Events 2024 - Polish Arts Festival

Hip Hop with Matt

16th August 2024

Tickets: €7 [ENGLISH] Workshop times: 8:30am, 9:45am, 11:00am, 2:00pm In this workshop kids will get a chance to approach hip hop dance through games and play. Elements of partnering, high intensity choreography and more. Come join the class and explore your imagination. [POLSKI] Godziny...

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Pstryk!

Tickets: €7.50 [English] Pstryk! is an interactive musical experience designed for children aged 3-10 years. Featuring live music, this vibrant workshop will explore Polish and Irish folklore tunes, creative movement, spontaneous music creation, and a lot of fun! Led by Kasia Eliasz with Rafal...

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Culture Night/Noc kultury

14th August 2024

[ENGLISH] This Culture Night, the Hunt Museum in Limerick transforms into a realm of wonder! As part of the Polish Arts Festival we have prepared for you something special! Be enchanted by Lemon Lush, a living statue the yellow and striking human statue and...

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Song Laboratory/Laboratorium Pieśni

17th May 2024

Tickets: €28 [ENGLISH] Laboratorium Pieśni – Song Laboratory (world/ethno/spiritual/mystic folk music) is a female group of singers from Poland, created in 2013. Using traditional, polyphonic singing they perform songs from all over the world, mainly: Ukraine, Balkans, Belarus, Georgia, Scandinavia, Poland and many other...

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Listening Party with Christmas Drama Workshop

30th November 2023

10:30 Saturday, 16th Dec at Dooradoyle Library, Crescent Shopping Centre, Limerick V94 AP03 14:00 Saturday, 16th Dec at Limerick City Library, Barrow House, Limerick V94 RF63 Age suitability: 4+ [English] Join us on this magical journey into the land of your imagination where the...

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Polish Christmas Carol Concert

[English] Join us for International Christmas in Limerick with Polish Christmas Carol Concert on Sunday, 3rd December at St. Michael's Church, Denmark Street at 2pm. One of the most important elements of Christmas is singing carols and pastorals together. The time is officially approaching...

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Festival Music Commission / Festiwalowy utwór na zamówienie 2023

12th September 2023

[English] I, Woman/ Ja, Kobieta Emma Langford and Anna Banko -Szumacher Coming from very different worlds, musically and personally, something that unites musicians Anna Banko-Schumacher and Emma Langford is a deep belief in the strength and power of women. The artists wanted to shine...

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PAF Stories Listen Online / Opowieści PAF słuchaj online

7th September 2023

[English] PAF Stories is an open call commission project led by the Polish Arts Festival in Limerick. This year we have commissioned two contemporary, playful and exciting stories for children - one in English and one in Polish. The stories were then recorded as...

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The Chronology of Water / Chronologia Wody

3rd September 2023

More details / Więcej szczegółow: Exhibition 2023 Thursday, 14th Sep - Sunday, 13nd Oct at The Hunt Museum (Cafe), Ruthland Street, Limerick V94 EV8A [English] "The Chronology of Water" borrows its title from an honest, raw memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch. There are many ways...

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The Treasure Hunt – Poszukiwanie Skarbów

1st September 2023

Booklet: Treasure Hunt 2023 14 - 24th Sep in 6 locations in Limerick city [English] Get yourself ready for the one and only PAF Treasure Hunt – Poszukiwanie skarbów! 6 locations in Limerick starting at The Hunt Museum! Only with the Treasure Hunt sheet...

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Elemental Tales 2 Performance – Opowieści Żywiołów 2

22nd Sep at 19:00 & 20:30 at The Hunt Museum, Ruthland Street [English] Elemental Tales 2 is a promenade performance consisting of four multi-disciplinary performance pieces set in various locations within the Hunt Museum garden. The performance combines Slavic (Polish & Ukrainian) folk tales...

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PAF Photography Exhibition “Forces of Nature – Siły Natury”

12th August 2023

More details / Więcej szczegółow: Exhibition 2023 Thursday, 14th Sep - Sunday, 24th Sep at Belltable, 69 O’Connell Street Thursday, 14th Sep - Friday, 15th Oct Online Gallery of works for voting / Galeria prac do głosowania: PAF 2023 vote gallery [English] The Polish...

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Photography workshop with your smartphone by Rafał Kostrzewa

7th August 2023

Tickets: €7 Age suitability: 12+ Saturday, 16th Sep at 10:30 & 12:00 at The Hunt Museum, Ruthland Street [English] As part of the PAF Kids Day explore the magic of smartphone photography and learn new camera techniques amid beautiful scenery of The Hunt Museum...

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Hip-Hop Workshop with Matt Szczerek

Tickets: €7 Age suitability: 7-10 Saturday, 16th Sep at 10:00 & 11:15 at Belltable, 69 O’Connell Street Sunday, 17th Sep at 11:15 & 12:30 at The Hunt Museum, Ruthland Street [English] As part of the PAF Kids Day join us at a highly physical...

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Seven Nun-sins & N.R.W.H.L

3rd August 2023

Tickets / Bilety: Buy now / Kup teraz Tickets: €10 [English] Seven Nun-sins is a music group from Limerick created by Łazor and Vaya, combining various musical genres, from the sophisticated rhymes of the above-mentioned artists to sonorous singing for which the third vocalist,...

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Dangerous gentlemen / Niebezpieczni dżentelmeni

16th July 2023

Tickets / Bilety: Buy now / Kup teraz Tickets: €8 [English] "Dangerous Gentlemen" ("Niebezpieczni dżentelmeni") is about canonical figures of Polish culture of the past - and starring the cream of Polish talent of today. "Dangerous Gentlemen" is a crime story and comedy in...

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PAF Stories Listening Party

Tickets / Bilety: Booking / Rezerwacja Tickets: €0 Saturday, 16th Sep at 10:00 & 11:15 at Belltable, 69 O’Connell Street Sunday, 17th Sep at 11:15 & 12:30 at The Hunt Museum, Ruthland Street [English] Free Event, Booking essential Polish Arts Festival is proud to...

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Triple Trouble / Tarapaty 2

Tickets / Bilety: Buy now / Kup teraz Tickets: €7 [English] Triple Trouble is another portion of the adventures of Julka and Olek. When Monet’s Beach in Pourville disappears from the National Museum in Poznań – the children face a task – to find...

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Woman of the Seine / Topielica

3rd July 2023

[English] “Woman of the Seine/Topielica” is an original project by Dorota Korczycka-Bąblińska, an actress of the Zdrojowy Teatr Animacji in Jelenia Góra, a puppeteer and a versatile artist who also works in ceramics, costume design and scenography. The project includes two pieces of original...

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DAGADANA in Concert

2nd July 2023

Tickets / Bilety: Buy now / Kup teraz Tickets: €25 [English] First concert ever in Ireland of renowned Polish - Ukrainian band DAGADANA. DAGADANA have been combining elements of Polish and Ukrainian culture with the help of jazz, electronics and world music for over 15 years....

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PAF Photography Callout “Forces of Nature” – “Siły Natury”

18th May 2023

Form / Formularz: Registration / Zgłoszenie [English] Polish Arts Festival will be holding a group exhibition entitled "Forces of Nature" on view from September 14th to 22nd in Belltable, Limerick. "Forces of Nature" will look beyond the traditional landscape to interrogate the ecological and...

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Official opening of PAF

12th May 2023

[English] Join us at the Opening of 16th Polish Arts Festival at The Hunt Museum on Thursday, September 14 at 6pm. Special performance of Festival Music Commission by Anna Banko -Szumacher & Emma Langford and the launch of the exhibition by Katarzyna Gajewska "The...

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Nameless

25th April 2023

Tickets / Bilety: Buy now / Kup teraz Tickets: €12 / €15 [English] Galway Theater Festival with a Polish play. We cordially invite you to the show Nameless produced by the Polish Arts Festival on Sunday 30th April and Monday 1st May at An...

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PAF Stories – Opowiadania PAF

21st February 2023

STORY WRITER CALLOUT/ KONKURS OTWARTY DLA PISARZY [English] Deadline for expressions of interest: March 3rd Workshop for interested writers: March 7th Story proposals submissions deadline: March 20th Announcement of selected proposals: March 27th Deadline for finished stories: May 2nd Commission Fee: €500 PAF Stories...

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Christmas Carols Concert

1st December 2022

Tickets: FREE Come celebrate Christmas customs and winter traditions with the international communities in Limerick at The Hunt Museum. There will be music and dancing from Mexico and India, a children’s decoration making workshop, Polish carol singing, presentations, displays of cultural items and more!...

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Elemental Tales – Opowieści Żywiołów

22nd September 2022

Tickets: FREE [English] As part of Culture Night events Polish Arts Festival presents Elemental Tales. Elemental Tales is a promenade performance consisting of four multi-disciplinary performance pieces set in various locations within the Hunt Museum garden. The performance combines Slavic folk tales with Irish...

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Art Workshop with Aga Szot

9th September 2022

Tickets / Bilety: Buy now / Kup teraz Tickets: €10* *Buy 2 workshops for €16 [English] As part of PAF Kids Day join us for an Art Workshop with an amazing artist Aga Szot, a founder of The Icon Factory in Dublin. Explore the...

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Clowning Workshop with Simon Thompson

Tickets / Bilety: Buy now / Kup teraz Tickets: €10* *Buy 2 workshops for €16 [English] As part of Polish Arts Festival Kids Day. The Clowning Workshop workshop involves a series of fun improvisational games and movement exercises. Kids interact with objects and experience...

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Listening Party – PAF Stories / Opowiadania PAF

Booking: Get free Tickets: booking essential [English] Polish Arts Festival is proud to present PAF Audio Stories to young audiences in Limerick and beyond. PAF Stories is a literary project for children, commissioned and produced by the Polish Arts Festival. The selected writers Alison...

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Treasure Hunt – Poszukiwanie skarbów

2nd September 2022

Treasure Hunt START at The Hunt Museum Collect the sheet from The Hunt Museum - Odbierz kartę z The Hunt Museum Booklet / Broszura: Download / PobierzView / Zobacz [English] Get yourself ready for the one and only PAF Treasure Hunt - Poszukiwanie skarbów!...

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