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Basque Club Aldizkaria Udaberri Spring San Francisco Basque Picnic Basque Club Mus Txapeldunak June 3rd - Petaluma Fairgrounds 9:00am Gates Open 9:45am Basque Mass celebrated by Aita Jean-Michel Lastiri with Elgarrekin Choir, Klika and danc- ers ( inside Herzog Hall ). 12:00pm Barbecue rack of lamb lunch with beans, piperade, cheese, bread and wine. Adults $25, children under 12 $10. 2:30pm Entertainment Program featuring the Zazpiak Bat Klika and Dancers, Los Banos Dancers and San Francisco Gazteak Dancers. 4:30pm Lehengo Dantzaldi featuring Mutxikoak, Soka Dan- tza, Zazpi Jauziak, Lantzeko Ihauterria, and Fandango / Arin Arin. All participation welcome . 5:00pm Lukainka/Txorizo Sale Directions: From San Francisco, take 101 North, Exit Washington St., Left on Washington, Left on Payran Street. Jean-Leon Ocafrain (left) and Jean-Baptiste Urruty won this year’s Basque Club mus tournament and represented the Basque Club at the NABO Mus Championships this past April 28th in Chino. Also representing the Basque Club at the NABO mus finals was the runner up team of Oscar Espinal and John Viscay . Inside NABO 2-3 Kirmen Uribe 3 Nafarroa 4 Los Banos 5 Interns 6 Basque Film Series 6 Martin Minaberry Library 6 EH Brief 7 Txalaparta 8 Basque Club Bus. 9 Bask SF 10 1 Basque Club Aldizkaria UDAberrI NABO News www.NABasque.org NABO MUS Finals 2012 "Elko Jaietan" & NABO Convention It's time to get your Basque up! This year's NABO Convention is hosted by the Elko "Euzkaldunak" Basque club the weekend of July 6-7-8 and there will be plenty of Basque fun across those three days including Running from the Bulls! The 2012 NABO Mus finals were played in Chino on April July 6 (Friday) 28th. Pedro Mariezcurrena & Fidel Marcos, representing the 8AM NABO meeting (Campus of Great Basin College) Chino Basque Club, won the tournament and will represent 1PM NABO Junior Mus Tournament (Elko Basque clubhouse) NABO in the upcoming World Mus Tournament in Vancou- 6PM Kickoff Fairgrounds: $5 entry / $1 under 12 Dancers, sports & BULLS ver. The runner-ups were Asuncion Sapparrart & Carmen Arriada , representing the San Francisco Basque Cultural Cen- July 7 (Saturday) ter. 6AM 5K run 11AM Downtown Parade 12:30 Fairgrounds: $5 entry / $1 under 12 2nd Txerri Jana-NABO Pork Fest Contest Dance groups from Elko, Boise, Chino, Utah & San Francisco Basque sports GAZTEJOKO: Basque Youth Games 6PM Fronton: NABO Pilota finals (refurbished fronton) Handball (class A doubles, class B doubles, & singles) Women's Paleta Goma finals 9PM Clubhouse public dance Music for all by "Amuma Says No" NOIZ/WHEN . Opening event Saturday, July 7, 2012 at fairgrounds at 12:30 right after the parade(then there's much more to follo July 8 (Sunday) 8AM Fronton: NABO Pilota finals ZER/WHAT . 2nd annual "Txerri-Jana Txapelketa" (Pork fest champi- 11AM Mass City Park onship) Noon: Sheepherder bread contest NOLA/HOW . THREE CATEGORIES (enter in one or more) 12:30 BBQ Lamb Lunch Bring 5 lbs of your homemade: $15 adults / Seniors-kids $10 1) chorizo 2PM: Basque entertainment 2) lukainka (with and without paprika) and/or Dance groups & sports 3) tripota/morcilla Jota Contest They will be judged in a blind taste test that will determine the winner in each separate category. Those winners will walk away with a trophy and bragging rights for a year. Please--no store-bought sam- ples: we want to encourage and showcase the long tradition of Basque cooking, and respect those who put an effort into making their own entries. NOR/WHO . Participants can be either organizations or individuals. Those interested in participating should contact Chairman Gratien Etchebehere ([email protected]) no later than June 25th. For more details please contact Gratien directly. He will be happy to explain how the contest will be run. 2 Basque Club Aldizkaria UDAberrI NABO News www.NABasque.org Aita Martxel Tillous Upcoming NABO Meetings NABO Youth Aid Fund < Convention 2012: Elko, NV (Fri, July 6th) If you would like to make a tax- < Fall 2012: Mountain Home, ID (Sat, Oct 6th) deductible donation to this fund, ASTERO (Basque for "weekly") is NABO's < Winter 2013: Salt Lake City, UT (Sat, Feb 2nd) please make your checks payable to free Basque news & information service that < Convention 2013: Elko, NV (50th - TBA) “NABO” and mail to: is brought to you via email notification. To NABO, c/o Grace Mainvil, 705 subscribe for weekly email notices send an < Fall 2013: New York City (Sat, Oct 12th) Nicklaus Lane email to [email protected]. Eagle, ID 83616 KUKUA Basque Poet & Author Awarded Residency Apirilaren hasieran entzun zuen aurrena kukua. at Headlands Center for the Arts Urduri zebilelako beharbada, kaosa ordenatzeko joera horrengatik beharbada, Basque poet and author Kirmen kukuak zein notatan kantatzen zuen jakin nahi izan zuen. Uribe of Ondarroa, Bizkaia, re- Hurrengo arratsaldean, hantxe egon zen basoan zain, ceived a two month residency at diapasoia eskuan, kukuak noiz kantatuko. the Headlands Center for the Diapasoiak ez zioen gezurrik. Arts, located in the Marin Head- Si-sol ziren kukuaren notak. lands just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. Aurkikuntzak bazterrak astindu zituen. This center is dedicated to sup- Mundu guztiak frogatu nahi zuen benetan porting artists; the creative pro- nota horietan kantatzen ote zuen kukuak. cess; and the development of Baina neurketak ez zetozen bat. new, innovative ideas and art- Bakoitzak bere egia zuen. work. The center’s campus com- Fa-re zirela zioen batek, Mi-do besteak. prises a cluster of artist-rehabilitated military buildings at historic Fort Ez ziren ados jartzen. Barry, which is a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Bitartean, kukuak kantari jarraitzen zuen basoan: While at the center Kirmen Uribe worked on his next novel and pro- ez si-sol, ez fa-re, mi-do ezta ere. duced nearly 250 pages during his residency. It is about a Belgian Mila urte lehenago bezala, journalist and writer who adopts a child who left Bilbao during the kukuak kuku, kuku kantatzen zuen. bombings in the Spanish Civil War. Thousands of children left their homes and went to several countries. He hosted this child and this gesture changed his life. He was involved in struggles for a better THE CUCKOO world, and finally he was killed. Mr. Uribe, who writes exclusively in He heard the first cuckoo at the beginning of April. Euskara (Basque) hopes to have his new novel published in time for Because he’d been feeling on edge, maybe, the annual December book fair in Durango, Bizkaia. from an inclination to order the chaos, maybe, Translation into Eng- he wanted to know which notes the cuckoo sang. lish of his previous novel, Bil- He sat waiting with his pitch pipe bao-New York-Bilbao, which next afternoon: When won the National Prize of Liter- would the cuckoo sing? ature in Spain, will be completed He finally achieved it: by this summer and Kirmen The pitch pipe told no lies. hopes to find a publisher for it. Si-sol were the cuckoo’s notes. While at the center, Kirmen made several presentations on The discovery shook the countryside. his work along with his fellow Everyone wanted to prove whether truly those artists in residence. Kirmen also were the notes that the cuckoo sang. Kirmen Uribe at work on his next novel at made a special appearance at The measurements were not in harmony. the Headlands Center for the Arts. Stanford University and spoke Each had his or her own truth. about his Bilbao-New York- One said it was fa-re, another mi-do. Bilbao novel, including the writing of this novel and methodological No one managed to agree. aspects such as self-fiction, the novel's network structure, and the construction of a hybrid genre between reality and fiction, as well as Meanwhile the cuckoo went on singing in the forest, what it means to write for the world from a Basque context. The not mi-do, not fa-re, not si-sol, either. Stanford event was organized by Professor Joan Ramon Resina, Di- As it had a thousand years before, rector of Iberian Studies at Stanford. the cuckoo sang cuckoo, cuckoo. At the Headlands Center for the Art’s open house on April 3 Translations into English by Elizabeth Macklin 22nd, Kirmen Uribe read his poem Kukua: Basque Club Aldizkaria UDAberrI N A F A R R O A A Year In Commemorations 2012 marks the 8th centenary of the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (July 16th, 1212) where Sancho VII, the Strong, King of Navarre, along with his fellow Christian monarchs defeated the Berber Mus- Conquest, 500 Years lim Almohad, which sealed the retaking of Muslim-controlled areas The Basque Kingdom of Navarre was formed when local Basque leader of the Iberian Peninsula (Reconquista). The sultan Caliph al-Nasir Eñeko Arista was elected or declared King in Pamplona (traditionally in led the Almohad army. Tradition has it that the sultan was protect- 824) and ruled for thirty years. The Kingdom of Navarre, the only king- ed by a ring of black slaves, chained together, and that Sancho dom in all of Basque history, had begun. It would last until 1512, its dyn- broke through the barrier and forced the enemy sultan to flee. asties becoming defenders of Christianity, a great regional power of the After the battle, the kingdom of Navarre adopted a new coat of Middle Ages, and a critical force in the Reconquista. In 1512, an expan- arms in memorial of Sancho’s achievement. The new coat of arms sionist minded King Ferdinand II of Aragon per- featured a network of golden chains on a red field with an emerald.