07/11/2019

There will be a concert this Sunday in Bidarrai by California Basque Andrea Bidart Oteiza. Andrea, born in California, in the heart of a family originally from Navarre, on both sides of the Pyrenees, told EuskalKultura.com that she is especially happy and excited for the recital. “It will be a very special concert for me because my maternal great grandparents were from Bidarrai,” she ...
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07/11/2019

Last Saturday, just before the beginning of the 41st National Mus Tournament, the inauguration of a bust in honor of Euzko Alkartasuna President, Iñaki Unamuno in the walkway by the same name in the Independence Plaza took place. In the cold sunny morning, a large number of people from the city attended to accompany Unamuno in the ceremony that began with an Aurresku with the Mayor, Jorge Cabak, also in ...
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07/11/2019

The city of Macachin in the Province of La Pampa was the site, last weekend, of the 41st National Mus Tournament. After two days of play, Ignacio Rabuffetti and Martín Lasarte, representing the Laurak Bat Basque Club in Buenos Aires were the winners. Rabuffetti and Lasarte will now travel in October to Baiona to represent Argentina at the 2019 International Mus Tournament. Second place went ...
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07/10/2019

The monthly Basque-Venezuelan newsletter coordinated in Caracas by Pedro Javier Arriaga Aguirre published a special issue this week marking the 80th anniversary of he arrival, onboard the “Cuba,” of the first exiled Basques and Basque families to Venezuela fleeing Franco’s terror. Over 39 pages, the magazine reviews the history and includes stories of refugees who arrived aboard ships like ...
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07/10/2019

It has been sixty years since this Belgian city and Biarritz became sister cities, and to mark the occasion, a Basque festival will be celebrated on the Flagey Plaza on July 12th. There will be a sokatira competition, herri-kirolak demonstrations by the Ñapurrak Association from Ezpeleta-Espelette, and the music will be provided by five singers who will travel from the Basque Country accompanied by ...
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07/10/2019

The music and dance show unfolded under the slogan “Migrants like to dance and sing. They do it in their land, on the boat and they will also do it in their new land,” and took place at the Marconi Theater on June 29th. Invited by the organizers, the dance group at the Itxaropen Basque Club directed by Micaela Gaggiotti performed dances from Euskal Herria, specifically polka pik and ...
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07/09/2019

Activities leading up to the International Film Festival in Viña del Mar, will include the screening over the next three Fridays the films Amama (2015), directed by Asier Altuna, Oreina (2018), by Koldo Almandoz, and Dantza (2019), by Director, Telmo Esnal. Admission is free and is open to the public and all will take place at the Art of Decorative Art, Palacio Rioja, in Viña on ...
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07/09/2019

Tomorrow, the course “Excellence in Basque Studies) begins in Donostia. Administered by the Etxepare Basque Institute and the UPV’s Summer Courses, the class is training for those teaching Basque language and culture in foreign universities and hopes to reinforce the information imparted in classes in the network of Etxepare lectureships, although it is open to anyone who is interested in the ...
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07/09/2019

Last Saturday, July 6th at noon was the beginning of San Fermin festivities in the capital of Navarre with the traditional Txupinazo; festivities that are greatly celebrated in the Diaspora as well. Basque clubs and Navarrese clubs make a great effort to join in and celebrate, all in their own possibilities and traditions, each adding a little local flavor, with some including txupinazos, buruhandiak, dance, ...
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07/08/2019

Starting today, through July 19th the Euzko Etxea Basque Club in Villa Maria will host the 4th edition of the Exchange program, Anima Zaitez! Over the two weeks, the clubhouse will be the site of a large variety of Workshops taught by Irati Aranguren Arrizabalaga from Azpeitia, and Sara Chaves Larrimbe and Paula Gonzalez Miguel from Vitoria-Gasteiz. The three youth were chosen by organizers to travel to ...
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