The Kosciuszko Foundation Online Programs present the webinar The Transatlantic Lives of Polish American Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Marta Cieślak. Dr. Cieślak is is currently a Humanities Scholar at the Center of Arkansas History and Culture at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where
Update: APFF has been extended through December 27, 2020 with new movies added to the schedule. This pandemic autumn has become a great season to watch Polish movies in the USA with streaming offers coming from many places. Austin’s is another Polish film festival that decided on the hybrid formula
This episode seems to have been cancelled. In the printed November 2020 KCTS 9 program this half an hour slot is taken over by the premiere broadcast of an Italian food series. This is the final episode of the series broadcast by PBS since August. Flavor of Poland is a
The Jagiellonian Law Society and the Kosciuszko Foundation present a webinar Ethnic Minorities in Polish Lands by Prof. Marek Dziekan and Dr. Maria Kobielska. This is the first of a series of webinar on dealing with various ethnic minorities that have lived or are living in “Polish lands.” Poland is
The Polish Literature Club is a new book club in Seattle for people who’d like to read and discuss Polish literature in English (yes!), organized by indomitable Paulina Phung. The book to discuss at this meeting is Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski, a controversial 1948 book about moral dilemmas of
Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski decided to put a toe in the water and open its dining room and bar with a limited menu on Friday, October 30, 2020 from 5 pm to 10 pm. This is a temporary arrangement with volunteer chefs Teresa and Grazyna caused by the absence
Your help is needed! Polish Festival Seattle, after being forced to sit out the annual showcase at the Seattle Center in July this year, has come up with an exciting proposal for Christmas! There will be a virtual celebration of Polish holiday traditions on Sunday, December 20th from 2 to
The Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) present the webinar honoring Prof. Jack Szostak. Dr. Szostak is the 2009 Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine. He is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard and a
Local event Polish women from the Seattle area organize a protest at the Polish Cultural Center parking lot on Tuesday against the new abortion law in Poland. The Constitutional Tribunal in Poland ruled before the weekend that terminating a pregnancy due to a damaged fetus was unconstitutional, nullifying most of
Polish Food Truck in the Seattle Area Polish Cuisine on Wheels NW provides delicious Polish food at different place in Seattle and other cities of the region. You need to look at the schedule to see where you can catch it. For current locations and times, please check our schedule at Polish
Update as of October 29 and November 5, 2020: the food truck is not coming to the Polish Cultural Center anymore. Hence, the Polish Home Association decided to open its dining room and bar with a limited menu on Friday nights on temporary basis. Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski is
As many local readers are aware, the Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles, a longtime partner of the Seattle Polish Film Festival is on this year. It is happening entirely online from October 23 to 29, 2020. However, the LA festival decided that the streaming of the festival movies will be
The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites you to an online lecture (Why) Did Socialism Fail in Poland? by Brian Porter-Szutz. Prof. Porter-Szutz teaches history at the Univ. of Michigan – Ann Arbor and specializes in economic and intellectual history of capitalism and socialism as well as of the Roman Catholicism
Dear SPFF followers and fans, Like many of our beloved events and celebrations this year, the Seattle Polish Film Festival will be canceling its 2020 edition. We strongly believe that a film festival is about people coming together, watching cinema together, discussing it together, and meeting the artists behind the
The UW Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures invites you to a discussion of the book Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011 by Maria Rewakowicz. Dr. Rewakowicz teaches Ukrainian literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and is also affiliated with the UW Department of Slavic Languages
The embassies of the Visegrad Group countries (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary) in the United States present the 9th edition of the Visegrad 4 Film Series. Each country contributed one outstanding recent movie to the main program described in a separate message above. However, the series also has the Kid
The embassies of the Visegrad Group countries (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary) in the United States present the 9th edition of the Visegrad 4 Film Series. Each country contributed one outstanding recent movie to the program that can be streamed from the PFF Miami website: Oct 15-22 Corpus Christi /
The Seattle Polish Festival invites you to participate in the Virtual Polish Christmas Orchestra, that will be part of the winter edition of the Virtual Polish Holiday Festival happening later this year. The idea is to have local musicians come together and record themselves playing a part of in a
Well, it’s not live anymore, because I didn’t notice this in time for the last week news. However, you can still listen to the Chopin Recital performed at the opening of the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition (KFCC) on October 9, 2020, because the Kosciuszko Foundation made it available on YouTube. Krzysztof
Wednesdays at 12:30 This series was originally broadcast on KCTS9 from April to June 2020 – if you missed it, this is your second chance! Flavor of Poland is a culinary-travel PBS television weekly series presenting the country of Poland to American viewers like they’ve never seen it before. Hosted