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The agreement to dub Netflix series and movies into Catalan, Galician and Basque will have a global impact. As Confidencial Digital has been able to confirm, the complete catalog with the 70 audiovisual formats that will be translated into co-official languages can be seen at a total of 190 countries.
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April 8: Gure Oroitzapenak, is a string of short films that brings to life…
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by Robert Price
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The humble old structure in the southeastern corner of the Kern County Museum grounds might be unremarkable in appearance but its story is that of Kern County’s founding – a major piece of it, anyway.
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Bertsolaritza is the art of singing extemporaneously composed songs in improvised stanzas (Bertsoak) in Basque by improvisers known as Bertsolaris. Shooting from the Lip, by Jose Mallea-Olaetxa, is the first bilingual Bersto book printed in America that is dedicated to Basque-American verse singing. Olaetxa beautifully weaves together the history of Berstogintza (the craft), the various bertsolaris, and their impact on the Basque-American identity.
A fun fact: In June 2003, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) acknowledged four Basque Bertsolaris in the United States for NEA’s National Heritage Fellowships.
This multiple-award winning film is a beautiful story that begins with Ane, a married woman in her early forties, who begins receiving a bouquet of flowers every single week from an anonymous admirer; however, when this individual comes to light, the flowers come to symbolize every human connection through the intertwining of unexpected relationships. The film is in Basque with English subtitles and available for rent on Amazon Prime. Click here for the movie’s direct website.
A coming-of-age story of Nagore Vargas, a child of Spanish left-wing immigrants to the Basque Country, during the eighties and nineties. She had no filter, and grew up quickly. This book is a fast-paced novel, switching back and forth from present day to her past. It is a journey of Nagore’s life, but also of the Basque Country’s evolution through the last three decades. An interesting read and an eye-opener to a Basque Country foreign to other’s experiences.
The first feature film made in the Basque language in over a decade, Agur Etxebeste! is a comedy about keeping up appearances. The Etxebeste family is well respected in their small Basque town, and are proprietors of a beret factory. But on the eve of their summer holiday to Marbella, they discover that they’re broke. The neighbors mustn’t find out and so they devise a plan which finds them hiding in their flat for the duration.
Naia wrote a paper titled Basque Identity in the San Francisco Bay Area Basque Community: To what extent did Franco’s dictatorship influence the Basque identity of immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area Basque community?
Learn more about Naia’s work and about her in this video:
To read Naia’s paper, click here.
Maite presented “Basque Dwellings in Art Metal.”
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Jean-Max wrote a short story titled “”Lagun Onekin Orenak Labur”.
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