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Book reading
Fundraiser & Lecture
Polish Bazaar
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Mar 31: Easter Food Basket Blessing (Święcone) |
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This is the schedule for blessing of the traditional Easter food
baskets in nearby churches on Holy Saturday,
March 31, 2018.
Bellevue: St. Louise
at
2 pm
Sammamish: Mary Queen of Peace
at 1 pm
Seattle:
St. Margaret
at 11 am,
12 pm, 1 pm & 2 pm,
Blessed
Sacrament at
1 pm
Tacoma:
Sts. Peter & Paul
at 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm & 2 pm |
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Mar 30 & 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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Mar 25 & 31, 11 am - 4 pm: Polish Spring Market at Sebi's |
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If you cannot
attend the Polish Bazaar at the Polish Cultural Center, the
Spring Market at Sebi's
is your second chance to get some tasty Polish food and Polish
jewelry on top of it. Pączki, drożdżówki and other pastry from
Viola's Polish Donuts, kielbasa, kabanosy & pierogies from
Sebi's and Polish decor and jewelry from Polka Folk will be
available.
Where: at the Sebi's
Bistro in Seattle
More:
event facebook page, for more info contact
Kamila
or
call 206-420-2199. |
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Mar 24, noon - 6 pm:
Annual
Polish Spring
Bazaar at the Polish
Cultural
Center |
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The Spring
Bazaar is an annual event organized by the Polish Women's Club /
Koło Pań. The
booths upstairs offer Polish crystal bowls and vases, amber and
silver jewelry, pottery, crafts, books, Easter eggs and much
more. Downstairs you can enjoy traditional Polish dishes served
by the young waiters clad in Polish folk costumes. You can also
buy home-made desserts and pastries. The Polish Choir Vivat
Musica! will sing at 2:30 pm.
Where:
at the
Polish Cultural Center
Dom Polski;
admission free
More: 2018 Spring
Bazaar leaflet, for table reservations or more info please contact
Barbara Augustyniak
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Mar 21 - 28:
HENRY:
a Book Reading by the Author in Seattle, Bellingham, Olympia |
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Katrina
Shewver |
Author Katrina
Shawver will be reading excerpts from her book HENRY - A
Polish Swimmer's True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to
America in
different WA cities from Bellingham to Olympia. Henry is a story
of Henryk Zguda, a champion swimmer who survived three years in
Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a Polish Catholic political
prisoner.
Where: Mar 21 at 6:30 pm at
Tacoma
Public Library Main Branch in Tacoma, Mar 23 at 7 pm at
Village
Books & Paper Dreams in
Bellingham, Mar 25 at 7 pm at
Third Place Books in Seattle
Ravenna, Mar 26 at 7 pm at
Third
Place Books in Seattle Seward
Park, Mar 27 at 6 pm at
Shelton
Timberland Library
in Shelton, Mar 28 at 1 pm at
Saint Martin's University
in Lacey
and on Mar 28 at 7:30 pm at Olympia
Timberland Library
in Olympia.
More: about Katrina Shewver
and her book |
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Mar 18, 4 pm:
Student Chopin Recital
at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Frederic Chopin |
Marzena Lilian
Szlaga Piano Studio presents an annual piano recital celebrating
music of Frederic Chopin. Ms. Szlaga will
open the concert with Nocturne D Flat, op.27 no.2. The
program includes mazurkas, nocturnes, preludes, waltzes and polonaises by Chopin performed by the
Studio students from 9 to 17 years old. The
Polish Home restaurant is open from 1 to 4 pm.
Where:
at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom
Polski; admission free
(donations accepted)
More:
detailed
2018 concert program, M. Szlaga Studio,
contact
Marzena Szlaga |
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Mar 17,
from 5:30
pm:
PSEC Fundraising Dinner & Lecture at the UW |
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I. Paderewski ca. 1900 |
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites to a
fundraising dinner, silent auction and lecture supporting its
mission. The lecture Paderewski and the World of Politics will
be presented by Prof. Marek Zebrowski. Dr. Zebrowski is a
Professor at the USC Thornton School of Music and
the Artistic Director of the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles,
CA. Silent auction, music and cocktails from 5:30 pm, dinner &
lecture at 7 pm. Reservation deadline is February 28, 2018.
Where: at the
University of Washington Club at the UW campus in Seattle;
admission $100 per person, reservation required by February 28,
2018.
More: UW PSEC,
online registration,
Paderewski as a virtuoso pianist, composer and statesman |
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Mar 16, 7 pm: Movie
Reserve by Ł. Palkowski at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Marcin Kwaśny |
The Polish Film
Club Kino OKO
presents a 2007 drama Reserve / Rezerwat,
directed by Łukasz Palkowski. A young photographer rents a place
in a dilapidated tenement house in a bad part of Warsaw and
changes his biased perspective about "backwardness" around him.
This was Palkowski's first movie and it earned him the best
debuting director award at the 2007 Polish FF in Gdynia, and
the movie received both the audience and the journalists' awards
as well.
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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Mar 11, all day: Bronek Czech Memorial
Cup on Mt. Seymour / Vancouver, BC |
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Bronek Czech
Memorial Cup / Mały Memoriał Bronisława Czecha is a very popular
event
organized by the Polonia of Vancouver, BC. This ski and
snowboard competition has divisions for children and teenagers
of different ages as well as all-family categories. Bronisław
Czech was a famous Polish skier and a WWII underground courier
over the Tatra Mountains.
Where:
On Mt. Seymour, Mount Seymour Provincial Park,
Vancouver, BC;
More: info
and online reservation at
Memorial (PL),
about
B. Czech.
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Mar 10, 7 pm: International Women's
Day Party at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Ladies only! Please join a celebration of the International
Women's Day and of womanhood at the Polish Home. Reconnect with
the old friends or meet the new ones. It is a potluck -
restaurant and the bar will be closed.
Where: at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom
Polski in
Seattle;
admission free
More: the
event on Facebook,
PCC calendar |
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Mar 5 - 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 was arrested and executed in
what is recognized as one of the judicial killings of the period.
Organized by Krzysztof Poraj-Kuczewski.
Where:
at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski;
admission free
More:
about
Inka |
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Mar 3, 1 - 5 pm:
FolkForward Opening Party at Impact HUB
Seattle |
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Encircled by A.
Lahti |
The Center for
Washington Cultural Traditions is throwing a launch party that
includes folk performances, arts and crafts from all over the
world. The gamut runs from Kurdish to Tibetan and from
indigenous Mexican to Senegalese; it also includes a traditional
Polish arts and crafts booth by Alisa Lahti featuring cutouts,
pisanki, head wreaths and more. The center is devoted to
supporting folk traditions of different ethnic communities in
our state.
Where:
at Impact HUB in
Seattle;
admission free
More:
about
FolkForward and CWaCT
Alisa Lahti. |
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