Shaking Cowbells. Women Playing Carnival Roles in Zubieta
The world, so far, has been a men’s place and as it used to be in almost every social event, local carnival festivities in the Basque Country were celebrated only by men.
Herding Goats in the Alps
SPULÜI HERDING GOATS IN THE ALPS Gari Garaialde Beñat and Natahlie will spend July and August in a hut in the Swiss Alps, almost 2,000 metres above tyhe sea level, looking after a herd of goats and making cheese. Their sons 7 years Kemen and Oihu of the year...Dancing with the Fox
DANCING WITH THE FOX info This is a kind of dance that was danced in carnival festivities, in a small town called Hernani (Basque Country), but as these festivities were prohibited during Francos dictatorship, nowadays is danced the following days after Saint...Stone Dragging by Women
Dragging games, a collective term for a number of sports in which humans and animals are involved in dragging heavy weights, divided into four different categories where oxen waging is the most popular version, though the last years men competitions have gotten more popular.
White Costumes. Traditional Carnival in Arantza (Navarre)
Carnival fesivitien in Arantza (Basque Country) are held 2 weeks before official carnival dates. That thursday is time for ‘Mozoro Zuriak’ (White Masks in Basque language) who dress in flannel shirts, blue pants and colorfull scarfs on their neck, with paper tapes made by school children hanging in the sfarfs. They visit several farms, accompanied by some accordionists and tambourine players, singing and dancing in different cottages and eating and drinking what tehy get as payment for their animated songs.