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July 18 & 19: Fusion Festival in Surrey, BC |
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Surrey is a city in Canada half way from the border crossing to
Vancouver.
The Fusion Festival is a big festival showcasing music, culture
and culinary traditions of 20 nations. Among others, there is a
Polish pavilion.
Program for Sunday July 19 includes Polish groups and
artists.
Where: at the
Holland Park, Surrey, BC; admission
free
More:
Festival
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July 18, 10 am: Polish Book Club meeting at
the Green Lake Library |
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The book for the meeting is
Bohater,
spisek, śmierć. Wykłady żydowskie
by Maria Janion published by WAB in 2009.
Maria Janion
is a very well known Polish writer, essayist and critic and a
Professor of Literature at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Bohater ...
discusses cultural roots of Polish perception of Jews and Jewish
culture.
The book can be bought on the
Internet or borrowed from Club members. Club meetings are in
Polish.
Where:
at the
Green Lake Public Library in Seattle; admission free
More: about
the
book (in Polish),
Maria Janion,
Polish
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July 18, from 9:30 am: Polonia Tennis
Tournament in
Portland |
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Marcin Kowalski in 2008 |
The second Polonia Tennis Tournament in Portland
builds on the success of the last year tournament. It's a sports event and a Polish community
picnic at the same time - so bring your family and friends and
something to eat and share. The tournament will lasts till 6 pm.
Organized by the Polish Library Assn in Portland.
Where: at the Portland Community College courts at Rock Creek in
Portland, OR;
signup $15, general admission free
More: sign up deadline July 12, to sign up contact
Edward Kolinski,
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July 10-12: PKS plays in the All
Nations Cup in Tukwila |
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All smiles in 2008 |
Last year, the Polish
soccer club of Seattle (PKS) exceeded all expectations by
advancing to the semi-finals of the All Nations Cup in Tukwila.
We wish the team even better luck this year! Come to
cheer the team Poland during following matches of the first round
Friday, July
10, 8:00 pm: Poland
vs. Iran, field #3
Saturday,
July 11, 6:30 pm: Poland
vs. USA, field #2
Sunday,
July 12, 3:30 pm: Poland
vs. Eritrea, main field
Update: the team didn't
advance to the next round.
Where: Starfire Sports Center in Tukwila;
All Nations Cup
More: for PKS contact
Piotr Warczak
206-769-3840, or
Grzegorz Kostyra
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July:
KwieKulik as part of the SAM exhibition, till Sep 7, 2009 |
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A video installation by two
Polish visual artists, Zofia Kulik & Przemyslaw Kwiek, a duo
known as KwieKulik, is part of the Target Practice: Painting
Under Attack 1949-1978 exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum.
The exhibition is about unconventional art forms by artists such
as Jasper Johns, Roy
Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol,
the KwieKulik installation is called Variants of Red and
Edward Gierek.
Where:
Seattle Art Museum in downtown Seattle
More:
Target Practice exhibition,
Zofia Kulik, &
KwieKulik
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July:
Polish Home open in July |
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In July 2009, the Polish Home in Seattle
is open on Friday nights as usual, including the restaurant and
the bar. It's closed on Sundays though.
The Polish Home will be closed
in August and will reopen in September.
More:
Polish Home in Seattle
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