After a successful debut that drew nearly 70,000 visitors last year, the BitterSweet Festival returns to Citadel Park for its second edition with a programme befitting a major European music festival. Over three days and nights in August, more than forty artists will perform across four stages, with a line-up encompassing pop icons, the energy of the club scene, upbeat guitar music and emerging artists on the verge of wider recognition. BitterSweet is an international festival taking place in the very heart of Poznań.

The Wolsztyn locomotive depot was established in 1907 to serve four railway lines leading towards the towns of Konotop, Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Sulechów and Leszno. Despite the age of steam traction being long gone, the spirit of that time is still very much alive there. Today, the Wolsztyn depot remains the world's only operational site of its kind where steam locomotives continue to haul scheduled passenger trains.

2026 marks 60 years since the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of one of the largest urban projects of the post-war Poznan - the Rataje district. The exhibition tells Rataje's story from the perspective of the architects' vision as well as the everyday life of its inhabitants.

The day-one line-up features Sam Greenfield, Gretchen Parlato and Nubiyan Twist, followed by Ledisi, Hiromi's Sonicwonder and the Blue Jazz Orchestra with Anna Gadt & Jerzy Małek on day two.

As it does every summer, the much-loved Old Town Organ Concerts return to Poznań.

Eighteen years ago, the Animator International Animated Film Festival started out as an event for enthusiasts. Today, it stands as one of Central and Eastern Europe's foremost festivals dedicated to this art form, and one of the few events in Poland whose competition serves as a qualifying pathway to an Academy Award (Oscar) nomination for its winners. This year's edition is scheduled to run from 4 to 12 July. The festival stays true to its guiding principle that animation should not be viewed simply as a genre or technique, but as a distinct way of telling stories about the world.

Malta Festival is one of the most important cultural events in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. For over three decades, it has been shaping a space for dialogue between different art forms, cultures, and ideas. The festival is a multidisciplinary event where theatre, dance, music, visual arts, film, and performance practices meet, creating a distinctive programme that is open to experimentation.

26 years on, does Pyrkon still have the power to surprise its audience? The answer is anything but simple. The festival combines consistency with continual transformation, spontaneity with characteristically Poznań-style organisation, cosmic disorder with an unmistakably grounded sense of reality. Within this recognisable universe, entirely new worlds come into being each year.

Coming right up is the one moment in the year to hear such an abundance of folk, ethnic and world music in Poznań. It would be a shame to let this opportunity go to waste. Without a doubt, audiences are in for an amazing experience, filled with discoveries drawn from musical traditions spanning every corner of the globe, including Europe and Poland itself.

In 1956, Poznań remained a bleak ruin of a city, still struggling to recover from the devastation of World War II. Thousands of families enduring harsh conditions became increasingly frustrated and weary.