The pastoral 'Telesforo Monzon', played at Larrau (Soule) was a great success. The first performance, August 7, attracted some 4,000 spectators, and the second on August 13, more than 2,000. A third and final performance will take place Saturday, September 17 in Bergara (Gipuzkoa), birthplace of Telesforo Monzon. Here is a slideshow with pictures taken at the first performance.

June 25 was a day where the Basque language was particularly honored in  Mauleon-Licharre (Maule-Lextarre), capital of the province of Soule (Xiberoa)

In the morning the Bask Academy  - Euskaltzaindia - greeted at a formal ceremony   as a full-académician, a son of Maule-Lextarre, the linguist Battittu Coyos, whose speech had the theme "two dichotomies of the Basque language ", namely between" new Basque speakers "and" Basque by birth "and between the Bask dialects   and  unified bask language" euskara batua ".

That same day, the association Xiberoan Euskaraz Bai (in Soule, in Bask language), a continuation of the action is awareness for several months with the public - and specifically economic sectors and associations - had organized day of the Bask language, Euskararen Eguna. This festive meeting, was organized by twenty associations from Xiberoa (Soule), demonstrated by a beautiful day and a great success attendance, the Bask language in Soule - Euskara - is present and  must grow for being really an ongoing social and essential vector;