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09/23/2020
This year, due to the pandemic, the 46th edition of the Buenos Aires Book Fair has been cancelled. The Fair is attended annually by the Basque-Argentine Juan de Garay Foundation that has now announced that it will hold the first Virtual Basque International Book Fair in Buenos Aires. The fair will begin on December 1st and will run for two weeks, including a complete program of activities, online and in ...
09/23/2020
The invitation is aimed at Euskal Etxea members; you can also become a member to participate. The contest’s main goal is to select 12 photos that will make up next year’s calendar. The theme of the photos is “Basque” and can be taken anywhere “although special attention will be given to those portraying Basques in Madrid,” the club specified.
09/23/2020
As many Basque clubs in the northern hemisphere, the Euskal Etxea in Valencia is getting ready to start its Euskera classes for the 2020-2021 term, and is doing so making a last call for interested person to familiarize themselves with the language of Aitor in the City of Turia. The enrollment form is included bellow. Classes will be taught at the club’s facilities located at Ciutat Vella coming ...
09/22/2020
Some readers have reached out to us to let us know that they were having trouble receiving the bulletin. The renewal of the content on the website is being carried out normally, but is seems that in some cases, the bulletin was not being received. After alerting technicians of the problem, they confirmed the possibility of errors after several changes and a migration that took place in August. ...
09/22/2020
From 1519 to 1522 Juan Sebastian Elcano, Basque navigator from Getaria, first circumnavegated the globe. On the 500th anniversary of this feat the Elkano Fundazioa is providing a program of events to take advantage of the occasion and extract reflections and lessons from that experience that allow us to better understand the time and society that these characters lived in. Last Saturday, a ...
09/21/2020
Great celebration last Monday, September 14th, the 103rd birthday of Mari Cruz Diez Lazcano, originally from the Basque Country but Venezuelan resident for most of her life. Born in 1917, in Elorrio (Bizkaia) daughter of Felipe Diez and Maria Fernanda Lazcano, she lived the civil war and the bombings of Durango. She lived in Donostia where she married Vicente Alberro Echeverria from Bermeo, and two ...
09/21/2020
Despite the uncertainty and the boredom that the pandemic and confinement can cause, the truth is that they have also become a source of inspiration and a meeting place in the distance. Such is the case of this version of the Basque classic “Ikusi Mendizaleak,” recorded by a dozen musician friends from Latin America and the Basque Country, invited by Ángel Alfonso Espinoza ...
09/21/2020
Led by Nicolas Chaves, the Lauburu Publishers have just published two new books, the first of the new collection “Hirusta Bilduma.” The works are by Ernesto Castillo Salaverry from Nicaragua, and Sergio Recarte from Argentina, Latin American writers with Basque roots.
09/21/2020
While the pandemic limits us in so many aspects, art allows us to cross those limits, think of unthinkable combinations and above all, make them come true. Like this version of the iconic Argentine rock song “Rezo por vos,” by Charly Garcia and Luis Alberto Spinetta, now with arrangements that include alboka and pandero. The song was first heard in the mid-80s but over four decades it has ...
09/18/2020
Last weekend they held one at Gure Euskal Etxea in San Francisco with Great results. Many Basque clubs around the world have had to get imaginative and try new ways to make money with the Coronavirus impeding their usual dinners and festivals whose proceeds they rely on. The Kern County Basque Club in Bakersfield has organized a food sale for September 26th in this year where they had to cancel ...
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