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05/05/2021
The Japanese version of Bernardo Atxaga’s novel Soinujolearen semea (The Accordionist´s Son), translated from the Basque original by Nami Kaneko and supported by the Etxepare Basque Institute, is among the five finalists for Japan’s Best Translation Award. Published by Shinchosa in 2020, the Japanese translation of the Atxaga novel is being acclaimed by readers and ...
05/05/2021
“Irrati Kontuak,” (Radio Affairs), is a new proposal that came in the form of a Podcast thanks to the groups of Basque students at Union Vasca. The program recorded in Basque covers a wide range of topics that include climate, reflections on Basque expression, recipes and home remedies, series recommendations, horoscopes, games that can be played on social media, and announcing. The program ...
05/04/2021
The University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHY) launches its Postgraduate on the Basque Diaspora. The program runs October through June in both virtual and in person meetings (it can be made totally on line). Its launch was announced by its academic coordinator, Oscar Alvarez Gila, and by the Basque Government’s Director of the Basque Community Abroad, Gorka Alvarez Aranburu. Supported by ...
05/03/2021
Researcher from Lapurdi, Eneko Bidegain (Baiona, 1975), was selected this year as the Jon Bilbao Chair, a post that was created in 2014 at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). His research project, entitled “From Letters and Magazines on Paper to the Digital Era: Information that Members of the Diaspora from the Northern Basque Country Seek and Follow, and their Vision of Euskal Herria from the United ...
05/03/2021
The Asmoz Foundation at Eusko Ikaskuntza, the Society for Basque Studies, is committed to projects that support online education in Basque while creating teaching materials, for children and adults with the help of EIMA (Basque teaching materials creator). According to an article published on its website that includes some of the possibilities offered online for anyone interested in the Basque Country or in ...
04/30/2021
Tomorrow, Saturday, May 1st is the day on the California Basque calendar designated for the annual Fresno Basque Picnic. Due to the pandemic, it has been cancelled for the second year in a row. Despite this, local Basques have decided to celebrate it anyway, but each at home. In order to carry this out the Santa Fe Basque Restaurant will provide Basque food to be ordered ahead of time so that each ...
04/30/2021
We have been reporting on events in the Diaspora to commemorate the 84th anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika during all of the week. For a second year in a row, the situation of the pandemic has not prevented sending of messages on the importance of memory and the memory of solidarity with the victims of barbarism. Once again, the majority of the Basque clubs and institutions that chose to pay ...
04/29/2021
Over the last few years, many people have returned to Euskal Herria who were born and raised in the heart of the Basque community in Venezuela. One of these is Itxaso Uzkanga, member of a well-known Basque family in the careibean country who was interviews by Anboto magazine. Thinking that the interview may interest our readers, especially for those that are part of the Basque-Venezuelan community, we translate from the original in Basque the following lines of the conversation between Itxaso and journalist Aitziber Basauri.
04/29/2021
In the Patagonian city of Cipolletti, in the province of Rio Negro, there is a rural area, “Cuatro Esquinas,” (four corners), that has had a chapel for nearly 30 years in honor of the Basque Virgin of Arantzazu. As in other cases, its origin is linked to work, solidarity and the contribution of Basques and their descendants in places where they were welcomed after arriving in Argentina. ...
04/28/2021
The conditions imposed by the pandemic have made many Basque gatherings and activities difficult and have made others possible. The latter is the case of musicians Iñar Sastre (piano) and Jagoba Astiazaran (txistu) who after publishing their album “Arineketan,” in September of last year, will debut on YouTube today, the video of their single “Belauntxingoa,” with the ...
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