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New Year's Eve party |
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Dec 31, 7:30 pm - 2 am: New Year’s Eve party
at the Polish Home |
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It’s a repetition of a very successful formula introduced at the
last New Year’s Eve party. Namely, you can choose between a traditional band
upstairs and
a DJ downstairs. Ticket price includes a full course Polish dinner,
champagne, hats and fifes.
Upstairs: music by Polonus:
Philip, Ola & Marcin
Downstairs: music by DJ Marcin Ludowicz - disco music
The doors & the bar open from 7:30 pm, sit-down dinner at 8 pm,
dancing from 9 pm.
Where:
at the upper and lower halls of the Polish Home; tickets
$75 per person (members) & $100 (non-members).
More: reservations:
upstairs -
Lucyna Blonska (206) 764-7057,
downstairs - Anna & Bart Pawluskiewicz (206) 821-6202.
Reservations need to be paid for by Dec 24, otherwise become
void.
No tickets will be sold at the door!
Please note
that this is not a BYOB and you cannot bring your own alcohol to
the party |
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Dec 25 & 27: Polish Home closed for Christmas |
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The Polish Home
is closed for Christmas on December 25 & 27, 2009, as well
as on January 1st 2010.
The Polish Home will be open, but the restaurant will be closed
on Jan 3, 2009.
Where:
at the
Polish Home
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Dec 18, 8 pm: Christmas traditions &
carols at
the Polish Home - cancelled |
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This event
has been cancelled.
Everybody is invited to an evening devoted to the joy of
Christmas traditions and caroling. |
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Dec 12, 6 pm: St. Nicolas party &
Christmas traditions in
Redmond |
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The Polish School in Bellevue invites
for an evening of Polish Christmas traditions and singing Polish
carols. The traditional program includes a short performance by
the children of the School, St. Nicholas visit, sharing of Christmas wafers and
sweat treats. Every child is welcomed!
Where:
Redmond Ridge Community Center,
10735 Cedar Park Crescent NE, Redmond, WA 98053;
admission free
More: Polish School in
Bellevue, or contact
Anna Cholewinska |
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Dec 10, 7 pm:
Ideology and the Tragedy of East Central Europe at the UW |
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Daniel Chirot |
UW Jackson School of International
Studies in association with UW Polish Studies Endowment
Committee invites to a lecture Ideology and the Tragedy of
East Central Europe in the 20th Century by Prof. Daniel
Chirot. Dr.
Chirot is a professor at the Dept. of Sociology at the UW
Jackson School.
Where: Walker-Ames Room at Kane Hall, on the University of
Washington campus in Seattle; admission free
More: about
Prof. Chirot, UW PSEC
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Dec 6, 2:30 pm: St. Nicolas party at
the Polish Home |
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This is a Mikolajki
party for kids organized by the Polish Home. There will be a friendly competition for
all children to perform a song or say a
little poem for awards.
The program includes a video
from the 2004 performance
by the PH
Mlodzi Polanie
children group
based on Ch.
Andersen’s classic The
Little Match Girl. A
Santa Claus
visit will be a highlight of the event. The restaurant will be open from
1 pm.
Where: at the Polish Home;
admission free
More:
Contact
Asia Jeziorska (425) 417-9548 or
Barbara Strutynski (425) 746-3037 |
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Dec 3, 7 pm:
Freedom on the Fence lecture & screening at the UW |
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Andrea Marks |
Freedom on the Fence is a 40
min. documentary
about the history of Polish posters
and their significance to the social, political and cultural
life of Poland. This unique form of art flourished under the
communist regime and is still going strong in the years after
the fall of communism. The project will be presented by the
producer & director, Prof. Andrea Marks of Oregon State U.
Also: please see
the note below
about a poster exhibition at the UW.
Where:
Lecture and
screening at Kane Hall, room 110,
on the University of Washington
campus in Seattle; admission free, reception to
follow
More: about
the project,
prof.
Marks, UW PSEC
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Nov 30 - Jan 15:
A Polish poster exhibition at the UW |
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by Mieczyslaw Górowski |
The Polish
Poster: a Visual Metaphor is a poster exhibition featuring some of the most
interesting examples of the Polish poster art. The 50 posters at
the exhibit come from the local NW collections.
Organized by Krzysztof & Ewa Poraj-Kuczewski, sponsored by the UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee and the
Polish Home Foundation.
Where:
at the
UW
Allen Library North
on the University of Washington
campus in Seattle; admission free,
open during
the
Library hours
More:
UW PSEC,
PHF
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