Join us on Friday, April 15th from 4-7pm for a Lenten fish fry dinner. Your dinner includes an excellent deep fried blue fish main course, and all the fixin’s… Come and eat! Come and pray!
Please join us for our annual Basket Social on Sunday, April 3rd at the VFW Hall – Fifth Avenue, Schenectady (Crane St. to 6th Ave. then right on Webster to 5th Ave.).
- Doors open at Noon
- Admission $2
- 50+ Themed baskets to be raffled
- Door Prizes
- and Polish Food!!!
Come out and enjoy Spring, socialize, have a good time, and try your luck. Everyone is welcome! Please call 518-372-1992 for more information.
The Polish Community Center, 225 Washington Ave Ext, Albany NY is presenting a Valentine’s Dinner & Dance! This night of romance, fine food, music and fun will take place on Friday, February 11th from 7pm to 12:30 am at the PCC Grand Ballroom.
Tickets are $59 per person for singles and $54 per person for couples. Those reserving a table of 6 or more are $49 per person.
The evening includes a Rose, Music & Entertainment by Legendary DJ Ric Mitchell, a Four Course Dinner, Dancing, Late Night Buffet, Cash Bar, and Couple Photos by Chris Milian Photography.
Reservations are required in advance and tickets must be purchased by Tuesday, February 8th. Please phone (518) 456-3995 or contact Charles Newton. Cash, Check, and Major Credit Cards accepted.
The Polish Community Center invites all to its Traditional Polish Wigilia – Vigil Supper and “Tribute to Volunteers” honoring those who have given of their time and talents on Saturday, January 15th starting at 6pm.
The eveing will include a sharing of “Opłatek” (Oblation Wafer), the customs and traditions of Christmas, singing of Kolędy And Carols, and familiar Polish Cuisine.
Member, guests, and friends are welcome. Reservations are recommended. Tickets are $12, Volunteers are free. Please call 518-456-3995 to make reservations.
The PCC is located at 225 Washington Ave Ext, Albany NY 12205.
Break out the noise makers and strike up the band. Let’s ring in the New Year the best way we can!
Join the Polish Community Center, 225 Washington Ave Ext, Albany NY, for a New Year’s Eve Party on Friday, December 31 starting at 7pm. Advance tickets are $85 per person if paid by 12/26, $100 per person at the door. Your admission includes appetizers, buffet dinner, Viennese dessert table, coffee, tea, house open bar, champagne toast at midnight, dancing, party favors, midnight snack. Live entertainment with DJ Paradise (contemporary music).
For reservation please call the Polish Community Center at 518-456-3995 or Marian Wiercioch at 518-235-5549.
Przywitaj Nowy Rok 2011 po Polsku!
Bal Sylwestrowy organizowany przez Polski Klub w Albany NY (225 Washington Ave Ext, Albany NY 12205)
Piątek 31 Grudnia, 2010 rozpoczęcie balu o godz. 7 wieczorem do tańca gra DJ Paradise.
$85 od osoby za bilety przedpłacone do 26 grudnia, $100 od osoby za bilety przy wejściu.
W cenie wliczone zimne przekąski, kolacja, posiłek po północy, alkohol, ciasto, kawa, herbata, szampański toast o północy, kapelusze, trąbki
Wszystkich serdecznie zapraszamy na szampańska zabawę!
Po bilety i rezerwacje prosimy dzwonić do Klubu PCC: 518-456-3995 albo Marian Wiercioch 518-235-5549
From WGRZ-TV in Buffalo and friend Andy Golebiowski: Main Ingredient in Good Sauerkraut: Love
DELAVAN, N.Y. – Every year Steve and Diane Woloszyn invite friends and neighbors over to their house to make sauerkraut for the winter. Their homestead on Weaver Rd. serves as a gathering place for friends from Grand Island to Springville, as well as neighbors from down the road, who bring their crocks to be filled with shredded cabbage. When asked what goes into making the sauerkraut, Steve answers, “A lotta love !”
Along with love, he adds caraway seeds and carrots, according to his taste, and salt to help the cabbage ferment. The caraway seeds his father taught him to add. Adding carrots was something his friend Tony Zawadzki shared with him.
For some who come together, the making of sauerkraut is a continuation of what they learned as children from their grandparents. Tony, who lives in Cheektowaga, makes the 45 minute trek every year to lend the expertise he learned as a boy in Poland. Tony says that he alway looks for easier ways to do things. Some years he used to cut through 50 heads of cabbage for the family in one sitting with a knife. This year he came up with an idea to use a bow saw instead.
“I kiss the saw for making it easy”, jokes Tony, to which 10 year-old Eric Ward responds in all seriousness “My dad actually says ‘Don’t take the easy way out.'”
Eric was joined by his brother younger brother Ryan and little Colton. Colton digs through the huge box full of cabbage looking for leaves that he offers to those working at a long table. There Eric and Ryan’s mom Kerry and Tony Zawadzki’s wife Lottie do the cutting by hand. Kerry says she never liked sauerkraut until she tried the homemade she learned to make from Diane and Steve. Asked what she likes in her sauerkraut, she points to Diane and says “Whatever she makes.”
When the sauerkraut is done, Diane will bake it together with meats and spices to make a stew called “bigos”…
A real tribute to lived tradition and family. Great job Andy!
Spaghetti Dinner: Good Shepherd Polish National Catholic Church, 269 E. Main St., Plymouth, PA. on Saturday, November 15th from 4-7pm. Spaghetti with meat sauce, breadsticks, salad bar, dessert and beverage served. Adults pay $8; $4 for children younger than 10 years old. Takeouts available! A gift card raffle is included. Call 570-690-5411 for more information.
Cirque du Soleil’s WINTUK: The Polish Community Center is sponsoring a bus trip to see Cirque du Soleil’s WINTUK at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday, November 20th. Tickets are $85 and include a show ticket plus round trip charter bus transportation. A regular ticket alone costs $150!!! The bus leaves the University at Albany from the Collins Circle bus stop at 7am. The show begins at 11am. There will be free time in afternoon to see NYC. The bus departs NYC at 6pm arriving back in Albany around 9pm. For more information, please contact Susan or Cathleen.
Thanksgiving Service: St. Mary’s Polish National Catholic Church will host Duryea’s annual ecumenical Thanksgiving service Tuesday, Nov. 23 at 7 p.m. at the church, 200 Stephenson St., Duryea, PA. The members of the Duryea Police Department, the Duryea Ambulance and Rescue Association, the Excelsior Hose Company No. 2, and Germania Hose Company will be honored at this time. Clergy from other Duryea area churches will participate in the service. Following the service, refreshments will be served in the church hall. Lori Biscontini is the chairwoman for this event. The Rev. Carmen Bolock is the pastor of St. Mary’s PNCC, and Byron Wescott is the church chairman.
St. Andrew’s Ball: The Polish Community Center of Albany cordially invites everyone for our annual Fall Dance on Saturday, November 27th, beginning at 7pm. Food from our Polish-American kitchen will be served and there will be a cash bar. Tickets are $15 per person. Entertainment by the Galicja Band. The Center is located at 225 Washington Ave Ext., Albany NY. For reservations and information please call Dariusz Figiel at 518-235-6001 or Marian Wiercioch at 518-235-5549.
Andrzejki 2010: Zapraszamy na wspólną zabawę Andrzejkową która odbędzie się w Polskim Klubie, 225 Washington Ave Ext, Albany, NY na 27-go listopada o godzinie 7-ej wieczorem. Wstep $15 od osoby. Polsko–Amerykańska kuchnia! i “cash bar!” Gra zespół “Galicja” z Connecticut. Po bilety prosimy dzwonić do: Dariusza Figiel 518-235-6001 albo Mariana Wiercioch 518- 235-5549.
The Cosmopolitan Review is published by the alumni of Poland in the Rockies, a biennial symposium in Polish studies held at Canmore, Alberta, Canada. Here is a video from last summer’s sessions:
Each Review is a wealth of information on everything from books to politics, history to poetry. The following are links to articles from the Summer 2010 and Fall 2010 editions I thought you might find interesting and enlightening:
Summer 2010, Vol. 2, No. 2
Poland
… And beyond
- What a Difference an Afghan (business)Woman Makes
- Big Mary and Slavic Miners’ Battle with King Coal
- Poles and Hungarians: “Dwa Bratanki”
- Not Your Grandma’s Pierogi: A Guide to Polish Food in Chicago
- A Passionate Life Lived: Aneta Naszynska
Art
Essays
- The Clock is Ticking: Bridging the Gap Between Young and Elder Polonia
- Echoes from the Past: Awakening Agency and Advocacy in the Young Polish Diaspora
- Finding our Brand, Building Legitimate Pride
Books & Docs
- Polish Orphans of Tengeru: The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada
- A Long Time Ago and Essentially True
- Uprooting Halina: A Journey From Siberia to Iran and Canada
Poetry
From the Past Into the Present
- Chivalry Remembered in the UK: The Old Poles and the New
- “The Officer’s Wife”: A Conversation with Director Piotr Uzarowicz
Fall 2010 Vol. 2, No. 3
Poles & Poland
- The Spy Who Dazzled Churchill
- On the Edge: Poland’s Role as Border State of NATO and the European Union
- The Media’s Slander of Poland: Ignorance, Lazy Editing, or Malicious Libel?
… And beyond
Books, language, poetry…
At Good Shepherd PNCC in Plymouth, PA: Potato-Cheese Pierogi Sale on Sunday, October 31st from 3-5 p.m. at the Parish, 269 E. Main St., Plymouth, PA. To place pre-orders, please call 570-690-5411.
At All Saints PNCC in Rome, NY: Parish Dinner and Food Sale: All Saints will be holding a fund raiser to raise money for a new heating system for the Parish on Sunday, November 7th from 12 noon to 3pm, or until sold out. A choice of Chicken Riggies or Pork Chops will be served with tomato basil soup, and salad. Appropriate side dishes will be served. Homemade desserts will be included. Orders for Thanksgiving pierogi and galumbki will also be taken. Cost for the dinner is is $10.00 per person. For more information, please call 315-337-2382 or send an E-mail.
From IWJ: National Day of Action Against Wage Theft: A National Day of Action Against Wage Theft is being scheduled for Thursday, November 18th. November 18 is one week before Thanksgiving, a time when we celebrate our plenty at feasts throughout the nation. But workers who have had their legal wages stolen will be struggling to provide for their families this season. IWJ and workers across the country whose wages have been stolen need your help.
A Conference Call discussing the event will take place next Thursday, November 4th where you can learn what you can do in your community on that critical day. Please join in at 2pm EST. The call-in number is (760) 569-0111 and the Participant Access Code is: 1085004#. Groups across the country are organizing rallies, bus tours, prayer vigils, educational forums and legislative visits to highlight the ongoing crisis of wage theft and the many ways that workers and communities are fighting it.
From Duke University: An evening with Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk: One of Poland’s best contemporary writers, Olga Tokarczuk, will be reading from her work at The Perkins Library, Duke University on Thursday, November 11th at 7:30pm. This is a great opportunity to learn more about contemporary Polish culture, the literary scene, and to meet the author of Primeval and Other Times. Please E-mail Beth Holmgren for more information.
Olga Tokarczuk was born in 1962 in Sulechów near Zielona Góra, Poland. A recipient of all of Poland’s top literary awards, she is one of the most critically acclaimed authors of her generation. After finishing her psychology degree at the University of Warsaw, she initially practiced as a therapist. Since the publication of her first book in 1989, a collection of poems, Tokarczuk has published nine volumes of stories, novellas, and novels. In English her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, as has her novel House of Day, House of Night. In 1998 Tokarczuk moved to a small village near the Czech border and now divides her time between there and Wroclaw. For her latest novel, Bieguni [The Runners], she received Poland’s top book award, the Nike Prize, in 2008.
From WWLP: Polish church holds ‘Harvest Dinner’
Harvest Dinner is a time honored occasion at St. Valentine’s Polish National Catholic Church in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Parishioners filled the Church’s social center to celebrate what’s become a tradition at Polish National Catholic Churches everywhere.
“It’s a celebration of all the wonderful gifts that God has given us through the growing seasons. And we always gather together as a church family,” said Father Senior Joseph Soltysiak.And as part of that longstanding tradition, the St. Valentine’s spiritual leader told 22News, parishioners invite members of other churches to share the celebration.