Supported by the Etxepare Basque Institute, the Manuel Irujo Chair at the University of Liverpool began the Manuel Irujo Scholarship in Basque Studies in 2019. From now until June 15, students are invited to apply for the 2020 scholarship.

Given the measures established by the Spanish Government to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we want you to know that the Etxepare Basque Institute will remain open, although we will be working partially from home. During this quarantine it will be business as usual in our mission to disseminate Basque culture. We remain at your service. 

As we all know, the emergency situation caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) has radically altered people’s lives in different countries, from the economy to leisure. In the same way, several international cultural events, fairs and festivals in which the Etxepare Basque Institute takes part have been cancelled or postponed.  

Several Basque books were translated and published in 2019 thanks to subsidies from the Etxepare Basque Institute. The Institute provided grants for 14 translations of Basque works, amounting to a total of €33,346.

The finalists of each category in the 2020 MIN Awards for independent Spanish music were announced yesterday. At the ceremony to be held on March 11, the Etxepare Prize for Best Album in Basque will be decided among the following groups: Doctor Deseo, Maite Larburu, Niña Coyote eta Chico Tornado, Zea Mays and Zetak.

Tomorrow the Etxepare Basque Institute will participate in a meeting of professionals in Bayonne organized by OARA, the artistic office of the French region of Nouvelle Aquitaine.

The ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair is back in Madrid on February 26. Once again, there will only be one Basque gallery at the event: the Bilbao-based Carreras Múgica. Nevertheless, other galleries will also exhibit pieces by Basque artists at the fair.

Train translators of Basque literature from other countries and build bridges between international and local translators: that is the aim of the ‘Itzultzaile Berriak’(New Translators) project. The project was part of a series of initiatives that emerged from Donostia/San Sebastian European Capital of Culture 2016 and which is now overseen by the Etxepare Basque Institute.

The ruangrupa collective, artistic directors of the documenta 15 international art exhibition held in Kassel in 2022, are currently in the Basque Country. The Etxepare Basque Institute and the deputy minister of Culture of the Basque Government, Joxean Muñoz, received them today at the Tabakalera center.

The Basque film festival Zinemaldia.Cat, loyal to its date with Barcelona, returns to celebrate its 15^th edition. The programme will start on February 21 with 11 feature films (7 of them are in the Official Selection) and some medium-length films that will be distributed this time in three different locations: the Euskal Etxea (Basque Centre), the Official Language School and the CInemes Girona cinema.