In Ordizia, at least for outsiders, the fair of the vegetable, on Wednesdays, and the cheese that is celebrated once a year and some of its specialties is known. But I have just learned that in December it also organizes the book and album fair Hitzaro Euskara Elkartea, which has been working since 1994. The LIGHT is also present. No stand, no Jacob and lettuce, but present.
Hitzaro works throughout the year, like many associations, from the point of view of language culture, leisure, standardisation or communication, and this December fair is also on the agenda. The objective is to show the citizens what is published, what is created in Basque in our people. And the reader will say, "That role is fulfilled by Durango." Well, maybe yes, but why not organize it in the villages, from a young age? Not only for publicizing what has been created, but also for the relations that are carried out. In the case of ARGIA, he has been collaborating with Hitzaro for four or five years around this fair, and one feeds on the other; Hitzaro is well served by the annual offer of ARGIA, and ARGIA consolidates his community through this collaboration. Back is that, community.
Management is carried out by Hitzaro himself. They call the media, publishers, etc. And they pass the material to them. In the case of ARGIA this is also the case, and the opportunities of the year, the publications, the news are sent to Ordizia. A colleague from Hitzaro tells us that “this collaboration has helped the Association’s partners get closer to some media.” And what's more community? The spider web is getting consolidated, pulling eleven threads, because in each zone you get an environment, a people, and although all those environments are very different, they're clustered around something, they share a project and they build it every day.