Polish Home Association and Kamila’s Kitchen invite you to a special Friday dinner at the Polish Cultural Center with a Ukrainian menu. The menu includes verenyky (dumplings), tushona kapusta z miastom (braised sauerkraut with pork and beef roast) and otbivni (breaded pork chop), among others, and all the income will
Update: The fundraiser gathered 10 boxes of medical supplies, military first aid kits, solar powered chargers etc. by the end of April for the next humanitarian airlift from Seattle. Please donate medical supplies for Ukraine from the school’s Amazon wish list! This fundraiser is running till the end of April.
Update 2: The fundraiser gathered 10 boxes of medical supplies, military first aid kits, solar powered chargers etc. by the end of April for the next humanitarian airlift from Seattle. Update: the fundraiser was very popular, and the school decided to continue it. Please help by donating medical supplies for
With the pandemic restrictions going away gradually, the Easter basket blessings are more widely available than the last year. Below is a list of local Catholic churches observing this traditional Polish rite on Holy Saturday, April 16, 2022. St. Louise, Bellevue, at 2 pm Mary Queen of Peace, Sammamish, 10
Update Over $53,000 has been raised by 5/5/22; $30,000 has been wired to PAH in two tranches, $2,000 granted to the Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Assn to support City of Gdynia refugee relief, and $5,000 to the Ukrainian Association of Washington State for humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Donations are still coming
Bellevue Arts Museum presents an exhibition Object Permanence connecting science and art and featuring two artists Timea Tihanyi and Sylwia Tur. The exhibition runs till May 29, 2022. Update: the discussion about the exhibition with both artists, scheduled in April, has been moved to May 8 at 3 pm; instead,
After dipping the proverbial toes with a limited fall bazaar in November, the Polish Women’s Club decided to organize a regular spring bazaar after a two-year hiatus, with no pandemic restrictions or space limits. The old-new bazaar features the usual: booths with amber and jewelry, arts and crafts, Polish crystals
The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Przewóz by Andrzej Stasiuk, published in 2021 by Wyd. Czarne. The book is set in 1941 in the Polish countryside at the Podlasie border between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on the
The Kosciuszko Foundation is looking for Teachers and Teacher Assistants for the Teaching English in Poland (TEIP) Summer Camps 2022. Children under 18 years old can accompany a family member or a legal guardian as a Peer Tutor. Apply and read more about the 2020 TEIP Program, current camp opportunities, dates and
The dining room and the bar at the Polish Cultural Center will be closed on Fridays April 8 & 15. On April 8, this is due to preparations to the Spring Bazaar on the next day. On April 15, by a long-time tradition, the Polish Home is closed for Good
If you need a new Polish passport, sign up for a reservation slot ASAP! The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles kindly informs that the long-awaited consular visit to Seattle, only to process passport applications, is scheduled for April 1 & 2, 2022. The Consul will
It’s no April fool here: the restaurant at the Polish Cultural Center will be now open from 5 pm starting on April 1, 2022. You can check the menu here. You can make table reservation by contacting kuchnia@polishhome.org More: please visit this page
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar Poland-Ukraine, From conflict and rivalry to neighborliness by Prof. Norman Davies and Prof. Frank Sysyn. The lecture is part of the Studying Poland Today – talk series presented jointly by the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Project on Poland Past and Present (PPPP). The purpose of the series
Asia Filipek zaprasza na sesje Jogi po polsku w Domu Polskim w Seattle. Sesje są bezpłatne, dla każdego – niezależnie od poziomu zaawansowania w jodze (lub jego braku ). Wystarczy zabrać matę, ubrać się w wygodny strój i przyjechać do DP w czwartek wieczorem o 18:30. Yoga classes at the Polish Cultural Center
The Seattle Polish News has received some Easter themed booklets in English written by Lawrence Kozlowski. They may be interesting to Polish Americans who would like to have a better understanding of Polish Easter traditions or to follow recipes for traditional Polish food and pastries served at Ester. More: please
Radio Wisła, a Seattle based Polish internet radio station, has just posted a recording with Henryk Wrożyński. Wrożyński is an actor, theater director and a poet who lives in Shoreline. In the mid-1990s, he founded and then ran for a decade the Studio 21 theater in Tacoma. The recording consists
The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs and the Polish Program at the CUNY Hunter College present the webinar Witold Gombrowicz: The Drama of Form by Jaroslaw Anders. Witold Gombrowicz, an ironist, and intellectual provocateur is one of the most important figures in Polish literary modernism and, according to some, a precursor
Another local Polish tradition comes back after the pandemic! Marzena Lilian Szlaga Piano Studio, of Kirkland, WA, presents its annual piano recital celebrating both Chopin’s music and the anniversary of his birthday on March 1, 1810. The program includes mazurkas, nocturnes, preludes, waltzes and polonaises by Chopin performed by the
The Seattle Polish Film Festival presents a special screening at SIFF Cinema of the movie The Wedding Day / Wesele (2021), directed by Wojtek Smarzowski and starring Robert Więckiewicz, Agata Kulesza, Andrzej Chyra and Arkadiusz Jakubik. The movie takes on some fundamental issues related to the Polish national character and
The spring quarter at the University of Washington brings again courses that can draw people interested in Polish language and culture. As usual, seniors 60+ can register to listen to these courses for a token fee (in range of $10) through the UW Access Program. Notable courses include: Introduction to Polish