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Polish Festival

at the Seattle Center

 


September 2016


Sep 28   Movie Lavender Braid by Mgdalena Hill at the Northwest Film Forum 
Sep 24   33 Years of the Polish Community in Belligham 
Sep 22   Town Hall Meeting w/ Min. Waszczykowski at the Polish Cultural Center 
Sep 17-18   Polish Festival in Portland
Sep 16   Documentary Santa Rosa Odyssey at the Polish Cultural Center
Sep 12   Registration & Open House at the Polish School in Seattle 
Sep 11   Harvest Festival Dożynki in Tacoma
Aug 9   Polish Cultural Center Opens after a summer break
Sep 7   Registration & Open House at the Polish School in Bellevue
Till Sep 4   Irena Jablonski Painting Exhibition in Kirkland

Polish Festival in Portland


Sep 28, 7:15 pm: Movie Lavender Braid by Magdalena Hill at the Northwest Film Forum

Lavender Braid

The Northwest Film Forum presents the Local Sighting festival that includes Lavender Braid by Magdalena Hill. Ms. Hill, who wrote the script and directed this 30 min movie, is a local artist, performer, animator and video producer based in Seattle. The film based on a Robert Kroetsch's short story unfolds in magical realism style inspired by a mythological-like idea of a swarm of bees making love to a young lavender gardener.

 

Where: at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle

More: about Local Sightings, Movie info & campaign site, artist's site

Sep 24, 11 am: 33 Years of the Polish Community in Bellingham

The Relic

The Polish Community of Bellingham invites to a celebration of 33 years of the community with special offering of the Relic of Saint John Paul II. Program includes the Holy Mass at 11 am at Sacred Heart Church, followed at 12:15 by a reception in the parish hall with members of the community and the families hosting the Relic. Also featuring a display about Poland, traditional Polish music and dance.

 

Where: Sacred Heart Church in Bellingham, WA; admission free

More: Please contact Urszula Kubik

Sep 22, 8 pm: Town Hall Meeting w/ Min. Waszczykowski at the Polish Cultural Center

Min. Waszczykowski

This is an open meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Witold Waszczykowski. Mr. Waszczykowski, 59, is a career diplomat. Among others, he served as a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2005-2008 and as the chief Polish negotiator with the United States for the missile defense system. He is also a graduate of the University of Oregon Dept. of Political Science. The meeting is in Polish.

   

Where: at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski in Seattle; admission free, open to the public, in Polish

Min. Waszczykowski will also have a public meeting at the SPK in Vancouver, BC on Sep 23 at 6 pm

More: about the minister

Sep 17-18: Polish Festival in Portland

At two full days of attractions, it's the biggest and the most colorful Polish Festival in the western United States. Each year the Festival features exhibitions, jazz or piano concerts plus the two full days of performances by the best Polish folk groups from the west coast US and Canada, variety of merchandize and tons of pierogi & other Polish food as well as Polish beer. There are also polka contests on both days and dancing on the Saturday evening.

  

Where: St. Stanislaus Church & Polish Hall & Library, at an equivalent of a city block at 3900 N. Interstate Ave., Portland, OR; admission & entertainment free

More: contact PLBA president Agnieszka Laska

Sep 16, 7:30 pm: Documentary Santa Rosa Odyssey at the Polish Cultural Center

Polish orphans arriving

in Santa Rosa in 1943

The Polish Film Club KINO OKO presents the 2012 documentary Santa Rosa. Odyssey in the Rhythm of Mariachi directed by Sławomir Grünberg. The film relates a story of over 1400 Polish refugees freed from the WWII Soviet camps, including hundreds of orphans, who found a friendly home in Santa Rosa, Mexico from 1943 to 1946. Mr. Grünberg is a Polish-born American documentary film maker; among among others, he directed Karski and the Lords of Humanity.

    

Where: at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski in Seattle; admission free

More: Santa Rosa movie site, the movie on the Club site,, S. Grunberg

Sep 12, 6 - 8 pm: Registration & Open House at the Polish School in Seattle

The Juliusz Slowacki Polish School in Seattle offers classes to individuals of all ages on Mondays as well as a preschool group on Saturday. Children from grades 1-8 learn Polish language & literature, as well history and geography of Poland; assignment is based on proficiency level in Polish. Adults can learn Polish as beginners or at intermediate & advanced levels.

 

Where: regular classes at the Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski on Mondays at 6 - 8:30 pm, preschool group for 5+ years old on Saturdays 10:15 am - 12 noon.

More: please contact Principal Maria Grabowska or Treasurer Ewa Roszkowski; Polish School in Seattle

Sep 11 from 11 am: Harvest Festival Dożynki at the Polish Parish in Tacoma

Fr. Eugeniusz Bolda and Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Tacoma invite everybody to a Polish Harvest Festival / Dożynki. The program follows the mass of Thanksgiving at 11 am and includes traditional Polish food, beer, music, souvenirs, games for children and more.

 

Where: at the Parish Hall of SS. Peter and Paul Church in Tacoma, WA; admission free, in Polish

More: Contact Ewa Anucinski or Fr. Bolda at the Parish (206) 282 1804.

Sep 9: The Polish Cultural Center Opens After Summer

The Polish Home opens after a summer break in the week after the Labor Day. In particular the restaurant and the bar will be open on Friday nights starting from Sep 9, 2016. The Sunday lunches start in October.

 

More: Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski in Seattle

Sep 7, 6:30 pm: Registration & Open House at the Polish School in Bellevue

Fr. Jan Twardowski Polish School in Bellevue invites children from the Eastside as well as Seattle. Subjects include Polish language, geography, history and culture classes offered to children from grades K (zerowka) to 8, based on proficiency in Polish. The School also has a program of Polish as a second language for children. All classes are on Wednesdays at 6:00 pm. The first day of school is Sep 14, 2014.

The registration is only for the new students, new students have to be present for skill assessment..

 
Where: at the East Shore Unitarian Church
Education Building in Bellevue, room E-204
More: Polish School in Bellevue,
School email contact or Anna Cholewinska at 425 736 1209.

 Till Sep 4: Irena Jablonski Painting Exhibition in Kirkland

Autumn Begins by I.J.

The Parklane Gallery in Kirkland presents two artists in August: Irena Jablonski with Human Interest exhibition and Larey McDaniel with Illusion of Color. Ms. Jablonski, a native of Poland and a structural engineer for over a decade, started on her artistic journey in mid-1990s. The exhibition in Kirkland has about fifteen of her oil paintings. Her favorite subjects are portraits from live models and from photographs.

   

Where: The Parklane Gallery in Kirkland from Aug 2 till Sep 4; admission free, business hours Tue-Thu 11-7, Fri 11-8, Sat-Sun 11-7. Artists' reception and Kirkland Art Walk on Friday, Aug 12, 5-8 pm.

More: about Irena Jablonski,

 
 

© 2016 Ryszard Kott

Photo "Fountain" courtesy Hanna Gil, Photo "Seattle" courtesy Ryszard Kwieciński