Christmas is the most special time of year, especially for Polish people. We cherish our Christmas traditions of breaking oplatek, and singing of Polish Christmas Carols, Koledy. Every year we gather as a Polish community, families, friends, neighbors, and acquaintances who may even turn into life long friends, while celebrating our wonderful Christmas eve dinner.
Polish Christmas Eve Dinner is traditionally a meatless meal which traditionally begins with the opening prayer, then the breaking of oplatek which are wafers that we share with each other as we share well wishes for the new year and thank each other for all the wonderful things we received in the old year. The dinner typically consists of creamy mushroom soup or red beet borscht with mushroom dumplings, pierogi, fish, sour kraut, pickled herring, and many other foods but this covers some of the basics for the meal. For dessert, our favorite part! We usually have Makowiec – poppyseed roll, sernik – cheesecake, and piernik – gingerbread loaf.
We hope that you can join us for this wonderful Traditional Wigilia 2019 ! And we wish you all the best this holiday season from our family to yours!
We suggest you make reservations early since we have only a limited number of seats available.
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This is our semi-annual fundraiser, which helps support our organization.
We kindly ask for your support during this time and hope that you will join us for this wonderful occasion to celebrate our mission to promote Polish culture and heritage in the Cleveland Polish community and the greater northeast Ohio region.
This year’s Reverse Raffle October 19, 2019 – cocktail hour begins at 5:30 PM and lasts till 6:30 PM – cocktails and hors d’oeuvres then dinner begins at 6:30 PM. After dinner is concluded and all of the tickets are sold the raffle begins! Grand Prize of $1000, many other prizes to be awarded and the opportunity to play size boards!! Only 100 mainboard raffle tickets will be sold so make your reservation before all the tickets are sold out!
POLISH CULTURAL GARDEN on ONE WORLD DAY, August 25th.
Please encourage friends and family to attend….and WALK WITH US in thegrowing Polish contingency in the ANNUAL “Parade of Flags” during the Cleveland ONE WORLD DAY at the Cleveland Cultural Gardens.
Both strong and prosperous nations ~ the USA and Poland celebrate 100 YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS 1919-2019 – our Parade theme! Time to celebrate this.
Updates-
The parade starts at 12noon: Meet us at around 11 am wearing red and white, flags, etc. Meet on MLK Blvd. and St. Casimir Way. (Park up near St. Casimir Parish is my best suggestion) Please note that MLK Blvd will be closed to traffic at 9:45 AM
After Parade, come to the gorgeous Polish Garden. Shady area, where you can relax and enjoy the day with fun activities, performances, and great music. Lots to see and do. We invite everyone.
Picture of the fabulous “babki” for sale that are homemade by our ladies!
Babka (singular) – “babki” (plural) are sweet yeast cakes
Polish Easter would not be complete without Easter cake (babka): a tall, round, 10-yolk sweet yeast cake with a hole in the middle that can be compared to the American election cake.
Dr. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs will present her lecture on the CWRU campus in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Building on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. We hope that you will be able to attend this important and interesting lecture about Polish-Jewish Relations and the Holocaust in Polish Culture after the fall of communism.
For more information contact: Dr. Kathleen Farkas at 368-2276 or kjf@case.edu
