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Polish Film Festival
Polish Gala |
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Oct 26-28: Polish
Territories 1772-1918 in a Stamp Exhibit at the Seattle Center |
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The first Polish stamp (1860) |
A well-known local collector of Polish stamps,
Mr. Roy
Koczarski presents an interesting exhibition at the SEAPEX
2012
Stamp Show at the Seattle Center. Partitioned
Territories of Poland 1772 to 1918 exhibit includes 10
frames / 160 pages of the oldest Polish stamps: pre-stamped
mails with Polish town stamps from early days of mail and also
stamped mail from Polish territories till WWI.
Where:
Exhibition Hall at the
Seattle Center,
admission free.
More: Exhibit
description,
SEAPEX 2012,
Koczarski at
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Oct 27,
11 am: Polish Book Club Meeting at the Green Lake Library |
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The book for the meeting is
Wloskie szpilki by Magdalena Tulli
published by Universitas in 2012. Ms. Tulli, 52 is a translator
and writer, with awards for both her translation work and novels. Her book
is a set of short stories that was nominated to Nike and other
awards.
Where:
at the
Green Lake Public Library in Seattle; admission
free; in Polish
More:
about the book (PL),
Magdalena Tulli,
Polish Book
Club, |
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Oct 27: UW Polish Studies Celebration at the
Polish Cultural Center |
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UW Polish
Studies Endowment Committee invites everybody to a Grand
Celebration of 150th Anniversary of the University of Washington
as well as 60th anniversary of Polish Language at the UW. The
program includes: keynote speaker Prof. Robert Stacey, short
history of UW by Antoinette Wills, silent auction,
entertainment and a dinner.
Where: at the
Polish Cultural Center / Polish Home in Seattle;
tickets $75 per person. Please register by Oct 14, 2012 for this
event.You can register by phone below or at the
UW registration online.
More:
Please contact Martha
Golubiec, 206-935-7535, or visit
UW PSEC |
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Oct 20-21: Vancouver Polish Film Festival in
Vancouver, BC |
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2012
Vancouver Polish Film Festival presents eight movies over the
festival weekend. These include Wonderful Summer / Cudowne
lato, Black Thursday / Czarny czwartek, Life Above All / Nad
zycie,White Borsch / Zurek, 80 Million /80 milionow, Big Love
and Suicide Room / Sala samobojcow. Festival guests
include Katarzyna Figura and Aleksandra Hamkalo.
Where: at the SFU Djawad
Mowafaghian Cinema in Vancouver, BC; tickets $10 per person.
More: VPFF website |
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Oct 19-21: Seattle Polish Film Festival at the
SIFF Cinema Uptown |
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Suicide Room
Big Love
80 Million
Man, Chicks Are Just Different |
As
usual, the Festival covers two extended weekends; this year
this will be on October 12-14 and 19-21, 2012. All movies
at the
SIFF
CInema at the Uptown;
in Seattle.
The program is
subject to change. Check the
festival website if in doubt.
Program for Friday,
October 19
6:30 pm Crulic. The Path To Beyond / Droga na
druga strone, 2011,
dir. Anca Damian, (73 min)
Q&A Arkadiusz Wojnarowski in person
8:30 pm Russia's Toughest Prisons, 2012, dir.
Anna Rodzinski, Brian Jones
(60 min)
Program for
Saturday, October 20
4:00 pm Being Like Deyna / Byc jak
Kazimierz Dejna, 2012, dir. Anna
Wieczur-Bluszcz
(95 min)
6:00 pm
Suicide Room / Sala samobojcow, 2011,
dir. Jan Komasa (100
min)
Q&A Actress Aleksandra Hamkalo in
person
8:45 pm Big Love / Big Love, 2012, dir.
Barbara Bialowas (100 min)
Q&A Actress Aleksandra Hamkalo in
person
Program for Sunday,
October 21
2:15 pm Independent
Movies
Resettlement / Eskmisja
(56 min)
Vanishing / Znikniecie (20 min), Reception /
Przyjecie (11 min)
The Gride / Zgrzyt,
(14 min)
4:30 pm
Poland? YES! / Polska? TAK! (12 min)
Beats of Freedom / Zew wolnosci,
2010, dir. Wojciech Slota, (78 min)
6:30 pm
80 million / 80 milionow, 2011, dir.
Waldemar Krzystek (110 min)
8:35 pm Man, Chicks Are Just Different /
Baby sa jakies inne, 2011, dir. Marek Koterski (90 min)
Please note: the Festival looks for
volunteers - if you would like to help, please contact
Zbyszek Pietrzyk
Where: all movies at
SIFF
Cinema at the Uptown; tickets $10 regular, $5 SIFF members, Festival passes
$60 (includes Festival Reception pass)
More:
Seattle Polish Film Festival,
SGSCA |
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Oct 13, 6 pm: Kaminska & Bowlby in a
Fundraising Concert at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Rainbow of Magnolia Fountains of
Life & Chopin Academy of Music invite to a fundraising concert
to build an orphanage and a well in a Masai village in Kenya. The program includes
Beethoven's Sonata op. 101 in A Major, Chopin's mazurkas
op.63, Liszt's Rigoletto Paraphrase and Transcandental
Etudes and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet suite.
Performers include pianists Ivona Kaminska & Christopher Bowlby
as well as young star students Robert Yan and Jay Grinolds who
are debuting at Carnegie Hall in October.
Where: at the Polish Cultural
Center / Polish Home;
suggested donation $35
More:
Rainbow
of Magnolia Fountains of Life,
Ivona
Kaminska,
Christopher Bowlby,
Chopin Academy of Music, |
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Oct 12-14: Seattle Polish Film Festival at the
SiFF Cinema Uptown |
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Letters To Santa
Rose
In the Name of the Devil
Sponsoring / J. Binoche |
As
usual, the Festival covers two extended weekends; this year
this will be on October 12-14 and 19-21, 2012. All movies
at the
SIFF
CInema at the Uptown;
in Seattle.
The program is psubject to change. .
Check the festival website if in doubt.
Program for Friday,
October 12
6:30 pm Courage / Wymyk, 2011,
dir. Grzegorz Zglinski, (83 min)
8:30 pm Fear of Falling / Lek wysokosci, 2011, dir.
Bartosz Konopka
(87 min)
Program for
Saturday, October 13
1:45 pm Women's Day / Dzien kobiet,
2012, dir. Maria Sadowska
(90 min)
3:45 pm Supermarket /
Supermarket, 2012, dir. Maciej Zak
(84 min)
5:30 pm
Poland? YES! / Polska? TAK! (12 min)
My Name Is Ki / Ki, 2011,
dir. Leszek Dawid (93
min)
Actress Roma Gasiorowska in
person
8:00 pm Letters to Santa / Listy do M, 2011, dir.
Mitja Okorn (115 min)
Actress Roma Gasiorowska and director
Mitja Okorn in person
Program for Sunday,
October 14
2:00 pm Shorts
Basia from Podlachia / Basia z Podlasia
(30 min)
Mika / Mika (30 min), Mercy / Laska (20
min)
Emperor's Toys / Zabawki cesarza (10 min)
4:00 pm Rose / Roza, 2011, dir. Wojciech Smarzowski,
(95 min)
6:00 pm In the Name of the Devil / W imieniu diabla,
2011, dir. Barbara Sass-Zdort (112 min)
8:20 pm Elles / Sponsoring, 2011, dir.
Malgorzata Szumowska (100 min)
Please note: the Festival looks for
volunteers - if you would like to help, please contact
Zbyszek Pietrzyk
Where: all movies at
SIFF
Cinema at the Uptown; tickets $10 regular, $5 SIFF members, Festival passes
$60 (includes Festival Reception pass)
More:
Seattle Polish Film Festival,
SGSCA |
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Oct 12: Pianist Maciej Grzybowski in
Concert at Cornish |
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Maciej Grzybowski |
Cornish
College of the Arts invites to a concert in Cornish Music Series
by Maciej Grzybowski. Mr. Grzybowski is an internationally
acclaimed Polish pianist who's favorite composer is American
Charles Yves. The program includes among others: Four
preludes by Pawel Mykietyn, Twelve folk melodies by
Witold Lutoslawski, Two etudes by Pawel Szymanski,
Metopy by Karol Szymanowski, and three mazurkas by Frederic
Chopin.
Where: PONCHO Hall at the
Cornish College of the Arts
in Seattle; tickets $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 students advanced, $20 at the door, $10 student
More:
concert at Cornish,
Maciej Grzybowski |
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