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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
The Polish School in Seattle offers an online course of Polish language this summer. Dates: June 21- August 23, 2021, sessions on Mondays from 6 pm to 8 pmTuition fee $165 covers• 10 meetings online• Final exam• Certificate of attendance• Beginners or intermediate levelSize of group: Maximum 10 studentsPayment: PayPal
Easter Europe Express: Aug 16-25, 2021 With fast pace of vaccinations in the US we are on track for 70% of population being vaccinated by the end of June. Now, even though EU is behind our vaccination rates, they should achieve the same levels by the end of August. The
The 2021 Polish community-wide giving campaign coordinated by Seattle Polish Foundation and run as part of the GiveBIG was an unprecedented success! Almost $21,000 has been collected and this total does not include corporate matching, so the final amount will increase. All the campaigns at GiveBIG together received over $17mln.
Alternative-pop singer-songwriter, and multi-media artist, Magdalucca released her next music video for the song Tsukina Waguma from the album The Air Between. Magdalucca is enjoying a creative rebirth fluidly expressing her unique visions of music, visual art, and film. Her debut EP, The Air Between, offers enlightening and emboldening social commentary, personal revelation,
The Kosciuszko Foundattion is currently accepting applications for Tomaszkiewicz-Florio and Wisconsin Study Polish Scholarships from students who wish to study Polish with Jagiellonian University professors and teachers. 2-week, 4-week and 6-week classes are available. Students can enroll in Polish language classes and up to two lectures from among the following courses:
The Mother’s Day in Poland is on May 26 and many Moms in Polish community who are the first generation immigrants prefer that date. So if your Polish Mom likes May 26, here is your chance for ordering a special for her. Frasier cake – vanilla sponge, crème mousseline, strawberries;
Lat update: May 10, 2021. The usual crop of summer courses in Poland available every year has been adapted to the pandemic. Some courses listed below are online while others offer in person experience. Summer School at the Jagiellonian University School of Polish Language and Culture The Summer School has
This year will be the 40th anniversary of the imposition of the Martial Law in Poland on December 13, 1981. For all who lived through it, including the Polish News editor, it was a terrible shock. Many people died, thousands of Solidarity activist went to jail, and countless lives were
The chef at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski, Anna Horodetska, offers these cake specials right in time for a Mother’s Day celebration! Frasier cake – vanilla sponge, crème mousseline, strawberries; serves 10-12 people, price $35 Summer Cheesecake – vanilla sponge, creamy cheese mousse, berry gelée layer, fresh raspberries, cream
Roy “Wojtek” Koczarski, a long time active member of the Polish community, and notably the architect taking care of the Polish Home, died on April 26, 2021 of natural causes with his family by his side. He was 92. Wojciech Koczarski was born on February 7, 1929 in Lwów, then
Anna Kulakowska has launched a new initiative at the Polish Cultural Center with an audacious goal to start a theatre! Together with Paulina Phung, she is organizing a theatrical group and calling on all theatre enthusiasts – actors, makeup artists, set designers, script writers and more to get in touch.There is a
The Consulate General of Poland in Los Angeles does not plan a passport visit to Seattle before or during summer 2021; the program to visit different cities has been suspended since spring 2020. A consular visit in the fall is a possibility, but it’s not decided yet – it would