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Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club

Welcome to Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club

Welcome to Helena Modjeska Art and Culture ClubWelcome to Helena Modjeska Art and Culture ClubWelcome to Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club
Klub Kultury im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej
The Club's 50th Anniversary Album
  • Home
  • Polish/Polski
  • Board of Directors
  • Contact Us
  • Events
  • Our History
    • Our History
    • History
    • Previous Boards
    • Modjeska
    • Ossetyński
    • Awards
    • President's Bulletin
    • National Reading
    • 50th Anniversary Album
  • Video
  • Links
  • Bylaws

About our Club

Established in 1971, the Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club in Los Angeles, is dedicated to promoting Polish heritage through sponsoring lectures, publications, cultural events and artistic performances. During the past five decades of its existence the Club has made a significant contribution to the enrichment of the ethnic mosaic of Southern California.


The Modjeska Club is a 501(c)(3) California public benefit non-profit corporation recognized as tax-exempt by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, with a federal Tax Identification Number 20-3491956.

Our History

Helena Modjeska

The Club is named after a famous Polish actress, Helena Modjeska (Modrzejewska, 1840-1909) who emigrated from Poland to California in the 1870s.


In 2021 the Club celebrated its 50th anniversary.

About Modjeska

Concert "Timeless Dialogues"

Chamber Music Concert “Timeless Dialogues” featuring works by the following composers: Bach · Mozart · Chopin · Liszt · Brahms -  Wieniawski · Debussy · Rachmaninoff · Ysaÿe · Bacewicz · Prokofiev. 

Performed by: Dominik Yoder - piano; and Paulina Tomczuk - violin.

Free admission. We encourage you to come and admire the talents of these wonderful musicians, winners of many awards.

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Modjeska Prizes for Danuta Stenka and Piotr Adamczyk

On Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 6:00 p.m., the Helena Modjeska Club invites you to the presentation of its annual H. Modjeska Prize for achievements in the field of acting.  

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Major and the Orange Alternative - at the Vienna Woods

Helena Modjeska Club invites its members and friends to an original event entitled "Major and the Orange Alternative" at the Vienna Woods Gallery. The guest of honor will be Waldemar "Major" Fydrych, an artist, surrealist and famous anti-communist activist, creator of the Orange Alternative movement. 

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Valentine's Day Ball

Valentine's Day Ball - the fundraiser for Polish school in los Angeles, on 8 February 2025 at the Polish church on Adams Blvd. During the event, the Club will present Tomasz Sobania who will conclude his run across the U.S. on 26 January 2025 in Santa Monica. 

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What is beauty? presentation by Adrian Krupa

The first event of the Modjeska Art & Culture Club in 2025 will feature Dr Adrian Krupa, philosopher from Poland in a lecture "What is beauty? Philosophical lecture on art".

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Modjeska Club's Christmas Caroling Party

The Annual Modjeska Club Christmas Caroling Party will take place at the McGroarty Arts Center in Tujunga.

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Sebastian RyŚ Presents a Play about Zofia Rysiówna

The Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club in cooperation with the Institute of National Remembrance invites you to a monodrama written by Polish actor, Sebastian Ryś, entitled "Family War Stories: Zofia Rysiówna" and presented on Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 6:30 PM at the Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory, 10931 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064. 

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Writer Piotr Siemion - First Guest of the Fall Season

On 28 September 2024 at 6pm, the Modjeska Art & Culture Club will have the pleasure of presenting a Polish writer, Piotr D. Siemion, a Warsaw-based novelist and translator, who also works as a corporate attorney. The event will be held in a private residence in Brentwood and will be open only to Club members and VIP guests of the speaker. 

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Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski

Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club invites you to the screening of the documentary "Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski" with the participation of the film's producers Anna Dobrowolska and Irek Dobrowolski.  

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Polska i Brazylia - GraŻyna AuguŚcik and Paulinho Garcia

Modjeska Club has the pleasure to invite its members and guests to a unique jazz concert "Polska i Brazylia" by famous Polish jazz vocalist Grażyna Auguścik with guitarist Paulinho Garcia, originally from Brazil, now living in California.  

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Album 50-lecia Klubu Kultury im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej

The Club celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021. The 50th Anniversary Ball was held on Sunday, October 10th, 2021 at the University Club of Pasadena.


The Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club's 50th Anniversary Album (Album 50-lecia Klubu Kultury im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej) was edited by Maja Trochimczyk, Elżbieta Kański and Elżbieta Trybuś. The volume includes dozens of documents, essays and hundreds of photographs illustrating the history and achievements of the Club,  Link to the free file, 380 pages in PDF format with color illustrations, can be found here:

50th Anniversary Album

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