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08/03/2020
Aita Antton will continue to celebrate mass online in August from Our Lady of Mercy in Merced, CA Basque and English. These functions have become part of the Basque Catholic calendar in the US since the first online mass celebrated on Easter Sunday. These will also correspond and be dedicated to picnics and Basque festivals that have been cancelled and will remember the sick and deceased of each of these ...
08/02/2020
Grandson of Basques, Jacob Elordi is an Australian actor (Brisbane, 1997), who plays Noah Flynn in the popular Netflix series The Kissing Booth. He has 9,6 million followers in Instagram. This week he appeared in a kind of interview or direct video for GQ (see the video below) and he red life his entry in Wikipedia where he appeared as “Spanish descent” wanting it changed to “Basque ...
07/31/2020
Roger Minhondo, Chef from Behe Nafarroa passed away last Sunday in Novato, California and since then we have received notes of condolences and tribute from California as well as from Euskal Herria. He will be cremated this week, and his funeral will take place at the end of August. In the Basque Country, Aita Jean-Pierre Cachenaut, will celebrate mass in Basque and some English on August 8th at 3pm in ...
07/31/2020
During the quarantine and the obliged social isolation, it is necessary to find new ways of getting together and create spaces for exchange. This is the case of the “French Basques in Chile” group. Born as a group on Facebook, comprised of descendants of immigrants from Iparralde that came to Chile, and people interested in the topic. Currently it is comprised of nearly 500 members, not ...
07/31/2020
Miguel Jimenez de Arechaga represents the ninth generation of his family in Uruguay, and didn’t hesitate to baptize his cheese, made with sheep’s milk, “Aretxaga Cheeses,” maintaining his last name's original Basque spelling. He is also the main reference at the Gran Molino company, producer of aforementioned cheeses, knowing perfectly that the original Aretxaga ...
07/30/2020
Little by little the color blue is now becoming part of frontons in the Diaspora too, for example, last December we reported the same change in the trinkete at Euzko Etxea in Necochea, Argentina. Now, we announce the same step taken in San Francisco where the kantxa at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco now proudly wears this new color of blue, as reflected in this photo taken a few days ...
07/30/2020
In cities where there was a large Basque immigration, like in Argentina in Arrecifes, the celebration of San Ignacio preceded the creation of the Basque club itself, and so Basque immigrants, mainly those from Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa would gather on July 31st at a festival and dance. With the passage of time, clubs took over the custom and so today, the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola is one of the historically most ...
07/29/2020
The FEVA 2020 Ordinary Assembly will be held this Saturday, August 1, for the first time online, through the Zoom platform, in an unprecedented modality but following the conditions legally established by the IGJ, Argentina's General Inspection of Justice, for this special health emergency situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
07/28/2020
When the Basque clubs maintain close relationships with one another things like this happen: Sara Urbieta is a dantzari, and dance teacher at the Hiru Erreka Basque Club in Tres Arroyos; she also dances and teaches at the Gure Etxea Basque Club in Tandil; and one day at a “Hator Hona” program in Necochea, she discovered the trikitixa and since then has also participated in Basque music workshops ...
07/27/2020
In this year plagued by the COVID-19 pandemic, Jaialdi in Boise, along with NABO’s annual convention and Basque festival in August in New London in the United States, along with Semana Nacional Vasca in Argentina in Macachin in November, the largest gathering in the Diaspora were cancelled. With the uncertain data that continues to come from the United States and from a good number of other countries, few ...
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