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03/24/2020
Laburbira, the traveling program of short films in Euskera that includes 33 towns in the Basque Country and four Euskal Etxeas in its 2020 edition, has decided to postpone its sessions – originally announced to take place the last two weeks of March and the first part of April – with dates still to be determined, in the case of the Basque clubs, by each institution.
03/24/2020
During the crisis that everyone around the world is experiencing due to the Coronavirus, the Directorate for the Basque Community Abroad has made a call for everyone to scrupulously respect all measures of prevention and protection that are being adopted in each country by their respective governments, stressing that the Basque Government continues to develop its 2020 activity normally, in regards to its three main ...
03/23/2020
“We are going to change the subject a bit, leaving the Coronavirus aside and focus on something else, today interviewing, and getting to know the life of a young Zarauztarra, Aritz Azkue, in Mexico. At 27, he is the oldest of three brothers (Julen and Mikel). He studied electrical engineering at the University of Navarre (Tecnun) and holds a Masters in Renewable Energy and Environment from the Polytechnic University in Madrid.” Antxon Etxeberria signs this interview in the Diario Vasco.
03/23/2020
Belako only performed one concert of the nine planned in the US and Liher performed four of the six in Switzerland and Germany. The situation created by Covid-19 has disrupted the lives and plans for many. For Belako and Liher that happened while they were touring the US and Europe, respectively. At least they were able to return. Juan G. Andres talks to them in the pages of El Diario Vasco in the interview provided below.
03/21/2020
Just a couple of weeks ago, we had an agenda that was full of activities, many of those concerning dantzaris. For reasons that we are all aware of, all have now been canceled or postponed until further notice. "But why quit dancing," they asked from the Diaspora in Argentina. As with every other challenge that we face in life, this quarantine, with all that it ...
03/20/2020
The Gure Etxea Basque Club in Tandil is growing and has included female pilota lessons as well as pilota for kids. Marcos Castillon, the club’s vice-president talked to journalist, Brando Bruni from the Tandil Daily sharing his satisfaction for the local practice of this “Basque sport; and that we can also include women and children is even better,” explaining that the women pilotaris practice twice a week and are also competing at the regional level.
03/20/2020
In these days of seclusion, we should stay, as much as possible, at home to take care of ourselves and those around us. This pause in our daily lives allows us to spend more time enjoying or cultivating those artistic expressions, music, film, some have gone back to painting, what we have at our fingertips that we often don’t get to enjoy in our hectic daily life. Today we are sharing this contribution with ...
03/19/2020
The Etxepare Basque Institute continues to work on the divulgation of the Basque culture around the worlds, but its lectureships at various universities are considering postponing, canceling or carrying sessions out online when possible, as many universities are closing their doors due to the Coronavirus. In the case of the Basque Studies Chairs, programs that were to begin in the coming days have to be ...
03/19/2020
In the context of the Coronavirus and with the adoption worldwide of hard measures to prevent its spread, the Sheepherder’s Ball and the NABO Mus Tournament held lastweek at the Elko Euskal Etxea were possibly the last two Basque events for the moment in the Basque community. On the same day the Special Bertsolari Tribute in San Francisco had been cancelled, and since then events all over the country have also ...
03/18/2020
Marek Jacek Grzeszozyk is a Polish geographer who is interested in Euskal Herria and "the four languages of this country", claiming as such - in addition to Euskera, Spanish and French - Gascon, whose historical presence is felt in the toponomy of the entire Basque coastal strip, in Donostia itself, with names as deeply rooted in Donostia as Urgull, Aiete, Polloe, Narrika, Morlans or ...
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