To the drowner, breathe
Thousands of Euskaltzales and fans of Basque culture have met in Durango over a long weekend, in a well-established annual event. Waiting for entry, 1 hour, in the rain... People have been hungry for culture. And they would have been pleased, because that's how it's been seen in the smiles of the people inside the stalls. To the language in crisis, to the culture of that language in crisis, to the person who suffocates ... Even if it's for once, breathe. But the message is clear: you have to spread it all year round.
With the proliferation of structural spaces, Basque cultural activity would have more usual receptors," said Gerediaga, organizer of the Durango Fair, once this year's edition is over. In fact, the main conclusion is that cultural lovers are willing, and need, and need, to be part of a healthy Basque cultural system. "All this leads us to think," said the organizers, who have asked all cultural agents, public institutions, media, creators and fans of culture to reflect on it.
Don't make quick readings: they're not exponentially multiplying the Durango Fairs. But to extend the Basque culture throughout the year, in many ways, at the levels and forms of appearance, both quantitatively and qualitatively; in fact, there are many cultural and cultural people that have the Basque in Euskal Herria, as has been confirmed once again in the Durango Fair.
The data will be released next year. The profiles of visitors and sellers have been analyzed.
Durango, overflowing Many
people have come together. Thousands of students met on Thursday morning on Student Morning; Durango received about 100 buses from all over Euskal Herria, and many of them went to other public transportation. Before the morning, the Landako area was full of capacity, and access to the enclosure was sometimes closed.
However, the one who has walked through Durango or the one who has followed the media knows that Friday was the most massive day. From the morning, almost to dusk, the capacity had been overcome, and the people it was about to queue had no merit. There had also been an hour, in the rain and with a not very nice temperature. The organization has expressed its sincere thanks to all of them.
The Saturday was in the same line in terms of time, also in terms of the environment, but with fewer people. In spite of this, the capacity has been filled in more than a moment and the queues have come to the outside. Sunday, on the other hand, will be quieter, to stay at home with time as well.
The creation grant, the illustration project Harien island Taking the Basque Country as the main theme, was an artistic intervention of the organization of the Durango Fair, and the illustrator of
Abadiño Irati Bazeta has been the winner, with the project Harien island. It will have one year to carry out the project and present, for which it has a scholarship of 15,000 euros.
As Baeta announced at a press conference, her work will focus on painting and painting. The idea is to create a dozen pieces and would like to share reflections, among other things, by encouraging citizen participation. A number of questions are raised: "Who is the Basque people? What does it mean for Euskera to be people? Are we aware that the Basque people are people? Do we all have the same resources to live or to reach the Basque country? In what situation have we felt the linguistic stress? It is a project that has been elaborated from several questions".
For the seventh year in a row, Gerediaga Elkartea and the Durango City Hall, in collaboration, have made the call for scholarships. The Durango Fair wanted to be "more than a showcase", as many young people felt "travelling companions of the new" creators, with many disciplines, eager to create, in Basque and from Euskera.
Tribute to Benito Lertxundi
The Durango Fair turns 59 and has been on stage for 60 years. It has therefore been there since the first year.
But it won't be more, at least as a stage musician. On November 27, the musician Bardo de Orio announced his withdrawal along with two albums from the concert he recorded last year at Gernika. This latest work has been one of the most significant of this year’s Durango Fair.
The Bardo de Orio has been the one, because there are those who, also in the history of the Durango Fair, of course, closed this year’s edition in a very special and unusual way in Landakogunea. The musicians, visitors and members of the stands who were there sang together the song Oi ama Eskual Herri that Etxahun Iruri wrote and that Benito Lertxundi made known. On the stage of the main hall, following the guitars of Iker Lauroba, many musicians sang in the choir.
Nestor Basterretxea has also been thanked for the design and illustration work of Bermeo artist Nestor Basterretxea in an exhibition at the Durango Museum. Many of the works have never been seen. Basterretxea has been related to the Durango Fair, whose image for this 47 edition was created by it itself in 2012.
Gerediaga has also recalled Basterretxea’s relationship with the Duranguesado. Among others, the sculpture 'La Muerte' that came from heaven in tribute to the victims of the Otxandio bombing and the work 'The Third Trail'.
PHOTO GALLERY. From the hand of Dani Blanco and the photographers of the Durango Fair.
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