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07/28/2021
The “Cancionero Vasco,” (Basque songbook) is an app that provides the user, simply and for free, lyrics to more than 100 songs in Euskera, including their translations into Spanish, and “Bilbainadas.” It also includes 60 scores and a poem section. Currently the App is available for Android, but according to its creator, Iker Canut, is already working to make it also available for ...
07/27/2021
The Basque Government has announced eight specialization Scholarships in Foreign Action with six of those being in Vitoria-Gasteiz and the other two in Brussels as approved by the Government’s Council today. After its approval and its publication in the coming days in the Official Bulletin of the Basque Country it will become official. The scholarships in Vitoria-Gasteiz will take place at the Lehendakaritza, ...
07/27/2021
The Basque Government’s Council has approved the call for grants for Basque clubs and federations for 2021. The total budget is 902,305 Euros, the same amount distributed in the two chapters in prior years. Also in regards to Basque clubs, the council also recognized the “Limako Arantzazu Euskal Etxea,” in Peru’s capital city.
07/27/2021
The Kimuak Program of Basque Short Films, in its more than 20 years of life has grown and has now extended far beyond the borders of the Basque Country. “Kimuak,” in Basque means sprouts, and that is how its motto reads: “We collect the sprouts that emerge every spring in Basque short film, to take them to all corners of the world.” With numerous international awards to its ...
07/26/2021
Founded at the end of 2017, the Trujillo Basque Club is barely four years old and is very active devising and putting into practice plans to improve its members’ knowledge about the Basque culture, as well as of the population in general. It hopes to attract new members and is aware of many people with Basque last names in its surroundings, although often, they are unaware of their origin. It has ...
07/26/2021
A new installment of the blog "Echoes of Two Wars, 1936-45" entitled The Other Basques at the Battle of Guadalcanal: History vs. Myth." Defending the memory of the Basque soldiers who fought in the US armed forces and participated in the summer of 1942 in the landing and conquest of this island located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, in the context of the greatest offensive of the Allies on the ...
07/26/2021
“A one-off activity that has now become a project.” That is how Elizabet Etchegaray explained the creation of “Gure Patxaran,” to EuskalKultura.eus. Eli is the Basque teacher at the Gure Txokoa Basque Club in Azul where, like many Basque clubs, they celebrate the International Day of Euskera on December 3rd. To celebrate in 2018, a group of students prepared the scene for a ...
07/23/2021
The video corresponds to the last meeting held in Cordoba by various entities of communities, in this case a Slovenian association, a Piedmontese one, and the local Gerora basque club. The number of years that these meetings of communities with minority languages have been organized is more than ten, and participants reflect their situation, their experience, and it verifies that although it is ...
07/23/2021
Lehendakari Urkullu held an in person meeting last Tuesday with the team from the Secretary General of Foreign Action’s office lead by Marian Elorza. The meeting took place at the Lehendakaritza and joining Urkullu and Elorza were the Director of Foreign Relations, Myriam Larroulet, Director of European Affairs, Mikel Anton, and the Director of the Basque Community Abroad, Gorka Alvarez ...
07/23/2021
Invited by Ainara Maia, referent from the Hatsaren Poesia poetry group in the Basque Country, Beatriz Poume, Basque teacher at the Gure Etxea Basque Club in Tandil has published her poem “Arima bat,” (One Soul), in the 2021 poetry anthology “Hatsaren Poesia.” In this way, participation from the Diaspora grows in this project in Lapurdi that included in 2019 and 2020 poems by Javier ...
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