About the Festival
The Polish Festival in Portland, Oregon is the oldest Polish festival in the western United States. Since 1993, the festival has celebrated Polish culture, traditions, and achievements.
12,000
The number of visitors who came to our festival in years past.
60
The number of dancers and musicians who have performed at the festival, hailing from the Pacific Northwest and Poland.
15,000
The average number of pierogi that were eaten by visitors in the past.
Each year, the Polish Festival features authentic Polish food, live music and dance performances, exhibits about Polish history and culture, activities for children, polka contests, local merchants, and a beer garden.
Polish Food and Beer
Try traditional Polish cuisine, delicious pastries and refreshing beer.
Eat some pierogi (dumplings made with either cheese & potato or cabbage & mushroom), bigos (stew made with sausage & cabbage), kielbasa (sausage), or placki ziemniaczane (potato pancakes). Pair that with some Polish beer (Okocim lager & Komes porter). Don't forget to save room for desert. Have some chrusty (deep fried pastry twists), sernik (Polish cheesecake) or other pastries. All food and drinks can only be purchased with festival tokens.
Kielbasa with Bigos
Combination Plate
Okocim Beer
Portland's Polish Community
Oregon's first Polish families were predominately from the Carpathian Mountains of southern Poland and eastern Poland near present-day Ukraine. Upon emigrating to the United States, the families created a Polish National Alliance chapter in 1892.
They later built the historic St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in 1907 and Polish Library Hall in 1911. Both buildings display Romanesque architecture commonly found in southern Poland, and have been recognized as historic landmarks by the City of Portland.
The Polish community - or Polonia - in Portland organizes cultural events throughout the year and supports a Polish language school.
Portland's Polish Parish
St. Stanislaus Church is the only Polish Catholic church in Oregon. It was founded in 1907, built by Polish immigrants living in North Portland. The parish's namesake is St. Stanislaus Szczepanowski, martyr of the early church. He was archbishop of Krakow in the 11th Century.
St. Stanislaus offers mass in Polish, English and Croatian.
