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October
2004 |
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Oct 31 |
Russian Bazaar |
Halloween party
for kids at the Polish Home
Halloween Disco at the
Polish Home |
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Halloween party
for kids at the Polish Home |
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Oct 30 |
Halloween Disco at the
Polish Home |
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Russian Bazaar |
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Oct 27 |
George Fiore in The
Full Chopin at Town Hall in Seattle |
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Oct 25 |
Milosz book reading
at the Elliot Book Company |
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Oct 23 |
A Gombrowicz spectacle
in Vancouver, B.C. |
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Oct 17 |
3rd Annual Potato
Pancake Festival in Tacoma |
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Oct 16 |
Disco at the Polish Home |
Polish Book Club
meeting in a Seattle library
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Oct 15 |
CANCELED -
Cabaret Pod Banka
at the Polish Home - CANCELED |
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Oct 11 |
Lecture on Environmental Impacts of the EU
Enlargement at UW |
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Oct 10 |
Mark Salman in concert at Benaroya |
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Oct 9-14 |
The Big Animal at
Grand Illusion cinema in Seattle |
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Oct 9 |
Polish Book Club
meeting in a Seattle library |
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Oct 8-10 |
Songs of
Eva in Portland |
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Oct 6 |
George Fiore in The
Full Chopin at Town Hall in Seattle |
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Oct 3 |
Warsaw Rising 44:
prof. Chodakiewicz lectures at UW |
Prof. Marek
Chodakiewicz |
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Oct 2 |
Warsaw Rising 44: the CNN documentary about the
Uprising and a public lecture at the Seattle Central Library |
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Oct 2 |
Warsaw Rising 44,
ribbon cutting ceremony at the Seattle City Hall, Open House at the
City Hall |
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Oct 2 |
Warsaw Rising 44,
book exhibition
at the Seattle Public Library |
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Sep 23- Oct 7 |
Warsaw Rising 44: documentary exhibition
at the Seattle City Hall |
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Oct 31, 4-6 pm:
Halloween party for kids at Polish Home |
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Polish Scouts
invite for a Halloween party for kids at the Polish Home on Sunday
afternoon.
Where:
at the Polish Home,
1714 18th Ave in
Seattle, admission $5 includes dinner
More:
Polish Home |
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Oct 30, 11 am- 6 pm & Oct 31, noon – 5 pm:
Russian Bazaar |
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Our neighbors
from the Capitol Hill invite to the 33rd Russian annual bazaar.
Russian handicrafts, icons, books and other
souvenirs as well as traditional foods such as borscht,
pelmeni.
pirozhki and pastries will be
available. One sure attraction is a live music by a balalaika
ensemble and a choral song groups. The Orthodox Cathedral will be
also open for bazaar visitors with Fr. Alexi
Kotar serving as the guide.
Where: at the Hall of the Saint Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral,
1714 13th Ave,
Seattle; admission free.
More:
Saint
Nicholas Cathedral |
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Oct 30, 8 pm: Halloween Disco at the Polish
Home |
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DJ Marcin
Ludowicz invites to the Halloween theme disco at the Polish Home.
Halloween costumes encouraged but not required. You need to be 21+
to attend.
Where:
at the Polish Home; tickets $10
More:
Polish Home |
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Oct 27, 7:30 pm: George Fiore in
The Full Chopin at
Town Hall in Seattle |
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Fryderyk Chopin |
George Fiore is
Seattle Symphony’s Chorale conductor and a foremost interpreter of
the music of the great Frederic. He will present a two evening
celebration of Chopin works on Oct 6 & 27. On Oct 27 the focus will be on
Chopin’s influence on composers such as Wagner, Debussy and
Rachmaninoff. The program includes the Ballades, Etudes, Berceuse
and several songs (in English) and Mazurkas performed by Donna
Cole, mezzo-soprano and Barbara Scheel, soprano.
Where:
Town Hall, Eight Ave
at Seneca St,
downtown Seattle;
tickets $16/$13 advanced, $18/$15 at the door.
More:
www.townhallseattle.org,
www.ticketweb.com |
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Oct 25, 7:30 pm:
Milosz
reading at Elliott Bay |
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The Elliot Bay
Mandelstam Society invites to a meeting focusing on reading &
discussion of Czeslaw Milosz’s last new book,
Second Space (Ecco Press). The poems have been
translated by the author and Robert Hass. The Society meets once a
month at the Elliot Bay Book Company to read and discuss works of
various poets.
Where: at the Elliott Book
Company, 101 S. Main
St, Seattle;
admission free
More:
Second Space ,
Milosz,
Elliot Bay Mandelstam Society,
Elliot
Book Company |
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Oct 23, 7:30 pm: A Gombrowicz spectacle
in Vancouver,
BC |
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Witold Gombrowicz |
Polish
Association Zgoda
and Teatr Popularny
from Vancouver,
BC, invite to a spectacle
Witold Gombrowicz: Pol blazna,
pol panicza directed by Jerzy Kopczewski. The text in
Polish, selected and arranged by
Andrzej Jar and Jerzy Kopczewski is based on two popular novels by
Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke
and Trans-Atlantyk.
The cast includes Jerzy Janeczek from
Seattle
area. This being the Gombrowicz’s year in
Poland (it’s the 100th
anniversary of his birth), the spectacle will be introduce by
Prof. Bohdan Czaykowski of UBC.
Where:
Norman Rothstein Theatre, 950 W. 41 Avenue,
Vancouver, B.C; tickets $20
More:
About Witold
Gombrowicz |
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Oct 17, noon – 6 pm:
3rd Annual Potato Pancake Festival in
Tacoma |
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Pancake galore
at the Polish Hall in
Tacoma: original Polish potato pancakes,
Hungarian pancakes, mushroom & onion pancakes and more plus red
borsch etc. Polish beer and drinks available. Live music by the
Button Box Band. Sponsored by the Polish National Alliance in
Tacoma
and Miro’s Catering.
Where:
the Polish Hall, 1650 E 30 St, in
Tacoma; admission free, you pay for food
and drinks
More:
(253)8394529, (253)581-9955, e-mail
pavaroti1@excite.com |
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Oct 16, 8 pm: Disco at the Polish Home |
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This disco
evening is with Maciek Pietrzyk as the DJ. For 21+ crowd only.
Where: at the Polish Home;
tickets $10 |
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CANCELED
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Oct 15, 8 pm: Cabaret
Pod
Banka at the
Polish Home -
CANCELED |
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The NW tour of the Cabaret
Pod Banka through
Vancouver,
Seattle &
Portland has been canceled. Sold tickets
are reimbursed in full. To get your money back please contact the
person you bought the tickets from.
Where:
at the Polish Home,
1714 18th Ave in
Seattle
More:
Polish Home, Barbara
Strutynski, (425) 746-3037 |
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Oct 11, 3:30 pm: Lecture on
Environmental Impacts of the EU Enlargement at UW |
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Dr. Adam Budnikowski will have a
lecture Environmental
Impacts of the EU Enlargement: A Central and East European View.
The European Union has been the principal driving force
in raising environmental standards across
Europe. The recent enlargement is perhaps the most
concrete example of this as the countries of Central and
Eastern Europe have moved rapidly to increase levels
of environmental protection under the guidance of the European
Union. Dr. Budnikowski is the Director
of the Institute
of International Economics
at the Warsaw School of Economics and the author of many books and
studies.
Where:
Thomson Hall 317,
University
of Washington
More:
more info (206) 543 4852 |
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Oct 10, 2 pm: Mark
Salman in concert at Benaroya |
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Mark Salman |
The Chopin
Foundation invites to a concert by Mark
Salman, a powerful, dramatic young virtuoso who is a local
to Seattle Area. As a winner of the Young Musician's Award, he had
his New York debut recital in
1989 in Carnegie Hall at which he gave the
New York
premiere of three of Liszt's works. Since then, he has become
known for his original artistry and wide repertoire,
and best known for his Beethoven sonatas. At this concert
he will play Chopin.
He will play
an all Chopin program including Polonaise-fantasie
in A flat major, Op. 61, the Mazurkas of Op. 59, the Waltz No. 1
in A flat major, Op. 34, the Ballade No. 4, Op. 52, the Nocturne
No. 1 in C minor, the Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, and of
course some surprises!
Where:
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in
Benaroya Symphony Hall, Third & Union,
Seattle; tickets $20, $15 seniors, $10
students, at Benaroya,
ticketmaster and at the Chopin
Foundation (206) 381-1416.
More:
Mark Salman,
Chopin
Foundation |
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Oct 9-14:
The Big Animal
at Grand Illusion in
Seattle |
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This parable
about non-conformity has been directed by Jerzy Stuhr to a script
by Krzysztof Kieslowski. Mr. Stuhr also plays the leading role of
a small town dweller who finds his life turned upside down by
adopted camel. The movie was shown in
Seattle
together with A Week in a
Life of Man during Stuhr’s visit at 2001 SIFF when he
was one of the Festival’s featured directors.
Where:
Grand Illusion Theatre,
1403 NE 50th St, Seattle,
206-523-3935, Sat-Sun 4, 5:45, 7:30, 9:15,
M-T 7:30, 9:15
More:
movie
The big
animal,
Stuhr
Jerzy Stuhr,
Grand Illusion cinema |
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Oct 9, 1 pm: Polish Book Club meeting in a
Seattle library |
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The books to
be discussed at the next meeting are
Zlote
Ogniwa.
Polska-Europa by Norman Davies, about
intertwining and interdependencies of Polish and European
histories, and
Nie
wszystko na
sprzedaz, by Beata
Tyszkiewicz, a memoir of the famous
Polish actress. Both books are in Polish and are available at the
Seattle Central Public Library in several copies thanks to a grant
from the SPL. Please inquire at the information desk at the LEW
Dept. New members are always welcome.
Where:
North
East Branch,
Seattle
Public Library, 6801
35th Ave. N.E. Seattle,
WA
98115, 206-684-7539
More: Hanna Gil, (425)
957-9029 or
Leszek Chudzinski,
SPL librarian, (206) 733-9078 or (206) 733-9621, about
Polish Book Club |
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Oct 8-10, 7:30 pm:
Songs of Eva
in Portland |
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This dance performance to the music of Jack Gabel (a
Portland
composer) and Zygmunt Konieczny has been prepared by o
Portland choreographer Agnieszka Laska. The
event includes a dance piece to the music of Thomas Svoboda
performed by the Portland Sobotka dance group. Ms. Laska is
an innovative choreographer who created several dance performances
in Portland
over the last 2 1/2
years. The name of the program honors Ms. Ewa
Demarczyk, the famous Polish singer known for her interpretations
of songs by Konieczny.
Where:
PSU Lincoln Performance Hall, 1620 SW Park,
Portland
on Oct 8,9,10 at 7:30 pm; tickets $15 & less at
503-725-3307 or Ticketmaster.
More:
www.a-laska.com |
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Oct 6, 7:30 pm: George Fiore in
The Full Chopin at
Town Hall in Seattle |
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Fryderyk Chopin |
George Fiore is
Seattle Symphony’s Chorale conductor and a foremost interpreter of
the music of the great Frederic. He will present a two evening
celebration of Chopin works works on Oct 6 & 27. On Oct 6 he will perform and talk
about Scherzos, Preludes, Nocturnes and Impromptus with Aaron
Nation playing movements from a cello sonata.
Where:
Town Hall, Eight Ave
at Seneca St,
downtown Seattle;
tickets $16/$13 advanced, $18/$15 at the door.
More:
www.townhallseattle.org,
www.ticketweb.com |
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Oct 3, 7 pm:
Warsaw Rising 44: Prof. Chodakiewicz
lectures at UW |
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Prof. Marek Chodakiewicz
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Prof.
Chodakiewicz will also lecture on the historical and political
context of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising at the
University of Washington.
Dr. Chodakiewicz is Research Professor of History at the Institute
for World Politics in
Washington,
D.C.. He
comes as a guest of the UW Polish Studies Endowment Fund
Committee. After the lecture the Committee invites to a
traditional reception.
Where:
At the Kane Hall on the
University of Washington
campus; admission free.
More: article by prof.
Chodakiewicz can be read
here |
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Oct 2, 2 -
4
pm:
Warsaw Rising
44:
the CNN documentary about the Uprising and a public lecture
at the Seattle
Central Library |
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Prof. Marek Chodakiewicz |
The movie is the
recent excellent CNN documentary on the Warsaw Uprising featuring
original film clips from the Uprising as well as commentary by
former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and historian
Norman Davies. Prof. Marek Chodakiewicz will have a public lecture
on the historical and political context of the Uprising and on
making the movie. Prof. Chodakiewicz
is “the man behind the movie”—he was the main consultant for the
documentary, as well as a consultant for the documentary
exhibition in Seattle. This event has been organized by
the Polish Home Foundation and also supported by the Seattle
Public Library and UW Polish Studies Endowment Fund Committee.
Where: at
the Microsoft Auditorium,
Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave, Seattle, at the
4th Ave floor; admission free.
More:
volunteers
needed, contact:
Ryszard Kott;
details of other events at the
PHF website.
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Seattle Central Public Library |
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Oct 2, 1:30 pm: Ribbon-cutting ceremony for the City Hall
exhibition,
Oct 2, 1- 5 pm:
Open house at City Hall |
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The ribbon-cutting
ceremony for
the documentary exhibition Warsaw Uprising 1944
with representatives of the City, Seattle-Gdynia
Sister City Association and Polish Home Foundation is scheduled for 1:30
pm.
The
exhibition at City Hall is also open to the public M–F, 8 am to 6 pm,
September 23 – October
Seattle
City Hall
will be open on Saturday, October 2, from 1 pm to 5 pm for the
convenience of visitors who would like to attend events scheduled at the
Seattle Central Library from 2 to 4 pm and see the exhibition at one
outing.
Where: at the
Seattle City Hall, 601 5th Avenue, Seattle, admission free
More:
Ryszard Kott, more on
Seattle events
Polish News Seattle
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Oct 2, 1 - 5 pm:
Warsaw
Rising 44: book exhibition at the
Seattle Central
Library |
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The book
exhibition 63 Days and
Nights features books and albums as well as films in
English and Polish about the Uprising with an advice how to
obtain them. The exhibition has been organized by Hanna Gil of
the Polish Book Club and is supported by the Polish Home
Foundation.
The
Foundation plans to donate books and DVDs to
Seattle
libraries, such as city and university libraries, to help
educate American public about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Cash
and book donations in support of this goal are welcome, contact:
PHF.
Where:
at the
Seattle Central Library,
by the Microsoft Auditorium
(4th Ave
floor), during the movie and lecture event, admission free
More:
Hanna Gil,
PHF website,
Polish Book Club
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Seattle Central Public Library |
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Sep
23-Oct 7:
Warsaw Rising 44: exhibition at the Seattle City
Hall |
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The same exhibition
that goes on display at the Polish Home first is presented at the main
lobby of the City Hall and is easily available for visiting. The main
part of the documentary exhibition
Warsaw
Uprising 1944 consists of documentary photos, maps and text
describing the stages and circumstances of the extraordinary 63-day
struggle. It also pays tribute to the American airmen who died flying
over Warsaw
in September 1944. The main exhibition has been commissioned by the
Polish Consulate in Los Angeles
and the additional exhibit prepared by K. Poraj-Kuczewski. The
exhibition has been organized by Ryszard Kott and is supported by Polish
Home Foundation, Seattle-Gdynia Sister City
Association and the City of
Seattle.
Seattle
City Hall
will be open on Saturday, October 2, from 1 pm to 5 pm for the
convenience of visitors who would like to attend events scheduled at the
Seattle Central Library from 2 to 4 pm and see the exhibition at one
outing.
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