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  • Here comes the summer, here comes Saint John

    Saint John, or Donibane in Basque, is a feast celebrated in every village and town of

    the Basque Country on the evening of every 23rd of June. We gather useless things

    and paper and we burn a huge fire with the image of a man made of wool, strow and

    clothes on top of it. Children dance around the fire and people make promises or

    wishes because St John’s Eve is magical and there are several supersticious about it.

    While children run around and people get together, we drink chocolate waiting for the

    fire to come down so that young people who dare, jump over the ashes. We could say

    this magical eve represents a change, we leave everything negative aside with a very

    positive attitude and mood awaiting for wonderful things to come.

     

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    International Day of the Basque language

     

    This is a celebration dedicated to the Basque language which is spoken in the

    Basque Country. This celebration takes place every year the 3rd of December. The

    official name is “Euskararen Nazioarteko Eguna”(ENE). The origin of this

    celebration is the  death of San Francisco Javier. Francisco was dead on the 3rd of

    December, 1552 and his last words before dying were in Basque. Some people say

    that the euskera (Basque language) is part of the heritage of the Basque society, a

    component in its history and culture. With this celebration we want to open the

    future to the “euskera” and  this way it will remain and it will have a lot of influence

    in our society. Nowadays it's celebrated in the Basque Country, Navarre and in the

    Basque-French Country. This year in our region it has been celebrated in Orozko,

    with several games and a lunch.

     

    Today the ENE was celebrated at our school so   we gathered together and

    recorded a video in which we say several things about our language. One by one,

    each one of the students who belong to our group has said what Euskara means

    to them or why they think it is an important part of our heritage.

     

     

    CARNIVAL 

    We celebrate carnival at school and also with groups of friends.Carnival is linked to religious traditions in the catholic church. In this video we try to show you how carnaval was celebrated in The Basque Country some years ago. In this globalized world, our celebrations are becoming very similar but in this video we want to show things we have particularly done here in the Baswue Country along the years.

    Carnival time is celebrated in February or March, ir depends when lent takes place so it is a pagan celebration but the date depends on lent which is something Christian people celebrate.

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