The Place to 2019, to suit all tastes • Festivals, concerts and music events at world level • Outstanding sports and championships. Getting ready for the UEFA EURO 2020 • The exciting roots of the culture • Film, drama, design, literature and art join the show MUSIC SPORTS Bilbao BBK Live UEFA EURO 2020 BIME Red Bull Cliff Diving 2019 Musika-Música Bilbao Night Marathon The BOS / ABAO OLBE / BAS Punta Galea Challenge Mundaka Festival La Vuelta 2019 6 Getxo Jazz / Getxo & Blues / Getxo Folk 16 Bilbao-Bilbao Classic Place MAZ Basauri / Txapel Reggae Bilbao MendiTrail Sopela Kosta Fest Bilbao City Downhill to BE BASQUE ARTS Aste Nagusia Bilbao Guggenheim Museum Basque FEST Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Durangoko Azoka Gutun Zuria FIG Last Monday in Gernika Getxophoto Santo Tomás Fair Gau Zuria 22 Feast of la Magdalena 32 JA! Bilbao The Day of the Geese in Lekeitio Fun & Serious Game Festival 8 Mays in Orduña Getxoarte This card offers savings and convenience for La Encartada planning your stay in Bilbao Bizkaia on public Zapato Azule (Blue Saturday) in Ondarroa Open House Bilbao transport and tickets to museums, shows, restaurants, shops and other leisure spaces. Ask for it at any tourist office or at: CALENDAR www.bilbaobizkaiacard.com CINEMA ON STAGE EVENTS 2019 Zinebi Portugalete International Folklore Festival 46 Cover: BIME Zinemakumeak Magiaren Topaketa (Magical encounters) Bilboko Kalealdia (Street arts) Bilbao BIZKAIA Edition: January 2019 Third edition The Feroz Awards Bilbao Mendi Film Festival BAD Publisher: Bilbao Bizkaia be Basque from to Zinegoak Umore Azoka Leioa (Street arts) Production: Bell Communicación 48 Fant Arrigorriaga International Clown Tourist brochure photos: Bilbao Tourism archives, Bizkaia Tourism, Basquetour, 40 44 Festival Hazi, Bell, Gonzalo Azumendi, Pedro Muñoz, Quintas Photography, Gemma SAIL in Festival Arrugaeta, Mitxi, Martín Photography, Asier Bastida, Bilbao Basket, CC by-3.0- Invisible Film Festival PRACTICALINFO ES 2012/EJ-GV/Irekia-Basque Country Regional Government/Mikel Arrazola, Addresses, telephone Bilbao Seriesland ABAO-OLBE © E. Moreno Esquibel, CC Amélie Nollet, CC Zawp, CC Hacería, CC numbers, links... Infameless and other authors. 50 Printing: MCCGRAPHICS. BI-69-2019 The The place Place you have to to be 4 5 2019 Maybe if you reading these pages right now, it does not mean anything to you. It may just be yet another calendar, another number. This is why we want to share our enthusiasm and invite you to discover Bilbao Bizkaia; we want you to take part in all of the forthcoming events; to become an inhabitant of Bilbao; to become an inhabitant of Bizkaia. We want you to sing and dance at all our music festivals; never mind whether it is summer or autumn, in the open air or inside. We want you to have the opportunity to enjoy international stars. Bizkaia Bridge We want you to run, swim and ride a bike, to lift up your arms and give a big hug to our Marijaia, to discover Basque culture at fairs and festivals. We want you to enjoy this splendid agenda for 2019; we want this to be your trip because there is really nothing you can miss. PlaceThe to MUSIC the City: Bilbao Main Venue: Kobetamendi S Dates: 11, 12 and 13 July H 6 O A 7 GOOD OUR BEACHES IDEA! Luxury from Monday to Sunday After dancing, screaming and jumping without stop- ping in Kobetamendi, what better way of relaxing W than with a swim at one of our beaches or with a has just begun drink overlooking the sea. Plentzia, Gorliz or Arrigu- naga are perfect for enjoying a calm sea. Barinatxe uly, without a doubt, is the month of the Bilbao BBK Live. Established - La Salvaje, Bakio or Mundaka, however, are ideal as one of the best festivals both at national and international level, for surfing or other water sports. Jevery year it receives thousands of music fans. Top bands including Weezer, The Strokes, Thom Yorke, Suede, Rosalía and Brockhampton will make the audience rock at the different venues located on Mount Cobetas during the three days of the Festival. We are really looking forward to hearing them live! What's more, with a capacity for 12,000 people, the Kobetamendi arena (easily accessible by public transport from the Termibus station, in San Mamés) offers the option to camp at the arena. This means that if you are going to the festival you can buy admission tickets plus access to the camp site. So now you know, a good sleeping bag, songs from your favourite groups Barinatxe (Sopela) firmly implanted in your mind and off you go to enjoy the Bilbao BBK Live. We look forward to seeing you! info bilbaobbklive.com PlaceThe to MUSIC Talks, round tables, debates, conventions, presenta- tions, trade fairs and training are just some of the in- Main Venue: BEC! and venues in Bilbao gredients of this international meeting for the music industry in Spain. Directed at the professional public Month: from 30 October to 2 November and music lovers, it enjoys the participation of main- stream voices, music produc- ers and promoters, groups and institutions and a broad repre- sentation of companies from the areas of communication, of autumn marketing, technology, video SHADES games, leisure, fashion and trends. ho says that there is no place for festivals in autumn? In Bizkaia we are lucky enough to have one of the best Wfestivals of Europe! The BIME festival is divided into 8 BIME PRO, BIME CITY and BIME LIVE. 9 Franz Ferdinand During October, music fills the streets of Bilbao, intro- ducing the future promises from the national and inter- national scene. The most representative venues in the city are: Kafe Antzokia, Azkena, Stage Live, Bilborock, La Year after year, the different stages of the Bilbao Ribera. These will witness the hits which will soon be ­Exhibition Centre (BEC!) welcome the best national heard at the major festivals. and international artists. What's more, many of these Every year around 40 performances sign up to the bill- come to present their new releases, offering exclusive date performances at the arena. Franz Ferdinand, The board, taking place over two consecutive days and com- Prodigy, Royal Blood, Imagine Dragons, Crystal Fight- pletely free of charge. ers and Belako have already passed through BIME Are you coming to experience the programme for 2019? Live, making it one of the best festivals at this time of year in Europe and the most Technological Festival of 2017, according to the Fest Awards. info bime.net PlaceThe to MUSIC City: Bilbao Main Venue: Euskalduna Conference Centre Date: all year Musika-Música nown by its initials, the ABAO is the product of Fill your soul with music Bilbao Association of the people of Bilbao's love for highbrow music. KOver 1000 performances and programmes Friends of the Opera with the greatest voices of this and last century have composed by geniuses established the association, which aims to make City: Bilbao this genre of opera a show which is accessible to n its 17 editions, Musika-Música has fulfilled its Main Venue: Euskalduna Conference Centre everyone. With this spirit of openness to everyone, objective of making classical music accessible, the ABAO presents itself with the slogan: “Opera Dates: from 28 February to 3 March Ioffering an original, extensive and quality within everyone's reach”. Enjoy it. programme that has become a cultural reference for the city of Bilbao. This festival has spread the music of Haydn, Mozart, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Schubert, Bach and Chopin, among others. info bilbao700.eus info abao.org 10 11 City: Bilbao Main Venue: Euskalduna Conference Centre BOS Date: all year BAS Magnificent from Bilbao Arte Sakratua the very first note n the weeks before Easter Week, the Arte Sacro Festival, organised by the Bilbao 700 Foundation he Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, known Itakes place. Here you can enjoy concerts, dance as the BOS, offers a broad programme and choral singing. Tfor music lovers. Its current home is in the Euskalduna Conference Centre, a superb setting in which to enjoy a season City: Bilbao that includes symphony, chamber music and Main Venue: Incarnation Church educational family orientated concerts. info bilbaorkestra.eus Date: prior to Easter Week info bilbao700.eus bilbao700.eus PlaceThe to MUSIC MUNDAKA FESTIVAL: THE BasQUE MUSIC AND COOK 12 13 he Basque Music & Cook Festival is held in one of the most spectacular Tspots of Euskadi, in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve, in the surfing town Music and gastronomy of Mundaka. The Festival has three core themes: music, gastronomy and nature. go hand in hand Artists of the likes of Bunbury, Fink or Depedro have already passed through here. Get ready this 2019 to enjoy “a unique festival in a unique location”. info mundakafestival.eus City: Mundaka Main Venue: Santa Catalina Peninsula Dates: 27, 28 and 29 July PlaceThe to MUSIC GETXOJAZZ MAZ BASAURI City: Getxo City: Basauri Main Venue: Plaza Biotz Alai de Algorta Main Venue: Social Antzokia de Date: From 3 to 7 July Basauri and free sessions outdoors Dates: 27 and 28 April and 3 and 4 May Every year in July, this edition being the 43rd, saxophones, trumpets and pianos can be heard in the town of MAZ Basauri is a festival which hosts concerts, a music-related film series with performances for all the family as Getxo as part of the International Jazz Festival. Art Blakey, Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard, Michel Camilo part of Txiki MAZ. The eighth edition takes place on 27 and 28 April and 3 and 4 May 2019 in Basauri. The festival, and Madeleyne Peyroux are just some of the performers who have met with success at Getxo and earned the which has a programme of varied musical styles, receives bands such as Viva Suecia, Iseo & Dodosound, Triángulo applause of an enthusiastic audience.