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Basque Week in UCC
22 Nov 2021
November 22nd - 25th
UCC Basque Week was back in 2021 with the following programme:
Monday, November 22
Basque language taster
Time (GMT): 3-4pm
Venue: O'Rahilly Building 2.01
Tuesday, November 23
Bidasoan Gora: freedom trails and escape routes across the Bidasoa river
Online talk with
Basque writer and translator Eneko Aizpurua Urteaga
Time (GMT): 4-5pm
Abstract:
The aim of the book Bidasoan Gora is to recover the diverse memories of people and places attached to the Bidasoa river and surrounding borderlands by doing a journey on foot from the mouth to the source of the river. In his speech, Aizpurua focuses on freedom trails and escape routes across the Bidasoa river used by different fugitives and organizations, such as allied pilots guided by Basque smugglers of the Comète Network, Jewish exiles helped by Portuguese consul in Bordeaux Aristides de Sousa Mendes in World War II and undocumented Portuguese migrants in the 60s and 70s of the past century.
Wednesday, November 24
Basque language taster
Time (GMT): 9-10am
Venue: O'Rahilly Building 2.44
Screening of film Amama (Grandmother) (original version with English subtitles)
Time (GMT): 6:30pm
Venue: Brookfield Health Science Complex 101
Film review on the Wee Review by Kevin Ibbotson-Wight:
https://theweereview.com/review/amama/
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@Filmhouse Edinburgh, Tue 11 Oct 2016, as part of Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival. Two different ways of life collide in
Basque director’s Asier Altuna’s serenely poetic second feature.
theweereview.com
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Thursday, November 25
Conversation and reading with poets Siobhán Ní Dhomhnaill and Beatriz Chivite Ezkieta