Seattle Gdynia Sister City Association is looking for host families for the students from Gdynia who will be coming to Seattle to participate in the 2024 Washington Business Week. The students will arrive on July 27/28 and depart on August 11. Between August 4th and 9th they will be full time at UPC, where the program takes place. Hosting students from Gdynia, Poland is a great way to participate in citizens’ diplomacy, and a great way to develop long lasting friendships. For the students from Gdynia it is often a life changing experience. Please send an email to Zbigniew Konofalski, SGSCA Pre ..read more

The movie “Porcelain War” has won the Best Documentary and the Golden Space Needle awards at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival. Sidorska was the principal producer and the creative force behind the movie; she is also a member of the Polish community in Seattle. The film received the US Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and Best Documentary and People’s Choice Awards at the 2024 Boulder International Film Festival. The awards give the winner the right to enter the 2025 Oscar competition. We will keep our fingers crossed for a documentary Oscar for Sidorska ..read more

Wendy Rader-Konofalski has several exciting art events coming up! This week she will be installing one large ocean scene painting called “Paradise” at the Caffe Ladro in Seattle’s 2 + U (at Second Avenue and University St).  This Caffe Ladro is across the street from the Seattle Art Museum. “Paradise” will be there till July 12th, 2024. Also, this month, starting April 30, Wendy will be showing a large number of paintings and collage work at the Creekside Senior Living Residence in Woodinville. The exhibit will extend till end of July, 2024. On Wednesday, May 1, Wendy has been invited to ..read more

The Kosciuszko Foundation is currently accepting applications for 2024 Summer Studies Abroad Program. The Kosciuszko Foundation offers Tomaszkiewicz-Florio and Wisconsin Study Polish Scholarships for students who wish to study Polish at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow or the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin. The Jagiellonian University offers programs from 2 to 6 weeks. Students can enroll in Polish language classes and up to two lectures from among the following courses: Polish grammar, history, literature, contemporary life in Poland, and the History of Jews in Poland. The Jo ..read more

Ronald “Roman” Golubiec, a pillar of our Polish community, died on January 24, 2024 in Seattle of old age, he was 91. Romuald Golubiec was born in Riga, Latvia on July 27, 1932.  His father was arrested and taken away by the Soviets.  His mother later remarried to the Polish Consul, Boleslaw Golubiec.  After the Soviet Union invaded the Baltic countries in 1940 his stepfather was also arrested and sent to Siberia but managed to return to Latvia after the war. His mother Jadwiga managed to save them by evacuating to Germany before WWII ended as the Soviets were approaching. He th ..read more

Kazimierz Poznanski, a well-known UW professor of economics, has died on March 26, 2024. He was almost 78 years old. Kazimierz Z. Poznanski was born in Germany in 1946, brought up in Poland, he came to the United States in 1980 at the invitation of the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He joined the University of Washington’s Henry Jackson School of International Studies in 1987 where he has been a tenured Professor of Economics since 1997.  Between 1981-1987, he taught economics as a visiting professor at Cornell University, Virginia ..read more

The Seattle Polish Film Festival welcomes back Dr. Michal Friedrich, one of the SPFF founders, as the Executive Director, who takes over from Zbigniew Konofalski, who was the Managing Director of the 2023 festival. Marlena Szymaszek, who was the Artistic Director in 2023, continues in her role for this year’s festival. Opening of 32nd Seattle Polish Film Festival will be on November 9th, 2024, at Egyptian Theater with West Coast premiere of ” KOS”, a biopic of Tadeusz Kosciuszko directed by Paweł Maślona. The festival dates are November 9th-17th. The Seattle Polish Film Festival awarded life a ..read more

Need some Polish food for Easter? You can obtain many of your favorites by filling out this form and sending it to kuchnia@polishhome.org. then pick up your order at the Polish Cultural Center on Friday, March 29 from 3 pm to 8 pm ..read more

Welcome to NAWA summer courses in Polish language, history and culture. We invite you to a country with an extraordinary tradition of freedom, tolerance and democracy – a country that created the first constitution in Europe and a union with Lithuania which is a model of integration with equal rights; a country with the DNA of peaceful cooperation, and at the same time a country which, thanks to its sovereignty regained in 1989, has become a place of dynamic economic and scientific development and a leader in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. NAWA summer courses provide a unique opport ..read more

Drodzy Uczniowie, Nauczyciele, Redaktorzy i Działacze Polonijni, Zapraszamy do udziału w XV edycji konkursu “Być Polakiem” w Module A (dla uczniów) i Module B (dla nauczycieli polonijnych). Szczegółowe informacje są tutaj https://bycpolakiem.pl/. Termin składania prac jest 18 marca 2024. W ubiegłym roku uczestniczyło w Konkursie prawie 1.300 uczestników z 43 krajów świata, we wszystkich poprzednich edycjach – prawie 15.000 dzieci i młodzieży. Uroczysta Gala z uhonorowaniem Laureatów i Wyróżnionych odbędzie się w Zamku Królewskim w Warszawie w dniu 31 lipca 2024 r. – serdecznie na nią zapr ..read more