basque heritage worldwide
12/25/2020
Another year has passed, and what a year it was! It is already Christmas 2020 and it has been certainly complicated, no doubt with the current COVID-19 situation and its consequences to follow us into the new year which will begin in just a few days. It is clear that we have had better times, but also much worse. And despite all of the difficulties, Basques in Euskal Herria and around the world ...
12/24/2020
Aita Antton Egiguren, chaplain to Basque communities in the United States sent his best wishes of “Eguberri on!” (Merry Christmas) from California. The priest from Bidegoian will celebrate a bilingual mass on Christmas day that will be broadcast on Facebook from the Lady of Mercy Parish in Merced, California. Mass begins at 8:15 (PST) for his traditional commentary on the Basque community; ...
12/24/2020
The Basque club located in Trelew, in the province of Chubut, closed the year with an event that was doubly significant. On the one hand, the inauguration of its mural, created by local artists Axel Díaz and Martina Mezzetti, and on the other the reopening of its headquarter's doors located on en Av. De los Trabajadores 833. The event was led by the club’s president, Salvador Bonachea, ...
12/23/2020
During this year marked by the pandemic and quarantine, as the majority of Basque clubs around the world, Sao Paulo Eusko Alkartasuna, the oldest Basque club in Brazil had to also adapt to the virtual. As a result of these changes, it began to organize some activities online, and generate contents to share on its social media, working hard to maintain constant communication with its members and friends. A lot ...
12/22/2020
Euskadiko Orkestra shares space with highly relevant performers and groups such as Katia Buniatishvili, Lang Lang, the Berlin Philharmonic, or the Vienna Philharmonic on the new art streaming service “Stage Access,” a digital platform that has recently been launched and includes concerts, opera, dance and theater. The platform provides its subscribers concerts by the “Euskadiko Orkestra ...
12/22/2020
The Lehendakari once again sent his Christmas message to Basques and Basque communities around the world. In a year marked by the complicated situation created by COVID-19, Urkullu is determined to assume the challenge that this represents, and indicates to those in the Diaspora that the Basques, wherever they may be, will move forward and overcome this challenge based on "solidarity, initiative and ...
12/22/2020
The “Mugarik Gabeko Txuntxuneroak” group has launched a call to txistularis around the world to join in their new initiative. The idea is to create a participative video, with the traditional “San Sebastian March,” by musicians of all ages and backgrounds. The task is very well scheduled, (see here) the only thing you need is an MP3 player and a txistu in the key of Fa or Fa#, a ...
12/21/2020
New installment of the blog by Jose Felix Azurmendi in the corresponding section of EuskalKultura.eus, dedicated this time to Basque-Venezuelan cartoonist, Eneko Las Heras Leizaola, who is currently working as a cartoonist and chronicler through his current vignettes in the Spanish digital newspaper Público.
12/21/2020
Every year at this time we share the San Sebastian festivities program with our readers that the Basque club in Necochea has organized since 1957. The huge festival includes typical food sales in their Basque club hall converted to look like the Konstituzio Plaza in Donostia, the election of its mayor, dances, txikiteo, mass and the traditional danborrada, to join in the festivities in Donostia on January 20th from ...
12/21/2020
In 2020, impacted by the situation generated by COVID-19, it wasn´t possible to celebrate the traditional Sheepherder’s Ball, as every year at the Boise Basque Club, a charity event organized annually by the Oinkari Dance Group that includes a dance and auction. Organizers realized that it wasn’t worth taking unnecessary risks and that they needed to be responsible, particularly thinking about ...
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