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04/20/2021
A new initiative comes from Colombia, in this case to commemorate the 84th anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika, next Monday. They invite you to color the “Guernica” by Picasso and reflect on the message that the artist hoped to spread with that work, with this question: “Why do I think it is important to remember what happened in Gernika from the Diaspora?” When you finish, take a ...
04/19/2021
The event finally arrived last Friday, April 16th the date when the Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce announced and presented its 2021 awards recipients. In the “Roots Leadership” category, the popular vote decided who the winner would be among the five finalists and that was…the Oberenak Basque Club. Club representative, Shirley (Satica) Shepherd relayed the club’s appreciation to ...
04/19/2021
The Etxepare Basque Institute is looking for Basque language and culture lecturers for universities in Berlin, and Leipzig in Germany, Tbilisi, Georgia, Paris, France and Chicago, Illinois in the US. Details of the call are available here (in Basque) or here (in Spanish) in a resolution dated March 5, 2021 and published in the Official Bulletin of the Basque Country (BOPV-EHAA) on March 31st. ...
04/16/2021
Hondar ahoak (mouths full of sand) is a Basque police series that has triumphed since its debut on April 6th on the Filmin platform. It is a mini-series with four chapters written and directed by Koldo Almandoz from Donostia, and produced by EITB, filmed in Basque in the coastal town of Ondarroa (Bizkaia) during July and August of last year. The series debuted in its original version in the fall and was very well ...
04/16/2021
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that new technologies can help us with our every-day activities, for example, in teaching and taking Basque classes. The Anaitasuna Basque club, that taught Basque all through 2020 virtually, resumed the proposal in April and now has two classes. In-person classes are available for locals, but they are also broadcast and attended online for those who are not ...
04/15/2021
The Archive of Navarre, along with the Baluarte Foundation present the Navarrese Sound Archiv (Fonoteca Navarra), with 29 compositions from Navarre’s musical heritage from the 18th century to the present that also encompasses authors and productions from the Diaspora, as is the case of the only woman who is currently part of the resource, Emiliana de Zubeldia (Salinas de Oro, Navarra, 1888 - ...
04/15/2021
The Urrundik Basque Association in Parana has organized a concert series that will begin this Sunday, April 18th and run through the following two weekends. The first installment of “Autumn Afternoons at Urrundik” will include guitarist Hernando “Pico” Rubio, Guitar Workshop teacher at the Basque club and winner of various festivals at the provincial and national levels, such as ...
04/14/2021
In a context in which a good part of the usual sources of income have been affected, or completely declined by the pandemic, entities like the Basque Museum and Ikastola in Boise, which is under the Museum’s umbrella, continue fighting to maintain themselves, adapting in some cases to a virtual environment. They continue to count on the Basque community and the local Basque-speaking public with activities like ...
04/14/2021
At its 2021 General Assembly, Lucia Igarzabal took over the leadership of the Guillermo Larregui Basque Club from Bernardo Indaburu, who has served as the club’s president for two terms since 2016. The new president, daughter of one of the club’s founding members, has a long career on the club’s board of directors, and in 2011, she participated in the Gaztemundu program that focused on ...
04/13/2021
If you are someone who has researched diasporas or present or past migrations and you would like to present your contribution or conclusions, you are still on time to do so at the 31st annual AEMI (Association of European Migration Institutions) Conference that will take place at the end of this summer in Donostia. The Basque Government, through its Directorate for the Basque Community Abroad is part of ...
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