Festivals and Events
January Opera Rara festival, Kraków
February International Sea Shanty Festival (www.shanties.krakow.pl), Kraków
March/April Holy Week religious celebrations, all Poland; Misteria Paschalia organ music festival (www.misteriapaschalia.com), Kraków; Beethoven Easter Festival (www.beethoven.org.pl), Warsaw
March Festival of Contemporary Music (www.wiosnamuzyczna.pl), Poznań
April OffPlusCamera (www.offcamera.pl) independent film festival, Kraków; Festival of Science and Art (/www.festiwal.torun.pl), Toruń; Jazz on the Odra (http://jazznadodra.pl), Wrocław
May International Street Art Festival (http://sztukaulicy.pl), Warsaw; ProBaltica Music and Art Festival (www.probaltica.art.pl), Toruń; International Book Fair (www.targi-ksiazki.waw.pl), Warsaw; Film Music Festival (http://fmf.fm), Kraków; Night of the Museums, all over the country; Good Beer Festival (www.festiwaldobregopiwa.pl), Wrocław
June Old Town Summer Jazz Days (www.jazznastarowce.pl), Warsaw; Folk Art Festival, Zamość; Dragon Parade, Kraków; National Festival of Polish Song, Opole; Burn Selector Electronic and Dance Music Festival, Kraków; Midsummer’s Night Wianki celebrations, Kraków
24 June St John’s Feast Day, especially in Warsaw, Kraków and Poznań
June/July Festival of Jewish Culture (www.jewishfestival.pl), Kraków; Opener Music Festival (http://opener.pl), Gdańsk
July Seige of Malbork re-enactment of 1410; Baltic International Sailing Rally, Gdańsk
July/August Dominican Fair (http://jarmarkdominika.pl), Gdańsk; T-Mobile Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival (www.nowehoryzonty.pl), Wrocław
August International Song Festival, Sopot; Carillon Festival (www.carillon.pl), Gdansk; International Festival of Highland Folklore (http://festiwale.zakopane.pl), Zakopane; Artus Jazz Festival, Toruń; Transatlantyk Film and Music Festival (http://transatlantyk.org), Łódź; Ethnoport World Music Festival (www.zamek.poznan.pl), Poznań
September Dachshund Parade, Kraków; Sacrum Profanum 20th-century music festival (http://sacrumprofanum.com), Kraków; “Singer’s Warsaw” Jewish Culture Festival, Warsaw
October Warsaw Film Festival (www.wff.pl), Warsaw; Free Form Music and Art Festival (www.freeformarts.com), Warsaw
November Explorers’ Festival (www.explorersfestival.pl), Łódz; 11 November Independence Day (all over the country); St Martin’s Festival, Poznań
December Nativity Crib competition, Kraków (Rynek); New Year’s Eve Wow open-air club night Kraków (Rynek)