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Polish Film Club
Polish Festival
in Portland
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Sep 25-26: 17th 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. Each year the Festival features
exhibitions, jazz or piano concerts plus the two full days of performances by the best Polish folk groups
from the west coast US and Canada ,
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,
article about
Festival, Marek Stepien 503-810-6926 |
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Sep 24, 4 pm: Polish Story Time
Poczytajki at the Bellevue Library |
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Joanna Wroblewska |
This is a meeting of the Polish Story Time Poczytajki
for kids - Polish children books and stories are read to kids from kindergarten and early elementary grades.
In this meeting: children poems, rhymes, songs and finger plays. Organized by Joanna Wroblewska with the
help of the King County Public Libraries.
Where:
at
the Bellevue Regional
Library in Bellevue; admission free, in Polish
More:
Joanna
Wroblewska |
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Sep 19, 12:30 pm: Polish Scouts meeting at the Polish Home |
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The local Polish Scout / ZHP Troop
Kaszuby in Seattle invites everybody interested in scouting to the
first meeting of the new season. Children from 4 to 18 can sign
up; the meetings are every two weeks.
Please contact the scout masters below for more information.
Where:
at the
Polish Home, admission
free
More: Scout troop website;
for more info contact
Scout Master Anna Borodenko, tel. (425) 280-4858, Wojtek Las
(206) 229-0164 or Iwona Bernacki (4250 736-5185. |
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Sep 17-19:
Seattle International Piano Festival at Benaroya &
Cornish College |
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The 2nd Seattle International
Piano Festival is a 3-day event featuring participants from all
over the world; master classes,
competition and guest concerts,
including Chopin played by Caio Pagano on Sep 17 and Rzewski
played by Corey Hamm on Sep 18, and the winners' recital
on Sep 19 at Benaroya. Organized by Seattle
International Piano Festival with Dr. Ivona Kaminska as the
President.
Where: at
different locations; please see the
SIPF site
for venues and ticket info
More:
about
SIPF,
Ivona Kaminska,
Chopin Academy of Music |
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Sep 18, 11 am: Polish Book Club meeting at
the Green Lake Library |
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The book for the meeting is
Kara by Maja Wolny published by
Proszynski & Ska in 2009. Wolny, 34, is a writer and journalist
living in Belgium. Her books
are dealing with the problem of
migration and the challenges of intercultural relations between
people. Club meetings are in
Polish.
Where:
at the
Green Lake Public Library in Seattle; admission free
More: about
book,
Wolny,
Polish
Book Club |
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Sep 17, 7 pm: Pol-Am Chamber of Commerce
presentation at the Polish Home |
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Eva Orlowska |
A newly
organized Polish-American Chamber of Commerce Pacific Northwest
invites to a presentation by Ms. Eva Orlowska, Executive
Director and President, Prof. K. Poznanski, Advisor and several PACC Directors about PACC vision, mission and goals
followed by Networking for Success Happy Hour at the Polish Home
restaurant at 8 pm. Everybody is invited to come and join the
Chamber.
Where:
Presentation at 7 pm, PACC happy hour at 8 pm, both at the
Polish Home in Seattle
More: PACC PNW site,
PACC event details |
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Sep 15-18, 8:30 pm: In the Solitude of
Cotton Fields in Portland |
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Portland
Institute for Performing Arts invites to a play of
In the Solitude of Cotton Fields directed by Radoslaw
Rychcik with cast from the Stefan Zeromski Theatre in Kielce,
Poland. This innovative play is staged in part like a punk
concert and follows an illicit deal of unknown nature. Mr.
Rychcik is a young director quite famous for his
contemporary staging of musical plays both in Europe and in the
USA.
Where: Portland Center for the
Performing Arts in
Portland, OR; tickets $28
More:
About the play in Seattle,
Radoslaw Rychcik,
PCPA |
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Sep 15, 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: classes at the
East Shore Unitarian Church
Education
Building in Bellevue.
More:
Polish School in Bellevue,
annacholewinska@verizon.net
or call Anna Cholewinska at
425 736 1209 after
September 6, 2010. |
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Sep 15, 7:30 pm:
Polish Film Club meeting at the Polish Home |
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The film for the meeting is Strike
directed by Volker Schlondorff in 2006. The movie is a docudrama
covering creation of Solidarity and the free trade unions - the
topic so famously treated by Andrzej Wajda in his Man of Iron
(1981). Strike shows it from a perspective of a woman
hero based on real life activists Anna Walentynowicz and Alina
Pienkowska.
Where:
at the
Polish Home; in Polish
w/ English subtitles; admission free
More:
About the movie,
PFC OKO site |
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Sep 11 & 13: 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. Children from grades 1-8 learn Polish language
&
literature, as well history and geography of
Poland; assignment is based on
proficiency level in Polish. Adults can learn Polish as beginners or at intermediate level.
All classes at
the Polish Home in
Seattle, on Mondays or on Saturdays. The
registration is
September 11 for the Saturday classes and September 13 for the
Monday classes.
Where: classes at
the
Polish Home; on Mondays at 6 pm,
Saturdays at 9 am
More: For children signup contact
Paul Griffin at
plg77@drizzle.com, for adult signup contact
Barbara Strutynski (425) 746-3037,
Polish
School in Seattle |
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Sep 12, noon-5 pm: SGSCA picnic at the
Woodland Park |
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Everyone is
invited - individuals, families and guests - to celebrate the summer
at the
yearly picnic of the Seattle-Gdynia Sister
City Association. Come to enjoy the City park on the Green Lake
while munching on roasted kielbasa and other delights.
Where:
Woodland Park
in Seattle,
shelter # 7, watch for the SGSCA banner; admission free,
food
and drinks provided, please bring a salad or dessert to share
More:
Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Assn.,
or contact Tom Clark |
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Sep 11-12:
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).
The 2010 program includes
performances by several folks group from Polish & Gypsy to
Flamingo & Polynesian; a puppet show for children, dancing,
Polish food & beer and more.
Where: Polish
Community Center Zgoda,
Vancouver, BC
More:
Full
program here, for reservations
& info please contact
Zgoda |
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Sep
11, 3:30 pm:
30th
Anniversary of Solidarity at the Polish Home |
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Polish Home
Assn invites to a celebration of the 30th
Anniversary of the Solidarity movement. On August 31, 1980, a
general strike led by Lech Walesa won the right to independent
trade unions.
The program
recognizes importance of Solidarity for democracy in Europe and
honors Solidarity leaders living in the
Seattle
area.
Where: at the
Polish Home, admission free;
refreshments will be
served
More:
Asia Jeziorska 425-417-9548 |
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Sep 11, 6:30 pm: Meet the author with Inga
Iwasiów at the Polish Home |
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Inga Iwasiów |
The Polish Book Club in Seattle invites to a meeting with the
author Inga Iwasiów. Ms. Iwasiów is a writer, a poet, a literary
critic and the editor of a literary journal Pogranicze as
well as a
professor of literature at Univ. of Szczecin, Poland.
Her interests include gender studies and she is a known
feminist.
Her book Bambino was nominated to the Nike award in 2009.
This event is supported by the Polish Home Foundation and is in
Polish.
Where: at the
Polish Home
in Seattle; admission free, in Polish
More: about
Inga Iwasiow, her
website & blog,
Polish Book Club, Bambino |
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Sep 10-11:
Chopiniade - concert & ballet in Portland |
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The Portland Chamber Orchestra
and the Portland Festival Ballet invite to a celebration of
Chopin music.
The first half of the concert features solo piano works
performed by Mei-Ting Sun with choreography by John Magnus,
followed by an orchestral ballet suite, Homage to Chopin,
by a local composer Katerina Kramarchuk.
Where:
Friday, Sep 10, 7:30 pm at the Venetian Theatre in Hillsboro,
OR; Saturday, Sep 11, 7:30 pm at Kaul Auditorium, at Reed
College, Portland, OR
More:
info and tickets at:
http://www.portlandchamberorchestra.org/chopiniade
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Sep 10:
Polish Home opens after a summer break |
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The Polish Home in Seattle
opens for business as usual, including the restaurant and the
bar, on September 10, 2010.
More:
Polish Home in Seattle
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Sep 8, 6:30 pm:
Registration & open house at the Polish
School in
Bellevue |
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Fr. Jan Twardowski Polish
School in Bellevue invites children from the Eastside as well as
Seattle. 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 15, 2010.
Where: open house at the
East Shore Unitarian Church
Education Building, Bellevue.
More:
Polish School in Bellevue,
annacholewinska@verizon.net
or call Anna Cholewinska
at
425 736 1209 after
September 6, 2010. |
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