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Tokarczuk Translators
PFF Miami
Yellow
Peonies
by
Kaz Poznanski
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Until Nov 18:
Get to
Know Poland's Podkarpackie at PFF Miami |
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Wypasiony raj |
The Polish Film
Festival Miami and the Podkarpackie Film Commission present four
documentaries exploring the Podkarpackie region - the south east
highland corner of Poland with Bieszczady and the Beskidy
Mountains.
All movies
available for streaming at your convenience till November 18,
2020
Open Range / Wypasionay Raj (2017) by
Rafał Gużkowski
The
Residents of Moczary / Moczarowi mieszkańcy
(2016) by Rafał Gużkowski
Master and Apprentice / Mistrz i uczeń (2020)
by Katarzyna Mazurkiewicz
The
Armorer Must be a Musician / Płatnerz musi byc muzykiem
(2017) by Katarzyna Mazurkiewicz
Where: PFF Miami site
streaming is free but you need to
create an
account there
More:
once you
log in, you can stream movies |
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Sep 25, 7-9 am: A Flight of
Tokarczuk Translators at CUNY online |
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The Center for
the Humanities of the Graduate Center, City University of New
York presents the online conversation A Flight of Tokarczuk
Translators that is part of the Translating the Future
program. This event will feature 12 of Olga Tokarczuk's
translators
bringing her works to English, Japanese, Hindi, Ukrainian,
German, Czech, Norwegian, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and
Romanian readers.
They will compare and contrast their experiences working with
the challenging and dynamic author over the course of her
career.
Where: online; the event is free but
registration
at evenbrite is required
More:
Flight of Tokarczuk Translators, please note: other
conversations of the 20-week Translating the Future program are
available on youtube or CUNY, so hopefully this panel will also
be available later. |
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Sep 25, at
7 pm:
Virtual Polish Book Club Meeting on Zoom |
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Polish Book Club invites to the August meeting
on Zoom. The book to discuss is Przenajświętsza
Rzeczypospolita by Jacek Piekara published by Fabryka Snów in
2018 (first edition 2006). Piekara, 55 is a fantasy and
science-fiction writer, nowadays mostly known due to his fantasy
series about wizard Arivald and another one about inquisitor
Mortimer Madderdin. The book is a political dystopia set in
future Poland ruled by religious fanatics and utterly corrupted
elites. This event is in Polish.
Where: on Zoom; please contact
Paulina
for the Zoom invite or more info
More:
virtual Polish Book Club
September meeting
(PL),
about the book and the author (PL) |
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Sep 12, 10 am - noon: We Are History
Keepers! Workshop
on Zoom |
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The Ethnic
Heritage Council and the UW Libraries
present another edition of the We are History Keepers Virtual Workshop.
This is a shortened version of the workshop on preserving
history of local ethnic communities. Please check the
workshop
website for details of this program and of another one
coming in September.
Where: on Zoom; the workshop is free but
registration is required
More: We
Are History Keepers |
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Sep 11, at 7 pm: Virtual
Polish Literature Club Meeting on Zoom |
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The
Polish Cultural Center starts a new book club for
people who'd like to read and discuss Polish literature in
English (yes!), organized by indomitable Paulina Phung. The book to
discuss at the first meeting is Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing by
Maryla Szymiczkowa. Szymiczkowa is the pen name of Jacek Dehnel
and Piotr Tarczyński. This fin-de-sičcle mystery book has been
praised by none other than the Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk
as "an ingenious marriage of comedy and crime".
Where:
on Zoom; please contact
Paulina
for the Zoom invite or more info
More:
about the book and the authors,
club info about the September meeting |
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Sep 9, at 7 pm:
Lecture The Journey of Polish OBCY on Zoom |
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Polish Noble by Norblin |
The
UW
Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites you to an online
lecture From Ours to Alien: The Journey of Polish OBCY"
by Katarzyna Dziwirek. Prof. Dziwirek is the Chair of the UW
Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures; her research
focuses on semantics & syntax and especially in expressions of
emotion and perception. The presentation traces the history of
the Polish word
obcy
(alien)
that originally meant common, mutual, collective and it links it
with the emergence of the Polish nobles as a class and their
ethos.
Where: this lecture is on Zoom; you need to
register here,
and a link will be send to you
More:
detailed info about the lecture at the UW PSEC site |
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Sep 5-26: K.
Poznanski Painting Exhibition
at the Fountainhead Gallery |
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Yellow
Peonies
by
Kaz Poznanski |
The Fountainhead
Gallery presents two painters in September: Kaz Poznanski and
Bergen Rose that includes six oil
paintings by Kazimierz Poznanski, from his Flowers of Color abstract
realism series. Mr. Poznanski is a painter, poet, writer and a
Professor of Economics at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle,
with interest in Chinese art.
Where: The
Fountainhead Gallery
in Seattle till September 26;
admission free, business hours Thursday through Sunday 12-5 pm
or by appointment.
More: about Kaz Poznanski |
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Aug 27 - Sep 16:
Late Summer Nostalgia Movies at PFF Miami |
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The Polish Film
Festival Miami and the Embassy of Poland in Washington, DC
present a cinematic retrospective Late Summer Nostalgia. All movies in
Polish with English subtitles.
Streaming
available at different times at your convenience
8/27 - 9/2 Goodbye, Till Tomorrow / Do
widzenia, do jutra (1960) by Janusz Morgenstern, drama
8/27 - 9/9 Double Trouble / Tarapaty
(2017) by Marta Karwowska, family adventure
9/3 - 9/9 Papusza (2013)
by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze, biopic of the
Roma poet
9/10 - 9/16 Strawberry Wine / Wino truskawkowe
(2007) by Dariusz Jabłoński, drama
Where: PFF Miami site
streaming is free but you need to
create an
account there
More:
once you
log in, you can stream movies |
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Sep 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 at 12:30
pm: Flavor of Poland on KCTS9 |
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This series was originally broadcast
on KCTS 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
by Aleksandra August, the series shows off not only
distinctly Polish dishes (check out the
sorrel &
crayfish soup recipe!) but also the most beautiful and
interesting aspects and landscapes of Poland.
Where: On the
KCTS9 channel in the Seattle area on Wednesdays at 12:30 pm
More:
Flavor of Poland
website |
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Till Sep 4:
Kids
Animations for Vacations
at PFF Miami |
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In a rare show
of Polish movies for younger kids in the USA, the Polish Film
Festival Miami and the Embassy of Poland in Washington, DC
present a special event Animations for Vacations with
three animated short movies in one screening. All movies in
Polish, versions with English subtitles available
13' Milek From the Black Forest /
Miłek z Czarnego Lasu
13' Flax / Len
13' It's Quite True! / To pewna wiasomość
Where: PFF Miami site,
streaming is $5.99 for all three movies together
More:
check out
the movie Double Trouble / Tarapaty that is part of the Late
Summer Nostalgia program |
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