They will be at 09:45 in the morning and the memory output will start at 10:00. What are we going to do, zoom in little by little, or will we have a coffee for a stab before? That first date can last a long time... That was the first question we were sent to Ondarroa: My friend and I. We've decided to have coffee in case. But we were wrong to doubt that the tour was long. We were taken for an hour to the War of 36 and to the hard years that continued to listen to the stories of Patxi, Doita and Inma for so many years. We were thrilled by the explanations we were given at the port of Ondarroa or at the place where Saturraran Prison was, and they showed us the photos of that time.

And after remembering the past so that it doesn't fall into oblivion, the leap into the present. The fair was launched with a small act of openness, in which the exhibition Transitions participated, which was exhibited throughout the day, and in which children took the lead with educational games. Some started making their first purchases before the end of the welcoming act, the younger ones were at ease with their hands in the clays in the Nendo Dango workshop and there were those who, when opening the txosna, grabbed the pintxo giving a first blow to the txakoli.

Proposal at the Meeting of Fans of Light

These would be the last to sit at the Argiazaleon Meeting, but this annual appointment also became pretty as the small family was formed. The main goal is for the community to come together and talk about the project. But every quotation has its particularity. The focus was placed on the format of the journal and the Usurbil project, with the help of the opinions gathered therein, the number 0 reformed in Oñati... And this year what? Bringing the group of friends together in a circle, ARGIA members proposed a new subscription or help model in which they want to participate.

For many years a fee has been established for the subscriber and linked to it a certain exchange. The question that we want to change is: What do you want or can you provide to support the project? And after that question comes what you want to receive for it. It is about giving everyone the opportunity to help and read ARGIA in their own way, and leaving the decision on the amount in their hands. The community that met in Ondarroa listened carefully to the proposal and took the time to reflect on it, to raise its doubts and to contribute its contributions.

Before, however, we did a brief quick round to explain the connection we had with ARGIA in the meetings; and in space I heard three Lea Artibai subscribers. Before I ate, I had fun chatting with them.

“For me, ARGIA is more than a magazine,” said a subscriber Ondarrés, “it is a popular construction project, a necessary tool to be an informed society. It works on topical issues from a critical perspective and gives me confidence. It seems to me that it is an important project for Euskal Herria and for the Basques and I would like to go ahead, because today that critical and comprehensive information is the only one given in Euskera”.

He spoke to me, also with optimism, of Day of Light and community: “I liked the decision taken two years ago by ARGIA to go out to the street in Usurbil. There you see the link that exists between this project and the subscribers and it is beautiful that the subscribers or readers feel that they really count on us.”

Another subscriber explained how the intergenerational chain has been maintained: “We have been at home for many years, and every week we are waiting for LUZ to come. They are well-crafted, in-depth articles. And despite living in Elorrio, I've come very comfortable with Argia Eguna in Ondarroa. Now the daughter has also become a subscriber and I think she keeps reading more at ease than we do.”

He also told us how he made his first contact with ARGIA: “I have known LIGHT since the students’ time. We did literacy courses, and then they were the ones that were done in Euskera Anaitasuna and Zeruko Argia. For me, it was a discovery, to see that there was something to read in Basque... And as soon as I got to work, I signed up to both. Then Anaitasuna ended, and I continued in ARGIA.”

Etxebarria’s subscriber speaks transparently about the trajectory of all these years: “About eight or ten years ago I had some doubts to continue with the subscription, I didn’t fully fill up, but I decided to wait a bit. And now I have no doubt. I’m happy with the work done at ARGIA and offers me information I can’t get anywhere else.”

Food sovereignty, launch of foreign ID...

After hearing them you can go to eat! - I said. Here's the next detail, which is not small. At the tables, in a banner representing the seven territories of the Basque Country and inside some towns and products, as a sign of the origin of the food we would eat in the food. And it was all chapeau, of course.

The bertsolaris, the theater and the dance workshop filled the atmosphere of the table, and while I was drinking coffee, I was taking the coffee where I see him; the great foreign ID launch champion, with a small smile in his mouth, like saying, “Yes, I am and I come to maintain my leadership.” Brand: 29.2 meters. When I realized the card that passed over my ear, I realized that the competition was about to start, the third in Euskal Herria. Training people seriously, wishing to steal the technique from the neighbor, as if others had done their homework well.

Total, the championship has already started and all the poor devils are around 5 meters, laughing at each other, and there comes the leader, with his special technique -- silence and applause. It has not exceeded the mark, but it has been around again. Until the arrival of Oier. From Lekeitio. After feigning a crazy man, didn't he throw him over 40 meters? He went home with a new brand and a prize, proudly saying: “In Ondarroa you don’t have to overcome this. Thank you Ondarroa!”

From a young age, the day was closed with the concerts of Occhi di Farfalla and the soloist of Jon Basaguren, in collaboration with the community. After reviewing the whole day, I do not want to forget all the agents and people who have worked before and throughout the day, as well as those who have approached you. There are new challenges ahead, and I've seen the ARGIA community in Ondarroa wanting, and if we were convinced with this phrase before, with Saturday's phrase still and more: a lot of small people, in many small places, doing small things -- it can change the world.