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Agata Zubel in concert |
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Mar 21 & 22, 9 am - 7 pm: Polish
Consul in Seattle at the Polish Cultural Center |
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The Consulate General of the Republic of
Poland in Los Angeles kindly informs that the consular visit to
Seattle to process passport applications and to handle other
issues that require Polish citizens to talk to a Polish Consul
in person will happen on March 21 & 22, 2011. The visit is
coordinated by Mr. Marian Strutynski. Reservations are required
to talk to the Consul. Please see the
detailed information about the visit in Polish.
Update: the
reservation list was extended, but as of March 3, there are no places
available on the list.
The next chance
to file an application near Seattle will be in Portland, OR -
likely not earlier than in June.
Where: at the
Polish Cultural Center / Polish
Home in Seattle; reservations required - to make a
reservation, please follow
detailed information about the visit (PL).
More:
New
Passport Regulations (PL), contact to
Mr. Strutynski ,
or tel.
425-746-3037.
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Mar 20, 12:30 pm: Polish Story Time
Poczytajki at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Joanna Wroblewska |
The Library at the Polish Cultural Center has the
pleasure to invite to 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
and the Polish Library. Polish children books & movies available
right there.
Where:
at
the
Polish Cultural Center / Polish
Home in Seattle; admission free, in Polish
More:
Joanna
Wroblewska,
Poczytajki blog
Note: Please see a note about
Poczytajki at the Bellevue Library. |
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Mar 20,
7:30 pm: 100 Voices: A Journey Home at the Settle Jewish
Film Festival |
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Seattle Jewish
Film Festival presents a documentary movie 100 Voices: A
Journey Home (2010) directed by Matthew Asner and Danny Gold.
The movie follows a musical voyage by a group of world's finest
cantors to Poland, the birthplace of chazanut liturgical
signing. This trip of reconciliation included concerts with
Polish National Opera Chorus and Orchestra in Warsaw, Cracow and
Auschwitz. The film also includes footage of greatest cantors of
the past.
Where: SIFF cinema at
the Seattle Center; in English, Polish, Hebrew and Yiddish,
w/ English subtitles; tickets $11
regular, $8 discounted
More:
100 Voices at SJFF,
movie website,
SJFF |
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Mar 19, 11 am: Polish Book Club meeting at
the Green Lake Library |
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The book for the meeting is
Piaskowa gora by Joanna Bator published by
WAB in 2009. Bator, 32, is a scholar and philosopher as well as
an essayist and writer. Piaskowa gora, a different take
on Silesian life and diversity than presented by Kutz, is her
second novel. The book won a nomination to the Nike award. Club
meetings are in Polish.
Where:
at the
Green Lake Public Library in Seattle; admission free
More: about
book,
article about the book (PL),
Bator,
Polish
Book Club |
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Mar 18, 10 am: Tea & coffee meeting at the
Polish Home Library |
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The Polish Home Library invites everybody to a
social meeting with tea & coffee at the new Library upstairs.
The purpose is to chat informally about books, life and other
topics while having a good time over tea and pastries. The
invitation is open to everybody, especially to older members of
the Polish community. Organized & moderated by Monika Oczkowska-McNeal.
Where:
at
the
Polish Cultural Center / Polish
Home in Seattle; admission free
More:
contact to Monika Oczkowska-McNeal |
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Mar 17,
7:30 pm: Band Kombii in concert at the Polish
Cultural
Center |
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Kombii is a popular Polish pop band created in 2003 by old
members of the very popular Kombi band that was playing
first rock and then pop from 1976 to 1993. Kombii, with Bartosz
Wielgosz and Adam Tkaczyk, established themselves as a popular
band in its own right issuing a new CD every couple of years;
their last CD is called O milosci (2010).
Where:
Polish
Cultural Center / Polish Home;
tickets $35 advanced,
$40 at the door;
for tickets & info call Asia Jeziorska 425-417-9548 or Renata Mroz
206-362-7917.
There is also a
Kombii concert in Vancouver, BC on Mar 18, 2011.
More: Kombii site (PL),
Kombii and
Kombi on
Wikipedia |
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Mar 16, 8 pm:
Garrick Ohlsson in Concert at the UW
Meany Hall |
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Garrick Ohlsson |
Garrick Ohlsson is an excellent pianist and the only American to
ever win the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (in
1970). His program at the MeanyHall features Frederic Chopin's nocturne, five
etudes, polonez, mazurka and scherzo as well as excerpts from
Goyescas, La Fandango de Candil, Qujas.. and El
Pelele by the Catalan composer Enrique Granados.
Where:
Meany Hall at the University of Washington campus;
tickets on sale now!
More:
Ohlsson, Ohlsson
at Meany,
Enrique
Granados |
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Mar 16, 7 pm:
Paper cutting workshop at the Polish Cultural Center |
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The Polish Cultural Center
offers monthly Wycinanki workshops, on every 3rd
Wednesday, teaching
the old art of
Polish paper cutting. Learn about this beautiful art
form along with tips and techniques to complete your own wycinanki
projects. Materials are included and cutting tools will be
available during the class. Gather some friends for an evening
of fun - bring your creativity, passion and
patience!
Where:
at the
Polish Cultural Center / Polish Home;
from 6:30
pm to 9:30 pm; $15 fee covers all the materials and tools for
the workshop.
$8 fee for returning students.
More:
about workshops, for reservations please contact
Alisa Lahti or call
206-499-5367. |
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Mar 16, 7:30 pm:
Polish Film Club meeting at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Marcel Lozinski |
Polish Film Club presents a screening of three documentaries by
a master of the genre, and a recipient of many international
awards, dir. Marcel Lozinski. The program includes Wizyta /
The Visit (1974, 16'), Krol / The King (1974, 7') and
Zeby nie bolalo / So It Doesn't Hurt (1998, 47'). The
juxtaposition of two movies with the same heroine but separated
by 24 years of time (The Visit vs. So It Doesn't Hurt),
is an illustration
of the frequent documentalist's dilemma of how much he should
show.
Where:
upstairs at the
Polish Cultural Center / Polish Home;
in Polish
w/ English subtitles; admission free
More:
Marcel Lozinski,
Polish Film Club,
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Mar 15,
9:30 pm: A Film Unfinished at the Settle Jewish Film
Festival |
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Seattle Jewish
Film Festival presents a documentary movie A Film Unfinished
(2010) directed by Yael Hersonski.
The movie juxtaposes extensive footage from an unfinished Nazi
WWII propaganda movie Das Ghetto about the Warsaw Ghetto
with interviews with surviving "actors" and modern commentary.
This provides insights not only about Nazi state of mind behind
the propaganda but also about our way of trusting photographic
images from the past.
Where: SIFF cinema at
the Seattle Center; in German, Polish, Hebrew & Yiddish,
with English subtitles; tickets $11
regular, $8 discounted
More:
A Film Unfinished at SJFF,
movie website,
SJFF |
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Mar 12, all day: A Polish-American Ski
Day at Alpental |
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A group of young
Polish snow fanatics is inviting everybody to the Second Annual
Polish-American Ski Day at Alpental. Skiers & snowboarders, kids
on sleds and everybody young or old is invited to participate
and socialize in the fresh air.
Please bring
your own kielbasa to smoke at the Ognisko (a fire pit)
Where:
meeting at a fire pit in front of the lodge at the
Alpental Ski resort
at Snoqualmie Pass, WA.
More:
contact to Kasia
Pawluskiewicz,
YouTube video from the 2010 event |
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Mar 11 & 18, 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,
Poczytajki blog
Note: Poczytajki in Bellevue is mostly a weekly event with some weeks off.
March meetings are on Mar 11 & 18, 2011. April meetings are
on Apr 1, 8, 15. |
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Mar 10, 8 pm: A. Zubel and Seattle Chamber
Players at Chapel Performance Place |
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Agata Zubel
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Agata Zubel is a Polish composer and a vocalist (soprano) based in Wroclaw,
Poland. Fresh from San Francisco's Other Minds Festival of
New Music, she
comes back to Seattle for a solo concert with Seattle Chamber
Players. The program includes two compositions by Zubel:
Parlando for voice & computer and Cascando for voice,
clarinet, violin and cello as well as compositions by three
other modern composers.
Where:
Chapel Performance Place in Seattle (Wallingford); tickets
$15
More: Agata
Zubel,
Concert
in Seattle,
Zubel in America
Seattle Chamber Players |
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Mar 6, all day: Bronek Czech Memorial Cup on
Mount Seymour / Vancouver, BC |
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This is the 8th
edition of the very popular Bronislaw Czech Memorial Cup
organized by the Polonia of Vancouver, BC. This ski and
snowboard competition has divisions for children and teenagers
of different ages as well as all-family categories. Bronislaw
Czech was a famous Polish skier and Olympian before WWII and a
patriot who served as an underground courier over Tatra
mountains. Sponsored by the Polish Consulate General in
Vancouver, BC and a host of Polish-Canadian businesses.
Where:
On Mount Seymour, Mount Seymour Provincial Park,
Vancouver, BC; reservations and info at
www.epizod.org, tel.
604-431-8401, or 604-574-6145; tickets - see leaflet info
More:
Bronislaw Czech,
2011
BCMC Poster,
2011 BCMC Brochure (PL) |
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Mar 6, 3 pm:
Ch. Bowlby in a Chopin concert
at the Frye Art Museum |
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Christopher Bowlby |
The Seattle
International Piano Festival presents Dance and Poetry -
The Music of Frederic Chopin, a concert by local pianist
Christopher Bowlby. The program includes
Chopin's
polonaises, mazurkas, four ballads and other works. Dr.
Bowlby, formerly on faculty of the Shoreline College and the UW,
is the co-founder of the Chopin Academy of Music and a
vice-president of SIPF.
Where:
the Frye Art Museum
in Seattle;
tickets $20 regular, $15 students & seniors
More:
bout
SIPF,
Christopher Bowlby,
Chopin Academy of Music |
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Mar 5-6:
UW PSEC opera
&
reception with Malgorzata Walewska in Seattle |
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Malgorzata Walewska |
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites everybody to a night at the
opera to enjoy Malgorzata Walewska in Don Quixote by
Jules Massenet and then to
a private reception with the Polish mezzo-soprano.
Please see another
note for info about Ms. Walewska
in Don Quixote. The reception is a
fundraiser organized by the UW PSEC to support Polish Studies at the University of
Washington.
Where:
reception
at a
private residence in Seattle, by reservation only; donation $100
per person covers a ticket to the Opera on Mar 5, at 7:30 pm and
a reception reservation for Mar 6 at 3 pm;
reservations Ewa
Poraj-Kuczewska (206) 362-3829
More:
Malgorzata
Walewska's site,
Don Quixote in Seattle, UW
PSEC |
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Mar 5, 7 pm:
Biesiada
concert with Vivat Musica! at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Vivat Musica
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The Polish Choir Vivat Musica invites everyone to a Biesiada concert
Cala sala spiewa z nami (in Polish). This will be another great sing-along
evening as the program includes favorite melodies as requested
by the audience! Come enjoy Biesiada songs and other Polish
favorites. Good food & wine available - the bar and the
restaurant will be open from 5 pm.
Where: at the Polish
Cultural Center / Polish Home; tickets $15
include a glass of wine per ticket; tickets at the Polish Home on Fridays or
contact Anna Borodenko tel.425-280-4858
or
Barbara
Niesulowski,
tel.206-434-6106 for table reservations.
More:
contact for the Choir
Barbara
Niesulowski |
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