- The Basque Pensioners' Movement has launched a special competition for bertsos: "In pension systems." Basques over 60 years of Euskal Herria and the diaspora have a deadline until Monday, January 15 to put bertsos on the street. They announce that the awards will be special and will be made within a program of instant bertsos focused on the theme.
"There are many pensioners who meet every Monday in the squares ahead of the city hall of our peoples, but much more, who share the goals of the movement and feel the passion to support it," explains the Basque Country Pensioners' Movement. They say that many of them are related to the world of Euskera, culture and the Bertso and that the "Bertsopensionetan" initiative emerges from their hand: Pensioner I. Bertsos Jarriak competition.
With this cultural initiative they want to "deepen and socialise the issue of pensions": "The issue of pensions is a matter for society as a whole. Especially and directly to us, but it is one of the main keys that define the social model for the future. Axis of an egalitarian society". The competition theme will be: "When we're talking, every Monday the topic is on the street. The Pensioners' Movement claims the continual verses every Monday."
The interested person must write between three and six verses freely, and preferably with the melody he has used in the mind when creating. The organization has emphasized the creation of a collection of verses, "that is, works formed by verses with a clear relationship".
Special award ceremony
The movement will make the award of the competition through a public and open act: "We invite all the participants and, together with the verses of the winners, we will be able to enjoy a front row bertsolaris evening. There will be no prizes. The winners will be able to sing their bertsos," they said.
To ship verses
Bertsos must be sent by regular or electronic mail before 15 January. To prevent those who will judge the bertsos from knowing the name of the author, they have given the following instructions:
"For regular mail delivery, the original verses set, signed with a title and alias, will be entered in a large envelope, together with a minor envelope containing the author's details (name and surname, locality and e-mail and contact telephone). Type on the outside of the small envelope the title of the game or alias of the author. Address: Art. 20 Iurreta 48215 (Bizkaia)".
"To send by email it will be necessary to send two emails, one with the title and pseudonym of the signed verses game (preferably in PDF format) and another with the data corresponding to the title or alias of the lot, i.e., name, locality and contact telephone number. Postal address: bertsopentsiotan@gmail.com".