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03/09/2012
The University of Liverpool will celebrate Iberian Week, starting on Monday, activities dedicated to the languages spoken on the Iberian peninsula. The program will include talks, recitals and concerts with Basque also featuring prominently, thanks to the lectureship sponsored by the Etxepare Basque Institute at the English University. Thanks to this program, poet Kirmen Uribe and musician Mikel Urdangarin , bertsolari Xabi Paya , historian Argitxu Camus as well as the rock group Zea Mays will participate.
03/09/2012
From Aberriaren mugak to Xarmangarria zira, the North American Basque Organizations (NABO) has uploaded nearly 80 songs complete with music and lyrics to the web as part of Hi Kantari. This collection, published in the form of small song books, some years ago, was an attempt to recuperate and support the Basque tradition of in the US Basque community. NABO has now updated the songbook by uploaded the lyrics and music to these songs on the web, in a program that is also accessed easily from smart phones.
03/08/2012
The meeting was called by the Eskuadunen Biltzarra Basque club in Bordeaux with seven clubs and Basque associations confirming their attendance. The meeting will take place on March 24 and 25 at the Eskualdunen Biltzarra clubhouse and will welcome clubs from Paris, Pau, Lourdes, Montpellier and Toulouse (two associations) as well as the hosting club Bordeaux and the Ongi Etorri association also in Bordeaux. The meeting will serve to share experiences as well as try and find solutions to problems that they have in common.
03/08/2012
Saturday will be a big day for culture in Zuberoa, thanks to the premier of the film, conceived, filmed and produced in the dialect of that province. The film speaks of the dream of a young Basque who wants to be a writer, and who looks to his uncle for advice, a Basque working in Hollywood as a screenwriter, but now lives isolated from the world in a cabin in the mountains. The film is directed by new comer Peio Cachenaut and was produced by the cultural associations Hebentik and Aldudarrak Bideo, with the participation of producer Baleuko. The film was already distributed in Hegoalde, but paradoxically not in Iparralde. “It is a shame that the movie was done in Maule and it can be seen in Hegoalde, but not in Baiona,” Mixel Etxekopar, from Hebentik, told EuskalKultura.com. Those responsible for distribution are now looking for places in Iparralde.
03/07/2012
Ana Olazabal, twenty-two year old designer from Donostia, has recently won the award for Best Young Designer in Spain, and the Basque magazine Gaztezulo interviewed her. Olazabal achieved the highest score from the judges with the “Release” collection, a series of designs that reproduce “the movement of oil on the sea.” In an interview, which we summarize and then translate here, Ana explains how her reflections on M-11 movement, war and oil gave rise to a collection that will be presented in Paris in September.03/07/2012
Invited by HABE, Basque professors from several European Basque clubs will gather tomorrow in Barcelona, where they will participate in a two-day workshop. It is the first time that professors from other European countries participate in the course, since previously Basque teachers in Spain have already participated. This is an important step, uniting Basque teachers that teach different levels: some have few students in class, or have just begun teaching class while others have many years of experience and larger groups of students. The exchange among the teachers is one of the key points of the workshop that will take place at Barcelona’s Basque club.
03/07/2012
On March 6th the Advisory Committee that serves Basque Collectivities around the world held its first meeting following the World Congress that took place last November. This body serves as advisors to Lehendakari and the Basque Government, on areas of interest to the Basque clubs around the world. It now consists of three new euskal etxea representatives that were chosen during the Congress at the Kursaal, as well as other institutional representatives some of them also elected last year in their respective town halls and provincial governments. The majority of the meeting was spent discussing, point by point, issues raised at the World Congress, among them a technical report presented by the University of Deusto that includes a proposal attention paid by the Basque Government to Basque abroad and returnees including the creation of an office that will service these individuals.
03/06/2012
For years the Eusko Aterpea Basque club, in Gral. Rodríguez, Argentina, has provided its membership with a large number of activities related to the Basque culture and 2012 is no exception. It has already opened enrollment in its Basque, dance, mus and txalaparta classes. On March 24th, club officers and members will hold its general assembly and on the 25th, under the name “What I do,” will honor the “Vasco de la Carretilla” (The Wheelbarrow Basque) by walking to Lujan followed by refreshments at the Museum of Transportation in that city.
03/06/2012
Pau’s Basque club is living some sweet moments: last year it achieved its dream of having its own headquarters, and the members are actively participating in the various sections and course that the club offers. At the end of last month, the club celebrated its general assembly in which the 2011 activities were reviewed. In addition, president, Jean Pierre Urrutia, also presented some of this year’s projects as well as those to come such as the French Mus tournament that the club is hoping to organized for 2013 or 2014. It would be the first time that this championship is held outside of the Basque Country.
03/05/2012
The Basque language was represented for the first time by the governments of Euskadi, Navarre and Aquitaine who were in Brussels last week to make a presentation in the European Parliament. The delegation was lead by representatives of agencies related to Basque from each of the three territories: Lurdes Auzmendi, the Basque Government’s Deputy-Minister of Linguistic Policy; Frantxua Maitia, Director of the Public Office of the Basque Language in Iparralde; and Maximino Gomez Director of Euskarabidea, in Navarre. The group introduced the work being carried out in the field of Basque to the European Parliament’s Vice-President of the internal group of minority languages.
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