10/14/2020

The Centro Navarro in Buenos Aires will celebrate its 125th anniversary on November 3rd , and even though the celebration won’t be as they had imagined originally due to the pandemic, they will hold some kind of virtual event for everyone to enjoy. The Short Story Literary Contest continues as planned, although with some modifications. The first and most important being that the deadline to submit works ...
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10/14/2020

The San Nicolas Basque Club has carried out the Etxe Nasaia Program for 20 years, a program that provides lunches at the clubhouse, once a month, to school-aged children. The project has a double objective: collaborate with the most vulnerable sectors of the city while creating a stronger link between the community and the Euskal Etxea.
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10/13/2020

The Resolution of September 1st by the Director of the Etxepare Basque Institute was published last Friday in the Official Bulletin of the Basque Country (EHAA-BOPV) that opens the call to Basque clubs and federations for Basque courses taught between October 2020 and September 2021. The total budget to be awarded is 242,000 Euros of which 62,000 Euros will cover the October-December period with the remaining ...
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10/13/2020

AEMI (Association of European Migration Institutions) is the association that brings together European Organizations (and world, as it also has non-European members) whose scope of analysis and work is migration, a relevant phenomenon in world History. The Basque Government has belonged to this association since 2007, through the Directorate for the Basque Community Abroad, currently led by Gorka Alvarez ...
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10/13/2020

Invited by the Department of Basque Language and Culture, Toti Martinez de Lezea gave various virtual talks from the Basque Country, to students at the Euskal Echea College in the capital city. At the high school level, the goal of the meeting was to close the thematic unit corresponding to Basque Mythology, in elementary school, after overcoming a “challenge-game with the students,” the writer ...
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10/09/2020

After 15 years dedicated to the body and soul of instruction and diffusion of traditional dance, the master musicians and dantzaris from AIKO Taldea are not in the business of interrupting their activities because of a pandemic. They did temporarily cancel, in person classes during the 2020-21 term, out of caution and social responsibility as well as following the recommendations of health authorities, but in ...
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10/09/2020

Euskal Telebista (ETB) will be offering a class at the Bertso Eskola (Bertsolari School) on Hitzetik Hortzera, the weekly program that the Basque public TV dedicates to Bertsolaritza. The bertsos of Aissa Intxausti, from Lekeitio, will be answered by those of Dyan Inglis, from Bristol, England on the program presented every week by another berstolari Eider Perez and co-produced by the Bertsolari Elkartea ...
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10/09/2020

The trinkete at the Gure Etxea Basque Club in Tandil had its operations affected, as that of the entire institution, since the end of March when preventive and mandatory quarantine was established in Argentina. That “stop” was taken advantage of by those responsible for the kantxa to make improvements to the facilities. Specifically, they painted the ceiling with anti-condensation and ...
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10/08/2020

Due to COVID-19, and after the closure by the European Union of its borders to third countries, scholarships will not be offered this year for the Basque Country Delegations in Latin America and the United States. There are however, eight positions for Europe, 4 of them assigned to European Affairs, two to the Directorate for the Basque Community Abroad and another two to External Relations. Two of the four ...
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10/08/2020

The Basque cultural association BEO (Basque Educational Organization), headquartered in San Francisco but with members from all over the country, made an announcement that we are sharing here. The euskaltzale (basquephile) entity's founding objective is to educate, disseminate and promote greater and better knowledge about the Basques and Basque culture in their American environment and so hopes to ...
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