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Nov 28, from 7 pm: St. Andrew's Night Party / Andrzejki
at the Polish Cultural Center |
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In
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 through a key. The restaurant
downstairs open from 7 pm to 10 pm, bar open from 7:30 pm till
11:30, dancing to music by a DJ from 8 pm. Everybody is welcome!
Where: the Polish Cultural
Center Dom Polski, tickets
$15
members, $20 non-members. no
info on babysitting this year.
More: for reservations or more info please contact
Irena Kordula at
(425) 652 5878 or Lucyna
Blonska
at (206) 764 7057 |
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Nov 21, 11 am: Polish Book Club Meeting at
the Green Lake Library |
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There are two books for this meeting:
Podglad by
Marcin Podolec & Daniel Chmielewski and Prawiek i inne czasy
by Olga Tokarczuk. Podglad is a graphic book
that broke into general readership in Poland; it's topic is
modern sexual relationships. Prawiek i inne czasy, first
published in 1996, is the most successful novel of popular
writer Olga Tokarczuk and has been translated into over 20
languages.
Where: at the Green Lake Library in Seattle, WA; admission free, in
Polish
More:
Olga Tokarczuk,
Polish Book Club |
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Nov 15, 2:30 pm: Poland’s Independence Day Celebration at the
Polish Home |
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The Polish Home Assn
presents an Independence Day celebration that
includes a patriotic poetic program in Polish
prepared by Barbara Strutynski and a performance by the Polish
Choir. Also at the event, Solidarity activist Jerzy Las will be
honored with the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity, a decoration
bestowed by the President of Poland. Congratulations! The restaurant will be open from 1
pm as usual.
Where: the mass at St. Margaret's Church in Seattle at noon, the
celebration at the Polish
Cultural Center Dom Polski at 2:30 pm, admission free, the
main program is in Polish.
More: Polish Cultural Center
/ Polish Home Association website
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Nov 10,
2:30 pm: Lecture on Controversies Related to Polish Youth
Magazines at the UW |
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Piotr Nowakowski |
The UW
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures presents a lecture
The Controversies Surrounding Polish Youth Magazines by
Piotr Nowakowski.
Dr. Nowakowski is an associate professor at the John Paul II
Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. His areas of interest
include philosophy of education, pedagogy of mass media, social
rehabilitation and social work.
Where:
A216 Pedelford Bldg
at the
UW campus in Seattle,
admission free
More:
about
the lecture at the UW,
about Dr. Nowakowski |
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Nov 7-8, noon - 6 pm: Fall Bazaar at the
Polish Cultural Center |
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The annual fall
bazaar features booths with amber and silver jewelry, crafts,
Polish books and CDs, Boleslawiec pottery, Polish crystals as
well as booths by local Polish-American organizations. Polish
Choir Vivat Musica will perform on Sat at 2:30 pm. You
can buy Christmas ornaments and wafers (oplatki), Polish pierogi,
homemade cakes and enjoy a full course
dinner.
Also available frozen pierogi and dinners to go.
Organized by the Ladies Auxiliary.
Where: at the Polish
Cultural Center Dom Polski, admission free.
More:
Irena Kulik, president of the Ladies Auxiliary |
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Nov 7, 9 am - 3:30 pm: Ethnic
Heritage Workshop at the
Nordic
Heritage Museum |
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The Ethnic
Heritage Council of Seattle
presents a
workshop on preserving and sharing a heritage. Workshop sessions
include a case study on Greeks in Washington, instructions on
how to conduct an interview and how to create a compelling
storytelling video presentation. Please see
this flier for
more details.
Where: at the
Nordic Heritage Musem;
this is a free workshop but please RSVP
by email to
info@ethnicheritagecouncil.org by Nov 5, 2015.
More: Ethnic
Heritage Council of Seattle |
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Nov
5,
3:30 pm: Holocaust Lecture on the Starachowice Factory Camps at the UW |
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Christopher Browning |
The UW
Department of History presents a lecture Holocaust History
and Survivor Testimony: The Starachowice Factory Slave Labor
Camps by Christopher Browning. Dr. Browning is a visiting
professor
at
the UW and a professor emeritus of Univ. of North Carolina; his
books on Holocaust include the ground-breaking Ordinary Men:
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.
Starachowice is an industrial city in central Poland.
Where:
Room 120 at the Communications Bldg
at the
UW campus in Seattle,
admission free
More:
about the lecture at the UW,
about Dr. Browning,
Starachowice labor camps |
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Nov 5 - Till Dec 3: Exhibition Photographs from Poland
and Ukraine at the Gallery4Culture |
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Gallery4Culture in Seattle presents an exhibition Some Time
Later ... I'm Here: Photographs From Poland & Ukraine by
Alexander Mouton. Mr. Mouton is a Seattle based artist who spend
four yeas living in Berlin. The exhibition features 22 color
photographs from Warsaw, Kraków, Łódz and Wrocłąw in Poland and
Lviv in Ukraine
taken in 2013. The
exhibition is open till December 3, 2015.
Where:
at the
Gallery4Culture
in downtown Seattle; admission free, gallery hours are Mon-Fri 9 am
- 5 pm, opening / closing on First Thursday is 6-8 pm
More:
Mouton exhibition, |
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Nov 3, 7:30 pm: Motion Trio in
Concert at Benaroya |
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Motion Trio
by Jacek Poremba |
Motion Trio is an all accordion
group from Krakow that is a world-wide phenomenon
both in the classic and modern philharmonic repertoire. The trio includes
Pawel Baranek, Janusz Wojtarowicz and Marcin Galazyn. Their
program at Benaroya features arrangements of works by Polish
contemporary composers such as Witold Lutoslawski, Wojciech
Kilar, Krzysztof Penderecki and Henryk Gorecki as well as a
prelude and a Mazurka by Frederic Chopin.
Where:
at the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at the
Seattle
Symphony at Benaroya Hall; tickets $20 & $30, discount tickets
available for Polish group at the Seattle Symphony or 206-215-4818
More:
Motion Trio website,
Motion Trio Concert at Benaroya |
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