Vindictive watchtower of the Basque press in the 1980s
- After two decades of standstill this year the Argia Eguna will be held again, on 27 September in Usurbil. It was held for the first time in 1982, in order to bring the Semanario closer to citizenship and to assert the need for the Basque press.
On 27 September you have an important date in Usurbil: We celebrate Day of Light with a content full of activities and a festive atmosphere. We will address the challenge in a very different and renewed time, but with the same objective of Argia Eguna of the 1980s: to share our communication project with the citizens.
The idea of celebrating Day of Light is not the day before yesterday. In the Argia that was published in San Sebastian, do not mix with the Luz del Cielo de los Capuchino de Pamplona, ancestors of this weekly, a reader proposed in 1932 to call “Día de la Luz” the date on which this magazine was created: “Many new parties have been created in recent years. The day of Zuaitz, the day of Aurezki, the day of Legends, the day of cattle… Doesn’t it look good?”
Half a century and a dictatorship later, in 1982, there was a need to organize such a day. Perhaps the success of the food for 1,000 people held at the Balda fronton in San Sebastian in 1981, but above all because of the precarious situation of the Basque press, caused the Argia Eguna to begin.
After the Franco regime, the creation of Basque newspapers and magazines that worked almost entirely in Spanish hit the Basque magazines. Fraternity had to be closed in 1982 due to economic problems and the new Argia, which ceased to be celestial, also seemed like a winter flower. But it survived thanks to the efforts of many and the support of many.
On 28 November of the same year, tables were set up in different neighborhoods and towns to sell specimens and make subscriptions. In the years that followed, Day of Light was gaining more and more strength. In 1984 they organized a meal and an afternoon in Astigarraga with bertsolaris and Gaiteros. They also started making a paper bertsos contest. In 1986, 180 tables were recorded throughout the Basque Country, and in 1987 they were over 300, with the help of the Basque people. In addition to the weekly, the Basque Culture Yearbook, the cassette Txisteka-Misteka, the calendar and other products were sold.
In the 1980s, the Basque press focused on two variables. On the one hand, it insisted on asking the Basque Government to increase subsidies, claiming “the failure of the diglosic media”. On the other hand, the possibility of creating a newspaper in Euskera was increasingly real – the experience and resources accumulated by Argia throughout the decade were used in the creation of Euskaldunon Egunkaria. In 1989, Argia Eguna had the slogan The Day of the Basque Press. In that year the Argia Awards were delivered for the first time and gradually became the Weekly Grand Prix.
The last Argia Eguna was held in 1992. It lasted for two weeks, as it was held a week later in San Juan de Luz. A total of 5,000 copies of the Basque Culture Yearbook were sold and the timetable was exhausted. In Goizueta the groups Amaia Zubiria, Txomin Artola and Ortzi gathered 500 people, in Gasteiz a performance of bertsolaris was made, in Oiartzun a day was made for the youngest…
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