07/09/2020

As in many other places around the world, the Londoners, along with other members of the London Basque Society Euskal Elkartea, have suffered due to the restrictions provoked by COVID-19, even with some of these being lifted at the beginning of July allowing the opening of pubs, and outdoors walks being permitted. With the local Basque calendar cancelled; they weren’t able to celebrate Aberri Eguna, or their ...
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07/09/2020

As we announced last week, the Basque Museum and Cultural Center in Boise will host a Coffee Break tomorrow that will include the participation of three youth from Argentina who attended GAztemuncu 2019: Tomás Vicente (from the Euzko Alkartasuna Basque Club in Macachín), Inés Olazábal (from the Gure Etxea Basque Club in Tandil) and Alfonsina Leranoz (from Euskaltzaleak in Buenos Aires), ...
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07/09/2020

The Basque club in Chivilcoy is among the many that have had to celebrate its anniversary virtually due to the Coronavirus. The cancellation of the event leaves a large void in the club’s annual program of activities, but not in the hearts of its members and friends, who have the opportunity to accompany Beti Aurrera as usual by following their publications on social media.
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07/08/2020

Researcher Pedro J. Oiarzabal, an expert on diaspora issues and a great connoisseur of our Diaspora, appears today with a new blog entry, this time on the occasion of the elections to the Basque Parliament that will take place next Sunday in the Basque Autonomous Community. Oiarzabal has taken the trouble to review what the main political parties participating in the elections say about the Diaspora and the Basques ...
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07/08/2020

Basque and Navarrese clubs in the Diaspora have colored their social media in red and white. And despite the profound silence that currently invades the capital of Navarre, nobody in the Diaspora wants Sanfermines to pass by unnoticed. The “Gora San Fermin,” has moved from city hall’s balcony to online, always with the hashtags #LosViviremos, #BizikoDitugu coming from the Navarrese ...
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07/07/2020

Having to adapt to the health crisis, but finally after a time of uncertainty, the Basque Festival in Saint Pierre et Miquelon will take place. The event will be August 10-16, strictly following the stipulations set by health authorities, social distancing, wearing masks and using hand sanitizer that will be made available all over the festival grounds.
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07/07/2020

The Euskal Etxea in Cañuelas, in the province of Buenos Aires, and part of the metropolitan area of bigger Buenos Aires City celebrated its 60th birthday on July 2nd and plans to celebrate it by publishing a newsletter on its social media that tells the story of the club mentioning this year’s activities as well, those that have already been held and those that are upcoming.
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07/07/2020

Virtual meetings that have been used to solve urgencies in the context of quarantine, have become a new tool for the Basque community generating new meeting spaces. Just ten days ago, Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu gathered with representatives of Basque clubs around the world to find out how everyone is doing during the pandemic and to relay a message of support.
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07/06/2020

At this time conditioned by the pandemic, Euskal Etxea Artea de Mallorca did not carry out its traditional end-of-course meal, but as it was in the post-confinement phase, it called a pintxo-pote at a local tavern; also to present awards for the contest organized by the club taking quarantine as its theme. Twenty people participated in the event. Among the winners were two children who participated ...
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07/06/2020

The June 2020 issue of Jazoera, number 111, was published last week the monthly newsletter created and shared by the Basque community in Caracas by Pedro Javier Arriaga Aguirre. This number is special consisting of 61 pages. According Arriaga in his editorial, this number features the work of three neskak, Jone Leizaola, Itxaso Uzkanga and Arancha Olabeaga (with an extensive article about the latter ...
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