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Throughout today some 400 people will participate in the tenth edition of Classics Reading organized every year by the Bilbo Zaharra Euskaltegi in Bilbao.  The chosen title this year is 100% Basque by Itxaro Borda from Behe-Nafarroa and its readers will include people of all kinds, age and condition, physically at the Arriaga Theater, as well as other who will participate via video.  34 Basque clubs, Basque speakers and students from all over the world will be represented. 

Bilbao, Bizkaia.  Among those going to the Arriaga to read the work, will be the author herself, Itxaro Borda, politicians, and institutional representatives from the Lehendakari to the mayor of Bilbao, as well as the Deputy General of Bizkaia, the president of Euskaltzaindia and the presidents of the University of Deusto as well as the University of the Basque Country.  Others include members of business organizations, students, athletes, workers and personalities form the world of culture, a full range of people, some better known than others, contributing and explaining their support for this initiative in favor of reading in the Basque language.

Klasikoen X. Irakurketa Jarraitua

The work chosen for the 10th edition is 100% Basque by Itxaro Borda, a female author from Iparralde, not conventional, an orthodox who has broken molds in Basque literature..  Borda herself will be in charge of beginning the reading this year.

As in prior editions, the Diaspora, as an integral part of Euskera instruction and the Euskaltegi movement, will also play an important role today with readers from 34 Basque clubs from around the world, as well as some from some universities and other places where Basque classes are taught.

After 12 hours of reading, today will conclude with a dance outside of the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao.

Participating clubs and entities via video include:

• Centre Cultural Euskal Etxea (Barcelona)
• Bruselako Euskal Etxea (Brussels)
• London Basque Society (London)
• Tokyoko Euskal Etxea (Tokyo)
• Gernika Deutsch-Baskischer Kulturverein E.V.. (Berlin)
• Euskaltzaleok (Valencia)
• Washington Euskal Etxea (Washington, DC)
• Eusko Etxea of New York (New York)
• Basque Center "Gure Txoko' (Valladolid)
• Lagunt eta Maita (Pau)
• Pariseko Eskual Etxea (Paris)
• Euzko Etxea Basque Club (Santiago, Chile)
• Association of Basque Navarre of the Beneficence of Havana (Havana)
• F.I.V.U - Federation of Basque institutions in Uruguay (Montevideo)
• Basque Cultural Association Gure Mendietakoak (Caldas, Colombia)
• Navarrese Basque Club Laurak Bat (Valencia)
• Zaragozako Euskal Etxea (Zaragoza)
• Euskal Etxea  (Madrid)
• Euskal Etxea 'Artea' (Palma de Mallorca)
• Basque Community of Chile (Santiago)
• Eusko Brasildar Etxea – Brazil’s Basque Club (São Paulo)
• College Euskal Echea (Buenos Aires)
• Gure Txoko Basque Club (Sydney)
• Eskualdunen Biltzarra - Bordaleko Euskal Etxea (Bordeaux)
• Associazione Culturale Euskara (Rome)
• Eusko Etxea of Valparaíso (Valparaíso, Chile)
• Zelaiko Euskal Etxea (Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina)
• Universität Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)
• Gure Euskal Etxea - Basque Cultural Center (San Francisco)
• Iparreko Ibarra Basque Club (Rocklin, California)
• Euskal Etxea (Lima)
• Eusko Alkartasuna (São Paulo)
• Center Laurak Bat (Buenos Aires)
• Society of Confraternity Basque Euskal Herria (Montevideo)
• Basque Club of Mexico (Mexico City)
• Euskaldunak Association des Basques du Québec (Montreal)