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04/15/2020
The Official Bulletin of the Basque Country (BOPV-EHAA) included the Resolution dated April 2, 2020 yesterday from the Secretary General of Foreign Action “announcing aid for Basque clubs aimed to take care of the needs of those in dire need in Basque communities abroad in 2020.” The deadline to apply would normally begin today, and run through May 15th, however, a suspension and renewal of terms, is now ...
04/14/2020
Gaztemundu is comprised of staying in the Basque Country for two weeks for an instructional stay organized annually by the Basque Government for youth between the ages of 18 and 35 from Basque clubs all around the world. Fifteen youth are invited to come to Euskal Herria, this year to learn more about Basque cooking while getting to know the country better. The Governing Council of the Basque Government ...
04/14/2020
We are talking about No. 30 of the Olivar magazine, a biannual publication from the College of Science and Humanities and Education at the National University of La Plata (UNLP). This latest issue includes a dossier of academic articles about Euskadi and the Basque post-conflict complied by German specialist Patrick Eser, entitled Narratives of the After: The “Memory Boom” and the Cultural Imaginations ...
04/13/2020
The traditional Writers Conference in Sara is not being celebrated today. The gathering for writers and book fair that always takes place on Easter Monday, or on Easter Sunday and Monday as it has the last several years, has been one of the event affected by the present Coronavirus crisis. However, in this case, the 37th edition of the event hasn’t been cancelled, but postponed with a the new date ...
04/13/2020
Are you an Athletic fan that doesn’t know its hymn very well? Or do you know the words to it but you aren’t fluent in Basque and you would like to know what the translation of it is? Or, do you have a friend that you’d like to provide an opportunity to it? You can do so by using this video thanks to Beñat Erezuma and his Youtube Channel. “Euskara satorra,” a channel to ...
04/12/2020
In the whole of our diaspora, the Eusko Etxea in Caracas was probably the place where today is celebrated - in spite of the nightmares and this unique situation – even more specially, since Aberri Eguna is the club’s main celebration every year, along with the Venezuelan Basque community commemorating the 70th anniversary of the inauguration, in 1950, of its headquarters and facilities in El ...
04/10/2020
The Elko Basque Club has let us know that it has decided to cancel the 57th edition of its Annual Basque Festival, the “Elko National Basque Festival” scheduled for July 3-5, 2020 due to the Coronavirus. Prioritizing the health and safety of others, along with other considerations, organizers are planning to return in 2021 with a renewed enthusiasm. Eskerrik asko, Elko Euzkaldunak!
04/10/2020
During these days of quarantine, we at EuskalKultura.eus continue to hold down the fort. Today’s interview is in a different format for this bulletin, as we are talking with Mex Urtizberia in Buenos Aires, via Skype from his home as he talks to us about what it means to him to be Basque, among other things, like how he got to know Irun, the town where his grandfather Jose Antonio was born, and what are ...
04/09/2020
In this time of confinement and isolation that the Basque Country and many other countries currently find themselves in, it must be noted that Basque communities have not stood by idly letting special dates, like Aberri Eguna this coming Sunday, go unnoticed. We have received news of events that have been adapted to the current situation, virtually, highlighting the Eusko Etxea in Caracas that is proposing a ...
04/08/2020
Mexico City, Mexico. “We will celebrate Aberri Eguna from the comfinement of our homes, naturally,” Basque club sources told EuskalKultura.eus when asked about their plans for the upcoming festivities on Sunday. There is no doubt that they will celebrate, however this year it will look different and will take place at a different venue, each one celebrating from home under the motto ...
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