basque heritage worldwide
04/20/2020
Days pass, and isolation is prolonged and the only thing that is sure, is the shared uncertainty. But as we are also seeing, the capacity to generate gatherings on virtual platforms is endless. Laurak Bat is also joining in, inviting the Basque community to celebrate “Buenos Aires Celebrates the Basque Country- BAC” 2020, virtually on the date is was originally scheduled..
04/19/2020
The traditional traditional dance place of Aristerrazu is surly the best known in Euskal Herria in the neighborhood of Andatza in Aia. Many outstanding names in the world of Trikitilaris have passed through here and it is the stage which new generations of trikitilaris, dantzaris and fans of popular dance aspire to and working towards. With more than six decades of history, Aristerrazu is facing a ...
04/18/2020
Paradoxically, isolation brings us together. It reduces distances that make it difficult to meet in large countries like Argentina to zero, and even allows us to overcome borders between cities, countries and even continents. New technologies are supporting gatherings at the Basque club in San Nicolas that has taken the lead in this regard. A few days after isolation began; the Basque club began transmitting, ...
04/17/2020
Denak Elgarrekin is the Basque association in Bigorre, in Gascony, that includes Basques who wish to maintain and transmit the Basque culture and feeling in the area of Lourdes. As everyone else, they are also confined to their houses because of the Coronavirus. The association that is active all year long has a choir and a dance group that usually participates in the area when a Basque presence or ...
04/17/2020
“My proposal consists of online mass in Euskera and English every Sunday at 9am local time,” Antton Egiguren tells EuskalKultura.eus from Merced, a Franciscan priest who currently serves as the Basque chaplain in the US. Aita Antton originally came to the US in 2014, to Boise, Idaho and some months ago, moved to Merced with the current challenge of providing services in its languages to the ...
04/17/2020
The Director of the Basque Government’s Directorate for the Basque Community Abroad, Gorka Alvarez Aranburu, published a video yesterday on social media to explain that latest on its program for individuals in dire need, as well as Gaztemundu, both published or approved by the Governing Council this week. Due to the Coronavirus, the deadline for grants for those in dire need won’t begin until the ...
04/17/2020
With Basque clubs closed by the quarantine, in countries like the ones in the Southern Cone, where the school year follows the natural year and begins after in March/April, the beginning of face-to face classes, including Euskera classes, has been pushed back. It has taken some days, even some weeks, but Basque students and teachers have “worked for it,” facing the end of face-to-face activities, ...
04/16/2020
In reality, not only in regards to the Basque Diaspora, and not only in the United States, but in this article we concentrate on the US Basque Diaspora. Two and a half weeks ago we published an article about events in the Diaspora cancelled due to the Coronavirus, and since then the most pessimistic forecasts have been confirmed, with a large number of the events that were still planned then being ...
04/16/2020
Even if it seems like a movie at times, the pandemic is a reality that is affecting everyone and obliges everyone to adapt. In the case of the Traveling Basque Film project (Cine Vasco Itinerante - Euskal Zinema Ibiltaria), a program that screens films by Basque creators at Basque clubs in Argentina, led by Carlos Gabilondo will begin its 2020 season this Friday virtually. The chosen film will be enjoyed ...
04/15/2020
Pedro J. Oiarzabal, Basque researcher from Bilbao begins a periodic collaboration with EuskalKultura.eus today with the generic title “Diaspora Bizia.” Beginning today and then after every three or four weeks, this expert professor of Basque Diaspora will publish his thoughts in our Blog Section. Today’s column, entitle “The Basque Diaspora on Standby,” discusses how the pandemic ...
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