macramé newspapers
Nowadays we keep on saying that the printed press is going to disappear: but artist Myriam Dion has literally sown, weaved and tied up news in her latest project. These macramé newspapers won’t save the press, but they do show just how beautiful
and inspiring the press can be.
nontzefilmak
It’s time to focus your cameras. Nontzefilmak is organizing an online short film festival. There are novelties, so visit the website and you’ll be able to see exactly everything you have to do to upload your film.
gaua
Donostia musician Mikel Azpiroz is one of those people who’s never still for long. When he’s not playing with his group Elcano Browning Cream, he’s always involved in other projects. Last year he brought out a solo work called Gaua (“Night”). He’ll be playing it live on March 29th at Viktoria Eugeniako Klub, Donostia.
pinned down
Entomologists catch insects, dry them and pin them onto bases. Artist Michael Mapes uses the same technique (and a lot of patience) to make his pictures. It’s worth seeing the results.
pop pilulak / nuntxaku gaua
Fanzine Pop Pilulak has organized a little festival to get your hips moving at Bermeo Kapilla. Groups Jupiter Jon and Bakelite are going to play and later you’ll be able to dance to boogaloo, soul, funk, rock and roll and other rhythms until the early hours. 22nd February.a
katakrak
Katakrak bookshop-café-space has opened in Iruñea. And the earthquake’s being felt. Presentations, talks, meetings, exhibitions... Cities, societies and cultures sometimes have to shake themselves up, we reckon we’ll be talking about them quite a lot here.
les improttoks
Les Inprottoks, who organize the Inprottoks sessions at L’Atabal in Biarritz, have suggested a new format: improvised cabaret. The spectators will propose subjects and the actors will have to improvise straight off. Unexpected situations and live story telling make each of Les inpottocks’ sessions unique. From 21st February.
models
Painters used to use models for their paintings. No wadays all photographers used different types of software to produce their work. The photographer Flora Borsi had taken different paintings and imagined what the models in them would look like in photographs. If abstract models were real people, what would they look like? Here’s the answer.
human rights film festival
The Human Rights Film Festival will be held from April 4th to 11th. Like every year, it’s going to be hard to choose between the hundreds of films which are present and draw up a programme. As well as films there will be debates, exhibitions and talks.
map portraits
Regular readers of the balde know how much we love maps here. We did a special number all about maps (the balde 47) and we come back to the ideas behind maps time and again. Our latest discovery about maps is artist Ed Fairburn’s work. We could definitely get lost on these faces!
time capsule
They’ve just opened the doors of a house in Paris which had been closed for 70 years. The flat used to belong to actress Marte de Florian and all these years her descendants have paid for the house’s upkeep with the money she left them. She fled when the Nazis invaded during the Second World War and never went back. Many objects have turned up in this time capsule, amongst them the love letters which Marthe de Florian held onto.
blackbook sessions
Last year events and debates were organised for lovers of hip-hop at Zawp. The project moves forward and more and more people are going to the diverse sessions there. Anyone can go and take part in the music, art and writing sessions held there. You’ll find a great atmosphere in the get-togethers there from February to May.
