2013 Polish Festival
at the Seattle Center
July 13, 2013
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Duo Kaminska & Bowlby
Polish Movies at SIFF
Pierogi Fest |
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May 26: Polish Force NW in the
Ski To Sea Race |
Marek Wencel |
The local sports team Polish Force NW goes again to
the
Ski to Sea Race. The event is a
seven-legged, 100-mile long relay race that starts on Mt. Baker and ends on the
shores of Marine Park in Fairhaven (Bellingham). The legs of the race are: cross
country skiing, downhill skiing, running, bicycling, canoeing, mountain biking,
and finally kayaking. This year Polish Force NW led by Marek Wencel is fielding
again two teams. Come to cheer the Polish
iron men and women at the leg transition zones and the finish
line.
Where: Mt. Baker to Bellingham in Whatcom county, throughout the day; check with
the event site and the team site when & where to show up,
course
map
More:
Ski To Sea website,
Polish Force NW website (2012),
Marek Wencel, 206-227-3788
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May 25, 12:30 pm: Duo Kaminska & Bowlby
in Concert at the Seattle Art Museum |
Kaminska & Bowlby |
Enjoy a
remarkable afternoon of duo piano music with Ivona Kaminska and
Christopher Bowlby. The concert program includes Mozart's sonata
in F Major, Schubert's fantasy in F minor, Junkinsmith's
Roshomon, 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.
Where: the Auditorium at the
Seattle Art Museum
downtown; admission free
More:
Ivona
Kaminska,
Christopher Bowlby,
Seattle
International Piano Festival |
May 24 & 25: Short The Big Leap by Kristoffer Rus
at SIFF |
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The Seattle International Film Festival presents short The Big
Leap directed by Kristoffer Rus. This 14 minute film from
Poland
billed as a super visual black comedy
is actually a Polish-Swedish co-production. The short runs with
the feature screening of Iranian absurd comedy About 111
Girls
Where:
at SIFF Cinema Uptown on May
24 at 9 pm and on May 25 at 12 pm
More:
movie
at SIFF,
movie press kit |
May 23 & 24: Movie In the Name Of by Malgoska Szumowska
at SIFF |
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The Seattle International Film Festival presents movie In the
Name Of / W imie directed by Malgoska Szumowska and starring
Andrzej Chyra. Chyra, one of the best contemporary Polish
actors, gives a riveting performance as a overtly successful
small village priest dealing with spiritual despair. The
last two movies by Szumowska, 33 Scenes from Life and
Elles garnered a host of international awards, the latter
movie opening the 2012 Berlin Festival.
Sponsored by the Consulate General of Poland in LA.
Where:
at AMC Pacific Place 11 on May
23 at 9:30 pm and at Harvard Exit on May 24 at 4:30 pm
More:
movie
at SIFF |
May 17, 21 & 26: Movie Imagine by Andrzej Jakimowski
at SIFF |
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The Seattle International Film Festival presents movie Imagine
written and directed by Andrzej Jakimowski and starring
Edward Hogg. The feature shot in Lisbon shows the world from the
perspective of a charismatic young blind man who tries to raise
a new spirit in patients of an institute for the blind. Both
previous movies by Jakimowski,
Squint Your Eyes
(2002) and Tricks (2007)
were well received in Seattle.
Sponsored by the Consulate General of Poland in Los Angeles.
Where:
at SIFF Cinema Uptown on May 17 at 4 pm
and on May 21 at 7 pm and at at Renton Ikea Performing Arts
Center on May 26 at 6 pm
More:
Imagine at SIFF,
about the movie |
May 18 & 19: Movie Lasting by Jacek Borcuch
at SIFF |
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The Seattle International Film Festival presents movie
Lasting / Nieulotne written and directed by Jacek Borcuch and starring
Jakub Gierszal & Magdalena Berus. The film tells the story of a
uneasy romance of two Polish college students working in Spain
in summer.
Borcuch made his name with the film All That I Love that
received numerous international awards. Sponsored by the Consulate General of Poland in LA.
Where:
at SIFF Cinema Uptown on May 18 at
8:30 pm and on May 19 at 3 pm
More:
Lasting at SIFF |
May 18, 11 am: Polish Book Club
Meeting at
the Green Lake Library |
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The book for the meeting is Toksymia by Malgorzata Rejmer,
published by Lampa i Iskra Boza in 2011. Toksymia is a
grotesque set in contemporary Warsaw. The dust cover by
K. Varga praises its language run amok and its black humor.
Rejmer, 28, is a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Culture,
Warsaw University. She published poems and short stories, this
is her first book. Club
meetings are in Polish.
Where: at the
Green Lake Public Library in Seattle; admission free
More: about
book,
Polish Book Club |
May
15,
all day:
GiveBIG to the Local Polish Organizations at the Seattle
Foundation Site |
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On May 15, the Seattle Foundation hosts the annual GiveBIG event
– a one-day, online charitable giving event to benefit local
nonprofits such as the Polish Home Foundation (PHF). The reason
this is important to us is that it is a matching event that can
bring additional funds to our community.
Please support PHF through GiveBIG - every donation to PHF made
via Seattle
Foundation PHF Profile Page on May 15 will bring additional
money thanks to the Seattle Foundation and GiveBIG sponsors, who
will stretch your donation by matching a share of every
contribution!
When donating, please indicate what program or event you want to
support.
Where: at the Seattle Foundation site, please use the link above
More:
about
GiveBIG,
about
Polish Home
Foundation |
May 12,
3 pm: Rafal Blechacz in Concert in Vancouver, BC |
Rafal Blechacz |
The Vancouver
Chopin Society presents a piano concert by Rafal Blechacz. Mr.
Blechacz
is the winner of the 2005 International Chopin
Competition in Warsaw, where he dominated
winning all five major awards. The program includes J. S. Bach's
Partita no. 3 in A minor, Beethoven's Sonata in D major, op. 10,
no. 3, and Chopin's Two Polonaises, op. 40, Scherzo no. 3 in
C-Sharp minor, Sonata No. 11 in C minor.
Organized by the Vancouver Chopin Society.
Where: at the Chan Centre, Vancouver, BC;
More: Rafal
Blechacz's site,
Vancouver Chopin Society |
May 11,
11:30 - 4 pm:
Annual Pierogi Fest
at the Polish Cultural Center |
All you can eat!
Polonez in action |
This yearly
festival supplies a great mixture of Polish food and culture. Food-wise, the
main magnet is the All-You-Can-Pierogi event, which is a Polish dumplings extravaganza
that serves several
kinds of pierogi: meat, potato & cheese,
sauerkraut & mushrooms, blueberries,
plum etc. Also food booths with other favorites from potato pancakes to bigos (hunter's stew)
and a beer garden. Free attractions include: folk group performances,
craft workshops (make your own pierogi!) &
children activities. You can eat leisurely, listen to Polish
music and have a good time. Also available: tea. coffee, soft drinks and desserts.
On sale: Polish cutout art,
Polish folk costumes,
Polish sports scarves.
This is the
schedule of the main attractions:
12:00 pm Polish Choir Vivat Musica!, Seattle
:30 pm Polish cutouts and Palemki demonstrations
1:00 pm Folk Dance Group Polonez, Vancouver, BC
:30 pm Polish Choir Vivat Musica!, Seattle
2:00 pm Folk Dance Group Polonez, Vancouver, BC
:30 pm Pierogi Making demonstration
3:00 pm Folk Dance Group Polonez, Vancouver, BC
Volunteers needed to
run the event! Please contact
John Golubiec.
Where: at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom
Polski
- All You Can Eat event at the lower
hall; tickets $16 regular, $8 children up to
11; tots up to 3 years old free; other food at different prices,
all entertainment and additional programs upstairs free
More:
Preliminary
program
2013 Pierogi Fest program |
May 11, noon - 4 pm: Polish Book & CD Sale at
the Polish
Cultural Center |
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This event that is a part of the Pierogi Fest features usually a lot of new and
second-hand books and albums in Polish, bi-lingual or in English
on Polish topics as well as Polish CDs and DVDs - most at very
affordable prices!
Where: at the Polish
Cultural Center Dom Polski
upper hall; admission free
More: Polish Home asks
for donations of books, CDs and DVDs for the sale. Please
bring them to the PH on Friday night as library is opened,
or contact
the librarian
Monika Johnson. |
May 7, 7 pm:
Movie The Guardian of the Past
at the UW |
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The UW Polish
Studies Endowment Committee and the UW Ukrainian Studies
Endowment Committee present a 2004 documentary The Guardian
of the Past directed by Malgorzata Potocka. This award
winning film tells the story of Borys Voznytsky, the longtime
Director of the Lviv National Art Gallery in Ukraine and his
fight to preserve thousands of religious art objects in the
communist Soviet Union. An introduction to the movie by Marek
Wieczorek, Professor of Modern Art History at the UW School of
Art.
Where: Room 120, Communications Building at the University of
Washington campus; admission free; Reception after the screening
in Room 240.
More:
about the movie and people behind it |
May 5, 2:30 pm:
Third of May Celebration at the Polish
Cultural
Center |
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Polish Home
Association invites everybody to the 3rd of May celebration
marking the anniversary of the first Polish constitution, which
was enacted in 1791. The program includes a performance by the
Polish scouts.
The restaurant at the Polish Home is open from 12 pm to 4 pm.
Where: at the Polish Cultural
Center Dom Polski;
admission free; in Polish
More:
about the Constitution,
Constitution source |
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