The PDK is the largest cultural centre in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, which pursues the mission of an open cultural centre as a place where joint artistic and cultural activities serve to enhance competence, active development and conscious participation in social activities. Within its structure, there are folk and dance ensembles, bands and singing groups (e.g. the Pyrzyce Song and Dance Ensemble, Pyrzyczanie, Pyrzyczanka, Wrzos, Kresowianka), associations (the University of the Third Age and the European Senior Citizens’ Club). PDK – is also involved in instructional activities in the region (villages), and carries out ongoing projects with community organisations and educational institutions. It is also involved in business partnerships with which it carries out sustainable development projects.
The institution’s facilities include a professional auditorium, a cinema and theatre hall for 300 people, a youth internet radio station, the Pyrzyce Art Gallery more for the eyes, as well as a library, a reading room for the youngest, ballet rooms, a dressing room for folk costumes, teaching rooms and a banquet hall.
Statistically, per year the PDK organises: 20 festival concerts, 10 large external occasional concerts, 40 away concerts, a dozen cabaret and theatre performances, 6 group exhibitions, the March Against Hate, preliminaries for the All-Polish Amateur Artistic Movement (reviews of poetry, recitation, song and art reviews) children’s holidays and holidays, an Entrepreneurship Forum, a Feast with Gypsies, monthly exhibitions, art competitions, Easter and Christmas markets, Harvest Festivals, performative art actions in the city space.
PDK runs 6 studios for the youngest children. The PDK cinema realises: 10 ladies’ evenings, 8 Pyrzyce film clubs, 100 film premieres per year.
Since 2018, the PDK has also enriched itself with a Youth Radio Station and in 2020 the first multidisciplinary Pyrzyce Art Gallery was opened.
The PDK is also a strategic organisational partner of: the Pyrzyce Fast Dycha, MMA, the anniversary celebrations of 01.09, 11.11, 08.05, and nearly 30 events carried out in cooperation with other organisations in the auditorium.
Events organised by the Pyrzyce Cultural Centre are patronised by the Mayor of the City, the District Governor, the Marshall of the Province, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the National Cultural Centre, the Ministry of Digitalisation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, foreign diplomatic missions, and mayors of cities from the Czech Republic and Germany. The PDK is also an opinion-making member of the Agreement of Folklore Festivals of the Western Area (Gorzów, Zielona Góra, Poznań, Goleniów, Legnica, Kozielice) and a partner of FIDAFU – the largest organisation of folklore festivals in the world (Seoul).
As part of its festival activities, PDK cooperates with neighbouring municipalities, including Kozielice, Warnice, Bielice, Stargard.
