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Polish Bazaar
Polish Film Festival
Sklodowska-Curie |
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Nov 26,
from 6 pm: St. Andrew's
night party
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Andrzejki
at
the Polish
Cultural Center |
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According to the old Polish tradition,
Andrzejki (a party on St.
Andrew’s night, Nov 30) was the last big party of the year, with
some special customs such as divining future from pouring hot
wax on water. Music by The Dogtones, with additional entertainment
during intermissions. Doors open at 6 pm with dinner available
at the Polish Home restaurant downstairs till 10 pm, bar opens at 7:30 pm, dancing
from 9 pm to 1 am. New this year: baby sitting service
at the conference room from 7 pm to midnight.
Where: at the Polish
Cultural Center / Polish Home,
tickets
$20 PHA
members and $25 for non-members include a snack & a glass of
wine.
More: for table reservations or info please contact
Maria Switalska at
(425) 241 0523 or Lucyna Blonska
at (206) 764 7057. |
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Nov 19, 11 am: Polish Book Club meeting at
the Green Lake Library |
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The book for the meeting is Kontrkultura. Co nam z
tamtych lat? by Wojciech Burszta (red.), Mariusz Czuba &
Marcin Rychlewski published by SWPS Academica Literackie in 2005.
This is a book of essays about phenomenon of counterculture in
Polish society from after WWII till current time.
The essays are available from club members.
Club meetings are in Polish.
Where:
at the
Green Lake Public Library in Seattle; admission free
More: about
book (in Polish),
Polish
Book Club |
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Nov 19, 11 am: Polish Story Time
Poczytajka at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Story time
for the youngest members of the Polish community!
In this meeting:
playing,
dancing and drawing along with reading and all of it in Polish.
You can also borrow Polish children books & movies for an
evening reading. Organized by volunteers Joanna Wroblewska and Monika Oczkowska-McNeal
and the Polish Library. You can find
more on
Poczytajka here.
Where:
at
the
Polish Cultural Center / Polish
Home in Seattle; admission free, in Polish
More:
Poczytajki
at the Polish Library,
Polish Library
in Nov 2011,
Poczytajki blog by Joanna,
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Nov 19, 7 pm: Polish Cabaret To i Owo at the Polish
Cultural Center |
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The Polish Home Cabaret To i Owo invites to a program in
Polish called A moze by tak jescze raz. This is a special
program prepared by the Cabaret under the direction of Barbara
Strutynski for the 30 years anniversary of the Cabaret. Everybody is invited to a great evening!
The restaurant and the bar will be open for the occasion from 5:30 pm.
Where:
at the
Polish Home; tickets $15
inscude a glass of wine; for tickets and reservations
contact Asia Jeziorska
(425) 417-9548 and Renata Mroz 206-362-7917
More:
The Cabaret poster |
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Nov 19, 7:30 pm: Henryk Wieniawski's
Legende in Tacoma |
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The Tacoma Youth Symphony Assn. presents a Tacoma Young Artists
Concert that includes: Leonore Overture by
Ludwig van Beethoven, Legende for Violin and Orchestra op
17 and Polonaise Brillante no 2 by Henryk Wieniawski, as
well as Czech Suite op 39 and Hungarian Dance op
46 by Antonin Dworzak. Wieniawski (1835-1880) was a virtuoso
violin player and a composer of some of the most important works
for violin repertoire.
Where:
at
Urban Grace Church in
Tacoma, WA; tickets $6 to $17 regular
More:
Legende,
Henryk
Wieniawski,
Tacoma Youth Symphony
Association |
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Nov 16-20: Two Plays by Slawomir Mrozek at the
Pro Arte Theatre in Vancouver, BC |
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Canadian-Polish
Society Pro Arte - Popular Theatre in Vancouver, BC
invites to a spectacle of two one-act plays by Slawomir Mrozek,
Na pelnym morzu and Czarowna Noc (in Polish w/
English subtitles). Mrozek, 81, is a writer and playwright
famous for his use of absurd and satire applied to serious
topics both in plays and in short stories & novels. Directed by
Marek Czuma.
Where:
Waterfront Theatre in
Vancouver, BC; in Polish with English subtitles, Nov 16-19 at 8
pm, Nov 20 at 2 pm
More:
about play
(PL),
Mrozek,
Canadian-Polish Society Pro Arte / Teatr Popularny,
for
more info call Elizabeth (604) 430-6791, Ryszard (604) 596-4238
or Andrzej (604) 897-1899. |
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Nov 15 - Dec 9: Maria Sklodowska-Curie
Exhibition at the University
of Washington |
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This exhibit celebrates the Year of Maria Sklodowska-Curie at
the University of Washington. Marie Curie, nee Maria Sklodowska,
was a pioneer researcher in radioactivity and chemistry,
discoverer of elements polonium and radium and the only person
who received the Nobel price twice, in 1903 and 1911. The
exhibition is sponsored by the Consulate General of Poland in
Los Angeles, the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles and
UW PSEC.
Please note: the end date has changed, the exhibit will be taken
down late afternoon on Dec 9.
Where: North Lobby, Allen Library at the
UW campus in Seattle,
admission free during library hours.
More: about
Marie Curie,
UW PSEC |
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Nov 14, 3:30 pm: M. Pisarski on the Polish
Presidency of the EU at the
UW |
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Maciej Pisarski |
Mciej Pisarski,
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Poland, will make a
presentation The Polish Presidency of the European Union,
Implication for Europe & Transatlantic Relations. Mr.
Pisarki is a career diplomat specializing in Polish-American
relationship as well as an author publishing on US-Polish
relationships and Polish-Jewish topics. Organized by the UW PSEC
and sponsored by the UW Ellison Center and the Center of West
European Studies.
Where: Allen Auditorium, Allen Library
at the
UW campus in Seattle;
admission free
More:
UW PSEC,
the Elison Center,
the Center of West
European Studies |
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Nov 13, 2:30 pm: Poland’s Independence Day
Celebration in Seattle |
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Poland
was reborn as a country on Nov 11, 1918, when Jozef Pilsudski
became the Head of State after a popular revolt liberated the
Polish territories. To commemorate that event, there will be a
mass for Poland at the Polish Church in Seattle at noon and a
celebration at the Polish Cultural Center at 2:30 pm. The
celebration at the PCC include a program prepared by the children from
the Polish Scouts troop Kaszuby. The restaurant will be open from 1 pm to
4 pm as usual.
Where: the mass at St. Margaret's Church in Seattle at noon, the
celebration at the Polish
Cultural Center / Polish Home at 2:430 pm,
admission free.
More: Polish Cultural Center
/ Polish Home
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Nov 12-13: Oregon Polish Culture Weekend in
Portland |
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by Mieczyslaw Górowski |
The first Polish Culture Weekend in Portland
includes the following program:
Sat 7 pm a
Biesiada sing-along concert with Bolek Brant-Zawadzki &
Leonard Kosatka
Sun
1:15 pm Celebration of the Independence Day
with folk dances by Polish School as well as
presentations about Maria Curie and the history of the Polish
Portland community
Sun
5 pm Movie Freedom
on the Fence by dir. Andrea Marks about Polish poster art
at the Northwest Filmmakers Festival and meeting with director
prof. Marks
Where: Biesiada and the Independence Day
Celebration at the
Polish Hall & Library
in Portland, OR;
admission free,
the
NFF movie at Whitsell Auditorium at Portland Art Museum
More: contact PLBA president
Donata Tiley,
Freedom on the Fence
website |
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Nov 12, 7 pm:
Kaminska & Veselinovic play Bach and Schumann at
St. Thomas |
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Ivona Kaminska |
The Seattle
International Piano Festival invites to Dance and Elegance
- a Bach and Schumann concert by
local artists pianist Ivona Kaminska and violinist Miodrag
Veselinovic.
The program includes Sonata for violin & keyboard BWV 1017 and
violin Partita no 3 BWV by Bach and Carnival op. 9
by Schuman.
Both Dr. Kaminska and Mr. Veselinovic are on the faculty of the
Chopin Academy of Music in Issaquah and regularly give concerts
together.
Where:
St. Thomas Episcopal
Church
in Medina, WA;
tickets $20 regular, $15 students & seniors
More:
bout
SIPF,
Ivona Kaminska,
Miodrag Veselinovic,
Chopin Academy of Music |
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Nov 11-13: 19th Seattle Polish Film
Festival at the SIFF Cinema at the Uptown |
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Poster by Anais Adamska
Mystification
Rite of Passage
Matrimonial Comedy |
The 2011 Seattle
Polish FIlm Festival runs November 4-13 at a new SIFF venue -
it's the SIFF Cinema at the Uptown, freshly opened in October,
2011. Below program for the second weekend of the Festival.
All movies
at
SIFF
CInema at the Uptown;
in Seattle. Program subject to change.
Program for
Friday, November 11
6:30 pm Rabbit a la Berlin / Krolik po
berlinsku, 2019, dir. Bartek Konopka (50 min)
7:30 pm Erratum, 2010, dir.
Marek Lechki (90 min)
9:20 pm Mystification / Mistyfikacja,
2010, dir. Jacek Koprowski (110 min)
Program for
Saturday, November 12
2:30 pm
Polish Eaglets Over Pakistan / Polskie
orleta na pakistanskim niebie, 2009, (60 min)
dir.
Anna Teresa Pietraszek
with a short A Trip To Nowhere,
2010, dir. Shannon Hart-Reed
(20 min)
4:20 pm Short Movies block #2
Hanoi-Warsaw /
Hanoi-Warszawa, 2009, dir. Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Twist and Blood,
2010, Kuba Czekaj
My New Life /
Moja nowa droga, 2009, dir. Barbara Bialowas
6:30 pm The Rite of Passage / Mala matura 1947,
2010, dir. Janusz Majewski (110 min)
8:45 pm Entanglement / Uwiklanie,
2011, dir. Jacek Bromski (128 min)
with a short
Poland?Yes! / Polska? Tak!,
2011, dir. Jerzy Szkamruk (12 min)
Program for Sunday,
November 13
2:00 pm
Independent Movies, block #4 (125 min)
Prisoners /
Wiezniarki, 2008, dir. Piotr Zarebski (90 min)
MC. Man
of Vinyl /
MC. Czlowiek z winylu, 2010, dir. Bartosz Warwas
(20 min)
The Trip / Wycieczka, 2010, dir. Bartosz
Kruhlik (12 min)
4:30 pm Trick, 2010, dir. Jan
Hryniak (95 min)
6:25 pm Madame Curie, 1943, dir.
Mervyn LeRoy (125 min)
8:50 pm Matrimonial Comedy / Komedia malzenska, 1994, dir.Roman
Zaluski (95 min)
Please note: the Festival looks for
volunteers - if you would like to help, please contact Mr.
Greg Plichta.
Where: all movies at
SIFF
CInema at the Uptown; tickets $10 regular, Festival passes
$60
More:
Seattle Polish Film Festival,
SGSCA |
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Nov 7, 8 pm: J. Kapuscinski Where is
Chopin? at Jack Straw Productions |
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Jack Straw
Productions and Washington Composer Forum present Composer
Spotlight: Jaroslaw Kapuscinski; Composing Juicy Internedia:
Where Is Chopin? Dr. Kapuscinski is an intermedia and
pianist composer whose works have been presented in New York's
MoMA & Centre G. Pompidou inParis; he is also a professor at the
Dept of Music of the Stanford U.
Where: at
Jack Straw Productions in Seattle; admission free
More:
Jaroslaw
Kapuscinski |
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Nov 7, 8 pm: Ewa Kasprzyk in an
Almodovar monodrama at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Ewa Kasprzyk |
The Polish
Cultural Center presents Ewa Kasprzyk in a monodrama adapted for
theatre from Pedro Amlodovar's short story Patty Diphusa.
Ms. Kasprzyk is a very popular Polish actress, known both from a
top sitcom Zlotopolscy and from her film roles. Among
others, for her role in Bellissima, she won the best
actress award at the 2001 PFF in Gdynia. Ms. Kasprzyk is in town
as a guest of the Seattle Polish Film Festival. This program is
in Polish.
Where:
Polish
Cultural Center / Polish Home; tickets $20
at the door; in Polish
More:
about Ewa
Kasprzyk and the
spectacle
(PL),
interview w/ Ms. Kasprzyk (PL) |
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Nov 5-6, noon - 7 pm:
Fall Bazaar at the Polish Cultural Center |
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The lovely
2008 Bazaar staff |
The biggest
Polish
event in Seattle, the fall bazaar features booths with Polish books
and CDs, crafts, pottery, crystal, amber etc.
as well as booths by local Polish-American organizations. Polish
Choir Vivat Musica performs on Saturday at 2:30 pm. You can buy Christmas ornaments and wafers
(oplatki), Polish pierogi, home made cakes and
enjoy a full course
dinner.
Also, frozen pierogi from Chicago to go.
Organized by the Ladies Auxiliary.
Where: at the Polish
Cultural Center / Polish Home,
admission free.
More:
Polish
Cultural Center / Polish Home,
or contact Beta Rodzinski,
acting president of the Ladies Auxiliary |
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Nov 4-6: 19th Seattle Polish Film
Festival at the SIFF Cinema at the Uptown |
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Poster by Anais Adamska
Public Outrage
Joanna
Black Thursday
Career of Nikos Dyzma |
The 2011 Seattle
Polish FIlm Festival runs November 4-13 at a new SIFF venue -
it's the SIFF Cinema at the Uptown, freshly opened in October,
2011. Below program for the first weekend of the Festival.
All movies
at the
SIFF
CInema at the Uptown;
in Seattle. Program subject to change.
Program for
Friday, November 4
7:00 pm Joanna, 2010,
dir. Feliks Falk, (105 min)
9:10 pm Flying Pigs / Skrzydlate swinie, 2010, dir. Andrzej Kazejak
(100 min)
Program for
Saturday, November 5
2:30 pm Independent Movies block #1 (95 min):
House of Death / Dom smierci, 2010, dir. Matej Bobrik
(17 min)
http://, 2010, dir. Bartosz Kruhlik (12 min)
Normal People / Ludzie normalni, 2010, dir. Piotr
Zlotorowicz (24 min)
Ewa and
Marcin / Ewa i Marcin, 2010, dir. Matej Bobrik (18 min)
Nowhere Blues / Koluszki blues, 2009, dir. Bartosz
Warwas (19 min)
4:20 pm Short Movies block #1 (100 min):
Play With Me / Zagraj ze mna, 2010, dir. Rafal Skalski
Come To Me / Przyjdz do mnie, 2009, dir. Ewa
Banaszkiewicz
Sleepwalkers / Lunatycy, 2009, dir. Maciej
Sterlo-Orlicki
Two Hearts / Serca dwa, 2009, dir. Anna Kusmierczyk
6:30 pm Snow Queen / Krolowa sniegu, 2009,
dir. Maciej Michalski (100
min)
Q&A with producer
Jakub
Michalski and actress
Ewa Kasprzyk
8:45 pm Career of Nikos Dyzma / Kariera
Nikosia Dyzmy, 2002, dir. Jacek Bromski (110 min)
with a short
Poland?Yes! / Polska? Tak!,
2011, dir. Jerzy Szkamruk (12 min)
Q&A with
actress
Ewa Kasprzyk
Program for Sunday,
November 6
1:30 pm
Independent Movies block #2 (125 min)
Public Outrage /
Zgorszenie publiczne, 2009, dir. Maciej Prykowski (86
min)
A Screening at the Tatry Cinema / Seans w kinie Tatry,
2010, dir. Igor Chojna
Tomorrow ... / Jutro
..., 2008, dir. Bartosz Kruhlik (13 min)
4:00 pm Independent Movies block #3 (95 min)
Charcoal Burners / Smolarze,
2010, dir. Piotr Zlotorowicz (15 min)
The Officer's Wife,
2010, dir. Piotr Uzarowicz (77 min)
4.:00 pm
19th SPFF Reception 4 pm - 5:30 pm,
by invitation only
with Festival guests: director Antoni Krauze, producer Kazimierz
Beer,
producer Jakub Michalski and actress Ewa Kasprzyk
6:00 pm Double Feature:
Black Thursday / Czarny czwartek, 2010, dir.
Antoni Krauze (100 min)
Q&A Panel with director
Antoni Krauze and producer Kazimierz Beer
Poland in Freedom, 2011, dir. Ireneusz
Engler (60 min)
with an animated short City of Ruins / Miasto ruin 2010, dir.
Damian Nenow (6 min)
Please note: the Festival looks for
volunteers - if you would like to help, please contact Mr.
Greg Plichta.
Where: all movies at
SIFF
CInema at the Uptown; tickets $10 regular, Festival passes
$60
More:
Seattle Polish Film Festival,
SGSCA |
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