Who Are We? Where Do We Belong? is a collaborative exhibition created through The Philosopher’s Hat, a creative outreach project with Polish weekend school in Limerick bringing together Philosophy for Children (P4C) and visual art.

Join us for the official opening of the 22nd Polish Arts Festival at the Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick on Thursday, November 5th, at 5:30 PM

Music Commission 2026 by Dub Intruda and Hazey Haze

The Polish Arts Festival opens with a special concert by an ensemble from the Limerick-based Cantate Deo Choir, founded and conducted by Ania Banko-Szumacher and based at the Polish Parish in Limerick (St Michael’s Church, Denmark Street).

As part of this year's festival programme, we are delighted to celebrate the Year of Andrzej Wajda with a screening of one of the acclaimed director's greatest and most recognisable achievements, The Promised Land.

Ahead of his Limerick concert, acclaimed accordionist Marcin Wyrostek leads a masterclass for students and enthusiasts, sharing his technique and artistry.

Radek Przedpełski’s multichannel video installation explores landscape as an archive of geological, personal, and political histories.

PERFORMANCE: UN-MASKING: Playing Someone Else, Becoming Yourself - Who are you when nobody is watching?

Join us for an introduction to embroidery — one of the oldest and most beautiful forms of Polish traditional craft, where thread, colour and a simple stitch can tell the story of an entire region.

PAF KIDS workshop encourages creativity, imagination and self-confidence, while showing how different ideas can come together to create something truly unique.

UN-MASKING. Playing Someone Else, Becoming Yourself workshop, 12+

What do you dream about? A journey to an extraordinary place, a great adventure, a new passion, a future career, or perhaps a world that looks completely different?

Step into a Polish summer meadow filled with bright red poppies and discover bibułkarstwo

Join us for a literary meeting with Agata Bizuk – a Polish author, long-time resident of Ireland and, in her own words, an emigrant “only in body, as her heart and spirit have always remained in Poland.”

Join artist Radek Przedpełski for a guided tour of Mountain Soul-assemblages, his multichannel video installation presented by the Polish Arts Festival in collaboration with Limerick City Gallery of Art.

Join us for a special Artists Networking Event, bringing together artists, musicians, writers, cultural practitioners and creatives from Limerick and beyond.

Polish accordion virtuoso Marcin Wyrostek and his trio perform in Limerick, joined by the local H.I.P.S.T.E.R. Ensemble for a special collaboration.

PAF Annual Bash returns to The Record Room for a late-night celebration of live music, creative collaboration and the energy of the festival.

Together with invited guests from different cultures, we’ll share songs of freedom, home, identity and belonging — and invite the audience to become part of the circle too.

A rehearsed reading of Mrożek’s Emigrants, a darkly witty exploration of migration, identity, alienation and the search for freedom.