basque heritage worldwide
09/21/2015
‘Bascos for Boobies’ is the name of a group of Basque-Americans from Chino, California who have joined forces to raise $20,000 for breast cancer research. To do so, they’ve organized a Breast Cancer Walk through the city, for October 3. “We’ve lost many loved ones to breast cancer in the Basque community, and some are still fighting it. So it’s very dear to our hearts. That’s one of the motivations for us to organize it,” Anne Gariador spokeswoman for the group told EuskalKultura.com.
09/18/2015
The Mexico City Basque club has marked November 28 on its calendar, the day that all women who, sometimes from the shadows, but have tirelessly contributed to Basque cultural maintenance in the country. The festivities are being called Emakume Alai and will remembers women, past and present, who have filled the Basque club with life with their contributions.
09/17/2015
The Rio Grande do Sul Basque club participated on September 13 at the Farroupilha Camp at the Estancia da Harmonia, a huge cultural gathering organized by the Gaucho Institute of Tradition and Folklore (IGTF) that nearly one million people visit. “We are very happy, because until now the Basque presence in the formation of our society was never taken into account,” Ana Luiza Etchalus, club president explained to EuskalKultura.com.
09/17/2015
He is from the land of gauchos, a place in the middle of the Pampa that has a Basque name: General Acha. Luis Obieta is a doctor and he is visiting his “other land,” for the first time that his great-grandfather left in 1880.
09/17/2015
The Euskal Jatorri Basque club in Posadas celebrated its first decade with mass and a ceremony that gathered friends that have accompanied the institutions during these ten years. During the event diplomas were presented to its founding members, and former presidents Joaquin Basconcel and Marta Sarasola were also both honored.
09/16/2015
As summer begins to seem farther away and daily routine takes its place, Boiseko Ikastola is already in full swing at its new location, on Broadway Avenue, in downtown Boise, Idaho. “The first week was a little bit crazy, because most of the material was brand new and it was like Christmas for the kids,” teacher Oihana Andion told EuskalKultura.com. “Now they’re more relaxed and everything is working perfectly,” she added.
09/16/2015
Even if the team has been in the National League for some time, they hadn’t yet had the opportunity to play locally as hosts. And even if the result wasn’t the desired one, with Huracan from Buenos Aires winning, the Basque club players enjoyed the game along with locales and above all the encouragement they received from their fans.
09/16/2015
The Tonala Theater in Mexico City will be the site on Friday September 18th of a sampling of Basque short films, selected from the Kimuak program. Shorts to be shown include Estamos pocos, Un novio de mierda by Borja Cobeaga and Sintonia and Lagun Mina by Jose Mari Goenaga, two new young talents in Basque film. Admission is free.
09/15/2015
This Saturday, some 50 members of the Gurtubai/Gurtubay family will gather in the Bizkaian town of Atxondo, where the surname originates. There are two farmhouses in Atxondo, Gurtubay-beaskoa and Gurtubay-ganekoa that the attendees will be able able to visit. The reunion will gather family members from Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and England.
09/15/2015
Ediciones Lauburu is a new project supported by members of the Arturo Campion Studies Center in Laprida, Argentina whose aim is to serve as a channel to diffuse research on Basque topics that is being carried out in the country. During its short life it has published three titles and is already preparing the fourth, a collection of writings by Cesar Arrondo, mainly on contemporary political history.
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