basque heritage worldwide
08/06/2019
Organized by the based in Bilbao Euskal Australiar Alkartea with the collaboration of the touristic company Overtrails, specialists in trips related with the Basque Diaspora a group of 50 travelers from various corners of Bizkaia, Nafarroa, and Gipuzkoa took a two-week tour through Australia. The itinerary included destinations like Cairns andTownsville, from where they moved to Ingham and Ayr, ...
08/05/2019
Life goes on, and after some changes, two famous Basque restaurants in the US have begun a new era in their respective careers. With 90 years of history, the old Santa Fe Hotel in Reno, is a classic. Founded in 1929, it has witnessed a large part of the Basque history of this city that is Donostia’s sister city. Its current owner purchased the establishment in 2017, and after much ...
08/02/2019
In the year of its 80th anniversary, the Lagun Onak Choir in Buenos Aires will be part of the San Ignacio festivities this Saturday at the Laurak Bat Basque Club. They will perform a concert along with the Denak Bat Camerata directed by Xabier Iñaki de Arza Blanco and together will perform a repertoire tht includes classics in Basque like Aita Gurea by Francisco de Madina or Cantata de Gernika by Pablo ...
08/01/2019
Born in Loyola, Gipuzkoa, Saint Ignatius is the patron Saint of Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia and his feast, July 31st, is historically celebrated by a large number of Basque clubs around the world. Even if it is not an official holiday, except in Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia, it is marked on the calendars of many Basques, and clubs dedicate space for religious ceremonies and celebrations.
08/01/2019
While the 15th edition of Hator Hona is developing as successfully as hoped, the Necochea Basque Club celebrated San Ignacio yesterday with the 80th “Alegre Despertar” or "Goizeko Esnatzea" (joyful awakening) in the club’s history. Beginning at 7:30am, a large group of members and officials, along with dantzaris, musicians and Hator Hona participants traveled the streets of the city ...
08/01/2019
The “Baionako Pestak,” or the Baiona festival takes place annually at the end of July. Thousands of kilometers from its epicenter, the culture subcommittee at the Iparraldeko Euskal Etxea in Buenos Aires usually organizes a replica of the festivities of the capital city of Lapurdi, bringing local color to the event. This year, the club couldn’t organize the festival, but ...
08/01/2019
The Euzko Etxea Basketball program welcomed the experienced coach of the national league, Javier Bianchelli, on Saturday July 27th. During the entire day, Bianchelli worked with the Basque club players, as well as those from other invited clubs, including the women’s team from the Rivadavia Club and the Villa del Parque Club in Necochea, as well as the Kimberley and Sporting clubs from Mar del ...
07/31/2019
The Euskaltegi in Buenos Aires will celebrate this Friday, August 2nd, its 75th anniversary since a group of euskaltzales led by Ildefonso Gurrutxaga, Quintín Mugica, Rufino de Arregui, Benito Montoya, Luis Ormaechea and Miguel Zárate created a place in the heart of Laurak Bat in July of 1944. According to historian Mikel Ezkerro, it was a young and new “institution with its own independent ...
07/31/2019
The annual Basque-Argentine-Mbya-Guarani Cultural Festival began last weekend in the city of Corpus Christi, in the province of Misiones, organized by the local Eusko Etxea. The festivities began on Saturday with the award ceremony for the 7th Astonishing Stories Literary Contest and continued with the inauguration of an exhibit of screened works created by students in the fine arts workshop at the Euskal ...
07/30/2019
Even if it was the birthplace of the Argentinan Euskaraz program, that is now Euskara Munduan, Macachin has offered Basque for a very long time but intermittently. Now, for about six years, Euskera was not taught specifically, but basic language notions were taught along with Basque dance. This week, however, the situation took a turn with a new group of students taking Basque online and in person at the ...
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