basque heritage worldwide
07/08/2021
The Ikurriña is the most widespread symbol of the Basque community and today there is not a Basque club that does not display it. This week it will be celebrated since Saturday marks one hundred years since it was hoisted for the first time at a Basque Club, in Argentina. It couldn’t be any other way since the first official raising of the flag took place at the oldest Basque club the Laurak ...
07/07/2021
Last Monday, July 5th the General Assembly of the Zingirako Euskaldunak Basque Club in Chascomus took place. Due to the restrictions in place due to the Coronavirus, the meeting was held for the first time via Zoom, the same reason why the general assembly couldn’t take place last year. Minutes from the last assembly were read and accounts were approved for 2019 and 2020 and a new board was elected ...
07/07/2021
Who said that to get to know the Basque Country you had to travel there? The pandemic has made travel difficult and challenged us to think of new ways of doing things. In this context Atipikoa was born, a proposal for young Basque-Americans between the ages of 15 and 21. It is a sort of Udaleku experience for 10 days in nature that aims to get to know and live Basque culture in is various forms, ...
07/07/2021
It is one of the most anticipated festivities in the international context, with the pandemic causing the cancellation of its in-person events in Pamplona. Even so, the excitement does not wane and institutions in the Diaspora, especially Navarrese clubs, have already held their kick-offs on Monday the 5th with online greetings from the presidents of these clubs in Argentina, Oscar Croce (Rosario Centro ...
07/06/2021
We present here the video and song that young Basque singer Izaro (Mallabia, Bizkaia, 1993) composed for the film Nora by director Lara Izagirre. The film shows us Nora (Ane Pikaza), who after the death of her Argentine grandfather (Hector Alterio) throws herself in an old Dyan 6 on a route through the entire Basque coast to spread the ashes of her Aitite Nicolas with her grandmother's ...
07/06/2021
Is your last name Verástegui, Berastegui, Verasteguiz, Verastigui...or any other variant of the original Basque last name Berastegi? Wherever you may reside, the Trujillo Basque Club invites you to a “From Berastegi to the World,” an online family reunion where you will learn about the origin, development and establishment in the world of this surname originating in the Basque ...
07/05/2021
In a second year marked by the pandemic, and nostalgia for festivities that were again postponed, the 13th edition of the San Fermin Short Story Contest, was held, organized by the San Fermin Blog. Quite an occasion to narrate experiences of the most popular Navarrese festivals. In the 2021 edition, the winning text was Divino (blanco como la cal), (Divino (White as Lime), by Javier Casado Mayayo; second ...
07/02/2021
“Ombuaren itzala" (The Shade of the Ombu) is the title of a film promoted by Patxi Bisquert (the actor in Tasio) about the life of Pello Mari Otaño (Zizurkil, 1857, Rosario, 1910), a referential name in bertsolaritza more than a century ago. Ombu is the symbolic tree of the Pampa that creates great shade. Otaño was one of the most important creators of Basque ...
07/02/2021
The initiative comes from local veteran, Guillermo Raul Ni Colo, and aims to honor the 649 fallen in the War of Malivnas by planting a tree for each of them. The challenge is to reach this number of trees planted by April 2022 the month marking the 40th anniversary of one of the darkest and sad moments in Argentine history.
07/01/2021
The collection of poems Metro by Beatriz Chivite (Pamplona, 1991) is now available to read in English thanks to the bilingual edition in Basque and English published by the independent London publisher Francis Boutle Publishers, under the title The Blue Line, Poems in Basque. The Blue Line talks about the perceptions and stories that people who travel in London Metro evoke in the author. The British ...
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