The performers Oneria Enbeita, Amuriza de RMi, Beñat Ugartetxea, Etxahun Lekue, Jone Uria, Arkaitz Estiballes, Eneko Abasolo ‘Abarkas’ and Peio Ormazabal will sing in the final of the Bizkaia Championship on the 19th in the BEC hall of Barakaldo.
Ivan Sverko25, a Croatian, has won the City of Arrasate International Accordion Competition. Nine finalists competed at the Teatro Municipal Amaia. Competitions have also been held in Athens. At the senior level, the Alameda Maria Zubimendi stands out.
The journalist and writer Joan Mari Torrealdai has received the Lauaxeta Award, awarded by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, for her work in support of the Basque language and culture. In his speech after taking the award, Torrealdai stressed the need to create the Basque Library.
The Basque prisoner Mikel Orbegozo presented the comic book I am a prisoner. Orbegozo talks about life in prison, about “internal feelings, even the smallest things, but also about a repressive strategy against our people that is reflected in prisons.” From an ironic point of view and with a humorous point of view, the San Sebastián has focused on the reality of prisons.