Nordeast Polish Fest at Holy Cross
Church of the Holy Cross 1621 University Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesCome celebrate Polish culture, music, food, and community! PACIM is proud to support this event as a major sponsor.
Site of Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota
Come celebrate Polish culture, music, food, and community! PACIM is proud to support this event as a major sponsor.
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer Originally written in Yiddish by a Polish Jewish émigré, this story recounts the experience of a Jew in the 17th century, the period in which With Fire and Sword is set. Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, …
Celebrate Polish culture at the 2026 Tasty Apple Festival—Smaczne Jabłka—on Sunday, October 4, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 102 Liberty St. in Winona. Minnesota Polonia’s annual gathering will feature authentic Polish food and beer, live music and dance, arts and crafts, vendors, raffle prizes, and a silent auction benefiting the Polish Cultural Center & Museum.
Monologue of a Dog by Wisława Szymborska Arguably the best volume of poetry by this Nobel Prize-winning poet in a dual language edition that will allow us to read her in translation and compare back to the original. With humor, irony, and compassion, she explores everyday moments alongside larger questions of history, memory, love, and human existence. Pick your favorite …
What happens when American university students encounter Poland for the first time—not through textbooks or headlines, but by walking its streets, visiting its historic sites, and standing where history actually happened? “Remarks on American Student Reactions to Visiting Poland” explores those powerful first impressions. Since 2013, Professor Dorothy Pisarski of Drake University has led seven travel seminars to Poland, accompanying …
Andrzej Wajda is one of the greatest European directors of the twentieth century, and his films have been almost entirely unavailable in the United States. He was a major force in reigniting the floundering Polish cinema landscape amid the rubble of World War II. The films in this series are personal, political, epic, and intimate all at once. Screenings of …