The president invited all official guests onto the stage: female MPs from KO and PiS, a former marshal, representatives of partner cities, and, together with members of the Ceramic Brotherhood, symbolically handed over the keys to the city of ceramics.
The entire ceremony was short and concise. It began with a joint dance by members of the Association of Reemigrants from Bosnia, Their Descendants and Friends, together with dancers from the “Ziemi Bolesławieckiej” Song and Dance Ensemble, accompanied by a short speech from the head of the Association, Halina Waniak. The chairwoman symbolically welcomed the reemigrants and invited them to dance together.
Under the agreement he concluded with BOK – MCC, Bogusław Nowak was supposed to prepare and stage an outdoor theatrical performance inaugurating the 32nd Bolesławiec Ceramic Festival. The agreement was worth PLN 10,000. On July 21, Nowak announced the performance on Facebook.
– The opening is on August 21, also with us, so I invite everyone who wants to take part in this exceptional 80th anniversary of the arrival of reemigrants from the Balkans. We simply want to pay tribute to those first post-war builders of our city, who rebuilt the damaged fabric of the beautiful tenement houses in the Market Square and along entire streets – Nowak invited people.
In another post, he appealed for people to collect old suitcases, as more than 60 period costumes were supposedly to be prepared. He was apparently planning a parade of people carrying suitcases painted with clay slip, symbolizing the first Polish arrivals in Bolesławiec.
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Nowak as an intern at the festival opening
However, to the viewers’ surprise, Nowak, his son and three young people merely walked in the procession and watched the opening. With his face painted with clay slip and wearing a thick coat probably styled as the outfit of a 1946 reemigrant, he stood among the audience and did not even take part in the dance procession.
We asked the organizers what role Bogusław Nowak had played in organizing the modest dance and speech by Halina Waniak, and whether he would receive the PLN 10,000 specified in the agreement. Last year, he received PLN 15,000 for descending on a line from the town hall tower in a winged costume.
They will not pay Nowak
The organizers unanimously stated that Nowak would not receive payment for attending the opening.
– Mr. Nowak will not receive money for being at the festival opening; only the performance by the Ziemi Bolesławieckiej Song and Dance Ensemble will be paid for – said mayor Piotr Roman.
It was more difficult to obtain such a statement from Kornel Filipowicz. At first, he pretended not to know anything about the agreement with Nowak, even though it was already listed in the system. Then, under pressure, he confirmed that Nowak would not receive payment.
Sławomir Ratajski, the organizational manager of the Song and Dance Ensemble, said that the concept for the opening had been different and did not want to answer whether it had changed because Nowak was removed from the event following hateful posts on his profile.
Punishment for hateful posts?
Nowak’s profile regularly features terms such as “rags,” “cattle,” “pig,” “scumbags,” “owls,” and “whores,” as well as calls for particular people to be thrown “out on their ear” or sent “for disposal” (as he wrote about Marshal Włodzimierz Czarzasty). These actions met with strong reactions from politicians. Piotr Borys described them as “Exceptionally disgusting.” Arkadiusz Sikora called them “Downright scandalous,” while Szymon Pogoda said: “I will not stoop to the level…”
We assume that the politicians’ strong reactions forced the festival organizers to remove Nowak from view and reorganize the artistic part of the festival opening at the last minute.
UPDATE, August 21, 2026
After the article was published, we established that the agreement described in the article concerning the preparation and staging of an outdoor theatrical performance inaugurating the 32nd Bolesławiec Ceramic Festival had been terminated.
At the same time, information posted in the Central Register of Agreements indicates that the tasks previously provided for in this agreement are to be carried out under another, already existing agreement – UoD/3/2026.
This means that Bogusław Nowak will not receive remuneration under the terminated agreement described in the article. However, this does not mean that tasks connected with his participation in the Ceramic Festival have been completely excluded from paid cooperation – they are to be carried out under agreement UoD/3/2026 for PLN 50,000.