09/28/2020

The Etxepare Basque Institute is opening today with a new website, sharing the news on its social media and inviting everyone to visit it. Here is the invitation: “The cancellation of several projects and initiatives at the Institute during the year has allowed us to make progress in other matters; and an example of this, is the renewal of our website. Come see it!”
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09/28/2020

In a year in which the coronavirus crisis, the confinements and cuts that accompany it, continues to hit hard, it generated a gesture of hope and excited smiles to see the impressive support given to the Basque Club last Saturday in Bakersfield. With the cancellation this year of most of its activities, including its participation in the local fair, one of the main fundraisers for the club, the Kern County ...
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09/28/2020

The researcher from Hazparne, Beñat Çuburu-Ithorotz, analyzes the correspondence of Jean-Baptiste Lissarrague, also from Hazparne in Emigrer au Mexique a 15 ans - Correspondance de Jean-Baptiste Lissarrague (1902-1906)" (Emigrating to Mexico at 15 – the Correspondence from Jean-Baptiste Lissarrague (1902-1906)) (Elkar, 2020). Çuburu-Ithorotz transcribe, research and contextualize ...
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09/28/2020

The meeting took place on September 12th virtually with a very varied audience. Keep in mind that precisely thanks to the online nature of this edition “the public participated from a plurality of cities throughout the country and even from the United States.” The Basque, Ukrainian, Jewish, Japanese, Galician, Catalan Lithuanian and Russian communities were represented; librarians and ...
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09/25/2020

Following the US Basque calendar, this coming Sunday the Ontario Basque Club in Oregon would have celebrated its traditional "Mikel Deuna - Saint Michael" festivities. As all other events this year, this one too had to be cancelled due to the pandemic. Nevertheless, Aita Antton Egiguren, will celebrate mass this Sunday the 27th especially remembering members of the Ontario, OR local ...
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09/25/2020

Besides the classes in southern Euskal Herria, Euskera is being taught at Official Language Schools (EOI) in Barcelona, Miranda de Ebro, Madrid, Castellón, Valencia and Alicante. As confirmed to EuskalKultura.eus by Izaskun Kortazar Errekatxo, who teaches Basque at the EOI in Alicante. She, originally from Bilbao, learned Basque as an adolescent and she livied in the United States for years, where she ...
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09/25/2020

The Director of the Etxepare Basque Institute, Irene Larraza, met yesterday in Berlin with heads of the Cervantes Institute (Spain), the Ramon Llull Institute (Catalonia) and the Consello da Cultura Galega (Galicia) on the Day of European Languages. During the meeting, Larraza stressed “the huge responsibility,” that non-hegemonic language institutes have so that these languages “are known, ...
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09/25/2020

It was the first meeting between the Director of the Basque Community Abroad, Gorka Alvarez Aranburu, and the Basque club representative from Colombia, Beñat Matesanz, who even if living in Colombia is currently visiting his hometown of Gorliz, Bizkaia. There were various points to discuss during the two-hour meeting in regards to activities planned for the Basque club; including two that can be specified ...
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09/24/2020

In the northern California town of Rocklin, the Iparreko Ibarra Basque Club has officially canceled its annual Basque Festival this year in conjunction with NABO Kantari Eguna. As a result NABO has announced that its Fall Meeting that would have been celebrated in Rocklin on October 10th as well, will now take place virtually, inviting its delegates and representatives of US and Canadian Basque clubs to ...
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09/24/2020

During this week there will be a program of Peace and Community in the city of Chacabuco in the Province of Buenos Aires. The event is an initiative by the Directorates of Culture and Institutional Relations, and the city’s Coordination of Human Rights, and includes the participation of representatives of different nations and communities, educational establishments and students.
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