Nordic Northwest is opening a new exhibit, Swedish Cabins: The Legacy of Henry Steiner and Fogelbo. The exhibit will be on display at Nordia House from January 17 through June 5. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Alongside the exhibit, there will be a ticketed lecture on February 4 at 7:30 pm […]

Ancestors through the Tacoma Family History Center.” *A full day of hands on personal genealogical work * Special Keynote speaker Beverly Grant *Anyone 16 & older are welcome to attend *Classes for everyone! *Bring your family pictures to scan and digitize *This event is FREE and lunch is provided

What is in the suitcase of a refugee escaping from a politically oppressive regime? Drawing on Domnica Rădulescu's recent memoir Dream in a Suitcase: The Story of an Immigrant Life, this event is an invitation to explore the multifaceted fabric of dreams and cherished memories immigrants bring to the US. Join us for a dialogue […]

View “The Future of Chinatown: Decisive Moments,” an exhibit of original photography by Dean Wong depicting gentrification and displacement in four west coast Chinatowns. The Portland Chinatown Museum is located at 127 N.W. Third Avenue in Portland. For more information, or to purchase advance tickets, call (503) 224-0008 or visit <www.portlandchinatownmuseum.org>.

For a second year CroatiaFest presented a virtual festival on Facebook and YouTube. Beginning on Saturday night and continuing through Sunday evening we aired three virtual sessions; each containing a diversity of content that you would normally see during our 1-day festival at the Seattle Center – including traditional music and dance, cooking demonstrations, seminars […]

Join us for updates about a unique collaborative program, now in its second year, aiming to support access to heritage language education in our communities. The Global Competence Certificate is integrated in the Heritage Language Program organized by OSPI in partnership with the EHC and other local organizations. Our partners, the World Affairs Council, created […]

Friday, February 11 at 7 pm Polish Cultural Center Dom Polski Polish Home Association invites everybody to a Valentine evening of romance and good Polish food. You can have it both – a romantic dinner downstairs and a lot of fun with your belle or beaux dancing upstairs! Join us just for our Valentine’s Day […]

Language teaching colleagues from the University of Washington and around the state join together for this 8th symposium on working with heritage language learners. In addition to the live keynote and panel presentations on February 12th, they are offering a curated list of links to prerecorded, highly engaging and relevant presentations on Heritage Language Learning […]

Explore the depth and significance of African culture, from its communal philosophies to its lively song and dance. In this interactive talk—part presentation and part performance—artist Afua Kouyaté shares pieces of African culture and folkloric traditions like the Nguzo Saba, or “seven principles,” of Kwanzaa, which include values like umoja (unity), ujima (collective responsibility), and […]

In 2019, Lonnie Bunch became the nation’s first African American Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in its 173-year history. Bunch, who was founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, will be NAAM’s keynote speaker this Black History Month. Bunch will discuss the past, present, and future of Black history. […]

CulturalFest celebrates the diversity and talent that international students bring to our campus and region. This annual FIUTS community event welcomes globally-minded visitors of all ages and backgrounds to the University of Washington for cultural exploration and learning.

The International Mother Language Day (February 21) was proclaimed by UNESCO in 1999 and has been observed every year to promote cultural diversity and multilingualism. Because change starts at home, join us in celebrating the cultural and linguistic diversity of the Pacific Northwest by honoring our ethnic communities where languages other than English are spoken. […]

Third Place Books is proud to partner with Community Bookstore and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith to welcome Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft for a discussion of their latest book, The Books of Jacob—the astonishing, 900-page volume from Poland's most well-regarded novelist. This event will be broadcast live on […]

Third Place Books presents a virtual meeting with Olga Tokarczuk and translator Jennifer Croft discussing The Books of Jacob. Third Place Books partnered with Community Bookstore and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith to welcome Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft for a discussion of their latest book, The Books of […]

Remember and Resist: Day of Remembrance, 1942-2022 When: Saturday, February 19, 10am-1pm PST Where: Puyallup Fairgrounds and Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma Most Japanese Americans in the Seattle area spent their first few months in detention at the Puyallup Fairgrounds (“Camp Harmony”) until their transfer to the concentration camps at Minidoka, ID, and Tule Lake, CA. […]

The Negro Motorist Green Book was hailed as the “bible of Black travel”. First published from 1936 to 1967 during Jim Crow segregation, it identified state by state the establishments deemed friendly, safe, and willing to serve Black people. Join us at MOHAI as we apply a contemporary lens to segregation, Black migration, and the […]

From Sweden with Love Sunday, Feb 20, 2pm Our Mostly Nordic concerts return with The Sound Ensemble and internationally recognized composers Marie Samuelsson and Sarah Bassingthwaighte for contemporary classical music in Osberg Great Hall. Student tickets available for $10. General admission $30. 

You can Find Tickets & Info Here - https://tracking.goldstar.com/aff_c?offer_id=6&aff_id=5159&aff_sub=191441&aff_sub4=brazilian-carnavalmardi-gras-tickets&aff_sub5=seattle Brazilian Carnaval / Mardi Gras - The Crocodile (Seattle, WA) Celebrating 26 years of tradition and authenticity. Show Brazil! is the longest-running Brazilian Carnaval celebration in the Pacific Northwest. Are you ready! The 26th Annual Brazilian Carnival brings to you the rich diversity of Brazilian music […]

Local Polish Culinary Workshops group invites everybody to the Polish Home for a hands-on demo and practice session making faworki (fa-vor-kee) or chrust (hroost) – the traditional pastries for Fat Thursday and later for Easter. (Fat Thursday is the Polish Mardi Gras; it falls on the Thursday before the Mardi Gras Tuesday). This will be […]

UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the lecture “A Singular Spirit: Józef Czapski, His Art and Life” by Eric Karpeles. Czapski (1896-1993) was a painter, a writer and a Polish military officer who in vain searched for Polish officers infamously massacred at Katyn in WWII. He also wrote about his experience in the Gulag system […]

We still remember where we were in Elliott Bay’s Pioneer Square location late in 1991, when Seattle poet Randee Eddins came in with word of a new writing group forming, and her hopes that we could host a reading for them in February. It was one of those meetings that happens on the fly, wherever […]

Join us on March 27 at 5pm PST| 8pm EST for a discussion of Bessarabian Stamps: Stories by Oleg Woolf and translated from the Russian, by Boris Dralyuk, Phoneme Media, 2015. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItduusqD4oHdzY4Fqam7Uav1F40xThF-Of Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Bessarabian-Stamps-Stories-Oleg-Woolf/dp/193941928X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=261WUL0TM499G&keywords=bessarabia+stamps&qid=1645029179&sprefix=bessara%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-2 Reminiscent of Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles, Oleg Woolf’s Bessarabian Stamps — a cycle of sixteen […]