- Merseyside Polonia invites everyone to the summer long festival celebrating rich Polish Midsummer traditions
- Liverpool Polish Midsummer Festival will turn Liverpool into a city of Polish dance, music, film, and theatre arts and crafts this summer!
- Liverpool Polish Midsummer Festival will feature Polish films, live music, theatre residency, Polish books or midsummer arts and crafts
Liverpool Polish Midsummer Festival invites Liverpool audiences into a journey through Polish folk towards the best of contemporary Polish art and culture. The next few summer months will turn Liverpool into a city of Polish dance, music, theatre, literature and arts and crafts. Inspired by rich Midsummer traditions and Slavic beliefs the festival will offer you unforgettable summer with Merseyside Polonia.
Liverpool – a city, which has been enriched and shaped by various cultures for years, is now becoming a culturally and artistically diverse also thanks to the very active Polish community. With Polish being currently the second biggest foreign community and Polish language widely spoken in the UK, the festival will be a great opportunity to Liverpool audience to discover and experience Polish culture at its best.
A variety of events selected for the festival will show how rich and fascinating Polish culture is and how much the Polish community may contribute to Liverpool.
The festival has officially started with the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Poland joining the UE and the 5th Birthday of Merseyside Polonia that took place on 12th May 2014 in St Georges Hall. Around the Panufnik Project, specially composed classical music concert was the highlight of the night celebrating the round anniversary.
However, Polish Midsummer Festival is not only about music. A carefully selected programme of Kinoteka on Tour – an annual Polish Film Festival in the UK – comprises of outstanding and critically acclaimed films produced by internationally recognised but also emergent and promising directors. This year, the Kinoteka comes back to Liverpool for the 3rd time with three films: Life feels good by Maciej Pieprzyca, Ticket to the Moon by Jacek Bromski and Sophie Seeks Seven by Weronika Migoń. All films will be shown in FACT cinema in Liverpool on 2nd, 3rd and 4th June respectively.
Over the last weekend of June Liverpool will be celebrating Polish Folklore Weekend included in the Cultural Programme for the Liverpool Festival for Business. Polish live music, flower garland workshop making combined with Polish folk dance and a fire show are among the main highlights of the weekend.
July will be also eventful, as Liverpool will be hosting Polish Theatre Residency from Wroclaw. Studio Matejka – one of the most innovative physical theatre companies in Poland – will visit Liverpool at the beginning of the month to offer an opportunity to explore Polish theatre trough live performance, workshops, film screenings and finally symposium including theatre professionals from Poland and Liverpool – Theatre: Why Poland? July will also bring a literature event promoting Polish contemporary writers and their works.
Most events will be free of charge except films, music and theatre performances.
Liverpool Polish Midsummer Festival is funded by Liverpool Vision, Polish Cultural Institute in London, Polish Consulate in Manchester and supported by Liverpool City Council.
More information on: Merseyside Polonia website
