Kornel Filipowicz has been trying since 2024 to make it publicly known that he does not agree—as do the mayor, Piotr Roman, and the elder of the Ceramic Brotherhood, Jarosław Rutyna—with the LGBT community taking part in the opening of the Ceramic Festival.
The three men wrote open letters on the matter and spoke to the media, but apparently still believe that the exclusion is not being heard loudly enough. Filipowicz decided to speak out on the issue once again and stir it up anew.
He publicly asked whether everyone wanted to celebrate during the five-day ceramics festival. In his mind, he was once again speaking about exclusion, but residents did not understand the incoherent style in which he wrote his reflection and answered his question directly: the organisation of the festival is so poor, and the festival itself so troublesome, that Bolesławiec residents do not want to celebrate it in the form imposed on them by Filipowicz and Roman.
The statements on the Bolec internet forum may be too harsh and lacking in decorum, but they convey one message. For a tourist who enters and leaves the city while taking advantage of free attractions, the Bolesławiec Ceramic Festival is wonderful. For residents, it is a troublesome period full of noise and chaos.
There is nowhere to park because the city centre and streets are blocked, and traffic arrangements change. The city is polluted excessively, drunken groups of people move through the streets, squares and green areas are contaminated, and property is sometimes damaged. Added to this are noise and increased police interventions due to hooliganism. Security at the festival itself is inadequate.
City residents who report their dissatisfaction feel ignored by the authorities and write: “(...) The city’s community has no say, and those who complain—we’ll just ignore them. That’s how you’ve acted for years. Scandalous.” They appeal for the entire event to be moved outside the outskirts of Bolesławiec.