The Polish Home Association decided to open the dining room at the Polish Cultural Center on Friday nights starting on March 5, 2021. It will open under the new chef, Anna Horodetska and a new name “Marmolada”. The capacity is limited due to COVID-19 restrictions for spacing etc. to below
The Polish Home Association decided to open the dining room at the Polish Cultural Center on Friday nights starting on March 5, 2021. It will open under the new chef, Anna Horodetska and a new name “Marmolada”. The capacity is limited due to COVID-19 restrictions for spacing etc. to below
Poland and the United States have an agreement about Social Security systems for their citizens; Poles living in the USA can receive Polish social security benefits managed by the Polish state insurer ZUS as well as American benefits. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ZUS moved to online its 2021 consultation tour
The We Are The History Keepers! workshop on preserving history, both for families and organizations, changes its formula and switches to shorter, 2-hour monthly sessions tackling a single topics . These are all online interactive sessions on a Saturday before noon. This is the second session in the series. The
This local club is for readers who would like to discuss Polish literature in English. The book for the meeting is Eden by Stanisław Lem, first published in 1958. This classic sci-fiction book, similar in a way but less known than Solaris, regards exploration of an alien planet of Eden.
Situation changes quickly indeed! Our last week tips how to find a vaccination appointment are already obsolete. The vaccination site in Wenatchee and Kennewick are still available, but there is a better way to find an appointment provided by local tech volunteers. Their new WA COVID Vaccine Finder site aggregates
The Wspólnota Polska Association and the Świat na Tak Foundation in Poland invite children and teachers from Polish schools abroad to the 2021 edition of the annual contest “Be a Pole”. The students can prepare a work of visual art, a short poem or essay in Polish or a video
Jeannie Opdyke Smith shares her mother’s incredible journey of courage and resilience. A true story of how one Polish Catholic teenager saved over a dozen Jews during the Holocaust. Irene’s story became a Broadway play in the nationally acclaimed production “Irena’s Vow” and her memoir, “In My Hands” is used in
The Polish Scout Troop Kaszuby in Seattle is celebrating the World Thinking Day observed by the Girl Scouts of the USA since 1926 on or around February 22. This year, the troop invites all current and former scouts and their parents to a Holy Mass at the Polish Parish in
The Polish Genealogical Society of America (PGSA) invites you to the webinar Working with a Polish Researcher presented by Dorena Wasik. This is an introduction for people who would like to start looking into their family roots in Poland. Besides this webinar, you can also watch the very interesting YouTube
The book for the meeting is Matka Polka by Anne Applebaum and Paweł Potoroczyn. It is an extensive interview that Applebaum agreed to do with Potoroczyn, a friend she shares many common interests with. Applebaum is a Pulitzer winning author (for Gulag: a History), who published several books, essays and
Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2021 and NW Film Forum present the movie Triple Trouble / Tarapaty 2 (2020, 87′) directed by Marta Karwowska. Triple Trouble is a family (age 9+) heist and who-done-it movie featuring adventures of teenager detectives Julka and Olek familiar to the audiences from the 2017 Double
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites you to a lecture Interhuman History: How Magdalena Grzebałkowska Rewrites the Aftermath of World War II in “Poland 1945: War and Peace” by Prof. Beth Holmgren. Magdalena Grzebałkowska, 48, is an award winning writer and a reporter for Gazeta Wyborcza daily. The book was
This concert by Radek Nowicki Quartet is a part of The Great Improvisations series presented online by the Jazztopad Festival in partnership with Polish Cultural Institute New York. The quartet includes Radek Nowicki (sax), Michal Tokaj (piano), Michał Jaros (bass) and Michal Miśkiewicz (drums). Radek Nowicki is a tenor and
Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association (SGSCA) is preparing a presentation about Martha Golubiec’s contributions to the SGSCA and its programs. She was a co-founder of the organization. Please share your pictures, stories, fun facts, video clips and other memories that can be used in the tribute to Martha.More: Please contact the SGSCA President, Zbigniew
Tips from Polish community members: if you want to get vaccinated quickly and don’t mind a trip across the passes, go to a COVID-19 mass vaccination site in Wenatchee or Kennewick. Wenatchee opens signups on Sundays for service M-F, and typically you can get an appointment a day or two ahead. Kennewick
The PHA Election Committee kindly asks the PHA members who haven’t voted yet to send their ballots back as quickly as possible. For the PHA elections to be valid, at least 50% members need to cast their votes. The following is the appeal from the electoral commission: Dear Members of
This event was rescheduled to April 27, 2021. The UW Henry Jackson School of International Studies presents a lecture Anti-Gender Politics And Right-Wing Populism in Poland by Elżbieta Korolczuk. Dr. Korolczuk is an Associate Professor of sociology at the Södertörn University in Stockholm and American Studies Center at Warsaw University.
The Kosciuszko Foundation online programs present a webinar in the Polish Contemporary Literature series My Country’s Other Names: Poland’s New Wave Poets of the 1970s. The event includes talk by Jarosław Anders followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Małgorzata Pośpiech. In the late 1960s a new poetic formation emerged
Austin Polish Society invites you to a meeting in Polish with Jarosław Abramow-Newerly, an author, playwright, composer, songwriter and one of a co-founders of the famous STS student cabaret. He moved to Canada in the 1980s and then shared his time between Warsaw and Toronto. His notable books include “Lwy