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Mar 27, noon - 7 pm:
Spring
Bazaar at the Polish Home |
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The lovely
2008 Bazaar staff |
The Spring
Bazaar is an annual event organized by the Ladies Auxiliary. The
booths upstairs offer Polish crystal bowl and vases, amber and
silver jewelry, pottery, crafts, books, Easter eggs and much
more. Downstairs you can enjoy traditional Polish dishes served
by the young waiters clad in Polish folk costumes. You can also
buy home-made desserts and pastries. This is usually a crowded event, so come early.
The Bazaar
looks for volunteers to help set it up on Friday March 26, 2010 from 8 pm and on Saturday morning. If you would like to help,
please contact
Piotr &
Marija Horoszowski.
Where: at the
Polish Home;
admission free
More:
Polish Home |
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Mar 27, 11 am: Polish Book Club meeting at
the Green Lake Library |
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The book for the meeting is
Wtajemniczenia by Michal Komar published by Wyd.
Swiat Ksiazki in 2009. The book is an extravagant exercise of
intellectual discourse about literature, philosophy and art
mixed with a gourmand's comments on fine food and wines.
Komar is a literary critic. The book is available on the
Internet or from Club members. Club meetings are in
Polish.
Where:
at the
Green Lake Public Library in Seattle; admission free
More:
about
author,
book (in Polish)
Polish
Book Club,
article in
Nowy Dziennik (in Polish) |
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Mar 21, 4 pm:
Music by
Frederic Chopin
at the Polish Home |
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Frederic Chopin |
Marzena Lilian
Szlaga Piano Studio invites to a yearly piano recital
celebrating music by Frederic Chopin as well as the 200th
birthday anniversary of the master. Ms Szlaga will
open the concert with the Ballad in G-Minor. The
program includes mazurkas, nocturnes, preludes, polonaises,
waltzes and etudes by Chopin performed by the
Studio students.
Where: at the Polish Home; admission free
More:
M. Szlaga Studio,
contact
Marzena Szlaga |
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Mar 17, 7:30 pm:
Cabaret
Kopydlowo
in
Spotkanie z
Ballada
cancelled |
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This show
has been cancelled as the artists were stopped at the US border.
More:
Kabaret
Kopydlowo website (in Polish) |
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Mar 12, 8 pm:
Movie about
Chopin Impromptu
in Portland |
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This 1991 American movie directed by James Lapine stars Hugh
Grant as Chopin and Judy Davis as George Sand. The event is
organized by the Polish Library in Portland as part of the
celebrations for Chopin's 200th anniversary.
Where:
at the
Polish Hall in Portland, OR;
admission free,
refreshments
available
at
Grandpa's Cafe
More:
about
movie,
Chopin,
Portland Polonia |
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Mar 7, 3 pm:
Book signing & presentation on Polish pioneers at the Polish Home |
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Polish Home
Foundation invites to a book promotion and a historical
presentation on Polish pioneers from Pe Ell, WA, by Leo Kowalski.
Mr. Kowalski, a Pe Ell native living in California, is an author
of two recent books on Polish roots of the Pe Ell community:
Pe Ell's Polish Pioneers and Pe Ell's Polish Heritage.
Where: at
the
Polish Home in Seattle;
admission free
More:
author,
Pe Ell's Polish
Pioneers, Pe
Ell's Polish Heritage,
PHF
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Mar 7, 8 pm: Basia Bulat at Tractor
Tavern in Seattle |
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Basia Bulat |
Basia Bulat is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter who returns to Seattle after her successful
debut at the Triple
Door in 2008. The program includes songs from her new album
Heart Of My Own. The show at Tractor Tavern is a double ticket with the
group Ivan & Alyosha and singer Haley Bonar also
performing.
Where:
at
Tractor Tavern in Seattle; tickets $10
More:
Basia's site,
news,
Heart of My Own |
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Mar 5, 7:30 pm:
Lecture on global crisis and Central Europe at the UW |
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Marek Belka |
UW Polish Studies Endowment
Committee invites to a lecture by prof. Belka on
The Central European Dimension of the Global Economic Crisis:
Prospects for Recovery. Dr. Belka is the
Director of the International Monetary Fund’s European
Department. He served as the Minister of Finance and as the
Prime Minister of Poland and Executive Secretary of the United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
Where:
Kane Hall, room
220,
on the University of Washington
campus in Seattle; admission free, reception to
follow
More: about
Marek Belka, UW PSEC
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Mar 5, 8 pm:
Movie
Chopin: Desire for Love
in Portland |
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This 2002 Polish movie, by an Oscar nominated director Jerzy
Antczak, focuses on Chopin’s complicated relationship with
George Sand and her daughter. The event is organized by the
Polish Library in Portland as part of the celebrations for
Chopin's 200th anniversary.
Where:
at the
Polish Hall in Portland, OR;
admission free,
refreshments
available
at
Grandpa's Cafe
More:
about
movie,
Chopin,
Portland Polonia |
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