Musical meetings at Paderewski’s are arranged in the form of annual cycle of summer concerts occurring in the manor-park complex in Kąśna Dolna. The event has achieved Poland renown and promotes classical music performed by the best players. The concerts are organized in the only best preserved estate of the composer.

Bravo Maestro Chamber Music Festival focuses on the best Polish performers. Happening once in two years, it is numbered among the most prestigious festivals in Poland. Its programme comprises the most outstanding works of chamber music.

An all-Poland Talents’ Week has been organized by Paderewski Centre from twenty five years. It aims at promoting young artists, the laureates of national and foreign contests. For many a young artist performance in Tarnów is the first step in career. This festival initiated the career of many perfomers such as Waldemar Malicki, Tomasz Strahl or Rafał Kwiatkowski. Opinion Commission recommending the most promising performers of the festival commit themselves to promoting these artists through the whole year.

International Found Music Festival in Tarnów is the only event in the world which presents already forgotten pieces of music composed by both national and foreign artists. It is sponsored by President of Rzeczpospolita Polska as well as Culture Commission at the European Union in Brussels. The purpose of the festival is to present works of chamber and symphony music, which were hidden in manuscripts and thus, were forgotten.

Talia theatrical comedy festival. Both national and foreign comedies are performed and the whole event spread from the Tarnów theatre to pubs and cafes leaving the streets full of laughing people. The contest is accompanied by numerous workshops, film festivals and meeting with actors.

Tarnowska Film Award is the festival of the best Polish films which had been presented on silver screens in the year preceding the event. The purpose for which it is organized is to familiarize people with Polish cinema as well as promote Polish filmmaking. For the first time it was launched in 1987.

“Vitae Valor” (value of life) film festival presents and popularises works emphasising human existence as a value based on moral, spiritual, ethical and metaphysical foundations. Vitae Valor is not only an opportunity to promote such films but also to popularise their message. “Permissible to the age of 21” festival is one of the most prestigious events in the world in the field of educational cinema and independent films. It propagates independent cinema of the youngest and what is more, it is an opportunity to gather young filmmakers from Poland and abroad. Every year around 120 films produced by filmmakers under 21 years are admitted to the contest. To the contest various projects were sent: from Argentina, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and Georgia. The authors of the films which are qualified for the contest can participate in it at organizers’ expense. Themes and film genres are not restricted. The festival is sponsored by the World Union of Independent Film UNICA, functioning under the auspices of UNESCO.

Tarnów Days-Culture Festival is observed in alternate years. It is the festival of Tarnów and is classed as the largest cultural event in the city. It comprises a couple of days’ festival of artistic forms(street theatres’ performances, concerts and presenting the folklore of the neighbouring regions).

The Days of Remembrance for Galician Jews are organized to commemorate 10 000 residents of the city of Jewish origin who were slaughtered by Nazis in Buczyna forest in June 1942. The programme of the event encompasses concerts near Bimah, shows, concerts of klezmerska music. Furthermore, the guided tour of the Jewish cemetery is allowed.

Painted Cottage is a contest which woman folk painters from Powiśle Dąbrowskie participate in. Its purpose is to maintain the tradition of embellishing the houses with original plant patterns. Every year a few dozen participants compete for prizes. The most numerous representation constitute painters from “painted village”-Zalipie.

The tournament for a golden plait of Tarlovna in the Dębno castle. It is one of the largest open air events in Małopolska. Every year it gathers thousands of spectators from the whole Poland. The main stage of show is the castle moat, which thanks to its vastness and great visibility guarantees proper presentation of armed formations and cavalry.

Tarnów is the city of film, musical and theatrical festivals, unusual open air events, plastic arts. Here art can be met on the streets in the form of open air exhibitions and free concerts. The Ludwik Solski theater’s offer is prepared by a professional group of actors, casts and gifted artists. On Sunday mornings in the Tarnów Town Hall there are organized “Poetry Salons”, concerts and meetings with writers. This theater also takes care of the arrangements of the consecutive All Poland Talia Comedy Festival.

City Gallery BWA is the place where normally contemporary art, both Polish and foreign, is displayed. Every year it is possible to admire almost thirty exhibitions, presentations and artistic events. Tarnów Culture Centre is known for organizing Tarnów Film Award as the festival of the best Polish feature films is called. It is second, after the festival in Gdynia, such event in Poland. The best film is awarded the figure of Lelivita, however the audience also gives their own prize-Maszkaron figure.

At the invitation of TCK Jazz Club every month the best jazz players perform in Tarnów. In TCK school of rock music functions as one of the few schools in Poland. In Marzenie cinema within the framework of “The fourth extra film”good and ambitious films are projected.

Tarnów is often visited by stars of classical music who perform in the concerts arranged by Paderewski Centre-Kąśna Dolna. Young artists who begin their musical career are granted “ticket to fame” during Talents’ Week.

Every month Tarnów Chamber Orchestra performs. From many years two cathedral worl renown choirs function, these are boy-male Pueri Cantores Tarnovienses and female Puellae Orantes. Both of them achieved numerous prestigious awards. In Tarnów there also functions The Band of Song and Dance “Świerczkowiacy”. Found Music Festival also happens in Tarnów-the only event in Poland of such kind.