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07/22/2021
Much emotion and well-deserved applause this past Saturday, July 17th in Reno when NABO President, Philippe Acheritogaray presented one of the two 2021 Bizi Emankorra Awards to Janet (Carrica) Inda at the heart of the Zazpiak Bat Basque Club Festival. The other award this year will go to Miren Artiach and will be presented to her in her hometown of Boise, Idaho.
07/22/2021
Since its reactivation at the end of 2019, the Northeast of Chubut Basque Club continues at a steady pace, fulfilling the objectives to achieve the consolidation of the institution. An important step was to achieve the sanction of the ordinance of the Municipality of Trelew that grants the definitive cession of the land where the clubhouse is built. Remember that the euskal etxea was built on donated land, as ...
07/21/2021
Seventy-five years ago the Eskualdunen Biltzarra was created in Bordeaux, the Bordaleko Euskal Etxea. It took 20 years to acquired a clubhouse in downtown, and today it is completely renovated, with classrooms, a kitchen, tavern and two small apartments. At the rear is the “Plaza of the Basques,” where events are scheduled. Its members explain that the clubhouse is a wonderful heritage that ...
07/21/2021
The news was confirmed at FEVA’s last meeting and fulfills a “pending” project: “That after years of sacrifices the ikasles/irakasles trained in the Euskara Munduan Program see this effort crystallized in the possibility of taking in Argentina this exam, the maximum that can be aspired to on the path of training as a Basque teacher,” Arantxa Anitua FEVA’s president told ...
07/20/2021
Nobody doubts the importance of Basque clubs and their role in disseminating the Basque culture. Even more important, when their task transcends the limits of the institution, the community and the language. Norma Etcheverry's name has appeared over the last few months in the monthly magazine “Eguzkia,” from the Euzko Etxea in la Plata. Her contributions include ...
07/19/2021
On June 21st Centro Vasco Argentino (Argentine Basque Club), in Concordia in the Argentine province of Entre Rios celebrated its 100th birthday. It was 1921, when a handful of Basques residing in Concordia, including Juan Arthagnan and Juan González, two Basque sports enthusiasts, founded what became known as the “Friends of Basques Club,” with its first location in what is currently the ...
07/19/2021
COVID-19 obliged celebrating virtually last year, and this year, the United Immigrants of Concordia, the establishment in charge of its organization, has announced that it will hold a hybrid event. The 28th Entre Rios Provincial Immigrant Festival in Argentina has opened nominations for the Immigrant Festival Queen, with the participation of the Basque, German, Italian and Swiss communities.
07/16/2021
The Basque Country and its contribution to the arts, its poetry and literature will star at the 2021 Expoesia Festival August 1st through the 8th in the Spanish city of Soria, attended by a large group of Basque writers an creators, with the support of the Etxepare Basque Institute. In the “Cercanías,” section of the event the Basque Country will take over for Portugal as the guest country ...
07/15/2021
Come and take a virtual free visit of the “Cyrus Jacobs Uberuraga House,” the historic building where the Basque Museum in Boise began. The Museum was founded in 1985, in this building, the oldest brick home in Boise, constructed in 1864, which served from 1910-1969 as a boarding house for Basque emigrants. Take yourself back in time considering that Boise was founded in 1863-64, and that ...
07/15/2021
The Euzko Etxea Basque Club Choir in Viña del Mar y Valparaiso begun in July of 2019, with in person weekly rehearsals. In the words of its director, Nestor Aguirre, the idea of forming a choir in the club was recuperating a tradition that came from the Basque choir formed in the “Winnipeg.” Remember that the ship “Winnipeg” sailed on August 4, 1939 from the French port of ...
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