100 Years of Commitment to Basque Culture
by Mikel Mujika Eusko Ikaskuntza – Society of Basque Studies is celebrating its centenary with a congress for “strategic reflection” about the future of the…
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Bilbao 2018, a City of Major Events
by Maite Redondo The MTV Awards in November bring the crowning touch to a monumental year of important international events. The Basque province of Bizkaia…
Sanfermines and Winds of Change
by Enrike Díez de Ulzurrun Sagalá It’s been almost a hundred years since Hemingway first set foot into the city of Pamplona-Iruña to attend the…
Maskaradak of Zuberoa. Festival and Community
by Aritz Ibañez Lusarreta Apparently, there was a time when music and dance were indistinguishable, as in the case with dance and theater. For example,…
Guggenheim Bilbao’s Twenty Years, the Museum that Projected Bilbao to the World
by Maite Redondo On November 8th, 2017 Bilbao was named the best European City surpassing Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Vienna (Austria) in the 2018 Urbanism Awards,…
The Faces of the Basque Country in the World
The Basque language and culture is projected to the university world with 34 readerships or language assistantships (positions for teaching the Basque language and culture)…
“San Sebastian is a city that has great potential in many areas beyond tourism.”
by Aitor Azurki Donostia / San Sebastian. Capital of Gipuzkoa, one of the provinces of the Basque Country. This year the city has acquired a…
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Another Voyage in Basques’ New Age of Exploration
When the Smithsonian Folklife Festival begins June 29 in Washington, D.C., it will be the biggest stage Basques have ever had in the United States….
Book Publishing in Basque is Enjoying Good Health, but Looking for Readers
By Juan Luis Zabala “I get the impression that the instruments to promote Basque culture available to Basque society and public institutions are underutilized. If…
Etxepare Institute: Ambassador of the Basque Language and Culture in the World
by Nerea Azurmendi Euskara, the Basque language, became universally known with its printed word in 1545, quite late in relation to the two powerful neighboring languages,…