The second residency of the Yanka Rudzka Project is currently underway in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Following research conducted in November, photographer Anna Zielińska is collaborating with Joanna Leśnierowska and Brazilian colleagues to create materials for a multimedia installation that will be featured at this year’s Łódź of Many Cultures Festival in November (save the date!).

On April 28, the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź hosted the institution’s program conference, during which Agata Siwiak, the head of our Festival’s program team, presented the main objectives and thematic tracks of this year’s edition.

Yes, this is the moment. We are unveiling the visual identity for the 2026 Łódź Multicultural Festival. This year, we invited the Łódź-based duo Mean Collective to collaborate with us.

We encourage you to participate in the auction of our VIP ticket on the Allegro portal.
The VIP PASS entitles the winner of the auction and one accompanying person to participate in all events of this year’s edition of the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival.

This year, the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival will have a rolling format (spread out over time). Events will take place from April to November, with the main festival weekend scheduled for 17–20 September 2026!

We invite you to an event complementing the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival and closing this year’s edition. It will be a December afternoon devoted to secular folk Christmas traditions, filled with music, workshops, and storytelling.

The festival is behind us, but that’s not the end of our multicultural story this year. On Saturday, November 15, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., we invite you to Tofu Day at the Dialogue Center! FREE ADMISSION.

The concert by the Monika Roscher Band at Monopolis marked the end of the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival 2025. On behalf of the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź, the main organizer, we would like to express our sincere thanks for your participation and commitment to co-creating this year’s edition of the event.

We invite you to view another photo report from the artistic event organized by the curatorial collective Slavs & Tatars and Michał Grzegorzek. During the second weekend of the festival, the following artists presented their performances in the industrial spaces of the Biedermann Factory: Kamil Wesołowski and friends, Selin Davasse, Alesia Maisei, Katarzyna Salinger, and […]

The second weekend at our Festival Center was a true intergenerational celebration! We enjoyed breakfast together, danced with the Łódź Retro Orchestra, visited a children’s fair, had conversations, participated in workshops, and attended a phenomenal concert entitled “Moje gdyby…”

Check out the photo gallery from the first weekend at the Festival Center and join us for the second one!

On the first weekend of the Festival at Fabryka Biedermanna, we opened a performative exhibition by the Slavs & Tatars collective. On Saturday, performances were given by Jacqueline Sobiszewski and Lubomira Grzelak, Astrit Ismaili, and Slikback, while on Sunday, Agnieszka Brzeżańska and Taras Gembik, as well as Djibril Sall, invited the audience to participate in […]

We are very happy that we could celebrate together the meeting of cultures – Polish and Vietnamese, which have been contributing to the diversity of our city of Łódź for years. It was a true celebration of community, cordiality, and the joy of being together!

Half-time show at Fuzja to conclude Vietnamese Day on 21 September!

Today, a programme conference was held for this year’s edition of the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival.

We have our first SOLD OUT! We would like to inform you that tickets for the opening concert have been sold out.

The Łódź of Many Cultures 2025 Festival conference is behind us. We have announced the first events, which will take place this October in Łódź.

There it is. The one and only poster for this year’s edition of our festival, by Ola Niepsuj. It will not be long before you will also be able to see it all over the city!

Become a volunteer at the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival and help us create the city’s biggest festival. Find out more in the VOLUNTEERING section.

We now know the results of all the calls for proposals of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in which we competed. We received grants from all 5 of the 5 programs we applied to! It is thus time to introduce the person who made this success possible – Kamila Majchrzycka-Szymańska – the main coordinator of the Festival.

Yesterday, at the House of Literature in Lodz, a gala was held to present the “Plastry Kultury” awards. The Łódź of Many Cultures Festival received a “Plaster” in the EVENT OF THE YEAR category.

Our first meeting of this year’s production and promotion team is behind us. We’re preparing a wide range of events for you this October, once again taking place across various locations in Łódź.

The Łódź of Many Cultures Festival 2024 has been nominated for the Plastry Kultury Award in the Event of the Year category! Let’s vote!

Greetings from the Central Museum of Textiles, where, together with Agata Siniarska and Zuzanna Berendt, we’re working on a new festival project set to premiere at the Textile Triennial. Stay tuned!

Last week, we met with Patrycja Kowańska, who won our open call and will be presenting the project “Lezbianke,” related to the herstory of the Jung Jidysz group, as part of the Festival.

Joanna Podolska is co-creating the programme for this year’s Festival, with a particular focus on our city’s identity, heritage and historical contexts.

And success again! A grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the TEATR programme!

More good news from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. We have received a grant, this time from the ‘Artistic events for children and young people’ programme.

Further good news from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. We have received funding of PLN 255,000 for VISUAL ART.

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has announced the results of the call for applications for the DANCE programme. It was the first time we applied for it, and with what success! Right away on the podium!

We encourage you to watch our festival clip on YouTube.

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We have the results of the 2024/2025 Research and Artistic Residencies – Multiculturalism in Łódź: Broadening the field.

We are proud to announce that Joanna Podolska, Director of the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź, received the Senate Award “Zasłużony dla Uczelni” (“Distinguished service”) from the hands of the Rector of the University of Business and Health Sciences, Prof. Leszek Kuras, PhD.

Until the end of the month, visitors to the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center can enjoy our relaxation zone (actually, there are three of them!) created in collaboration with the Łódź-based company Dywilan, specially for the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival. You’re welcome to stop by!

The Little Łódź of Many Cultures Festival is behind us, but we also recommend another event in Łódź created by the same curatorial collective.

At the end of October we closed the call for applications for the programme: Research and Artistic Residencies 2024/2025 – Multiculturalism of Łódź: expanding the field.

It was 10 very intense days, 60 events in 22 locations: concerts, exhibitions, performances, meetings, walks. We would like to thank all our guests and hosts, partners and, above all, the audience who attended our events, often despite the inclement weather.

We ended the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival 2024 with an extraordinary concert by JUCHO (Justyna Chowaniak).

Roosevelt, a German electronic music artist, performed at Łódź Fabryczna Station on Sunday 6 October.

Last weekend we opened the exhibition ‘Ceija Stojka (1933-2013): I Can’t Forget’ at the Museum of the City of Lodz and we were also hosted at several independent galleries in Lodz.

Thank you all for your presence at the Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre during the first festival weekend. We already invite you to join us for the next one, which will be equally diverse!

Multiculturalism of Łódź: widening the field. On 24 June, the call for applications for the new programme of the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival: Research and Artistic Residencies 2024/2025 – The Multiculturalism of Łódź: Expanding the Field is launched. Until 31 October 2024. To participate in the residency we invite creative people who see in […]

On Sunday 22 September, we walked with the Kwela Foundation along the trail of German culture ‘from Steigert to Scheibler’. We would like to thank you for the large attendance (more than 150 people!), the 3 hours we spent together and the thousands of steps along Górna district.

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“WE” Grzech Piotrowski’s World Orchestra is a series of concerts dedicated to world peace. The voice of artists from different parts of the world will inaugurate this year’s Łódź of Many Cultures Festival. “Grzech Piotrowski has created an extraordinary musical project that will have global appeal and reach and will be musical therapy for us […]

INDIA DAY, a day of Indian culture, took place at Fuzja on Sunday 15 September. This was another of the events announcing the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival.

The inaugural picnic of the Little Festival of Łódź of Many Cultures is behind us. Thank you all for your presence and good fun!

A press conference for the Łódź of Many Cultures 2024 Festival was held today, 5 September, at the Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre in Łódź.

From now on, you can find the festival newspaper Miej Miejsce at the Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre, and in a short while also at our partners and in selected locations in Łódź.

On 6 October, for the first time, the monumental space of the Łódź Fabryczna Railway Station will be filled with MUSIC. Details will be announced at the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival conference this Thursday, 5 September. Stay tuned!

We are honoured to announce that the project ‘Krzysztof Wodiczko: EMANCYPACJE. Projection to the Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument at Freedom Square in Łódź’, realised by the Łódź Events Centre, will be an accompanying event of this year’s Festival.

Another artist whose premiere project will be presented at this year’s Festival is Daniel Rycharski, an avant-garde, conceptual installation artist working on themes of provincialism, religiosity, christianity, LGBTQ+ identity.

We are honoured to announce that Andrzej Smolik joins the group of musicians you will be able to hear at this year’s festival! The artist will perform with his band as part of Michał Zadara’s “400 m2 of hope” project. The first concert will take place at dawn (!!!) and the second at dusk in […]

On Saturday, July 20, as part of the Festival, we launched a photographic adventure for young people! And it all took place at the Dialogue Center!

A picnic to celebrate the summer solstice was held at Survivor Park on 23rd of June. Nature, which was the theme of the evening, has an extremely unifying power. It attracted human people of all ages and non-human people – dogs and cats – beautiful in their diversity, as can be seen in the photographs.

The Łódź of Many Cultures Festival cordially invites all young people to take part in the creative photo project OBJECTIVELY.