{"id":989,"date":"2008-05-29T18:38:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theworldcafe.com\/radio-euskadi"},"modified":"2015-08-16T01:14:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T01:14:58","slug":"radio-euskadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/radio-euskadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Euskadi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bilbao\"by Jeffrey Beeson<\/p>\n

This year was the 25th anniversary of Radio Euskadi \u2013 one of the largest radio stations in the Basque country.\u00a0 They had been wondering how they were going to celebrate such an important anniversary.\u00a0 The company EiTB \u2013 which not only owns Radio Euskadi but also owns 2 Basque television channels – was approached by World Caf\u00e9 Europe in November of last year and asked whether they might want to be part of the 2nd World Caf\u00e9 Europe Gathering taking place in Bilbao on June 5-7.\u00a0 EiTB agreed and came to the kick off World Caf\u00e9 event in January of this year which included another 12 other local organizations.\u00a0 They were very favourably impressed by the experience and realized that this could be the type of format to invite the listeners of Radio Euskadi to a celebration of its 25th anniversary.\u00a0 So the beginnings of the 1000 person Caf\u00e9 in front of the Guggenheim were born\u2026<\/p>\n

On May 18th, 1000 people sat down at 200 tables to talk about the past, present and future of the Basque country.\u00a0 Coffee was of course served directly at the tables.\u00a0 There were 3 rounds of conversation of 30 minutes a piece.\u00a0 The whole event was televised as well as broadcast live on the radio.\u00a0 World Caf\u00e9 seems to be on the lips of all the citizerns of Bilbao as we approach our gathering on June 5-7.\u00a0 It was wonderful to see young people, old people, traditional Basque people sitting next to new age people \u2013 all having intense and rewarding conversations.\u00a0 At the end of the event, people did not want to leave and kept conversing at their tables for quite a while longer!\u00a0 The event was such a success that Radio Euskadi is contemplating doing it again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jeffrey Beeson This year was the 25th anniversary of Radio Euskadi \u2013 one of the largest radio stations in the Basque country.\u00a0 They had been wondering how they were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[699],"tags":[650,376,651,649],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bilbao","tag-basque","tag-bilbao","tag-radio","tag-radio-euskadi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6sDis-fX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}