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What are the priorities of Basque culture?
Gotzon Barandiaran Arteaga @gotzonbarandi 2018ko urriaren 16a

We have recently read and heard from Xabier Gantzarain about the Zuloa trial: “There is French art, Spanish art, German art… but there is no Basque art. Why? Because we don't have a state. And because we don't have a state, we don't have a culture either. Because today it cannot be said that the Basque culture is thought, created and realized in Basque without altering the Basques. The Basque culture is also the one thought, created and practiced in French,” they argue. He who has no state, because he has no art, because he has no culture. We do not have a state, but we can have a state view for the whole of the Basque country and a country to town view.

Let us join together to propose, debate, reach agreement and carry out the strategic for our culture by the agents from all over the Basque Country that make up the cultural ecosystem

In the last ten years we have repeated in numerous meetings and written articles proposals such as “National Pact, State Pact, Political Pact, Social Agreement, Self-determination of Culture”. Without waiting for the structure to be achieved, we can have a vision of the State: let us come together to propose, debate, agree and carry out what is strategic for our culture by the actors throughout the Basque Country that make up the cultural ecosystem. Let us enter, sometimes in an auzolan, sometimes collaborating, always in synergy. Let's take urgent action because alarms have been on for years. One of the insurmountable obstacles to the normalization of the Basque culture is that the people of Euskera are divided into three administrations. For survival it is essential to articulate the culture of Lapurdi, Nafarroa Beherea, Zuberoa, Nafarroa Garaia and CAV. That is to have a state view, to believe that what has been done in Luhuso influences Oyón. Let's start the Country view from the smallest to the cities. Let us start Kulturbilgune in all the villages, let us bring together all the local agents that make up the ecosystem of popular culture from people to people. We have examples that are yielding very good results. What are the needs of our culture today?” I wonder. Create amateurs. Not out of nowhere, but from what belongs to him. Our problem is to bring the Basques into their culture. Basque culture needs amateurs, amateurs and professionals who are creative. Fans of the organization: they are dedicated to popular initiatives or public institutions. Professionals who will live in the culture industry, fans of cultural journalism, who guarantee transmission. Otherwise, we will never have a healthy cultural system, otherwise precariousness will become a chronic and incurable evil.