The limits of tourism | Overturism

When there are too many tourists, the trip ceases to be a pleasure not only for the locals, but sometimes also for the visitors themselves. Max Cegielski and Mateusz Jakubowski will examine the phenomenon of overtourism and its consequences for cities, nature and local communities. We will talk about whether it is possible to create tourism that does not destroy the places we want to know.

October 19 (Monday)

6.00 p.m.

ProMedia (Wojska Polskiego Street 2)

Guests: Max Cegielski and Mateusz Jakubowski

Teacher: Joanna Skonieczna

Admission to the event is free

Max Cegielski - writer, curator, researcher. Author of novels and reports, in 2023 he published essays “Congo in Poland. Trampers with Joseph Conrad.” Curator of exhibitions, with Janek Simon Sklep Polsko- Indyski/Prince Polonia (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Clark House Initiative in Mumbai, Trafo in Szczecin; 2017-2018) and One man does Not rule a nation (Biennale Ljubljana, Trafo Szczecin, Red Clay Tamale/FCA Akra, Belgrade 2023-2025). Member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group “PRL and Global South” at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

He co-hosted the program “Hala Od” on TVP Kultura, for which he received the Grand Press award in 2015. Since March 2024 he cooperates with radio Trójka hosting the book show “Plik Tekstowy”. Member of the board of the association Literary Union.

Mateusz Jakubowski - a traveler from Szczecin, associated with travel since 2012, when he founded the website Taniezwiedzanie.com, where he presented the secrets of booking systems and showed ways to travel on a budget. After visiting more than 50 countries and publishing a travel book, he changed the written word for the camera in 2019, starting to document his travels on the vlog “In the footsteps of Polonia”. Since then, he has focused on his passion, traveling the world in search of descendants of the former Polish emigration. He has millions of views and recorded material in many countries, of which the most popular were those that depicted Polonia in Haiti, Brazil and Romania.

The event is part of the Festival oKOliCE Literatura 2026: Tourism orgasmed by the Municipal Public Library in Szczecin.

Full program at: https://okoliceliteratury.pl/

The project is funded by the City of Szczecin.

Partners of the Festival:

Czarne Publishing House

Książnica Publishing House

Kana Theatre Centre

Cinema Pionier 1907

Association for the Taming of the City

Literary Association Works

Media Patrons:

Literature Time

Radio Szczecin

Szczecinczyta.pl

CultureON

Wszczecinie.pl