EuskalKultura.com is starting the New Year with hope and a thousand plans in mind to advance and take new steps in the communication and cultural dissemination of the Basque reality wherever it may be found. We started January, as every year, working and concocting proposals. Yes, we are optimistic, what can we do? We´ll persevere, and “Gero gerokoak,” that is something like saying “we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” all the while continuing down our path.
As every year, January starts in the South American Cone with --home of more than half of the Basque clubs in the world-- on summer vacation. But not all the clubs take a break, in Chascomus, for example, who just held Udaleku (Basque summer camp) 2013 that concluded last Tuesday in this city situated 124 kilometers south of Buenos Aires; last weekend, the Basques in Necochea celebrated their traditional Danborrada, San Sebastian’s festivities, this year a week earlier so as not to conflict with the city’s Festival of Communities, where the Basque community will also be represented. We will let you know about that tomorrow, in an article about Danborrada celebrations around the world.
Coinciding precisely with the Danborrada (or Tamborrada) celebration in Donostia and in different places in the Diaspora, another group of Basques, in this case Basques dedicated to the Basque language and its instruction in Latin America, will meet next weekend in San Nicolas de los Arroyos, on the boarder of the Argentinean provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, to hold their first barnetegi (boarding school) of the new four-year cycle of the Euskara Munduan program. I would like to emphasize that, besides the work done by Kinku Zinkunegi as coordinator of the program --he will travel from the Basque Country to attend the event-- the other three professors that will instruct in the barnetegi are all Basque speakers natives of the Diaspora, sons and daughters of Euskara Munduan and its predecessor program, Argentinan Euskaraz.
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