Europa bat-batean

A great ending for Europa bat-batean

Austria, the Balearic Islands, the Basque Country, Cuba, Cyprus, Mexico and Wales come together on stage in Kursaal.

Academic conference has finished

The minorized languages and the importance of oral improvisation in linguistic normalization have been treated on the last day.

Mintzola presents Kulturartea Mapa

The map devised by Xenpelar Documentation Centre is a database which gathers the different expressions of improvised verse singing.

Europa bat-batean gathers international improvisers and researchers in Donostia

There will be academic conferences at Miramar in the morning and performances at different locations in the evening throughout the whole week.

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Kursaal hosted yesterday the closing event of Europa bat-batean which gathered improvisers from Austria, the Balearic Islands, the Basque Country, Cuba, Cyprus, Mexico and Wales. In addition to the individual shows, the audience enjoyed the exchange between delegations too. A great ending for the project started in autumn 2015.

Improvised verse singing, support for minorized languages

Jul 15, 2016

The academic conferences within Europa bat-batean are over. Marta Souto, Eurig Salisbury, Miren Artetxe and Alber Casals have talked about languages in a minorized situation -Galician, Welsh, Basque and Catalan- and they have pointed out the importance of oral improvisation as a tool for the normalization of these languages.

Mintzola presents the World Improvised Verse Singing Map

Jul 14, 2016

The presentation of the map brought an end to the fifth day of the Europa bat-batean academic workshops. Previously, experts from all around the world had discussed the general situation of orality and improvised song.

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