3-5.06.2016

CONTINENTSFestival of Globetrotting and Non-Fiction

Meetings with famous travellers and reporters, workshops, a debate, film shows, and concerts of Hungarian and Balkan and Gypsy folk music. You can have all that at the “Continents” Festival of Globetrotting and Non-Fiction, which will be held between the 3rd and 5th June at the Centre for the Meeting of Cultures in Lublin.The Festival will feature e.g.:

Paul Theroux – one of the most popular and award-winning writers of travel litera-ture in the world,

Hugh Thomson – explorer, filmmaker and writer who rediscovered the Lost City of the Incas,

Wojciech Jagielski – journalist, writer and long collaborator of the Polish Press Agency and the “Gazeta Wyborcza”,

Mariusz Wilk – recipient of the Officer’s Cross of The Order of Polonia Restituta, author of such works as “Wilczy Notes. Zapiski sołowieckie 1996-1998” (transl. “The Journals of the White Sea Wolf”), “Wołoka” or “Dom włóczęgi”.

Enthusiasts of travelling will surely love the meetings with Joanna Lipowczan and Bartosz Malinowski, who hiked the 1,700 km long Great Himalaya Trail: one of the most difficult mountain trails in the world, cyclists: Piotr Strzeżysz and Mateusz Wa-ligóra, Ilona Wiśniewska who is going to speak about the far North, or with Robb Maciąg, author of the Tuk Tuk Cinema project presenting the Bolek and Lolek carto-on to children from Indian towns and villages.

The “Continents” Festival will also offer a number of interesting workshops, e.g: taking notes when travelling with Max Cegielski, street photo with Tomasz Kulbow-ski or technology in travel with Jakub Górnicki, co-author of one of the best travel blogs (podrozniccy.com).

PROGRAMME:

FRIDAY, 3 JUNE Opera Hall

17:30 | Mateusz Waligóra - Cycling Across the Earth Cycling through South America and Australia. 18:40 | Robb Maciąg - Tuk Tuk Cinema A story of an Indian Scooter, the sacred River Ganga and Bolek and Lolek. 20:00 | Čači Vorba, Vágtázó Csodaszarvas Concerts of Balkan and Gypsy music and shamanic Hungarian folk.

SATURDAY, 4 JUNE Chamber Room

14:30 | Anna Jaklewicz - China Far from Cities Reportage from a solitary four-month journey around villages in Southern China. 15:25 | Mariusz Wilk - On the Burnout of Travel Literature How to understand the term “travelling” in modern times? 16:20 | Debate - Mr. Smith on holidays, or what is a tourist allowed to do? Discussion about the impact of tourism on local communities. 17:15 | Ilona Wiśniewska - FAR. Northern Norway A reporter's exploration of the northern Norway. 18:10 | Piotr Strzeżysz - Travelling is looking for tales and stories A road full of dreams, desires and fantasies. Journey into your inner self.

Workshops

11:15 | Tomasz Kulbowski - Street Photo Workshops Street photo in the context of travelling. 11:15 | Max Cegielski - The Art of Taking Notes When Travelling From ABC of the reporter's workshop to the art of travelling and art in travel. 11:15 | Post-tourist - Conscious and Responsible Travelling The 21st century tourism and its phenomena.15:45 | Jakub Górnicki - Technology and Travel Using social media and technological trends for travel reportage. 15:45 | Mateusz Janiszewski - Health and Travel All about preventive health care.

Film Shows - Cinema

12:50 | Human, dir. Yann Arthus-Bertrand (2015) 2000 people, 60 countries, 40 questions. 16:10 | We Come as Friends, dir. Hubert Sauper (2014) Establishment of the youngest country in the world. 18.15 | Embrace of the Serpent, dir. Ciro Guerra (2015) A black and white film based on journey logs across the Amazon region of Colombia.

Contest Shows - Conference Hall

14:35 | Mikołaj Dorożała - Road to Hel Sentimental journeys to the Baltic Sea. 15:30 | Beata Jakuszewska - Locally. At the End of the World Life in local communities. 16:25 | Michał Kaczor - Musical Journeys Sensing the world through sound. 17:20 | Bartłomiej Kiraga - The Silk Road. Travel in Tme and in Space.Wild journey through Middle Asia. 18:15 | Justyna Maserak - Close and Slow Travelling. The Story of Discovering. How to become an explorer in the nearest neighbourhood?

Continents by Night - Teatralny Square

21:00 | Bartek Malinowski, Joanna Lipowczan - Great Himalaya Trail Trekking the longest (1,700 km) Himalaya hiking trail.22:10 | Planet Ocean - Film Show. Unusual pictures showing the might of the oceans.

SUNDAY, 5 JUNE Opera Hall

13:00 | Wojciech Jagielski - Meeting with the AuthorWork and principles of working of a war correspondent. 14:00 | Cząstka Podlasia - The Touch of Podlasie: film screening A documentary using sound and image to show the magic of Podlasie region. 15:30 | Hugh Thomson - Discovering the Other WorldExploring places and stories that are waiting to be discovered. 16:45 | Paul Theroux - The Life of an Explorer. Author of the most popular travel books in the world for the first time in Poland.

The participants of the Festival have a free entry to "Genesis" photography exhi-bition by Sebastião Salgado.

CONTINENTSFestival of Globetrotting and Non-Fiction

PROGRAMME:

FRIDAY, 3 JUNE Opera Hall

17:30 | Mateusz Waligóra - Cycling Across the Earth Cycling through South America and Australia. 18:40 | Robb Maciąg - Tuk Tuk Cinema A story of an Indian Scooter, the sacred River Ganga and Bolek and Lolek. 20:00 | Čači Vorba, Vágtázó Csodaszarvas Concerts of Balkan and Gypsy music and shamanic Hungarian folk.

SATURDAY, 4 JUNE Chamber Room

14:30 | Anna Jaklewicz - China Far from Cities Reportage from a solitary four-month journey around villages in Southern China. 15:25 | Mariusz Wilk - On the Burnout of Travel Literature How to understand the term “travelling” in modern times? 16:20 | Debate - Mr. Smith on holidays, or what is a tourist allowed to do? Discussion about the impact of tourism on local communities. 17:15 | Ilona Wiśniewska - FAR. Northern Norway A reporter's exploration of the northern Norway. 18:10 | Piotr Strzeżysz - Travelling is looking for tales and stories A road full of dreams, desires and fantasies. Journey into your inner self.

Workshops

11:15 | Tomasz Kulbowski - Street Photo Workshops Street photo in the context of travelling. 11:15 | Max Cegielski - The Art of Taking Notes When Travelling From ABC of the reporter's workshop to the art of travelling and art in travel. 11:15 | Post-tourist - Conscious and Responsible Travelling The 21st century tourism and its phenomena.15:45 | Jakub Górnicki - Technology and Travel Using social media and technological trends for travel reportage. 15:45 | Mateusz Janiszewski - Health and Travel All about preventive health care.

Film Shows - Cinema

12:50 | Human, dir. Yann Arthus-Bertrand (2015) 2000 people, 60 countries, 40 questions. 16:10 | We Come as Friends, dir. Hubert Sauper (2014) Establishment of the youngest country in the world. 18.15 | Embrace of the Serpent, dir. Ciro Guerra (2015) A black and white film based on journey logs across the Amazon region of Colombia.

Contest Shows - Conference Hall

14:35 | Mikołaj Dorożała - Road to Hel Sentimental journeys to the Baltic Sea. 15:30 | Beata Jakuszewska - Locally. At the End of the World Life in local communities. 16:25 | Michał Kaczor - Musical Journeys Sensing the world through sound. 17:20 | Bartłomiej Kiraga - The Silk Road. Travel in Tme and in Space.Wild journey through Middle Asia. 18:15 | Justyna Maserak - Close and Slow Travelling. The Story of Discovering. How to become an explorer in the nearest neighbourhood?

Continents by Night - Teatralny Square

21:00 | Bartek Malinowski, Joanna Lipowczan - Great Himalaya Trail Trekking the longest (1,700 km) Himalaya hiking trail.22:10 | Planet Ocean - Film Show. Unusual pictures showing the might of the oceans.

SUNDAY, 5 JUNE Opera Hall

13:00 | Wojciech Jagielski - Meeting with the AuthorWork and principles of working of a war correspondent. 14:00 | Cząstka Podlasia - The Touch of Podlasie: film screening A documentary using sound and image to show the magic of Podlasie region. 15:30 | Hugh Thomson - Discovering the Other WorldExploring places and stories that are waiting to be discovered. 16:45 | Paul Theroux - The Life of an Explorer. Author of the most popular travel books in the world for the first time in Poland.

The participants of the Festival have a free entry to "Genesis" photography exhi-bition by Sebastião Salgado.