norwegian summer

Artist Per Kristian Nygard exhibited beautiful scenery at his show in Oslo. He covered the floor with soil, built valleys, spread grass seeds over it all and, making use of the very short Norwegian summer heat, created beautiful mountains for
two weeks.

buzzcocks + lookers

The legendary british band will be playing in Intxaurrondo the 28th of march. And it won´t be just a revival gig, they are presenting 10 new songs fom their their new album. With them, The Lookers, the shameless band from Ziburu that during the last two years it´s been one of the most active garage trios around.

viva rossellini!

There’s a film cycle about director Roberto Rosselini at Alhondiga, Bilbao, from early February to 16th April. A precursor of modern cinema, recommended by film-makers such as Antonioni, Cassavetes and Bergman.

gallery girls

Documentary series are all the rage. Gallery Girls is one of the most recent. A group of girls of around 20 have opened an art gallery which takes us right into the New Yor k art world. Their way of talking and disagreeable voices are like cigarettes, ketchup and chips. Trash which creates addiction. Until somebody founds an association for giving documentary series up, we’re going to stay glued to the screen to get our dose of rubbish.

rockomikiak at oihaneder

The Rockomikiak exhibition –which has already been seen in Donostia- is programmed for Oihaneder Euskeraren Etxea. This project, which unites music and comics, goes beyond the objects in themselves and offers talks and fanzine workshops.

chantal akerman

Tabakalera is going to study this great film director and artist’s work during February and March and give access to Akerman’s workshop. She was 15 when she saw Godard’s Pierrot le fou and decided that she, too, wanted to make films, achieving an innovative, completely original contemporary approach to cinema.

paper concerts. ainara legardon

Bookshops are more than just places for buying and
selling books. And so they should be: Garoa bookshop
has been demonstrating this for years. They offer a
great cultural programme in their areas. In Zarautz,
for instance, as part of the paper concert on 2nd
February, Ainara Legardon is going to look back over
her twenty years’ long career. A writer was heard
to say: .

maki na kamura & mizoguchi

Until the end of March Japanese artist Maki Na Kamura is exhibiting at Bilboarte. This artist, who offers us new ways to interpret scenery. And also in Bilboarte, we have the chance to enjoy a cycle of Mizoguchi’s films until the end of march.

country mice

Moved by the embarrassment of the inhabitants of small villages in the mountains of Viet Nam when they come across tourists, photographer Fabrice Wittner has used the patterns he took there and, using light, has resurrected the images of “country mice” in the enormous, tough city of Hanoi. No digital tricks were used to make pictures, taken using light and long exposure times.

delicatessen

Magnus Irvin and Michael Ritzema are owners of a
very special company. They´ve been doing molds of
the darkest part of their customers and converting
them in delicatessen. To say it in other words: doing annus chocolates. Now, they expanded their activity to ¨personalized¨ glass, silver, bronce or gold jewelry. You know what the legend says: a butt hole is forever.

kasse mady diabate + napoka iria

There is going to be one of those unrepeatable concert on 20th March at l’Atabal. The soft voice and catchy, hypnotic music of Kasse Mady Diabate
-from the Mande culture in Mali- and the Napoka Iria folk and rock duo´s original mixture.

bicycle lane light

Designer Daan Roosegaarde has created a bicycle lane in Nuenen, in the Netherlands, which lights up at night. Inspired by Van Gough’s painting of a starry night, he has painted the bike lane using the light collected during the day at night. One of our favourite roads: we’ll follow it as much as the road to Oz.