basque heritage worldwide
12/23/2019
The Haize Hegoa Basque Club in the Uruguayan capital held the 22nd edition of its “Children’s and Youth Christmas Card Contest.” Club president, Maite Bengoa explained, and told the stories of the customs and the legends “Four Orphaned Brothers,” “The Christmas Trunk,” and “Olentzero,” after which the children, between the ages of 4-16, designed their Christmas ...
12/23/2019
Since it began its activity in 2017, the Gure Etxea Basque Club in Gral. Belgrano has achieved carrying out solid projects every year that it has proposed, and so to close this very good year, members of the board of directors and their families, gathered to say farewell to 2019, invited by vice-president, Hector Carricaburu. Besides sharing the day outside, directors from the club began planning its central ...
12/20/2019
It is a well-known fact, above all after the recent celebration of the World Congress of Basque Collectivities that the Basque Government includes a body called the Advisory Board on Relations with Basque Communities Abroad where Basque clubs around the world are represented by three individuals elected by the Basque club's representatives at the World Congress. The Official Bulletin of the Basque ...
12/20/2019
The program to train Basque professors outside of the Basque Country will hold another summer Barnetegi, January 18-25 with 26 students who will begin studying to later teach Basque language classes in their respective clubs. The new Euskara Munduan group will begin at level one and will be comprised of representatives from clubs in Argentina, in many cases, from clubs that don’t currently have a Basque ...
12/20/2019
The project aimed to convert a street into an “open-air museum,” and included the support of the directorate of Provincial Culture and the city, the Council on the Arts and Interculturality, the Deliberative Council of Gran Neuquen, and local, regional and international artists. Managed by the local Baskos de la Confluencia Basque Club the artist from Gasteiz, Irantzu Lekue participated on the ...
12/19/2019
The gathering was in Villa Bautista, La Tuna, Canelones, and aimed at working on training people on Basque club administration, or those who aspire to do so one day. They worked on aspects related with culture, the current situation of Euskadi, administration and relationships with the Basque Government. Organized and sponsored by the Federation of Basque Institutions in Uruguay (FIVU) participants ...
12/19/2019
They are recognized in Argentina and visited the Rincon Vasco-Euzko Txokoa Restaurant in Mar del Plata. What is for sure, is that the Argentine coast is getting ready for summer 2020 and has begun to welcome thousands of tourists, not just recognized figures from show business. This was the case of actors, Guillermo Francella and Joaquin Furriel who were in Mar del Plata last weekend to attend the final ...
12/18/2019
The Center for Basque Studies in Antioquia turned 15 this year, and will celebrate it with a program from December 19-21. Founded by Jon Ricaurte, the Center for Basque Studies in Antioquia is the sister program and antecedent to the Gure Mendietakoak Basque Club founded as well by Jon Ricaurte and Catalina Fernandez with headquarters in Caldas, Antioquia. Beginning today, and through Saturday, the ...
12/18/2019
The Basque community in Venezuela concludes 2019 with great news. Thanks to Pedro Javier Arriaga Agirre, “Jazoera Radio,” is now available that includes “stories, music, anecdotes and past, present and future experiences,” presented as the voice of the Basque community in Venezuela. The program, although still in a test mode, lasts about 20 minutes and is produced and directed by the ...
12/18/2019
As part of its “People of the Diaspora” cultural project, the Basque club in the cities of Viedma and Carmen de Patagones recognized the work done by local athletes of Basque descent, Julián Algañaras and Manuel Lascano. Algañaras and Lascano are rowers and references in the world of Canoeing nationally and internationally as the 2019 World Champions after competing ...
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