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Polish Festival
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Polish shorts at the UW
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Feb 28, 7:30 pm: Polish Film Night at the UW
Film Club |
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The Univ.of Washington Film Club
presents seven Polish animated short films including three
Oscar nominees and two Oscar winners for best animated short
film. Introduced by the Polish Fulbright scholar at the UW, Justyna Budzik. Dr. Budzik is a Professor at the Univ. of
Silesia in Katowice, Poland and an expert on Polish films.
Where: Dempsey 112 at the University of Washington campus in Seattle
More: event
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Feb
19, 7:30 pm: Movie Spoor by Agnieszka Holland at the Portland
International FF |
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The 41st
Portland International Film Festival presents Spoor / Pokot, directed by
Agnieszka Holland. The movie is a mixture of a fairy tale and an
environmental thriller based on the novel by Olga Tokarczuk.
Agnieszka Holland is a renown director with three Oscar
nominations. The movie is
Poland's entry to this year's edition of the Oscars.
Where:
at the
Portland
International Film Festival
in Portland, OR
More:
about the
movie at PIFF,
about
Agnieszka Holland |
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Feb 17, 12 - 5:30 pm: We Are History
Keepers! Workshop in Seattle |
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This is a return
of a very popular workshop. The Ethnic
Heritage Council and the UW Libraries
present A Free Workshop on Preserving the Cultural and Historical
Record of Our Community.
UW and MOHAI archivists/specialists will discuss such how-to topics as preserving
historical records, including photographs and papers, and to
collect oral histories.
Where: at the
Northwest African American Museum; admission is free but
registration is required, please visit
reservation RSVP
More: Ethnic
Heritage Council website |
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Feb 16, 7 pm: Movie
Strawberry Wine by D. Jabłoński at the Polish Cultural Center |
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The Polish Film
Club Kino OKO
presents a 2009 comedy-drama Strawberry Wine / Wino
truskawkowe,
directed by Dariusz Jabłoński. The film, overtly about a big city
cop landing at remote post in Polish Beskid Mountains, captures the
mood of the novel Tales of Galicia by Andrzej Stasiuk, on which
it is based. Introduced by Justyna Budzik, in English w/ Polish
subtitles.
Evening schedule: 7 pm socializing & film intro, 7:30 pm screening
Where:
at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski;
admission free
More:
Rotten Tomato about
the movie,
about Tales
of Galicia,
the Club site
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Feb 10,
from 7 pm: Valentine's Dance Party
at the Polish
Cultural Center |
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Get your beau or
belle and come to Valentine's Dance Party! Doors open at 7 pm,
dance with DJ Filip from 8 pm. Polish restaurant invites from 7
pm till 10 pm, the bar will be open as usual from 7 pm as well.
Where:
at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom
Polski in
Seattle; tickets $15 regular, $10 members
More:
for reservations and more info please call Asia Jeziorska at
425-417-9548 or Lucyna Blonska at 206-992-6821. |
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Feb 2 & 3, 7:30 pm: Janusz Olejniczak in Concert in Vancouver, BC |
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Janusz Olejniczak |
The Vancouver
Chopin Society presents a piano concert by Janusz Olejniczak. Mr.
Olejniczak
is one of the best Polish pianists concerting all over the
world, he was the youngest award winner at the International
Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1970. The first part of
the concert will be played on a historical piano. A film about
Chopin, starring Mr. Olejniczak will be played at 4:15 pm before
the concert; a reception will follow the concert
Organized by the Vancouver Chopin Society.
A concert by Rafal Blechacz, the winner of the 2005 Chopin
Competition, is scheduled on April 22, 2018.
Where: at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, BC;
concert info and tickets
More: Olejniczak's
website, Vancouver Chopin Society,
Blechacz's site |
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