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,…
Culture
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,…
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…