Polish Triangle institutions are hosting a variety of Polish cultural events this fall, all as part of an ongoing campaign to shore up what many perceive to be an erosion of Polish identity.

Events are showcasing everything from traditional folk dancing to the inside scoop on how Polish Triangle groups assisted behind the scenes in the production of HBO’s soon-to-be released film “Spotlight,” which lays out the Boston Globe’s efforts to expose the archdiocese’s pattern of shielding child-abusing priests.

Is Polish culture really waning in the Andrew Square area? Depends on whom you ask.

According to a Globe article from February, 2012, “Vestiges of the culture remain, but now fewer than half of the neighborhood’s 2,100 residents are of Polish descent, replaced by college students and a surge of Asian-born and Latino residents, according to city data.”

But some local activists, like Bellflower Street resident Peter Suchcicki, beg to differ. Suchcicki is president of the Polish American Congress (Massachusetts Eastern Division), a non-partisan umbrella organization that helps smaller groups organize fellow Poles, especially young professionals, around Polish culture and shared causes.

Suchcicki praises many of the Congress-assisted groups, like Fundacja Kultury Polskiej (Polish Cultural Foundation) and Polska Szkoła Sobotnia (Polish Saturday School). At the latter Boston Street school, Jan Kozak drills students in speaking, reading, and writing Polish as well as in learning more about country’s history and traditions.

Suchcicki also points to a calendar full of arts and tradition-filled activities.

For example, this coming Sunday, Sept. 20, Our Lady of Czestochowa Church will hold its annual ‘Dozynki’ Harvest Festival. (Other local Polish arts and crafts fairs will follow in October [Polish American Citizens’ Club] and December [Christmas items made in Poland].

Sunday’s after-Mass Harvest Festival always attracts hundreds of local Poles and non-Poles alike. Organizers prepare lots of Polish specialty foods and import bands and performances. A book sale, featuring new or used volumes in Polish, circulates material that will help neighborhood children and adults improve their reading skills.

A perennial highlight of Sunday’s event is an outdoor performance by the Krakowiak Polish Dancers of Boston, a group formed back in 1937. Its children, teen, and adult troupes have performed around the world and for such dignitaries as the pope. The brightly colored folk costumes bring Polish customs to vivid life.

Suchcicki compliments Andrew Square’s Syrena Travel not only for arranging tours and trips to Poland, but also for bringing Polish artists to Boston. Case in point: Syrena has arranged a performance by symphonic pop composer Piotr Rubik and his orchestra on Oct. 20 at St. Christopher’s Church on Columbia Point. To offset the fallow state of the local Teatr Polski Amatorski w/ Bostonie / Polish Amateur Theater Group of Boston, Syrena has brought in a Polish dramatic group from Canada.

Even more Polish performers will be coming to the US if Suchcicki and his Congress colleagues succeed in their campaign to get Poland added to the US Visa Waiver program. Thirty-eight European nations already have permission to let visiting artists or relatives who want to attend a wedding in the US come for a short while without applying for a formal visa. It’s time, the Polish Area Congress says, for Poland to be No. 39.