basque heritage worldwide
02/03/2021
Are you a Basque speaker, or a Basque student that would like to test your ability or skills writing stories in Basque? Here is an excellent opportunity to do so by writing a micro text of only 100 words. You have to be over the age of 16 to participate, in this free-themed contest that includes two categories: one that is open to regular Basque speakers, and a second for Basque students. ...
02/03/2021
Even if the initiative began as a project among friends, the truth is that after its inauguration, the mural of the best-known work of Pablo Picasso received much coverage, not just by the media, but also by the city too that included it in one of its tours of the Uruguayan capital. The mural measures the same as the original “Guernica,” (349,3 x 776,6 cm), and is located on Dunant Street between ...
02/02/2021
In the Government of Navarre the General Directorate of Foreign Action is in charge of relations with the Diaspora and with Navarrese Clubs and with Navarrese living abroad in general, a position that was occupied since its inception in 2019, by Mikel Irujo Amezaga (Caracas, 1972). With President Chivite announcing the appointment tomorrow of Irujo as Counselor (Minister) of Economic and Business ...
02/02/2021
Carlos Gabilondo, director of the Traveling Basque Film-Euskal Zinema Ibiltaria Project that is celebrating its 11th year this year, has announced that he is taking steps to begin the film sessions corresponding to 2021 in mid-March. Due to the pandemic, Gabilondo adapted his program and is carrying out the meetings and sharing space with film lovers through Zoom and other social media. Spanish is their main ...
02/01/2021
Chilean researcher, Patricio Legarraga has completed the sixth volume of his work The French Basques in Chile in its third edition. The work is comprised of six volumes in digital format: the first one is an introduction to the Basque Country and the Basques, Iparralde, immigration and Chile; and the other five more are a dictionary with families and biographies in alphabetic order. The ...
01/29/2021
A couple of weeks ago we published an article on the mural for the walls of the New York Eusko Etxea (EENY) by Basque artist Guillermo Zubiaga who is settled in the Big Apple. At that time, the mural was just a project, designed by the artist on his computer, although preparations were beginning to move it to the walls of the EENY headquarters. Since then, there has been progress since the cartoonist from ...
01/29/2021
Some of the activities planned to commemorate the fifth centennial of Juan Sebastian Elkano and his circumnavigation of the world had to be postponed due to the pandemic, but his achievements continue. Today we call your attention to the latest updated biography of the sailor from Getaria, Gipuzkoa by author Julian Diaz Alonso. In in Basque entitled J. S. Elkanoren aztarnaren bila and in Spanish ...
01/28/2021
It is a Spotify playlist with a selection of some of the songs that Basque youth currently listen to. It came to us from the US and was created by Basque Americans, Mikaela Goicoechea and Madalen Bieter. Today NABO shared it in its Astero weekly newsletter, with songs and groups of varied styles (pop, rock, hip-hop, electronic etc.). For many, it is an opportunity to get acquainted with what Basque youth ...
01/27/2021
The Chino Basque Club is the referential Basque Club in the area of Greater Los Angeles. Founded in 1968 it's not the oldest in the area, that honor goes to the Southern California Basque Club founded in 1946 as the Southern California Eskualdun Club. The Chino Basque Club of Chinoko Euskal Etxea is the one with more members, more activities and more projection, and its own ...
01/27/2021
In the Navarre Museo in Pamplona the exhibit entitled "Gerardo Lizarraga. Artist in Exile" was inaugurated yesterday. The exhibit is a retrospective on the life and work of the painter originally from Pamplona, his time in French concentration camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Agde and Clermont Ferrand, his artistic experience since his arrival in Mexico in 1942, showing his portraits, ...
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