18–20 września 2026
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May 5 – 7, 2023

Constitution Day Festival
2023

The spring festival, held in honour of Poland's National Constitution Day on May 3rd.

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How it went

The May festival marks the anniversary of the Polish Constitution of 1791, Europe's first written constitution, and is the older of the festival's two annual editions.

Three days of folk ensembles, live music and home cooking on the church grounds, with the market stalls and children's activities running throughout.

Highlights

  • National Constitution Day commemoration
  • Folk ensembles on the main stage
  • Market stalls and children's activities

Kościół Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej

1731 Blalock Road, Houston, Teksas 77080

From the weekend

  • A wide view of the festival grounds: families at long picnic tables under shade trees and red umbrellas, volunteers in red and green folk skirts serving from a table, and a girl in a yellow dress in the foreground.
  • A girl in a bright blue floral folk dress and a red flower crown being served at the dessert table, where cartons of sugared pastry are lined up beneath a wall of oversized paper flowers.
  • A woman in a white embroidered blouse, red coral beads and a full crown of flowers standing behind the serving counter, in front of a wall painted with bold folk flowers.
  • A couple with their toddler at the Góral bar, the father in a straw cowboy hat, the mother in black with floral embroidery, the festival's highlander logo on the counter behind them.
  • A gloved hand lifting a long zapiekanka roll, loaded with mushrooms, out of a foil tray heaped with more of the filling.
  • Two volunteers smiling over the serving line, one in a red Polska shirt and visor, the other in a red floral apron.
  • A woman at a table laughing behind her hand, a half-eaten zapiekanka in the other, with a can of the festival's ale in front of her.
  • Volunteers laughing together behind the beer counter at dusk, wine and cans on the bar, marquees and a deep blue sky behind them.
  • A glass-topped wooden case displaying rows of commemorative medals on ribbons, each with a small handwritten tag.
Moving pictures

On film

A few short clips from the weekend. Sound is on the originals, so turn it up if you want the band.

  • A market stall rack packed with painted matryoshka nesting dolls and folk-decorated glassware.10s
  • Mannequins dressed in traditional Polish folk costume on display at one of the market stalls.8s

Later

Polish Harvest Festival 2023