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SUMMARY:Int'l Symposium on the Basque Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Basque Studies Foundation\, in partnership with Basque Studies at Boise State University\, the Zortziak Bat International Symposium is an educational gathering that will explore what often has been called “Zortziak Bat\,” or the “8th Province\,” a reference to the expansion of Zazpiak Bat (“Seven are One”) to include the Basque Diaspora.  \n\n\n\nThe theme is “Rowing Together\,” where individuals and communities work together to support\, encourage\, and inspire learning about the Basques. The symposium gathers scholars\, creators\, and cultural experts to examine the vibrant mosaic of Basque identities as it has grown and transformed within diaspora communities. We also invite students to attend the symposium\, providing them a unique way to learn about the Basque Diaspora from professionals in a broad range of cultural disciplines and fields of expertise. \n\n\n\nThe BEO is a proud partner of this event\, inviting the creative side of education to the fold. More information to come. \n\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/international-symposium-on-the-basque-diaspora-and-cultural-expressions-2/
CATEGORIES:Artist Events,BEO sponsored event
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SUMMARY:Int'l Symposium on the Basque Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Basque Studies Foundation\, in partnership with Basque Studies at Boise State University\, the Zortziak Bat International Symposium is an educational gathering that will explore what often has been called “Zortziak Bat\,” or the “8th Province\,” a reference to the expansion of Zazpiak Bat (“Seven are One”) to include the Basque Diaspora.  \n\n\n\nThe theme is “Rowing Together\,” where individuals and communities work together to support\, encourage\, and inspire learning about the Basques. The symposium gathers scholars\, creators\, and cultural experts to examine the vibrant mosaic of Basque identities as it has grown and transformed within diaspora communities. We also invite students to attend the symposium\, providing them a unique way to learn about the Basque Diaspora from professionals in a broad range of cultural disciplines and fields of expertise. \n\n\n\nThe BEO is a proud partner of this event\, inviting the creative side of education to the fold. More information to come. \n\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/international-symposium-on-the-basque-diaspora-and-cultural-expressions/
CATEGORIES:Artist Events,BEO sponsored event
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SUMMARY:Creator's Grant Due Date
DESCRIPTION:“Stories are a communal currency of humanity.” -Tahir Shah\, in Arabian Nights. \n\n\n\nNo truer words… and this is why the BEO is so deeply committed to the creative souls in our greater community. This fund is for the artist committed to a project that tells a story about the Basques and represents the Basque culture. \n\n\n\nWhat does the applicant look like? \n\n\n\nAn expressive individual who uses any medium within the performing\, visual\, and literary arts to broaden our understanding of the world around us. This individual will allow us to learn about our culture\, traditions\, and experiences. This is not exclusive to traditional art expressions such as dancers\, painters\, and book authors. We’re talking about ALL creatives: bertsolaris\, musicians\, opera performers\, theater performers/designers/writers\, chefs\, photographers\, filmmakers\, architects\, poets\, journalists\, etc. \n\n\n\nThe individual is someone who strengthens the Basque identity through their work and builds a connection between everyone else and the Basques. \n\n\n\n\nAPPLY TODAY
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/grant-application-due-the-creators-fund/
CATEGORIES:Artist Events,BEO sponsored event
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SUMMARY:Women's Empowerment Grant Due Date
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating and showing profound appreciation and support for the women in our Basque communities is pretty darn important to us. This fund is designed to support women who need financial assistance in shaping our communities\, furthering our culture\, and enhancing our Basque identity. \n\n\n\nThe BEO focuses on projects that are rooted in cultural identity and knowledge-sharing. We support women who share this vision. \n\n\n\nWhat does the applicant look like?She is a mover and shaker with and for the Basque culture. She is determined to make a difference for the betterment of the community and has a clear vision of where she will lead the cause. She’s a trailblazer. \n\n\n\nShe strengthens Basque identity\, builds community connection\, and paves the way for future generations. \n\n\n\n\nAPPLY TODAY
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/grant-application-due-the-womens-empowerment-fund/
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SUMMARY:MEET THE AUTHOR: Julian Zabalbeascoa
DESCRIPTION:Author Julian Zabalbeascoa of his much-celebrated debut novel\, What We Tried to Bury Grows Here\, will Stanford University Fellow and lecturer Sterling HolyWhiteMountain at Bookshop West Portal in San Francisco. He is the author of fiction and nonfiction works about the history and culture of the Blackfeet tribe. He is a contributor to The New Yorker\, and his work has appeared in The Atlantic and The Paris Review. We expect this to be a very interesting conversation! \n\n\n\nIN THE NEWS: Julian’s book is a finalist in the L.A. Times Book Prize (February\, 2025) \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HEREIn late 1936\, eighteen-year-old Isidro Elejalde leaves his Basque village in Northern Spain\, spurred to join the fight to preserve his country’s democracy from the insurrectionists by the rousing words of a political essayist. Months earlier\, Spanish generals launched a military coup to overthrow Spain’s newly elected left-wing government. They assumed the population would welcome the coup\, but throughout the country people like Isidro remained loyal to the ideals of democracy\, and the Spanish Civil War began in bloody earnest. \n\n\n\nIn Bilbao\, Mariana raises her two young children while\, with her writing\, she decries the fascist-backed coup attempt and their German and Italian allies\, imploring the world to support democracy. As the Nationalist forces assault the country\, Mariana and Isidro’s lives intersect fleetingly\, yet in meaningful and lasting ways. \n\n\n\nThrough a chorus of voices—a female soldier in an all-male battalion\, a reluctant conscript recently emigrated from Cuba\, a young girl whose parents have abandoned her in order to fight against the fascists\, among others—we follow Isidro and Mariana as they struggle to maintain their humanity in a country determined to tear itself apart.  \n\n\n\nABOUT JULIANJulian Zabalbeascoa’s debut novel What We Tried to Bury Grows Here was published November 2024 by Two Dollar Radio. Among other journals\, his fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction\, Electric Literature\, Gettysburg Review\, LitHub\, One Story\, and Ploughshares. He teaches in the Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Lowell\, where he leads annual study abroad programs to Donostia-San Sebastian\, Havana\, Paris\, and Madrid. \n\n\n\nWORDS OF PRAISE“Daring… In What We Tried to Bury Grows Here\, almost two dozen narrators vie to convey the danger and uncertainty of life in a country where “tomorrow you never knew who would throw you against the wall for the actions of today.” We hear from priests and soldiers\, mothers and children\, prisoners and refugees. Amid the inevitable violence and horror\, there are the equally inevitable heroes and villains\, but for everyone the world has acquired ‘an evil stink.’ Mariana knows her compatriots have no choice but to fight on\, yet she also knows that ‘the war will make us unrecognizable to our former selves.'”—Alida Becker\, The New York Times \n\n\n\n“Zabalbeascoa’s characters cannot foresee the tragic end to the war\, but readers do\, and this chilling knowledge adds to the tension in this compelling and hauntingly prescient novel.”—Wendy J. Fox\, Electric Literature \n\n\n\n“Zabalbeascoa brings together family lore and mountains of research to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Spanish Civil War\, particularly its impact on the people of Spain’s Basque region.”—Kate Tuttle\, The Boston Globe \n\n\n\n“A stunning first novel\, ambitious\, intensely true\, certain to be read for a long time. Zabalbeascoa is a phenomenon.”—Philipp Meyer\, author of The Son and American Rust \n\n\n\n“Julian Zabalbeascoa is ferociously brilliant at rendering both the epic sweep of history—Franco’s rise to power\, the Spanish Civil War—and the particular contours of daily life. The wineskins soldiers stash under their hospital mattresses. A bit of cake dipped in marmalade. The “metallic whistle” of a rifle shell. What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a stunningly powerful novel about the individual acts of courage and violence that have shaped history as we know it. A virtuosic and unforgettable debut.”—Laura van den Berg\, author of State of Paradise \n\n\n\n“What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a startling book\, beautiful and horrific\, that navigates the complexities of Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War\, in which fascism and communism\, regionalism and nationalism\, and faith and skepticism do battle across a brilliantly evoked\, suffering landscape.”—Phil Klay\, National Book Award winning author of Redeployment and Missionaries \n\n\n\n“In the tradition of such master story tellers as Isaac Babel and Phil Klay\, Julian Zabalbeascoa has written a piercing narrative set during the Spanish Civil War. Alive with wonderful characters\, moments of dread\, bathos and humour\, What We Tried to Bury Grows Here illuminates a crucial period of history. This is a timely and absorbing novel.”—Margot Livesey\, author of The Boy in the Field\, Mercury\, and The Flight of Gemma Hardy \n\n\n\n“This is one of the most finely crafted and devastating novels of war that I’ve ever read. Julian Zabalbeascoa comes to us as that rarest of writers\, at once firmly grounded in history as he gazes to the future. What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is an urgent and beautiful read that left me stunned. This book couldn’t be more timely.”—Joseph Boyden\, Giller Prize winning author of Three Day Road and The Orenda \n\n\n\n“Julian Zabalbeascoa is the real deal\, a major talent\, and the story he’s telling here is both riveting and terrifying.”—Richard Russo\, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls \n\n\n\n“The rise of authoritarian rule is never an abstraction\, it is always horrifically concrete for those who experience it. But as each bloody injustice fades into history\, we run the risk of losing what we have learned that may have the power to forestall yet another such assault on democracy\, which is just one reason why Julian Zabalbeascoa’s timely and deeply moving novel should be required reading for us all. Written with spare\, evocative\, and hypnotic prose\, Zabalbeascoa takes us deeply into the lives of men and women – many of them of the Basque minority – who fought Franco and his allies during the Spanish Civil War. This is an important and necessary work of art for our fraught times\, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.”—Andre Dubus III\, author of House of Sand and Fog\, Such Kindness\, and Townie: A Memoir \n\n\n\n“A breathtaking look at the Spanish Civil War\, told as an impressionistic tapestry of first-person narrators: each chapter a voice from the swell of men and women\, fighters and children\, loyalists and journalists\, who took part in Spain’s bloody fight for democracy.”—Scott Preston\, The Borrowed Hills \n\n\n\n“What We Tried to Bury Grows Here implores us to look back to history to not fall into passivity but instead take note of the perils of today. Zabalbeascoa structures his novel as a series of first-person vignettes\, giving rise to a chorus of characters. It’s an imaginative and impressive feat of literary ventriloquism to hear from Basque soldiers. This structure allows Zabalbeascoa to comment on the collective nature of war while showing how it is an intensely personal undertaking. Through these characters\, we are allowed to see slices of their war and how it builds to something more encompassing.”—Brock Kingsley\, Chicago Review of Books \n\n\n\n“Debut novelist Zabalbeascoa’s decision to tell his story through a plethora of individual narrators perfectly captures the messiness of a civil war… [What We Tried To Bury Grows Here] builds to an emotionally compelling climax.”—Kirkus Reviews \n\n\n\n“Packed with standout scenes…It’s a memorable portrait of a country in upheaval.”—Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n“One of the strongest and most evocative novels of 2024. Zabalbeascoa’s debut uses multiperspective narration to excellent effect as we are pitched across Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Essentially a series of soul-stirring short stories stitched together to give one a glimpse at the horrors of modern war. If Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song is a document of a future battle with the far right and this a harrowing account of past struggles the only conclusion to be made is that the fight against fascism will never be over. For me\, though\, it is this novel’s use of quiet moments and fragmented domesticity that brings everything home. Shades of Victor Erice’s Spirit of the Beehive. can’t recommend this novel enough\, a modern classic.”—Douglas Riggs\, Bank Square Books (Mystic\, CT) \n\n\n\n“Zabalbeascoa brings the reader directly into a conflict few of us learn about in the US. Set in the Spanish Civil War\, each chapter of What We Tried to Bury Grows Here jumps to a different character\, each telling their own story with Isidro making himself known throughout. I found myself searching for Isidro while at the same listening carefully to the new perspective of the chapter’s narrator. This is not an easy read\, war is brutal\, but I kept returning to live with these soldiers and survivors.”—Laura Lamarre Anderson\, lala books (Lowell\, MA) \n\n\n\n“What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a beautifully written novel about the horrors of war\, as seen through the eyes of soldiers on both sides of the Spanish Civil War\, as well as those enmeshed in the gruesome conflict: wives\, journalists\, priests. Yes\, this is historical fiction\, but Julian Zabalbeascoa’s depiction of the soul-crushing victory of the fascist regime is also a prescient warning in these times of democratic peril. At the same time\, this is primarily a heartfelt work of fiction\, and it’s the humanity of these characters (or\, occasionally\, their lack of humanity) that propels these linked tales\, culminating in a truly marvelous novel. One of the year’s very best!—Michale Keefe\, Annie Bloom’s Books (Portland\, OR)
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/meet-the-author-julian-zabalbeascoa-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 West Portal Avenue\, San Francisco\, California\, 94127
CATEGORIES:Artist Events,BEO sponsored event
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SUMMARY:MEET THE AUTHOR: Julian Zabalbeascoa
DESCRIPTION:Author Julian Zabalbeascoa will be presenting his much-celebrated book What We Tried to Bury Grows Here and will be available to answer your questions. Continue reading to learn about his book and the accolades he has received since its recent publication. \n\n\n\nIN THE NEWS: Julian’s book is a finalist in the L.A. Times Book Prize (February\, 2025) \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HEREIn late 1936\, eighteen-year-old Isidro Elejalde leaves his Basque village in Northern Spain\, spurred to join the fight to preserve his country’s democracy from the insurrectionists by the rousing words of a political essayist. Months earlier\, Spanish generals launched a military coup to overthrow Spain’s newly elected left-wing government. They assumed the population would welcome the coup\, but throughout the country people like Isidro remained loyal to the ideals of democracy\, and the Spanish Civil War began in bloody earnest. \n\n\n\nIn Bilbao\, Mariana raises her two young children while\, with her writing\, she decries the fascist-backed coup attempt and their German and Italian allies\, imploring the world to support democracy. As the Nationalist forces assault the country\, Mariana and Isidro’s lives intersect fleetingly\, yet in meaningful and lasting ways. \n\n\n\nThrough a chorus of voices—a female soldier in an all-male battalion\, a reluctant conscript recently emigrated from Cuba\, a young girl whose parents have abandoned her in order to fight against the fascists\, among others—we follow Isidro and Mariana as they struggle to maintain their humanity in a country determined to tear itself apart.  \n\n\n\nABOUT JULIANJulian Zabalbeascoa’s debut novel What We Tried to Bury Grows Here was published November 2024 by Two Dollar Radio. Among other journals\, his fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction\, Electric Literature\, Gettysburg Review\, LitHub\, One Story\, and Ploughshares. He teaches in the Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Lowell\, where he leads annual study abroad programs to Donostia-San Sebastian\, Havana\, Paris\, and Madrid. \n\n\n\nWORDS OF PRAISE“Daring… In What We Tried to Bury Grows Here\, almost two dozen narrators vie to convey the danger and uncertainty of life in a country where “tomorrow you never knew who would throw you against the wall for the actions of today.” We hear from priests and soldiers\, mothers and children\, prisoners and refugees. Amid the inevitable violence and horror\, there are the equally inevitable heroes and villains\, but for everyone the world has acquired ‘an evil stink.’ Mariana knows her compatriots have no choice but to fight on\, yet she also knows that ‘the war will make us unrecognizable to our former selves.'”—Alida Becker\, The New York Times \n\n\n\n“Zabalbeascoa’s characters cannot foresee the tragic end to the war\, but readers do\, and this chilling knowledge adds to the tension in this compelling and hauntingly prescient novel.”—Wendy J. Fox\, Electric Literature \n\n\n\n“Zabalbeascoa brings together family lore and mountains of research to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Spanish Civil War\, particularly its impact on the people of Spain’s Basque region.”—Kate Tuttle\, The Boston Globe \n\n\n\n“A stunning first novel\, ambitious\, intensely true\, certain to be read for a long time. Zabalbeascoa is a phenomenon.”—Philipp Meyer\, author of The Son and American Rust \n\n\n\n“Julian Zabalbeascoa is ferociously brilliant at rendering both the epic sweep of history—Franco’s rise to power\, the Spanish Civil War—and the particular contours of daily life. The wineskins soldiers stash under their hospital mattresses. A bit of cake dipped in marmalade. The “metallic whistle” of a rifle shell. What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a stunningly powerful novel about the individual acts of courage and violence that have shaped history as we know it. A virtuosic and unforgettable debut.”—Laura van den Berg\, author of State of Paradise \n\n\n\n“What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a startling book\, beautiful and horrific\, that navigates the complexities of Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War\, in which fascism and communism\, regionalism and nationalism\, and faith and skepticism do battle across a brilliantly evoked\, suffering landscape.”—Phil Klay\, National Book Award winning author of Redeployment and Missionaries \n\n\n\n“In the tradition of such master story tellers as Isaac Babel and Phil Klay\, Julian Zabalbeascoa has written a piercing narrative set during the Spanish Civil War. Alive with wonderful characters\, moments of dread\, bathos and humour\, What We Tried to Bury Grows Here illuminates a crucial period of history. This is a timely and absorbing novel.”—Margot Livesey\, author of The Boy in the Field\, Mercury\, and The Flight of Gemma Hardy \n\n\n\n“This is one of the most finely crafted and devastating novels of war that I’ve ever read. Julian Zabalbeascoa comes to us as that rarest of writers\, at once firmly grounded in history as he gazes to the future. What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is an urgent and beautiful read that left me stunned. This book couldn’t be more timely.”—Joseph Boyden\, Giller Prize winning author of Three Day Road and The Orenda \n\n\n\n“Julian Zabalbeascoa is the real deal\, a major talent\, and the story he’s telling here is both riveting and terrifying.”—Richard Russo\, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls \n\n\n\n“The rise of authoritarian rule is never an abstraction\, it is always horrifically concrete for those who experience it. But as each bloody injustice fades into history\, we run the risk of losing what we have learned that may have the power to forestall yet another such assault on democracy\, which is just one reason why Julian Zabalbeascoa’s timely and deeply moving novel should be required reading for us all. Written with spare\, evocative\, and hypnotic prose\, Zabalbeascoa takes us deeply into the lives of men and women – many of them of the Basque minority – who fought Franco and his allies during the Spanish Civil War. This is an important and necessary work of art for our fraught times\, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.”—Andre Dubus III\, author of House of Sand and Fog\, Such Kindness\, and Townie: A Memoir \n\n\n\n“A breathtaking look at the Spanish Civil War\, told as an impressionistic tapestry of first-person narrators: each chapter a voice from the swell of men and women\, fighters and children\, loyalists and journalists\, who took part in Spain’s bloody fight for democracy.”—Scott Preston\, The Borrowed Hills \n\n\n\n“What We Tried to Bury Grows Here implores us to look back to history to not fall into passivity but instead take note of the perils of today. Zabalbeascoa structures his novel as a series of first-person vignettes\, giving rise to a chorus of characters. It’s an imaginative and impressive feat of literary ventriloquism to hear from Basque soldiers. This structure allows Zabalbeascoa to comment on the collective nature of war while showing how it is an intensely personal undertaking. Through these characters\, we are allowed to see slices of their war and how it builds to something more encompassing.”—Brock Kingsley\, Chicago Review of Books \n\n\n\n“Debut novelist Zabalbeascoa’s decision to tell his story through a plethora of individual narrators perfectly captures the messiness of a civil war… [What We Tried To Bury Grows Here] builds to an emotionally compelling climax.”—Kirkus Reviews \n\n\n\n“Packed with standout scenes…It’s a memorable portrait of a country in upheaval.”—Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\n“One of the strongest and most evocative novels of 2024. Zabalbeascoa’s debut uses multiperspective narration to excellent effect as we are pitched across Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Essentially a series of soul-stirring short stories stitched together to give one a glimpse at the horrors of modern war. If Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song is a document of a future battle with the far right and this a harrowing account of past struggles the only conclusion to be made is that the fight against fascism will never be over. For me\, though\, it is this novel’s use of quiet moments and fragmented domesticity that brings everything home. Shades of Victor Erice’s Spirit of the Beehive. can’t recommend this novel enough\, a modern classic.”—Douglas Riggs\, Bank Square Books (Mystic\, CT) \n\n\n\n“Zabalbeascoa brings the reader directly into a conflict few of us learn about in the US. Set in the Spanish Civil War\, each chapter of What We Tried to Bury Grows Here jumps to a different character\, each telling their own story with Isidro making himself known throughout. I found myself searching for Isidro while at the same listening carefully to the new perspective of the chapter’s narrator. This is not an easy read\, war is brutal\, but I kept returning to live with these soldiers and survivors.”—Laura Lamarre Anderson\, lala books (Lowell\, MA) \n\n\n\n“What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a beautifully written novel about the horrors of war\, as seen through the eyes of soldiers on both sides of the Spanish Civil War\, as well as those enmeshed in the gruesome conflict: wives\, journalists\, priests. Yes\, this is historical fiction\, but Julian Zabalbeascoa’s depiction of the soul-crushing victory of the fascist regime is also a prescient warning in these times of democratic peril. At the same time\, this is primarily a heartfelt work of fiction\, and it’s the humanity of these characters (or\, occasionally\, their lack of humanity) that propels these linked tales\, culminating in a truly marvelous novel. One of the year’s very best!—Michale Keefe\, Annie Bloom’s Books (Portland\, OR)
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/meet-the-author-julian-zabalbeascoa/
LOCATION:SF Basque Cultural Center\, 599 Railroad\, South San Francisco\, CA\, 94080\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Events,BEO sponsored event
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SUMMARY:PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DUE: International Symposium on the Basque Diaspora and Cultural Expressions
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Basque Studies Foundation\, in partnership with Basque Studies at Boise State University\, the Zortziak Bat International Symposium is an educational gathering that will explore what often has been called “Zortziak Bat\,” or the “8th Province\,” a reference to the expansion of Zazpiak Bat (“Seven are One”) to include the Basque Diaspora.  \n\n\n\nThe theme is “Rowing Together\,” where individuals and communities work together to support\, encourage\, and inspire learning about the Basques. The symposium gathers scholars\, creators\, and cultural experts to examine the vibrant mosaic of Basque identities as it has grown and transformed within diaspora communities. We also invite students to attend the symposium\, providing them a unique way to learn about the Basque Diaspora from professionals in a broad range of cultural disciplines and fields of expertise. \n\n\n\nThe BEO is a proud partner of this event\, inviting the creative side of education to the fold.  \n\n\n\n\nLEARN MORE AND SUBMIT TODAY
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/proposal-submission-due-international-symposium-on-the-basque-diaspora-and-cultural-expressions/
CATEGORIES:Artist Events,BEO sponsored event
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SUMMARY:MARKING THEIR TRAIL\, Basque Arborglyphs in the Sierra Nevada
DESCRIPTION:“In the early 20th century\, Basque sheepherders carved distinctive figures into aspen trees. This exhibition features a collection of rubbings taken from these arborglyphs. \nAspen groves make for the unlikeliest galleries. High in the remote meadows of the Sierra Nevada range there are works of art secreted away by unexpected and unwitting artists. Nude figures\, animals\, names and dates\, erotic scenes\, portraits and profiles were carefully carved into the smooth white bark of young trees by Basque sheepherders during the twentieth century. The majority of known carvings were created in the 1930s and 1940s\, at the height of the sheep industry in the American West. Using knives or nails like pencils\, these artists carved a fine line so as not to damage the tree and to achieve the desired effect over time; as the aspens grew taller and thicker\, so too did the lines of the carvings. These herders\, many of whom had only recently arrived from the Basque homeland of the Pyrenees Mountains in Spain and France\, literally made their mark on the American West\, dropping images onto trees like a trail of crumbs as they drove flocks of sheep up the spine of unfamiliar mountain ranges. \nThe aspen carvings\, often referred to as arborglyphs\, were intended only for viewing by other sheepherders and so\, when chanced upon by hikers or foresters\, were largely disregarded as having any cultural\, historical\, or artistic significance. It wasn’t until the late 1960s that the embellished aspen groves began to garner some interest in academic circles. At a lecture in Reno in 1969\, Jean and Philip Earl were first introduced to the existence of the arborglyphs languishing deep in the wild mountains. Intrigued\, they began to actively seek out what they first termed “living galleries” and to experiment with methods of recording and preserving the images they found (muslin and black rubbing wax proved the best tools for the job). \nThe Earls spent 40 years devoted to developing an archival record of the carvings\, whose existence was inextricably linked to the lifespan of the tree onto which it was etched. In short: when the tree died\, so too did the art. “It was the sense of loss we felt for these familiar images that led to our search for a way to preserve them\,” says Jean. In all\, the Earls completed upwards of 135 rubbings\, from four distinct groves in the high Sierra. Arts and Culture El Dorado has selected the most striking of these rubbings for exhibition at Confidence Firehouse Gallery in Placerville.  Marking Their Trail: Basque Arborglyphs of the Sierra Nevada celebrates the unique history of immigration in the American West and a diasporic culture who\, in navigating the new terrain\, created a unique visual language using the landscape itself as a means of expression.”
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/marking-their-trail-basque-arborglyphs-in-the-sierra-nevada/
LOCATION:Confidence Firehouse Gallery\, 487 Main Street\, Placerville\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Arts & Culture El Dorado":MAILTO:jordan@artsandcultureeldorado.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210710
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210801
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SUMMARY:Zoe Bray Expo / Erakusketa
DESCRIPTION:Zoe Bray is back in Europe resuming her tour of the Portraits of Basques in the American West in Mauléon from July 10 – July 31. Check out the poster and spread the word.
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/zoe-bray-expo-erakusketa/
CATEGORIES:Artist Events
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