02/18/2020

The workshop begun on Monday although enrollment will remain open until tomorrow, Wednesday the 19th, and will run through Friday February 28th. This workshop is aimed at intermediate singers and is coordinated by maestros Pablo Banchi and Miguel Pesce with a repertoire of choral works from different time periods and styles. The cost to participate is $900 and includes sheet music and studio ...
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02/17/2020

The Basque club in Rosario has published an opening for bids for its Restaurant and Buffet located in the hall in the first floor of its clubhouse located on Entre Rios 261. The withdrawal of the sheets, bases and conditions of the private bidding can be done at the club’s office beginning tomorrow, February 18th with deadline to apply being February 27th at 9pm. The act of opening the envelopes ...
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02/17/2020

The choir at the Aberri Etxea Basque Club in Viedma and Patagones will resume activity in 2020 with its first rehearsal this Wednesday, February 19th at the clubhouse beginning at 6:30pm. Coinciding with the beginning of the annual course, the group has launched an invitation to anyone who would like to join in the project: the choir is looking for both male and female voices above the age of 13. No ...
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02/14/2020

Willis Drummond is presenting its latest work “Zugzwang,” beginning its tour of Japan today in the city of Hakuba. They will then continue, over the coming weeks, to stages in Japan, Australia and Tahiti with the final concert on March 14th in Papeete (Tahiti) before returning to Europe to play three concerts in Zaragoza (March 20th), Madrid (March 21st), and Barcelona on March 28th). ...
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02/14/2020

Joseba Gotzon is an old acquaintance of the Basque community in Latin America. After having crossed the Atlantic more than a dozen times, the singer from Portugalete, is currently working on a song that pays special tribute to the Basque Diaspora in America. Entitled, “Urrundik” (From Afar), it alludes to the “strong commitment,” held from a distance “by the Eighth Province ...
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02/13/2020

We received sad news this morning from New York, that Emilia (Sarriugarte) Doyaga passed away yesterday at the age of 94. Emilia (Sarriugarte) Doyaga is part of the history of the Eusko Etxea in New York and its Basque community, as well as that of the United States and the Diaspora. She was born in Brooklyn on September 8, 1925, and was one of the last members of a generation that was born in New ...
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02/13/2020

Organized by the Las Rozas Theater School, the workshop will take place during the first three Fridays of March from 6:30pm to 9pm, and on the last Saturday, the 28th from 10:30am-1:30pm. Kulunka is a company from Gipuzkoa that is international renowned for its work in gesture theater, in which the mask plays a central role. Anyone who would like to participate can become familiar with expressive masks, and ...
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02/12/2020

The document entitled, “Four-Year Institutional Action Plan (2020-2023)” is comprised of the proposals and measures debated and approved at the World Congress of Basque Communities to guide the action in the Diaspora for the next four years, until the next Congress. After its passage and approval by the Advisory Board, it now commits the Basque Government and Basque institutions, on the one hand, ...
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02/11/2020

The Idaho Humanities Council has awarded its Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities Award to David Lachiondo, a professor with a long career in Boise. Son of Basque immigrant, Julian Lachiondo, born in Ibarrangelu (Bizkaia) and Lydia Gandiaga, originally from Ispaster and Markina, this euskaltzale born in America is 72 years old, and has a firm commitment to the community that he has developed ...
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02/11/2020

The Federation of Basque Entities in Argentina organized its first workshop of the year in Plottier in the province of Neuquen, the headquarters of the Baskos de la Confluencia Basque Club. On March 14-15 representatives from various institutions will gather to reflect on themes like the construction of Basque identity, diffusion and management of institutions and other points of interest for Basque ...
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