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Polish Festival
in Portland |
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Sep 26-27: 16th Polish Festival in
Portland |
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If you haven't seen it - go for
it! It's the
biggest and the
best Polish
Festival in the
western
United States. This year the Festival features
two exhibitions, a jazz band, a piano concerto, plus the usual
two full days of performances by the best Polish folk groups
from the west coast US and Canada as well as a Swiss group,
variety of merchandize and tons of pierogi, other Polish food as well as Polish beer. There are
also polka contests on both days and dancing on the Saturday evening.
Where: St. Stanislaus Church &
Polish Hall & Library,
at an equivalent of a city block at
3900 N. Interstate Ave.,
Portland, OR;
admission & entertainment free
More:
Festival Program,
Marek Stepien 503-810-6926,
Bus to the Portland Festival |
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Sep 26, 10 am: Polish Book Club meeting at
the Green Lake Library |
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The book for the meeting is
Boy-Zelenski, blazen -
wielki maz by Jozef Hen, published by WAB in 2008. Jozef
Hen, 87, is a Polish novelist, essayist and biographer. Tadeusz
(Boy) Zelenski (1874-1941) was a famous cabaret writer, theater
critic as well as publisher and translator whose translations of
great French literature into Polish are still unsurpassed in the
mastery of the art.
Where:
at the
Green Lake Public Library in Seattle; admission free
More: about
Jozef Hen,
Zelenski,
Polish
Book Club |
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Sep 16, 6 pm:
First day of school at the Polish
School in
Bellevue |
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The Fr. Jan Twardowski Polish
School in Bellevue invites children from the Eastside and
Seattle areas. The School is separate from the Polish School in
Seattle. Subjects include Polish language, geography, history
and culture classes offered to children from grades 1 to 8,
based on proficiency in Polish. The School also has a program of Polish as a second
language for children. All classes are on Wednesdays at 6:00 pm at the
East Shore
Unitarian Church.
Where: due to construction at the St. Louise Parish, classes
are at the
East Shore Unitarian Church
Education
Building.
More:
Polish School in Bellevue,
or call Anna Cholewinska at (425) 765-4935 |
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Sep 12 & 14: Back to school at the
Polish
School in
Seattle |
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The Juliusz
Slowacki
Polish School
in Seattle
offers classes to individuals of all ages and varying degrees of language
skills. Children from grades 1-8 learn Polish language and
literature, as well history and geography of
Poland (assignment is based on
the proficiency level in Polish). Adults can learn Polish as a
second language as beginners or at intermediate level.
All classes at
the Polish Home in
Seattle, on Mondays or on Saturdays. The first day of school is
September 12 for the Saturday classes and September 14 for the
Monday classes.
Where: classes at
the
Polish Home; on Mondays at 6 pm,
Saturdays at 9 am
More: For children signup contact
Anna Babcock
(206) 362-3077, for adult signup contact
Barbara Strutynski (425) 746-3037,
Polish
School in Seattle |
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Sep 12-13:
Polish Harvest Festival / Dozynki in
Vancouver,
BC |
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The Zgoda
Polish Friendship Society from Vancouver, BC invites to the
traditional Polish Harvest Festival (Dozynki).
Teh 2009 program includes:
Sep 12, HS soccer tournament, food court, ethnic folk music disco-polo
Seattle Choir in program Vivat Amore at 7 pm
Sep 13, HS soccer cont., Harvest Mass at St. Casimir, from 2 pm
ethnic folk music
Where: Polish
Community Center Zgoda,
Vancouver, BC
More:
Program (in Polish), I couldn't find program on the web, for reservations
& info pls contact
Zgoda |
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Sep11, 6 pm: Polish
Home opens after summer |
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The Polish Home in Seattle
opens for
business as usual, including the restaurant & the bar, on
September 11, 2009.
More:
Polish Home in Seattle
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Sep 9, 6 pm:
Back to school at the Polish
School in
Bellevue |
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Fr. Jan Twardowski Polish
School in Bellevue invites to an open house all who
want to meet the teachers or enroll their children. The School
is separate from the Polish School in Seattle. Subjects
include Polish language, geography, history and culture classes
offered to children from grades 1 to 8, based on proficiency in
Polish. The School also has a program of Polish as a second
language for children. All classes are on Wednesdays at 6:00 pm. The first
day of school is September 16, 2009.
Where: due to construction at the St. Louise Parish, open
house is at the
East Shore Unitarian Church
Education Building
More:
Polish School in Bellevue,
or call Anna Cholewinska at (425) 765-4935 |
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Till Sep 7:
KwieKulik as part of the Target Practice exhibition at
SAM |
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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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September:
$80,000 to match for the Polish Home - almost there! |
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The Polish Home in Seattle has
received an $80,000 grant from the City. However, it is a
matching grant and the Polish Home
needs to receive new donations before the grant can match them. $40,000 in cash
donations is needed to sign a grant contract with the City.
By
September 24,
2009, over $35,000 has been raised – thank you donors! Almost there!
Read more here.
The Polish Home asks all the
members and friends of the Polish Home to donate money to the Polish Home
Foundation to benefit from this very advantageous grant. If
you have not donated to the Polish Home yet, or would like to increase your
donation, please do so now! Your money would be doubled and the grant will speed
up completion of the Extension project. Please donate today!
More: about
Polish Home Extension project,
grant info – how to donate
Related offer from Danuta Moc
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