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Kaminska & Bowlby
Tuwim in Seattle
Mazurkas in
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Apr 27, 2 pm: Duo Kaminska & Bowlby
in Concert at the Frye Art Museum |
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Kaminska & Bowlby |
Enjoy a
remarkable afternoon of duo piano music with Iwona Kaminska and
Christopher Bowlby. The concert program includes four-hand
sonatas and works by Mozart, Schubert, and others, as well as
Stravinsky's monumental "Rite of Spring" as the centennial of
the work's premier in Paris approaches.
Dr. Kaminska & Dr. Bowlby are founders of the Chopin Academy of
Music and the Seattle International Piano Festival. All proceeds
from this concert benefit the Seattle International Piano
Festival.
Where: at the Art Frye Museum
in Seattle;
tickets $20 regular, $15 discounted, at the door only
More:
Ivona
Kaminska,
Christopher Bowlby,
Seattle
International Piano Festival |
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Apr 27,
8 pm:
Spring Party at the Polish Cultural
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The Polish Cultural Center invites
everybody to the Spring Party. Music by DJ Benek.
Party form 8 pm to 1 am. The restaurant will be open from 6 pm to 10 pm; the bar
will be open from
7 pm.
Where:
at the
Polish Cultural Center;
tickets $10 PHA members, $15 non-members
More: for reservations contact Maria Switalska 425-226-7660 or
Lucyna Blonska 206-764-7057 |
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Apr 27, from 11 am: Crown the Eagle - a Polish Heritage Celebration in
Portland |
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Polish Library
Building Assn and McMenamins White Eagle Saloon in
Portland
invite everybody to Crown the Eagle Festival - a
Polish Heritage Celebration.
The program includes history
talks, vodka tasting, performances by Agnieszka Laska Dancers,
children singers from Portland, concert by the Chervona
band at 8 pm and more.
Where: McMenamins White Eagle
Saloon
in Portland, OR;
More:
Event program |
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Apr
25, 7:30 pm: Challenges of Face Transplantation Lecture at the UW |
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Maria Siemionow |
UW Polish
Studies Endowment Committee invites everybody to a lecture
Challenges of Face Transplantation by Maria Siemionow.
Dr. Siemionow is Poland educated, world renowned micro surgeon
famous for performing the first face transplant in the
United States in 2008. She is the head of the Plastic Surgery
Section at the Cleveland Clinic (Ohio) and a Professor of
Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
Where: Kane Hall, room 220 at the
UW campus in Seattle;
admission free
More: about
Dr. Siemionow,
UW PSEC |
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Apr 20, 7 pm: Agnieszka Laska Dancers
10 Year Anniversary Ball in Portland |
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The Polish Library Building Association in Portland
presents the 10 year anniversary celebration of Agnieszka Laska
Dancers (ALD). ALD is a
modern dance group founded by Ms. Laska who serves as the
choreographer and director. The program includes: a sit-down
dinner, a chamber music performance, an ALD video clip
retrospective, group CDs and DVDs and a silent auction & the
ball. Congratulations!
Where:
at
Polish Hall &
Library in Portland, OR;
tickets
& more info, tickets $25 include dinner, drinks and
entertainment
More:
Agnieszka Laska Dancers
site |
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Apr 14,
noon - 4 pm:
Polish School
Party
at the Polish Cultural
Center |
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The Polish
School in Seattle invites all the children, parents, families
and friends to a school party at the Polish Home. The program
includes games, raffle prizes, dancing, best costume competition
and more. A homemade dinner and delicious desserts prepared by
the parents. This is a fundraiser with all the proceeds
benefitting the Polish School in Seattle. Have fun and help the
school!
Where: at the Polish Cultural
Center Dom Polsk;
admission free, donations encouraged
More: about
Juliusz
Slowacki Polish School, or contact Anna Babcock at (206)
362-3077 |
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Apr 13, 11 am: Polish Book Club
Meeting at
the Green Lake Library |
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The book for the meeting is Noc zywych Zydow by Igor
Ostachowicz,
published by Wyd. WAB in 2012. Noc, connected by the
critics to Night of the Living Dead and Quentin
Tarantino's movies, is a novel brilliantly using irony and
comedy describing the hero's dealing with Jewish ghosts showing
up in contemporary Warsaw. Ostachowicz is an advisor to the
Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, and has also a classic
horror novel to his name. Club
meetings are in Polish.
Where: at the
Green Lake Public Library in Seattle; admission free
More: about
book,
Ostachowicz on Wikipedia,
Polish Book Club |
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Apr 13,
from 7 pm:
Rio Carnival Party at the Polish
Parish in
Seattle |
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St. Margaret's Parish invites
everybody to a spring party in the Rio Carnival style. Music by
DJ, carnival masks recommended!
This party is a fundraiser to
support the young parishioners going to Brazil for the World
Youth Day and a meeting with Pope Francis.
Where:
at the Parish Hall of St.
Margaret's Church in Seattle;
tickets $20; this includes food
More: please contact Anna Borodenko at 425-280-4858 |
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Apr
10, 7 pm: Two Fatherlands? Lecture at the UW |
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Dan Heller |
UW Jewish
Studies invites everybody to a lecture Two Fatherlands?
Zionist Youth And the Politics of Belonging in 1930s Poland by
Dan Heller.
Dr. Heller is a Hazel D. Cole Fellow in Jewish Studies at the
University of Washington with interest in Jewish organizations
in 1930s Poland. Betar for example was an organization observing
Polish patriotic ceremonies and training with rifles supplied by
the Polish Army.
Where: Thompson Hall, room 101 at the
UW campus in Seattle;
admission free
More: about
Dr. Heller,
UW PSEC |
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Apr 7,
from 7 pm:
Celebration of
Mazurkas in
Portland |
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Polish Hall in
Portland
presents a Celebration of Mazurkas concert in the
Polish Music at the Polish Hall series. In the program:
mazurkas by Polish composers Frederic Chopin, Karol Szymanowski
and Roman Maciejewski performed by Pacific NW pianists Colleen
M. Adent, Anne D. Young and Christopher Schindler. Also, Polish mazurka cakes, an Easter tradition,
will be served with coffee, tea and fine Polish liqueurs.
Organized by Agnieszka Laska and the Polish Hall.
Where: Polish Hall & Library
in Portland, OR; tickets $10
More:
tickets
and more info, or contact
Agnieszka Laska |
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Apr 6, 6:30 pm:
Tuwim dla doroslych i dla dzieci at the Polish Cultural
Center |
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Salon of Poetry
in Seattle presents a
poetry of Julian Tuwim (1894-1953). Tuwim dla doroslych i dla
dzieci includes reading from his most beloved classics of
children literature as well as a choice of other poems.
Introduction by Mr. Leszek Chudzinski, a local poet
writing in Polish and English. Poems are read by a cast of
children and teenagers from The Ladybug Theatre from the
Polish Home and members of the Salon.
Where: at the Polish Cultural
Center Dom Polski;
in Polish; admission free, donations encouraged
More: about
Tuwim,
Salon of Poetry |
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Apr
4, 6:30 pm: Movie Tony & Janina's ... at the SIFF Film
Center |
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SIFF Cinema presents an award-winning documentary Tony &
Janina's American Wedding: A Deportation Love Story directed
by Ruth Leitman. The movie follows a Polish-American family
from the Chicago area. Wife Janina is deported after 18 years in the
USA and her husband Tony ultimately loses his beloved and his 6
year old son who goes away with the mother even though he is an
American by birth.
The movie will be followed by a panel discussion with local
families in a similar situation and civil rights attorneys.
Where:
at the
SIFF Film
Center in Seattle
More:
movie SIFF info,
movie trailer |
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