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09/28/2020

New front page of the Etxepare Basque Institute’s website 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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1,800 sandwiches sold and more than $30K raised in Bakersfield at the “drive thru” to support the Basque club

09/28/2020

Entrance to the Kern County Basque Club just before opening for the “drive thru” sale (photo Maria Toretta) 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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Beñat Çuburu-Ithorotz gathers the epistolary testimony of Lissarrague from Hazparne in “Emigrer au Mexique a 15 ans”

09/28/2020

Beñat Çuburu Ithorotz presenting "Emigrer au Mexique à 15 ans" at the Basque Book Fair in Sara 2020 (photo Kanaldude) 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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Satisfactory evaluation of the Euzko Exea in La Plata: the video of the 9th meeting of Community Libraries is already online

09/28/2020

One of the moments from the 9th meeting of Community Libraries 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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Ontario Basque Club: Aita Antton's mass online for 'Mikel Deuna' (St Michael,) patron Saint of the Basque Country

09/25/2020

Aita Antton Egiguren in a recording of last Sunday’s mass. Miekl Deuna, Saint Michael who is the patron saint of Euskal Herria 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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Basque is taught in Spain in the Official Language Schools in Barcelona, Miranda, Madrid, Castellón, Valencia and Alicante

09/25/2020

Basque students at the Official Langauge School in Alicante with their teacher, Izaskun Kortazar during Korrika 21 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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Irene Larraza, Director of the Etxepare Basque Institute, spoke about the contributions of minority languages yesterday in Berlin

09/25/2020

Yesterday morning’s session in Berlin.  In the afternoon Juanjo Alvarez professor at UPV-EHU represented Basque 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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Beñat Matesanz, executive director of the Bogota Basque Club met with Gorka Alvarez Aranburu at the Lehendakaritza

09/25/2020

Beñat Matesanz and Gorka Álvarez Aranburu at the Lehendakaritza, Presidency of the Basque Government 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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The Iparreko Ibarra Basque Club cancels its Festival, and Kantari Eguna 2020; NABO Fall Meeting will be online

09/24/2020

Image from last year’s Basque Festival in Rocklin, California with members of its Klika livening up the gathering 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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A week of Peace and Community in Chacabuco: the Basque club will participate with traditional costumes and solidarity cuisine

09/24/2020

Basque display window during Peace and Community Week in Chacabuco 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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