Recommended websites
Improvisation resources.
Bertsularien Lagunak
Association which works to transmit, promote and develop Improvised Poetry & Song in the Northern Basque Country ( Lapurdi , Lower Navarre and Soule ), particularly through education , organizing tournaments and the championship biannual Xilaba.
Bertsozale elkartea : The Association of the Friends of Bertsolarism
The Association of the Friends of Bertsolarism was formed in 1987 with the intention of guaranteeing the future and the transmission of a great part of that intangible Basque culture known as bertsolarism.
Center of Documentation Xenpelar
This institute was created in 1990 and it collects all about bertsolarism such as researches, digital libraries, publications catalogues and other collections (improvised bertsos, bertso’s melodies and pictures).
Lanku
Lanku is a company created by the Association of Friends of Bertsolarism (Bertsozale elkartea) to reinforce the infrastructure of bertsolarism. It manages the material and human resources necessary for all creation and organization.
Bertsoa.eus
The Bertsoa.com digital website offers creative and informative content, formats and different media, or direct recorded previously.
What is bertsolaritza? has been carried out with the aim of answering that question and showing people abroad what bertsolaritza is. The film enables people to discover bertsolaritza from its roots and to pay attention to the context, creative process and current situation of the discipline.
Bertsolaritza can designate both the art of improvising verses (bertsogintza) and the social movement created around it (bertsolaritza). The principal goal of this book is to present the necessary means for fully understanding bertsolaritza. A publication of the Etxepare Basque Institute, free to download.
