horror and fantasy film festival
Once more the yearly meeting for zombies at Donostia’s Antzoki Zaharra cinema has arrived. Once more the Week of Horror, which fries our brains and leaves us foolishly smiling and happy, offers its huge, week-long programme for cinema nuts. Like Christopher Lambert, may it live forever...
renewing creativity
Joxean Iza has put his painting on display at Arteko Gallery. As the puppets on television say at Christmas, “We’re full of happiness and satisfaction” because something made for the balde has been renewed and now got it its own long life. The fine result of freely organizing creative rights!
mem
This international experimental art festival is ten years old this year. The initiative, started in Bilbao, quickly crossed frontiers and, nowadays, has shown itself capable of offering special programming anywhere at any time. Watch out!
l'oeil modern 1900-1944
This is the title Paris’es Pompidou centre has given to its exhibition about Edvard Munch. During January you can find out about the Norwegian artist’s modern way of looking at things and the drawings and paintings which reflect this. Many of them are being shown in public for the first time. As a further witness to his modernity, his photos and also a film he made will be on show. Paris vaut bien une expo.
strange wonders party
We’re going to hold a party at Bilbao’s Belaza Gallery for Angela Alonso’s exhibition, as you can see in the picture for this 60th edition of the balde. As well as many of the original works we’ve shown you in the magazine, there’ll be a lot of surprises too. There’ll be live music and DJs. If you miss it, you’ll be the only one to blame! Remenber you´ve got something to do the10th of November
bike porn
You may think that there’s no connection between bicycles and pornography. You’re wrong. Bicycles have been used much more in recent years. They’ve become cool. As well as normal people using them, politicians, designers, architects, artists and show business people do too. And because of that, bicycle culture, philosophy and ... pornography too have arrived.
brought to basque
We didn’t know about this project. Clear proof of our ignorance. Once we heard about Euskarari Ekarriak (Brought to Basque), we were amazed! The public library translation idea seems wonderful to us and, as with all great ideas, it only remains to see these fine intentions made real. It’s updated monthly and, to date, there are 2,563 references for 1,010 writers. In this case we shouldn’t say we’re speechless ... but that’s the truth!
jazpana
This year’s Jazpana festival is going to be held in Beasain’s Bernedeonea car park. There’ll be all types of rock’n’roll from the 28th to the 31st of October. As well as music, there’ll be a skate competition, basketball championship, a photo rally and many more things.
art futura
The Art Futurak festival is to be held at Bilbao’s Alhondiga, October 21st to 23rd. Although the 2011 festival is a lo-fi number, the organizers of Art Futurak have worked to keep this festival, which has been a point of reference over the last decade, going strong. And we’re really grateful for that.
gure bide galduak
The Dejabu company is putting on “Gure bide galduak” (Our Lost Ways) all over the Basque Country over the coming months. As well as the five actors on the stage, live guitar and the story of the hopes of the first years after Franco died. The play shows us that dreams are often disappointment’s prologue.
schrank8
The Schrank8 wardrobe was built in Germany in the 30’s. Now it’s in Amsterdam’s Hansje van Halem’s studio and once a month it becomes a creator’s exhibition space. We love the idea of using this beautiful piece of furniture for holding exhibitions, and that’s why we’re sharing it with you.
double happiness
This two-yearly architecture festival, with its many projects and proposals, is held in the city of Hong Kong. What we most liked was the humblest of all the things there. Thanks to architect Didier Faustino’s Double Happiness project, we were able to forget the impression that all architects live on another planet. An advertising structure became a swing, an unused space being recovered for the city dwellers. Placed at the entrance to a city, we can’t think of a better way of advertising the city.
