| | PAAA 60th Anniversary Gala -- Organizational Meeting
Join us on Saturday, February 28, at 10:30 AM at the Washington, DC Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library located at 5625 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC for an important meeting to help organize our upcoming 60th anniversary gala.
Please RSVP HERE to our organizing meeting or let us know how else you can be involved. We cannot do it without you! | | |  | Our very own mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wór will be performing in Kensington, MD on March 7!
This program by Cantate Concert Choir presents themes of separation and yearning with Maurice Duruflé’s haunting Requiem as the centerpiece. This chant-based masterwork, focused on peace and forgiveness, is complemented by Alan Hovhaness’s From the End of the Earth, Shruthi Rajasekar’s A Heart in Port, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s By the Waters of Babylon. Featuring baritone James Rogers, mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wór, and organist Marvin Mills.
More information here. | | |  | The Kosciuszko Foundation’s 3rd Annual Polish Film Festival returns to town March 19–22, 2026, lighting up the screen at Bethesda Row Cinema with the boldest voices and most talked-about films from contemporary Polish cinema—fresh from the Gdynia Film Festival.
Full details: https://www.kfpolishfilmfest.org/ | | | | | Special Free Polish Film Screening at the National Gallery of Art on March 15!
Legendary director Andrzej Wajda’s final film Afterimage is a passionate portrait of renowned avantgarde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who challenged Stalinist orthodoxy in post-war Poland. Strzeminski works as a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Łódź. His students revere him as a genius, but university authorities and the Ministry of Culture have a differing opinion. Refusing to comply with Communist Party regulations, he is eventually expelled from the university and the artists union. As the Communist authorities continue their efforts to ruin him, Strzeminski remains steadfast in his political and artistic convictions. (Andrzej Wajda, 2016, DCP, Polish with English subtitles, 100 minutes)
https://www.nga.gov/calendar/afterimage-powidoki | | | Become a PAAA Member or Renew Your Dues Today | The PAAA is a 100% volunteer-run organization, which means that we are fully dependent on membership dues to sustain our programming, and all funds raised from dues go directly to supporting our organization's mission of promoting Polish culture in our nation's capital. To pay dues or to make a donation, please click the link below or visit our website www.paaa.us. Thank you for your continued support! | | |
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