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06/07/2012
A few years ago the Navarrese director Oskar Alegria discovered an exhibition at London’s Tate Gallery by photographer Man Ray surprisingly entitled, “Emak Bakia,” which means “leave me alone.” It was a film by Ray in 1926 in a house on the Lapurdi coast. Alegria intuited that there was a story to be told behind this title and launched the search for this house. The film reflects that search and discovery of the house, and the treasures found along the way: incredible stories and personalities from another time, such as the 94 year-old German princess, the granddaughter of a Romanian nobleman who built it, who was looking for Emak Bakia at the same time as Alegria. The documentary is being presented today and Sunday in Mexico. It was presented before in Argentina and will eventually participate in the International Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland.
06/06/2012
Last weekend a delegation of the Associazione Culturale Euskara (ACE) and the Department of Basque Language and Culture at the Upter Popular University in Rome attended the third edition of the Ostana Awards. This award, organized by the Chambra d’Oc, an Occitan cultural association, chooses a work every year in one of Europe’s minority languages. The ACE supported the presentation of 2011’s winning entry 'Filo d’erba' by Basque Harkaitz Cano. The author from Lasarte was one of the participants in the previous edition
06/06/2012
Jon Ander Ramos and Oscar Alvarez Gila, historians specialized in topics of emigration and the Basque Diaspora gave talks at the National University of La Plata (UNLP), in Argentina, as part of an initiative organized by the Chair of Irish Free Thinking and the Basque Language and Culture Lecturer at this university. Jon Ander Ramos talked on the presence of Euskera in the Basque-Argentine correspondence of the Mendizabal Gorostizu family, while Alvarez Gila talked on the way Basque emigrants have been portrayed by Hollywood in the US.
06/05/2012
There is a public school in Rome where the students – children of families with no previous relationship with the Basques or the Basque Country –work each year with the Basque language in music, expression and creativity. The project is called Euskanta and is developed with the support of the Associazione Euskara di Roma, Rome’s Basque club. It consists of boys and girls writing poems and short texts that are translated into Basque like a game. They are then set to music and recorded as the first published material of these students, including illustrations. The results of Euskanta 2012, in CD format, will be presented tomorrow at the school Manetti in Rome.
06/05/2012
The Basque language and culture lecturer at Stanford University has promoted several cultural activities during this term, such as talks, Bertsolari exhibitions, and more recently a test workshop or taster on the Txalaparta. The sounds of the ancient Basque percussion instrument reached the heart of the university campus thanks to lecturer and Txalaparta player Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga along with a good number of curious folks who were encouraged to give it a try.
06/04/2012
The Publishers of the For Dummies series belongs to the powerful Planeta group and has just published Euskera for Dummies, within its series of practical guides on various themes. The book will allow readers that speak Spanish to obtain basic notions and learn phrases and useful words in order to get along in Basque. The book is the translation of the French version, Le Basque pour les Nuls that was written by Jean Baptiste Coyos and Jasone Salaberria. This book was published in 2009 in France and has been very well received.
06/01/2012
Since the elections on May 26, a woman now presides over the Centro Euskaro in Montevideo for the first time in 101 years. Her name is Lucía Goñi Spinoglio and she will be in charge of the Euskal Etxea during the 2012-13 term. It so happens that the result of this “historic” election in Montevideo is a board of directors comprised mainly of women.
05/31/2012
The Provincial Government of Bizkaia has awarded the University of Deusto 20,000 Euros to carry out various projects including a conference on emigration and return, and research. The University of Deusto boasts an important Basque Studies Institute, a leading cultural asset that promotes Basque Studies in higher education and disseminates the Basque language and culture. Its audience not only includes the citizens of Bizkaia but also those who live outside of the historic territories, as indicated in a note issued by the Bizkaian officials.
05/31/2012
Berlin’s Euskal Etxea continues the commemorative events surrounding the 75 anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika at the hands of Nazi aviators allied with Franco in 1937. As part of these events, the Basque club has invited five artists, three from Gernika and two German, to reinterpret Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” in graffiti. The artists will be aided by children from a nearby school and the residents of the neighborhood where the mural will be created.
05/30/2012
The Official Bulletin of the Basque Country, published on May 30, included the official call for the 2012 edition of the Gaztemundu program, for youth in the Basque Diaspora. Twenty youth will be selected from Basque clubs around the world and Basque communities abroad to participate in the program in the Basque Country from September 3-14. This year’s program will focus on the Basque language and its instruction in the Basque clubs.
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