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Młynarski songs
Visiting filmmaker
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Apr 22,
3 pm: Rafal Blechacz in Concert in Vancouver, BC |
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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
by winning all five major awards. The program includes Mozart,
Beethove, Schumann and Chopin. A reception fwill follow the
concert.
Organized by the Vancouver Chopin Society (VCS). You can win a
trip to Warsaw by buying tickets - more info on he VCS site.
Where: at the Chan Centre, Vancouver, BC;
tickets at Chan Centre online or
604-822-2697
More: Rafal
Blechacz's site,
Vancouver Chopin Society |
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Apr 21, 7 pm: Młynarski's Songs by S. Górka at the Polish Cultural Center |
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The
Polish Cultural Center presents actor Stanisław Górka
in a program in Polish Droga with songs by Wojciech
Mlynarski & Jerzy Derfel. Mr. Górka is a movie, TV
and theatre actor, known from a very popular TV series about
life of a Polish parish called Plebania. His program on
the American tour is a monodrama with songs, with Jerzy Derfel
on piano. The restaurant will be open from 5 pm.
Where: at
the
Polish Cultural Center Dom
Polski,
in Seattle, tickets $25 advanced, $30 at the door; call
Asia Jeziorska 425-417-9548, Lucyna Blonska 206-992-6821.
Similar concert in Portland is on April 20.
More:
facebook page about this program |
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Apr 21, from noon, all day: Crown the
Eagle - Polish Heritage Party in
Portland |
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The McMenamins White Eagle Saloon in
Portland
presents Crown the Eagle Festival - a
Polish Heritage Party.
The program includes Polish food, vodka tasting, live performances by
Chervona band at 1:15 pm and Yazda at 4 pm,
Polish School students performance at 12:30 pm, presentation
on Polish immigration to Portland since 1880s at 2 pm and Agnieszka
Laska Dancers at 3:15 pm; party will last till late hours.
Where: McMenamins White Eagle
Saloon
in Portland, OR;
More:
2018 program |
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Apr 20, 7 pm: Movie
Passenger by A. Munk at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Aleksandra Śląska |
The Polish Film
Club Kino OKO
presents the 1962 drama Passenger / Pasażerka,
directed by Andrzej Munk. Munk was one of the key creators of
the Polish school of cinema of 1950s and 1960s along with
Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Kawalerowizc. In the movie, an
accidental meeting of two women, one German and one Polish,
opens a window on their shared past in the Auschwitz camp, the
past that the German hides from her husband.
Evening schedule: 7 pm socializing & film intro, 7:30 pm screening
Where:
at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski;
admission free
More:
about the movie, the Club site
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April 15, 12
noon:
Mass
Commemorating Katyn and Smolensk at the Polish Church |
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Katyn Monument,
Seattle |
The Polish Parish in Seattle invites everybody to the Holy Mass
commemorating the 78th anniversary of the
WWII Katyn massacre of Polish officers as well as the 8th
anniversary of the catastrophe in Smolensk where President
Kaczynski perished together with members of the Polish political
and military elite. After the mass, the flowers will be laid at
the Katyn monument with the Polish Scouts, guests and
parishioners present.
Where:
St. Margaret’s Catholic Church in Seattle,
admission free
More: for more info please contact
Aldona Bazant |
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Apr 15, 2:30 pm: Easter Egg Sharing
& Egg Hunt at the Polish Cultural Center |
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A traditional meeting of members & friends of the Polish Home
with sharing of the Easter eggs and a dinner. The program
includes an Easter Egg Hunt
so come with your children to have some Easter fun. Polish
Home Assn. provides most of the food such
as cold meat cuts, but please bring a salad or pastry to share
Where: at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom
Polski in
Seattle;
admission free
More: Polish Home |
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Apr
14 & 15, 7 pm:
AL Dancers in Oregon Bird Sketches
in
Portland |
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The Agnieszka
Laska Dancers
present a special performance marking the 15th anniversary of
the group. The program includes 1) new choreography to
choral works by Henryk Górecki and Jack Gabel, 2) new
choreography to Oregon Bird Sketches with music by Gabel
and video by Takahumi Uefara, 3) a premiere of Bucolics
by Witold Lutosławski, and 4) Songs of Eva with music by
Zygmunt Koneczny from the first program in 2003.
Where: at St. Mary''s
Academy
in Portland, OR; tickets $25 regular & $15 discounted.
More:
tickets
and more info, Agnieszka
Laska Dancers or contact
Agnieszka Laska |
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Apr 14, 2:30 pm: Young Polanie
at the Seattle International Children's Friendship Festival |
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YP at the 2015 Festival |
The Young
Polanie ensemble will be presenting a medley of Polish
traditional songs
and dances at the Seattle International Children's Friendship
Festival. The SICFF features performances by the children
highlighting different ethnic heritages. Also, all children are
invited to visit the Polish booth with an interactive cultural
display about
Poland on April 14 from 11 am to
6 pm.
Where: at
Fisher Pavilion at the Seattle Center, Seattle, WA; admission free
More:
SICFF website,
for Young Polanie contact Barbara Strutynski,
for the Polish cultural booth, contact
Teresa Davis
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Apr 14, 4 pm: Movie By Stanley
For Stanley at the Polish
Cultural Center |
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Monika Meleń |
The Polish Cultural
Center presents a special screening of the documentary movie
By Stanley For Stanley / Film dla Stasia directed by Monika
Meleń. This award winning documentary carries a message of hope
through a story of friendship between two disabled people, an
artist and a child, sharing the same first name. The director
and the cinematographer, Mr. Roman Piotrowski, will be present
at the Q&A session after the movie.
Where: at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom
Polski
in Seattle;
free admission
More:
about the movie |
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Apr 9, 7 pm: Movie A Woman of the World w/ Pola Negri at
the Paramount |
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Seattle Theater
Group presents Pola Negri's film The Woman of the World
screened as part of the Leading Ladies Series of silent
movies running at the Paramount on all Mondays in April. Pola
Negri was a Polish born star of silent movie era; this 1925
drama comedy is one of her best films and a rare opportunity to
enjoy her performance. There will be an intro about Pola Negri
before the screening.
Where:
at the
Paramount
Theatre in Seattle; tickets for this movie at $10 or $7 or
for the series
here
More:
about
A Woman of the World, about
Pola Negri
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Till Apr 8: Exhibition About "Inka" Siedzikówna at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Danuta Siedzikówna |
The Polish Cultural Center presents an exhibition Unwavering,
Accursed, Restored to Memory about a Polish resistance hero,
Danuta Siedzikówna (1928-1946). During WWII she was a nurse with
the Home Army,
and after the war ended she continued as a nurse in the
anti-communist underground. She wasm arrested and executed in
what is recognized as a judicial killing of the day. The
exhibition is organized by Krzysztof Poraj-Kuczewski.
Where:
at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski;
admission free
More:
about
Inka |
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Apr 7,
6 pm:
Celebration of
Mazurkas & Concert in
Portland |
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The Polish Hall in
Portland
presents Celebration of Mazurkas and Young Artist Concert -
a music and culinary event. In the program:
young artists of Polish origin will play music that includes
mazurkas by Chopin and Szymanowska. Polish mazurek cakes, an Easter tradition,
will be served with coffee, tea and fine Polish liqueurs; there
will be a contest for the best tasting mazurka pastry.
Where: Polish Hall & Library
in Portland, OR; tickets $10 regular & $5 discounted,
include desserts
More:
Please contact
Agnieszka Laska |
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Apr 1: The
Polish Cultural Center Closed for Easter |
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As is the tradition, the Polish
Cultural Center Dom Polski is closed on Good Friday, March 30, 2018. The restaurant is
also closed
on
Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018.
More:
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski in Seattle
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