06/08/2020

With an extensive and well-known international career in film as well as theater, the Argentine actor, Eduardo Blanco, was working until January in Madrid on the play by Juan Jose Campanella Parque Lezama. This year he will star in El Vasco (The Basque) a film co-produced in Argentina by Prisma (Cordoba,) and Oeste films (Mendoza) and by Pausoka Entertainment on the Basque side.
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06/08/2020
The philosophy of Athletic crosses borders and awakens curiosity. The last place it has arrived in Mexico. Andoni Bombín, head of the Area of Methodology for the group from Bilbao, gave a presentation at the Center for Technological Innovation in Mexican soccer, which works with the Liga BBVA MX. "We prefer someone who will sacrifice over talent," said Bombín in Mexico. Endika Río wrote the article for Mundo Deportivo.
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06/05/2020

Representatives from the Basque community in Victoria, in the province of Entre Rios, told EuskalKultura.eus the news about Our Lady of Arantzazu Parish being designated as a Minor Basilica by Pope Francis. The title is the result of a request by the local community and according to Fr. Hector Trachitte, “Once the requirements related to culture, history and the pastoral were fulfilled, the Vatican ...
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06/05/2020

The Official Bulletin of the Basque Country published four calls for grants from the Etxepare Basque Institute whose application period opens today. The calls include grants for literary translation, activities for international promotion and diffusion of the Basque culture, travel stipends with the same goals in film and literature, and participation in art fairs. Along with the aforementioned, mobility ...
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06/05/2020

Although countries in the southern cone are still on the alert due to the expansion of Covid-19, the truth is that some cities in the interior of Argentina have begun to enjoy certain freedoms to carry out actions, always respecting security protocols, and in cases where the ends justify the means.
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06/04/2020

The University of Nevada-Reno (UNR) has added a statue to its decor, the statue of a Basque Shepherd, formerly located at John Ascuaga 's Nugget Casino in Sparks, outside the Orozko restaurant. After the sale of the casino by the Ascuaga family, the Orozko restaurant, that featured Basque photographs and decorations, also changed its name and character and so the statue lost the context for which it was created, ...
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06/04/2020

The Fighting Basques, Memory of WWII project is being developed by Memoria Bizia and the Sancho de Beurko Association, with the collaboration of the NABO, and the US Basque community. Thanks to historians, Pedro J. Oiarzabal and Guillermo Tabernilla who have researched Basque veterans who participated in the Second World War, identifying then and writing their biographies, Oiarzabalhimself has now ...
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06/04/2020

The Beti Aurrera Basque Club and SADE – Argentine Society of Writers in Chivilcoy have just launched the 9th edition of their National Literary Contest “Gernikako Arbola.” Like other years, the proposal is aimed at people over 18 years of age residing in the country, with free genre and themes. Each participant may submit just one text, which may be a poem or poetic prose that does ...
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06/03/2020

After nearly three months of isolation in Argentina and with the certainty that things will not change too much in the coming weeks, FEVA has just confirmed that its intensive Euskara Munduan course will take place virtually. The Barnetegi will take place on July 18-25 and will include the participation of 35 teachers in training from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.
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06/03/2020

Another activity affected by COVID-19 and preventive measures taken, in this case in the Southern Cone, to mitigate its consequences. Yesterday, Argentina’s Mus Federation confirmed to EuskalKultura.eus the cancellation of the National Mus Tournament that was to take place in August at the Euskal Odola Basque Club in Ayacucho, in the interior of the province of Buenos Aires.
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