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….
Culture
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,…
Azpitituluak, a Project for Basque Subtitles
by Luistxo Fernandez In 2008, I wrote an e-mail to Lawrence Lessig, the American lawyer that created the Creative Commons license pack and current presidential…
Oñati, Sociology of Law “World Capital”
by Fernando Tapia Alberdi. Since I could not attend as I would have liked the activities organized by the International Institute for the Sociology of…
Oral Literature: the Key to Basque Language Survival?
by Ion Olano Carlos. Literature was already literature avant la lettre. In other words, oral literature exists since the very beginning of human culture. The…
The Far East of Judas Arrieta
by Koldo Almandoz. The artist Judas Arrieta was born in 1971 in Hondarribia, a small village located in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa. His interest…
Burst of Bands in Pamplona
by Jon Pagola. No beaches in Pamplona, or the beauty of San Sebastián. It’s not as spirited as Bilbao, and it doesn’t have the environmentally…
Saut de Basque, Basques Dancing Far From the Pyrenees
by Iratxe de Arantzibia. People who reside, or rather skip about the foot of the Pyrenees, and who are called Vasques or Vascons. That is how…
Jorge Oteiza – the Solvent Artist
by Felix Maraña. Ten years have gone by since Jorge Oteiza’s passing (1908-2003), sculptor, poet, thinker and social critic, born in Orio, a small Basque coastal…