PKS (Pilkarski Klub of Seattle) is an all-Polish soccer team, currently playing in Seattle's premier recreational league, GSSL (www.gssl.org).  The team has practice on Wednesday evenings and games are on Sundays. PKS looks for new players aged 17-40 with good skills for the fall season starting Sep 11 and for the All Nations Cup next year. Playing for PKS is a great opportunity to meet fellow Poles and represent the Polish-American community here in Seattle. The team is also looking for sponsors!

Where: practice field at the Nathan Hale High School, 10750 30th Ave NE, Seattle, every Wednesday at 6:30 pm, directions at www.gssl.org

Or come to a sparring game at the Ingram High School in Seattle on August 21 at 6:30 pm

More: contact Michal Pietrzyk or Piotr Warczak at pkstalent@yahoo.com or 206-228-8227; about GSSL www.gssl.org, All Nations Cup www.allnationscup.org

Ms. Podles, the great star of the opera, has been singing in this year’s production of the Ring of Nibelungen at the Seattle Opera receiving excellent and exuberant reviews.  Before leaving Seattle, she talked to Ewa Poraj-Kuczewska about opera, Seattle and more.

Where: Listen to the Radio at 1590 AM on Sundays at 6 pm, or at the internet any time.

More: www.RadioWisla.com

The Society for Polish Culture in Seattle (TMKP) and the editors of the quarterly Gazetka Polonijna invite members and friends of SPC and their families to the annual potluck picnic. There will be games and fun for adults and kids. The park boasts a nice children’s animal farm and many nature trails. Everybody is invited!

Where: Farrel-McWhirter Park, 19545 Redmond Road, Redmond, Mackey Creek shelter; admission free, bringing your food & drink to share is optional but welcomed

More: TMKP , Farrel-McWhirter Park

Piotr Adamczyk as Karol Wojtyla

If you missed the two previous screenings of the movie, you can catch it this Saturday on prime time. The movie starring Piotr Adamczyk as Karol Wojtyla covers his life from 1939 till the ascendance to papacy in 1979. The movie based on a book by Gian Franco Svidercoschi has been directed by Giacomo Battiato and shot at locations in Cracow, Poland and at the Vatican.

Where: the Hallmark Channel, Aug 27: 7 & 9 pm

More: the Hallmark site www.hallmarkchannel.com/us_framework.jsp?BODY=program.jsp&CONTENT=DAM_FAM_3999812, much better site about the movie at www.cbc.ca/karol/

PKS (Pilkarski Klub of Seattle) is an all-Polish soccer team, currently playing in Seattle's premier recreational league, GSSL (www.gssl.org).  The team has practice on Wednesday evenings and games are on Sundays. PKS looks for new players aged 17-40 with good skills for the fall season starting Sep 11 and for the All Nations Cup next year. Playing for PKS is a great opportunity to meet fellow Poles and represent the Polish-American community here in Seattle. The team is also looking for sponsors!

Where: practice field at the Nathan Hale High School, 10750 30th Ave NE, Seattle, every Wednesday at 6:30 pm, directions at www.gssl.org

Or come to a sparring game at the Ingram High School in Seattle on August 21 at 6:30 pm

More: contact Michal Pietrzyk or Piotr Warczak at pkstalent@yahoo.com or 206-228-8227; about GSSL www.gssl.org, All Nations Cup www.allnationscup.org

Piotr Adamczyk as Karol Wojtyla

This feature movie starring Piotr Adamczyk tells the story of the young Karol Wojtyla starting from the German and Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939. It covers his life as a young man surviving atrocities of Nazi occupation in Cracow then as a young priest spreading the Good News and the bishop and archbishop tending to his flock under the repressive communist regime till ascendance to the papacy. The movie based on a book by Gian Franco Svidercoschi has been directed by Giacomo Battiato and shot at locations in Cracow, Poland and at the Vatican.

Where: the Hallmark Channel, Aug 15: 8 & 10 pm  episode 1 & 2, Aug 21: 9 & 11 am episode 1 & 2

More: the Hallmark site The Hallmark Channel, much better site about the movie at Karol: a Man Who Became Pope  

This is a yearly picnic for members and friends of the Polish Home Association and their families. Come and share good food and fun! There will be grills and tables available as well as free drinks, hamburgers and hot dogs for kids and teenagers. A casual volleyball game is a tradition at the PHA picnics and some people always try to play soccer among the bushes, so get your sport shoes ready! Everybody is invited.

Where: shelter #2 at the Lincoln Park in Seattle, watch for a Polish flag and a PHA banner; admission free, bringing your food & drink to share is optional but welcomed

More: Polish Home Association

Ewa Podles

Ewa Podles, the brilliant Polish contralto, comes back to Seattle two years after her performance as Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma for which she won the 2003 Seattle Opera’s Artist of the Year Award. This time she will take part in the coveted yearly NW summer feast of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen. The cycle is running three times in August, with Ewa Podles singing as Erda in Rheingold and Siegfried and as First Norn in Gotterdamerung.

Where: Seattle Opera at McCaw Hall, at John/Mercer St in Seattle; tickets sold out a year ago!

More: Ewa Podles www.podles.pl, www.SeattleOpera.org, www.worldwideticketing.com/seattlering.htm   

Mark your calendar for this year picnic for members and friends of the Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association and their families. Come to enjoy kielbasa roasted on coals and share delectable delights like Paul's famous bigos and Martha's desserts. Don't miss Ron's T-Bird demonstration! Everybody is invited!

Where: shelter #2 at the Lincoln Park in Seattle, watch for a SGSCA banner; admission free, bringing your food to share optional but encouraged

More: Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Assn., Carol Forte

The Polish Home will be closed on Friday nights from July 1 till the end of August this year. It will reopen in September.

More: www.PolishHome.org