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Active participation in a culture, that is a direct contact with its creations, is an important part of foreign language teaching. Festivals of all kinds, which are gaining in popularity nowadays, are cultural events undoubtedly attractive not only for the learners of the language, which is the working language of the festival, but also valuable for the process of learning of this language itself. This article concerns the reasons why such cultural events are worth our attention when we think of teaching or learning of a foreign language (Polish in this case). In this text I have attempted to characterize the phenomenon itself and looked for those parts of it in which some potential can be found that would be of value to the process of language teaching. Such an event activates, involves its recipients emotionally and challenges to act and to discover. This is especially important if the recipient is a foreigner who, while entering the culture and taking part in it, is trying to learn the language which describes this culture at the same time. All my thoughts are based on the examination of a particular phenomenon and namely The International Bruno Schulz Festival in Drohobycz.