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Rome, Italy.  Each year the students write a poem that is translated into Basque, and with their teacher's help is set to music.  The students express themselves and come into contact with Euskera during this process by reading and singing “their topics” accompanied by synthesizers and music resources to elaborate and record their final product.  At the end of the school year they receive a CD copy of the recording, including their own drawings and illustrations, that they or their friends and families can see, hear, or even download from the internet.  This initiative that is so simple yet so complicated is supported by the Associazione Culturale Euskara and the Dipartamento Lingua e Cultura Basca of the UPTER University, in conjunction with Rome’s Alfieri-Manetti school.

The end result of Euskanta 2012 will be presented tomorrow at the school but those who cannot attend are invited to listen to it on the website: http://euskanta.wordpress.com entangled in its various sections.  There you will find, with explanations in Basque and Italian, the results of the three editions that have taken place to date complete with tests, songs and pictures all created by the students at the Alfieri-Manetti school.  These have been the three editions:

-in 2012 students from the Escuela Elemental Manetti, fourth grade from groups A and B (coordinated by Alex Mendizabal with music mixed by Marcello Liberato)
-In 2011, the students of the Escuela Elemental V. Alfieri, fifth grade from groups A and B (coordinated by Alex Mendizabal with music mixed by Marcello Liberato)
-In 2010 students from the Escuela Elemental Manetti fifth grade, from groups A and B (coordinated by Alex Mendizabal with music mixed by Marcello Liberato)

Designer of the notebook cover and the composition of the work is Viviana Tomasetti and the website design that hosts everything was done by Marcello Liberato.

You can listen to or download the results from the following links:

-2012: CD-1: 10 songs, texts and illustrations
-2011: CD-1: 12 songs, texts and illustrations
-2011: CD-2: 13 songs, texts and illustrations
-2010: CD-1: 15 songs, texts and illustrations
-2010: CD-2: 15 songs, texts and illustrations
-2010: CD-3: 16 songs, texts and illustrations

RELATED LINKS

-Euskanta: http://euskanta.wordpress.com
-Associazione Culturale Euskara: www.euskara.it
-Alfieri-Manetti school: www.alfieri-manetti.it