This Wednesday, day 8, will begin for five days the Liho of the words of 2023 in Oiartzun (Gipuzkoa). Utopia will be the central axis of this year’s edition and art and culture will also be “essential friends”, according to the organizers. “Changing requires imagining: analyzing and criticizing the society we know, speculating about what is possible, describing possible futures, provoking reflection,” they add. The program consists of nine acts from different disciplines: literature, reflection, music, analysis, bertso, criticism, creativity, theater, plastic arts...

This year’s edition will be the sixth and will aim to provide culture with “another place”. Last weekend they have already made the “first aperitif” of this sixth edition: with the children they have painted a mural on the stairs of the Plaza del Concejo de Oiartzun, led by Maitri Ugalde, looking at the utopia, looking at the “people of dreams”, what do we dream of Oiartzun? under the slogan. It is an activity carried out with seeds.

Programme

Wednesday, 8 November, 19:00h: Manifesto. Landetxe Kultur Aretoa. Then, Popperra's performance, after, utopia.

Thursday, 9 November, 19:00h: Utopia or dystopia: Where are we going? Philosophical boat. Bar Landetxe. Alba Garmendia opens the way with a short talk and then they create dialogue between attendees.

Friday, November 10, 18:30h: Utopia Conference: speculative exercises. Landetxe Kultur Aretoa. Under the leadership of Oier Guillane, Lorea Agirre and Harkaitz Cano are going to speculate about desirable futures.

Saturday 11 November at 11:00: Plastic writing of utopia. What is utopia for you? Workshop. By Arizmendi.

Sunday, November 12, 11:00h. Continuous reading of the book One glass eye. Concejil.

Sunday, November 14, 14:00h:Bertso bazkari literary. Association Girizia. Based on the book Kristalezko begi bat (a glass eye) from the workshop the previous day, author Miren Agur Meabe will act as rapporteur, while Amets Arzallus, Nerea Ibarzabal and Alaia Martin will act in verse.