Author: Ryszard Kott

AD: Polish Bazaar Looks for Volunteers

The Polish Spring Bazaar is a regular, full-blown affair this year and the organizers, the Polish Women’s Club, are looking for volunteers to help staging the event. The bazaar will be on April 9, 2022. Volunteers are needed to prepare the bazaar, before the bazaar and on the day of

How To Buy a Home in Today’s Market

Polish American Chamber of Commerce Pacific NW invites you to a presentation explaining mysteries of today’s hectic market in the Seattle area. New to Seattle? Tired of renting and throwing money away month after month? Great job and good income but unable to win the bidding wars? How can you

Polish Book Club: “Wymazana granica”

The Club invites new members to discuss books in Polish. The book for the meeting is Wymazana granica, Śladami II Rzeczpospolitej by Tomasz Grzywaczewski, published in 2020 by Wyd. Czarne. The book traces the non-existing borders of Poland from before WWII, both inside of the country now (in Kaszuby, Greater

AD: Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarships for Exchange Programs to Poland

The Kosciuszko Foundation accepts applications for scholarships for its exchange programs to Poland. There are two major exchange programs: A Year Abroad in Poland in 2022/2023 An Exchange Program to Poland conducted with the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.  The program offers scholarships to study Polish language and

Polish Cultural Center Drops the Mask Requirement

Following the public announcements from the King County and the City of Seattle about not requiring masks at most businesses, the Polish Home Association (PHA) decided to drop the mask requirement at the Polish Cultural Center in Seattle. Effective March 12, 2022, mask will not be required to attend events

Stand With Ukraine March & Rally

The Ukrainian Association of Washington State organizes another demonstration against the war in Ukraine that should be even bigger than the one last week. The gathering point for the Stand with Ukraine march is near the Seattle City Hall on 4th Avenue before 2 pm, with the march going along

AD: #Stand With Ukraine

My country is ruined, people are dying, cities are bombed. I get texts from friends asking for prayer because they are bombed right now. I am crying, it hurts so deeply, hard to breathe. Please help Ukrainian people. Ukraine needs your help! Top priorities are medical and tactical supply. Every donation counts. Check for matching

Seattle Rally Against the War in Ukraine

The Ukrainian Association of Washington State (UAWS) is inviting everybody, but especially Ukrainian neighbors, such as people from Poland to a Seattle rally against the war in Ukraine. The rally will be held at the Space Needle from the KOMO plaza side. The Russian unprovoked attack on Ukraine rattled Poles

Polish Cultural Center Relaxes COVID Rules

Following the public announcements from the King County and the City of Seattle about changes in COVID requirements for businesses and gatherings, the Polish Home Association decided to relax the rules at the Polish Cultural Center in Seattle. Effective March 1, 2022, a vaccination verification or recent test will not

M. Pietrzyk’s Mardi Gras Movie at the New Yorker

Local cinematographer Michal Pietrzyk’s documentary All on a Mardi Gras Day has been added to The New Yorker portal along other notable documentaries. The movie presents a secret 200-year culture of New Orleans African Americans, known as Mardi Gras Indians, and their Mardi Gras Day competition. Michal wrote, directed and produced

Fat Thursday Dinner and Pastry Sale

The Polish Cultural Center celebrates this year’s Fat Thursday with a special dinner and a sale of Polish pastries of the season: pączki (Polish doughnuts) and faworki (fa-vor-kee) a.k.a chrust (hroost), traditionally prepared for Fat Thursday and later for Easter. Also on sale: makowiec (poppy seed cake), oponki (donuts), and

Lemkos and Ukrainians in Poland

The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs and the Jagiellonian Law Society present the lecture Lemkos and Ukrainians by Prof. Jan Pisuliński. This lecture is part of the series Ethnic Minorities in Polish Lands. The lecture focuses on Lemkos (Łemkowie), a minority group in south-eastern Poland and also in the neighboring Slovakia,

Marcin Pączkowski in Concert at Meany Hall

The UW Dept. of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) presents its Winter Concert: Movement Actuation, featuring Marcin Pączkowski and other artists. The program includes recent work and world premieres exploring gesture made sound, spaces made of movement, and algorithms of artistic expression. Pączkowski, a research associate at DXARTS, is a

Make Faworki a.k.a. Chrust for Fat Thursday

Local Polish Culinary Workshops group invites everybody to the Polish Home to a session making faworki (fa-vor-kee) or chrust (hroost) – the traditional pastries for Fat Thursday and later for Easter. (Fat Thursday is the Polish Mardi Gras; it falls on the Thursday before the Mardi Gras Tuesday). All culinary

Tokarczuk and Croft Virtual at Third Place Books

Third Place Books presents a virtual meeting with Olga Tokarczuk and translator Jennifer Croft discussing The Books of Jacob. Third Place Books partnered with Community Bookstore and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith to welcome Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft for a discussion of their latest book, The

The Crisis of Democracy in Interwar Poland

The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the lecture The Crisis of Democracy in Interwar Poland, The Obstacles to the Establishment of a Democratic and Pluralistic Polish State, focusing on the political system in Poland between the WWI and the WWII, by Prof. Antony Polonsky. The First World War was widely