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…
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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…
This Is an Indie World
by Jon Pagola. The clever journalist who labeled Patxi López as the first indie “Lehendakari” (President) was right on. During his brief time at the…
Basque Literature Translated into English
by Beñat Sarasola We all know that for non-hegemonic cultures and literatures, translation is the best way to expand literary works in the world. Nevertheless,…
“Euskalkultura.com” The Informative Reference on the Basque Diaspora
by Aitor Azurki. Reporting on all the events taking place in the Basque Diaspora for more than one decade. Euskalkultura.com is a pioneering initiative that began…