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Polish Bazaar
Pianist Jane Harty |
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Nov 26,
11 am: Polish Book Club Meeting at the Green Lake Library |
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The book for the meeting is Uprawa roślin południowych metodą
Miczurina by Weronika Murek,
published by Czarne in 2015. Ms. Murek, 27, is a law and
administration graduate and this is her first book. It's a
collection of short stories breaking all sort of conventions,
norms and taboos. And what a debut it is: the book has won the
Gombrowicz award for the best debut of the year and has been
nominated to the top 2016 Polish literary awards: the Nike, the
Polityka Passport and the Gdynia Literature.
This is an open meeting, drop by even if you haven't read the
book.
Where: at the Green Lake public library in Seattle 11 am - 12:15
pm; admission free, in Polish
More:
about
Murek, recent
interview (PL),
Polityka article (PL),
Polish Book Club |
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Nov 26, 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
12:30 am, dancing to music by DJ Filip from 8 pm. Everybody is welcome!
Where: the Polish Cultural
Center Dom Polski, tickets
$10
members, $15 non-members
More: for reservations call
Lucyna
Blonska
at (206) 764 7057 |
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Nov
25, 7:30 pm:
Film
Spitfire Liberator: The Alex Herbst Story
at the
Polish Cultural Center |
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Cpt. Herbst in 2015
at the film premiere |
The Polish Film Club KINO OKO presents a
documentary movie Spitfire
Liberator: The Alex Herbst Story directed by Sławomir Ciok.
Captain Witold "Alex" Herbst is a WWII fighter pilot who was
flying Spitfires with the famous Polish RAF squadrons 303 & 308
in missions over Great Britain and Europe.
Evening schedule: 7:30 pm setup & film intro, 8:00 pm screening.
Where:
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski
in Seattle;
admission free
More:
about the movie on
the Club site,
Nasz Dziennik article about the film premiere
(PL),
Blue Horizon site, or contact
Krystof Poraj-Kuczewski or
call
206 295
3533 |
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Nov 15, from 7 pm: Lecture Auschwitz: From
Newsreel to Posttraumatic Films at the UW |
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Tomasz Łysak |
The UW Polish
Studies Endowment Committee presents the lecture From Newsreel
to Posttraumatic films - Classic Documentary Films about
Auschwitz-Birkenau by Tomasz Łysak. The lecture discusses
esthetic choices, conventions and film genres used for
depicting of operations of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Dr. Łysak,
of the University of Warsaw, studies representations of
Holocaust in relation to trauma studies and psychoanalysis.
Where: the Thomson Hall Room 101 at the UW campus in Seattle;
admission free and open to the public
More: UW PSEC. |
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Nov 13, 2:30 pm: Poland’s Independence Day Celebration at the
Polish
Cultural
Center |
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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. New this year: an exhibition of art related to the 1918
independence declaration. 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 13, 3 pm:
Polish Piano Festival
at Olympic Recital Hall in Seattle |
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Jane Harty |
Celebrate Polish Independence Day with Polish music! Music
Northwest presents Polish Piano Festival featuring music by
Polish composers performed by local pianists Ivona Kaminska,
Christopher Bowlby and Jane Hart. The program includes
compositions by Frederic Chopin, Stanislaw Moniuszko, Ignacy
Paderewski, Karol Szymanowski, Maria Szymanowska and Anna
Ignatowicz-Glinska.
Where:
at
Olympic Recital Hall,
South Seattle Community College campus in Seattle;
tickets $18/$16
More:
concert and
venue info,
about artists |
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Nov 5-6, 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 Polish Women's Club.
Where: at the Polish
Cultural Center Dom Polski, admission free.
More:
Irena Kulik, president of the Polish Women's Club |
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Nov 5, 9 am - 3:30 pm: We Are History
Keepers! Workshop at St. Demetrios Hall |
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The Ethnic
Heritage Council and the UW Libraries Distinctive Collections
present A Workshop on Preserving the Cultural and Historical
Record of Your Ethnic Community.
UW archivists/specialists on the native and immigrant
populations will discuss such how-to topics as preserving
photos, organizing music collections, putting organizational
records in order, preserving personal papers. Musical interludes
will demonstrate how traditional music is preserved.
Where: at St.Demetrios
Hall on Capitol Hill in Seattle;
reservation RSVP,
reservations required
More: Ethnic
Heritage Council website |
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