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Porland Polish Festival
Movie about Seattle
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Sep 29, 7 pm: Folk Group
Jedliniok in Concert at the Polish Cultural Center |
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The Polish
Cultural Center presents a concert by the folk group Jedliniok.
Jedliniok is a student dance and song group at the
University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Wroclaw, Poland. They come to Seattle to perform a program of Polish folk songs and dances,
mainly from the Silesian region. The Polish Home restaurant and
the bar will be open from 5:30 pm
Where: at
the
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski;
tickets $20 advenced, $25 at the door.
More:
Jedliniok site, contact Barbara Strutynski at (425)
746-3037.
Jedliniok also performs at the Polish
Festival in Portland on September 22-23. |
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Sep
29, 9 am - 3 pm: Polish Consular Visit to Portland |
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The Consulate General of the Republic
of Poland in Los Angeles kindly informs that a consular outreach visit
to Portland to process passport applications for Polish citizens is scheduled for
September 29, 2018. The Consul is available from 9 am to 3 pm by
appointment only. To make a
reservation send an email to
losangeles.kg.paszporty@msz.gov.pl
stating your name, DOB, the PESEL number and a preferred time.
Where: At the
Polish Hall & Library
in Portland, OR; reservations required -
please contact the consulate.
More:
consular info (PL)
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Sep 22-23: Polish Festival in
Portland |
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LAST CALL - SEE IT WHILE YOU
CAN! Due to a construction taking over the festival site, this
is the last big Polish Festival in Portland as we know it - that
is as the
biggest Polish Festival
on the west coast. This year the
Festival features two
days of performances by the best Polish folk and pop groups from the
western United States and Canada (Yaazda!) as well as Jedliniok
- a visiting folk group from Poland, a variety of merchandize and tons of pierogi & other Polish food as well as Polish beer. There are
also polka contests on both days and dancing on the Saturday
evening.
Where: St. Stanislaus
Church &
Polish Hall &
Library,
at an equivalent of a city block at
3900 N. Interstate Ave.,
Portland, OR;
admission & entertainment free
More: contact PLBA president Jadwiga Witkowska at
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Sep 21, from
7 pm:
Polish Film
Club Screening
at the Polish Cultural Center |
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Andres Bukowinski |
The Polish Film
Club Kino OKO presents a short documentary Maestro: Andres
Bukowinski, His Life and Films. This 2001 movie
directed by Andrzej Bart focuses on the international
phenomenon of Bukowinski, a Polish born Argentinian, who is
called the king of commercial ads. Also screened: The Cathedral,
an Oscar nominated short animation by Tomasz Bagiński based on sci-fi story
by Jacek Dukaj.
Evening schedule: 7 pm socializing & film intro, 7:30 pm screening.
Where: at the
Polish Cultural Center Dom
Polski
in Seattle; admission free
More:
the Club blog |
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Sep 17-20:
Movie About Seattle Polish Community on TVP Polonia |
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Marian Strutynski |
TVP Polonia
presents a documentary movie in Polish Polski stulatek, czyli
Dom Polonii w Seattle directed by Monika Meleń. This 25
minutes film shot earlier this year is a portrait of our local
Polish community and of the role the Polish Home & the Polish
Home Association in keeping Polish traditions alive in the
Pacific Northwest over the last hundred years.
Where:
TVP Polonia
Online, this movie is in Polish; it airs / streams at different
times on September 17, 19 & 20
More:
Polish Cultural Center Dom
Polski,
TVP Polonia (in Polish),
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Sep 18, 7 pm: Free Yoga Classes at the
Polish Cultural Center |
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Free
yoga classes with instructor Asia Filipek return to the Polish
Cultural Center on every Tuesday at 7 pm. The first class after
the summer break will be on September 18 - new participants are
welcome to come!
Where: at
the
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski; admission free
More:
yoga class website page |
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Sep 15, 9 am - 4 pm: Rummage Sale at the
Polish Cultural Center |
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The Polish
Cultural Center invites everybody to a rummage sale of small
furniture, home and holiday decor, vintage items, household
goods, clothes, books, children items etc. All profits to
benefit the 100th Anniversary of the Polish Home Association.
PHA asks all members and supporters to donate items to the sale.
Donations accepted on Fridays September 7 & 14, from 6 to 10 pm
at the Polish Home.
Where: at
the
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski; admission free
More: rummage sale
poster, please contact
Irena Kulik
at 206-992-6821 for more info |
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Sep 10, 6 - 8 pm: Registration & Open House at the
Polish
School in
Seattle |
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The Juliusz
Slowacki
Polish School
in Seattle
offers classes to individuals of all ages on Mondays as well as a
preschool group on Saturday. Children from grades 1-8 learn Polish language
&
literature, as well history and geography of
Poland; assignment is based on
proficiency level in Polish. Adults can learn Polish as beginners or at intermediate
& advanced levels. The first day of school is Sep 17 and 15,
2018.
Where: regular classes at
the
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski on Mondays at 6
- 8:30 pm, preschool group for 5+ years old on Saturdays 10:15 am -
12 noon.
More: please contact Kasia Adler 425-985-0549 or
Anna Babcock
206-362-3077,
Polish
School in Seattle |
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Sep 8, 9 am - 3:30 pm: We Are History
Keepers! Workshop in Tacoma |
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This is another
edition
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
Asia
Pacific Cultural Center in Tacoma, WA; admission is free but
registration is required, please visit
reservation RSVP
More: Ethnic
Heritage Council website |
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Sep 8, 7 pm: Play Tamara L at
the Polish
Cultural Center |
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Self-Portrait in a Green Bugatti |
The Polish
Theatre of Toronto, Salon Poezji Muzyki i Teatru, presents a play in Polish
Tamara L by Kazimierz Braun and starring
Maria Nowotarska and Agata Pilitowska. The play presents life of the
famous art deco artist and socialite Tamara Łempicka, known as
de Lempicka; collectors of her art include Madonna, Jack
Nicholson and Barbara Streisand. Mr. Braun is a writer, playwright, director and a
university professor based in Buffalo, NY. The restaurant will
be open from 5:30 pm.
Where: at the Polish
Cultural Center Dom Polski; tickets $20 advanced, $25 at the
door;
for
reservations please contact Asia Jeziorska 425-417-9548, Lucyna
Blonska 206-992-6821
More:
Tamara
de Lempicka on culture.pl,
about the play and
the Theatre (PL) |
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Sep 7:
The Polish Cultural Center Opens After Summer |
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The Polish Home opens after the
yearly summer break
in the week after the Labor Day. In particular the restaurant
and the bar will be open on Friday nights starting from Sep 7,
2018. The Sunday lunches start in October.
More:
Polish Cultural Center Dom
Polski in Seattle
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Sep 5-6:
Movie Bronka Kobieta Skała on TVP Polonia |
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TVP Polonia
presents a documentary movie in Polish Bronka Kobieta Skała
directed by Monika Meleń. This 13 minutes film is a portrait of
Bronka Sandstrom, 92, a famous longtime Mt. Rainier guide and
the oldest woman to summit Mr. Rainier. Ms. Sandstrom, nee
Czyżyk, is a Holocaust survivor who married in Sweden and
settled in the Pacific NW after WWII, becoming an avid fan of
mountaineering with her husband Ake Sandstrom.
Where:
TVP Polonia
Online, this movie is in Polish, Sep 5 at 21:25, Sep 6 at
14:10 PST
More:
Bronka climbing to Camp Muir at 91,
KIRO on the climb,
TVP Polonia (in Polish),
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Sep 5, 6:30 pm:
Registration & Open House at the Polish
School in
Bellevue |
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The Fr. Jan Twardowski Polish
School in Bellevue invites children from the Eastside as well as
Seattle. Subjects
include Polish language, geography, history and culture classes
offered to children from grades K (zerowka) to 8, based on proficiency in
Polish. The School also has a program of Polish as a second
language for children. All classes are on Wednesdays at 6:00 pm. The first
day of school is Sep 12, 2017.
The registration is only
for the new students, new students have to be present for skill
assessment..
Where: at the
East Shore Unitarian Church
Education Building
in Bellevue, room TBD
More:
Polish School in Bellevue,
School email contact
or
Anna Cholewinska
at
425 736 1209. |
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