Joy to
the world! Polish News wishes everybody a Merry
Christmas or a great Holiday
season! Best wishes of a happy and successful New Year 2006
from Ryszard Kott (Editor) and Hanna Gil (Co-Editor &
Webmaster
Dec 31, 8 pm - 2 am:
New Year’s Eve party at the Polish Home
It’s a
traditional party on the New Year’s Eve with wining and dining as
well as live entertainment by thePolonusy band from
Portland. Ticket price includes a
traditional Polish dinner, champagne, hats etc.
Where: at the Polish Home; tickets $60 members, $90 non-members
More: ticket reservation & more info
Zbyszek Pietrzyk 206-762-6553
Dec 24 & 25: Polish Carols
at Radio
Wisla
Radio Wisla
in Seattle
invites to its special Christmas broadcast on the Christmas Eve,
repeated on the Christmas Day. The special is 1 hour long and
filled with the beautiful Polish carols. It also has an
introduction in English for the benefit of the local
Polish-American audience. Please tune up to AM 1590 to listen and
sing along! The special is also available over the internet at the
Radio Wisla website.
Where: Radio Wisla AM 1590, Dec 24 at
8 pm, Dec 25 at 5 pm, regular broadcasts on Sundays at 6 pm
Dec 15, 7 pm:
PH Expansion & Remodeling Open House & Volunteer call
Polish Home
Fundraising Committee invites everybody interested in the PH
expansion project to its monthly meeting at the Polish Home. The
fundraiser stands at over $250,000 in pledges. The project is in
the review & consultation phase before commissioning the final
construction plans. All interested in the details of the project
as well as volunteers are welcome!
Where: at the Polish Home, just drop by; refreshments provided!
Dec 10, 6 pm:
St. Nicholas party for children in Kirkland
This is a
Mikolajki
party organized by the Society for Polish Culture. Traditional
program includes sharing of Christmas wafers, Santa Claus’s visit
with presents, singing of Polish carols and taking pictures with
Santa Claus.
Tomas Venclova,
the great Lithuanian poet, translator, essayist and former
dissident, is a professor at the Dept. of Slavic Languages and
Literatures at Yale Univ. Prof. Venclova also teaches at the
Polish Studies at Yale and extensively publishes on Polish topics.
He shared with Czeslaw Milosz respect for multicultural heritage
of Vilnius and
Lithuania and together they were
building bridges between Polish and Lithuanian cultures and
nations. His poetry reading and lecture will include poems from
Winter Dialogue,
1997.
Where: Parrington Hall Forum, at the UW campus
in Seattle,
admission free
CBS miniseries
about the Polish Pope, directed by John K. Harrison, features Jon
Voight playing the pontiff and Cary Elwes as a young Karol Wojtyla.
More ...
Dec
5, 2:30 pm:
Monkiewicz, Podkaminer & Poznanski on EE transition at the UW
The Political
Economics of Eastern Europe Speaker series has no less than three
speakers this time, two of them focusing on
Poland. Dr. Jan Monkiewicz is a
professor at the Warsaw School of Economics and the Chairman of
the Insurance and Pension Fund Supervisory Commission, a
government agency, in
Poland.
Dr. Leon Podkaminer is a staff economist at the Vienna Institute
of International Economy in
Austria.
Dr. Kazimierz Poznanski is a professor at the Jackson School of
International Studies, UW.
Where: ParringtonCommons,
University
of Washington
campus in Seattle;
admission free
CBS miniseries
about the Polish Pope, directed by John K. Harrison, features Jon
Voight playing the pontiff and Cary Elwes as a young Karol Wojtyla.
The first part covers the life of Karol Wojtyla in
Poland, the second his life as
the Pope. Movie was shot in Poland
and in Vatican,
where the filmmakers enjoyed unprecedented access. Jon Voight who
won an Oscar for his
Vietnam
vet role in Coming Home
(1979) has been praised for his depiction of Pope’s warmth and
charisma.
Where: at the CBS channel, part 1 on Dec 4 at 9 pm, part 2 on Dec
7 at 8 pm.
Dec 4, 2:30 pm:
Nativity play & St. Nicolas party at the Polish Home
The Nativity
play, Christ the Savior
Is Born, is the main attraction of the St. Nicolas
party for children that follows
building on the Polish traditions of St.
Nicolas’s Day (Dec. 6). The play has been prepared by the Polish
Home children theater group, MlodziPolanie, under the
direction of Barbara Strutynski. As every year, after the play the
kids will be visited by Santa Claus for an early start of the
season celebrations!The restaurant will be
from 1 pm as is usual on Sundays.
Where: at the Polish Home;
admission free; in Polish & English
Dec 2, 7 pm:
S. Penn talks about Solidarity women at the UW
Shana Penn
Shana Penn is a
Visiting Scholar at MillsCollege in
Oakland, CA.
Her book, Solidarity’s
Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland,
brings to the American audience the fact known so well to every
Pole – namely, that patriotic Polish women were behind all of the
independent movements in
Poland,
Solidarity being no exception. The lecture continues the Polish
Studies Distinguished Speaker Series sponsored by the UW Polish
Studies Endowment Committee.
Where: Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall at the
University of Washington
campus; admission free
