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05/21/2020
In hopes of staying in touch with its audience, the Lyric Soul Foundation in Bahia Blanca is developing talks and live concerts on its Instagram and Facebook accounts. As part of the program, and in a presentation entitled, “Viva España!” that includes artistic productions from the north of the peninsula, soprano Victoria Roldan and tenor Cristian Carrero will perform arias and duos from ...
05/21/2020
The images reproduced here were saved by the Dantzan.eus website from the archives of Filmoteca EspañolaFilmoteca and RTVE. They are images from 1938-39 and show Basque children who had been evacuated to England in the ship called Habana to save them from the bombings by Franco’s rebels and allies. Here you can see an exhibition of dance organized in one of the camps where ...
05/21/2020
On the Basque calendar this weekend marks the Bakersfield Basque Picnic organized by the Kern County Basque Club. With the current situation provoked by the pandemic, the annual event has been cancelled. Nevertheless, as previously with the Fresno and Los Banos picnics, Aita Antton Egiguren will say mass on Sunday for anyone wishing to tune in. Mass is a traditional part of most Basque picnics ...
05/20/2020
The oldest Basque club in Patagonia, the Euskal Etxea in Comodoro Rivadavia turns 97 today. The quarantine has obliged cancelling all of the club’s face-to-face activities like choir, dance, sports, but club members didn’t want the anniversary to pass without celebrating it and so have created a varied chronogram of activities online for the entire community.
05/20/2020
During the emergency situation provoked by the Coronavirus in the world, the education system has made a great effort to adapt its classes to online platforms. The Etxepare Basque Institute did so with Basque language and culture courses that are managed around the world, as part of the Euskera Munduan program, as well as those taught as part of its university lectureships, as indicated in this ...
05/20/2020
As in many other places around the world, the Eusko Etxea in Viña del Mar-Valparaiso had to convert its face-to-face Basque classes to online ones during the quarantine. Leire Martinez de Luco, from Pamplona, who is her fifth year as a Basque teacher is happy with this year, and the new virtual model, since she has more students, “a dozen, six of them are brand new. It shows that there are ...
05/19/2020
Euskal Sustraiak turned 22 last Thursday, on May 15th, and obliged by the current coronavirus situation had to cancel its original festivities, deciding instead to celebrate on social media. All month long, they will be publishing images, commentary on the club’s history from tis foundation till the present, through a selection of photos and videos that include the club’s most significant moments. ...
05/19/2020
The Coronavirus brought us bad news from Bakersfield that the historic Noriega Hotel would not reopen after the mandatory confinement phase. The building, that still guards the memories and experiences of several generations of California Basques has now been put on the market, and it remains to be seen what's to be the future of this classic meeting point for Basques and non-Basques in the area, witness ...
05/19/2020
Itzuli is an easy to use free neural automatic translator that provides decent quality. The tool allows you to translate from Basque to Spanish and vice versa, developed by the Basque Government and has been available online since last October. The app was launched at the end of December and since then, queries have not stopped, testifying to its usefulness in both academic and work scenarios ...
05/18/2020
The Aberri Etxea Basque Club in Viedma and Carmen de Patagones has adapted to the conditions imposed by the pandemic, and that is why some of its activities have become virtual, in particular Euskera classes and choir practices. For its part, the Euskal Etxea library put a program in place, a couple of weeks ago, called “Promotion of Reading and Accompaniment” allowing members to ask for, and ...
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