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Sunday, December 14, 2025
10:00

WORKSHOP MOUNTAINS OF COLOURS Euskalduna Bilbao 14 Dic 10:00

Euskalduna Jauregia

MOUNTAINS OF COLOURS

LAURA ARANEGUI GAVIRIA

Sunday December 7 and Sunday December 14 – 10:00-11:45 Euskalduna Bilbao

In this art workshop for, the younger Mountain Lovers or 'Mendi Zales', you will create your own mountain landscape using coloured card, cutting, sticking and drawing. We will play with shapes, colours and composition to build mountains, skies, rivers, forests and other natural elements, bringing to life scenes inspired by the world of mountains. Through collage and drawing, each participant will explore their creativity with complete freedom, experimenting with materials and creating their own work to take home.  
•    Group of 10-12 participants 
•    Ages 6 and up 
Laura Aranegui Gaviria (Vitoria-Gasteiz 1999) Also known as “Laura Blue”, she is an artist and illustrator with a degree in Creation and Design from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), with a specialisation in Illustration. She later completed a Master's Degree in Digital Illustration and Concept Art at the Pixels Centre in Bilbao. She currently combines her work as a freelance illustrator with a Master's Degree in Teacher Training, focusing part of her artistic practice on educational contexts.  

12:00

MENDI MAGIKOA Euskalduna 14 Dic 12:00

Euskalduna Jauregia

MENDI MAGIKOA (in basque)

If you are attending Mendi Magikoa with family or friends, buy them altogether:

  - If you buy between 5 and 9 tickets, you will get a 20% discount

  - If you buy 10 tickets or more, you will get a 35% discount

A session for younger Mountain Lovers or ‘Mendi Zales’ and their families, in which mountains, cinema, theatre, music and magic are combined in a unique show that will leave no one indifferent.

 
Throughout a tale performed by the Les Bobè Bobé theatre company, the actors Josune Vélez de Mendizabal and Ane Gebara will present three short films using as a nexus a story set in the magic mountain or Mendi Magikoa: 


AXIE AND THE WUNDER DACHSIES | Netherlands | Lisette Wansink | 6 min 
¿QUÉ IL PASSA AL CEL? | Spain | Irene Iborra | 10 min 
TÊTE EN L 'AIR | Belgium – France | Rémi Durin | 11 min  

Eriz the wizard also lives on the Mendi Magikoa. He will give you unforgettable moments that you will cherish forever, full of magic and creativity. 
The love of nature can be felt at the Mendi.

AXIE AND THE WUNDER DACHSIES

2024, Netherlands, 6min

Director: Lisette Wansink

NATIONAL PREMIERE

Once upon a time there was a rough-and-ready ice-climber who did not come home. Together with her two precocious dachshunds, the Wunder Dachsies, the courageous Axie goes off in search of her long-lost knight in armour. Stop-motion is inspired by Dutch ice-climbing champions, Marianne van der Steen and Dennis van Hoek… and their dachshunds.

QUÉ IL PASSA AL CEL

2023, Spain, 10min

Director: Irene Iborra

EUSKADI PREMIERE

The sun rises happily over the horizon and is welcomed by the most beautiful landscape. The humans also wake up and do what they always do: cut down trees, construct aimlessly and pollute without shame. Their ideas and actions, usually very disrespectful to the planet, are putting in jeopardy the whole environment. What they do not realize, is that whatever they do, it will affect them eventually. However, the cosmos is not that patient…

TÊTE EN L'AIR

2023, Belgium, France, 11min

Director: Rémi Durin

EUSKADI PREMIERE

Alphonse, a little squirrel, always has his head in the clouds. He loves to contemplate them, and sometimes even take photos of them. Neither his parents nor his friends really understand this passion. But contemplating clouds is no picnic. Alphonse even has to show a certain courage worthy of the greatest explorers...

12:00

Mendi talk COMPAÑERAS DE CORDADA, BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH Euskalduna Bilbao 14 Dic 12:00

Euskalduna Jauregia

COMPAÑERAS DE CORDADA. DEL PIRINEO AL KARAKORUM

Sunday December 14 – 12:00 Euskalduna Bilbao

LLucía Guichot and Nieves Gil, rope teammates since joining the Spanish FEDM Mountaineering Team in 2018, will tell us about their careers as mountaineers and, more specifically, their latest ascent of the ‘Eternal Flame’ route in the Trango Towers, in Pakistan’s Karakorum. In August 2024, they climbed this legendary 800m 7c+ A2 M6 route, opened in 1989 by the Germans Kurt Albert, Wolfgang Güllich, Christof Stiegler and Milan Sykora. The route is rated as one of the most beautiful and difficult at high altitude in the world at its 6,250 metres and takes its name from a beautiful song by The Bangles. 
Nieves and Lucía live in the Aragonese Pyrenees and work in nature (a forest ranger and a mountain guide). Whenever possible, they maintain their commitment to undertake one expedition per year, which has led them to explore different mountain ranges around the world: Patagonia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Peru.  

BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH 

MIKEL ZABALZA

Sunday December 14 – 12:00 Euskalduna Bilbao

Mikel Zabalza has always loved winter. He started climbing in the Pyrenees, in the Cirque de Gavarnie, where he has scaled ethereal ice routes. He has skied, travelled to the Himalayas, where he has opened new routes on giant rocks far away from the beaten paths, and advanced across the ice of Antarctica, with the wind as an ally while he pulled a sledge. Through his story, we become part of his rope team and travel to the Alps and Patagonia, to the great walls of the world, where we sleep suspended at altitudes where cold, wind and snow reign supreme: Integral de Peu Terey, Trango, Piergiorgio, Kanchenjunga, Dunagiri, Queen Maud Land, Everest and K2, the Abruzzi Spur, Gasherbrum II and IV, the Broads traverse, Nuptse, South Tower of Paiju Peak, Phurbi Chyach... and, always, the Pyrenees. 

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