The Greater Poland Traditional Jazz Association "Dixie Club" and Estrada Poznańska are bringing back the Poznań Old Jazz Festival for its 17th edition, set to take place on the final Saturday of August. Expect a nostalgic train ride, a jazz parade through the Old Market Square, film screenings, family-friendly attractions - and, naturally, some cracking live music.
Take a remarkable journey through time to Paris at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a vibrant city of breathtaking scale, its grandeur endlessly inspiring artists, thinkers, and dreamers from across the world. This exhibition will take you straight onto the streets of the French capital, revealing the city not only in all of its splendour, but also at pivotal and challenging moments in its history.
Fortunately, at least once a year comes the glorious reminder about a unique treasure of Poznań: a Ladegast organ housed in the Parish (Fara) church. The summertime Old Town Organ Concert series organised by the Society of the Friends of the Poznań Fara, is a truly special event.
Anna Maria Jopek (showcasing her latest project), the Elipsis trio, EABS alongside Brian Jackson, Mica Millar, the hip jazz trio Jazzbois, and the Blue Jazz Orchestra are all stars in this July's soul-jazz festival slated to take place in the centre of Poznań. The Blue Summer Jazz Festival will be held on 26-27 July.
The 18th edition of Poland's largest animated film festival, MFFA Animator, is set to kick off on Saturday, 5 July, scheduled to run even longer than in previous years, until the following Sunday. Screenings will take place at the Muza Cinema and other familiar venues across city centre. Ready for nine straight days of animation? Coming right up!
As every year, the Poznań Academy of Music will open its doors for its "Summer Stage" concerts.
Diverse, open, connecting ideas, people, and various art forms - this will be the 35th jubilee edition of Malta Festival. One of the most important festivals in Poland and this part of Europe, it will fill the urban space of Poznań with colour, sound, and joy from June 20 to 28. For nine days, alongside an international theatre repertoire, concerts by Polish and global stars, and Polish stage premieres featuring the biggest names, audiences will enjoy a vibrant programme of open-air and free public events.
Summer in Poznań? Same as ever - bursting with music! And not just any old tunes - we're talking about every genre there is. Coming up: this year's edition of the #NaFalach free concert series, shows at Scena nad Rusałką (The Rusałka Lake Stage), and another round of the Poznań Rock Festival.
Once a year, the whole fantastical universe ever invented converges at Pyrkon. For the past 25 years, this Poznań-based festival has been a celebration of all things fantasy, bringing together an incredible variety of worlds and characters. This special anniversary edition takes place from 13-15 June, as usual on the grounds of Poznań International Fair.
A promise of a laid-back celebration, with a joyful dive into original sounds from across the globe, and a heartfelt tribute to fading traditions and forgotten ethnic minorities. Get ready for Ethno Port Poznań 2025!
Sidewalks covered with earthworms after the rain, flip phones, sending messages from internet cafés, the PWN Universal Encyclopaedia as the 90s equivalent of ChatGPT, checking the TV schedule on teletext, a display case full of crystal trinkets - sound familiar? Some of these memories are crystal clear, while others have been brought back to me by the Instagram profile @polish_nostalgia, which I stumbled upon while looking for articles on the nostalgic "90s. It's these wild, colourful, plastic years that are the focus of the latest exhibition at the Zamek (Castle) Cultural Centre, curated by Tomasz Żaglewski.
This year's Museum Night offers access to over seventy different venues. On Saturday 17 May, starting at 2pm and running late into the night, visitors will have a chance to explore both permanent and temporary collections, take part in a variety of special events, and even set foot in places that are normally off-limits, such as the Regional Police Headquarters and the Jesuit Monastery!
The 22nd Millennium Docs Against Gravity festival will be making its sixth appearance in Poznań. This year's theme is "World Between Us". From 9 to 18 May, some of the finest documentary films covering topics like politics, culture, sport, and more will be showed at Kino Muza, with online access screenings available from 20 May to 2 June.
The choice to develop Poznań on the right bank of the Warta marked a radical shift in urban planning as the city had previously mainly grown westward, with the river acting as a natural barrier to eastward development. In the aftermath of the war, a lack of available land and an acute housing crisis pushed urban planners to focus on the former suburban villages of Rataje, Chartowo, and Żegrze on the Warta's right bank.
A museum dedicated to the Polish People's Republic has opened in a historic townhouse near Poznań's Old Market Square, taking visitors on a journey 70 years back in time.
A true master of his craft, Chełmoński shaped the course of Polish art with his timeless masterpieces. Adapted in mainstream films and TV shows and reimagined across different cultural mediums, they remain continue to inspire successive generations of artists. The exhibition "Józef Chełmoński 1849-1914" on view at the National Museum of Poznań makes his artistic brilliance more tangible than ever.
How people view life after fifty can differ widely. Some continue to forge ahead as if age were just a number, while others reflect on the looming twilight of their lives. However, turning fifty can also be a time of reinvention and flourishing, as is the case with the Poznań Musical Spring festival.
If Polish music festivals formed a galaxy, the Next Fest Music Showcase & Conference 2025 would be one of its most radiant constellations.
This March marks the opening of the first chapter of the Warta River Blues Festival - a three-day event promising top-tier live blues extravaganza, to be hosted by Klub Muchos. For those who need a reminder of what this genre sounds like at its purest and most electrifying, this is the place to be from 27-29 March.
This season, Wielki Theatre will be expanding the festivals launched last year. One of them is Przedwiośnie Baletowe (Prelude to Spring Ballet Festival). In its second edition, the festival builds on last year's ideas while remaining closely connected to the world outside.
