or English speaking worker for packing and moving to a new home. Also cleaning both new and old home and other similar home jobs as required. I will provide my own cleaning equipment. I live in NE Tacoma/Browns Point moving to Gig Harbor. Could use one or two workers. Flexible hours. I prefer a dependable handy person with a pickup truck if possible for moving small items, store pickups and putting together some furniture.