basque heritage worldwide
11/25/2019
The singer from Portugalete has spent the year traveling as part of his 35th anniversary celebrations as a singer. He began in Euskal Herria and in various places in Spain, to later cross the pond to sing in Cuba, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. Now, to end the year, he will return this week to Mexico as part of his “35” tour with stops, beginning tomorrow in the states of Hidalgo, Jalisco and ...
11/22/2019
After the success of the first event last year, a year has passed since the Euskal Australiar Alkartsuna took its first steps as an institution that works for the recognition and diffusion of the facts and reality of Basque emigration to Australia. A year has passed and now the second edition of the Annual Gathering of the Basque-Australian community will take place. The event is planned for November ...
11/22/2019
Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu presided last Wednesday the second meeting this year of the Department of Foreign Action’s Advisory Board, with the participation of Arantxa Anitua, President of Laurak Bat in Buenos Aires and of FEVA, serving as well as the representative from the Diaspora. Along with Government representatives and other Basque institutions, the commission gathers representatives from ...
11/21/2019
The event began with hymns, ceremony flags, blessings, speeches and protocol dances followed by recognizing the educational trajectories of the institution. The second part featured Basque group dances and sports choreographies. This huge undertaking took place in the sports field in front of the VIP box, where College executives and the Delegate of the Basque Government for Argentina and Mercosur, Sara ...
11/19/2019
Pilartxo Lizeaga Pellejero, mother of Joseba Etxarri Lizeaga, coordinator of EuskalKultura.eus, passed away Monday night at home in Donostia-San Sebastian. She was 87 years old and had suffered from Alzheimer’s for the last 15 years. She remained at home the entire time, surrounded by her caring children and family members. She loved to sing and last Friday she sang her last song to then ...
11/18/2019
Bruselasko Euskal Etxea (BEE) will celebrate its Annual General Assembly next Saturday and have sent an invitation to Basques and friends of the Basques that live all over Belgium to come and participate. Throughout the year the BEE develops initiatives for children and families as well as for adults including Olentzero, classes in Basque language and dance, lessons and mus tournaments, and cider nights, as ...
11/18/2019
The 33rd Navarrese Cultural Week in Paris began last Saturday and will conclude next weekend in the capital city. On Saturday, Ana Ollo, Minister of Relations with the Citizenship of the Government of Navarre, gave a talk on the Uriz Pi sisters who were ahead of their time and pioneers in the defense of freedom, equality and the rights of women since the early twentieth century, in various periods such as the ...
11/15/2019
Beginning at the end of September in Barcelona, the concerts of the Euskal Herria Sona Music Festival 2019 had to be suspended due to the situation Catalonia was experiencing in October. The Euskal Etxea in Barcelona, organizers of the event, published a note explaining the suspension and expressed its support for the solutions discussed in the Catalan conflict. Subsequently, new dates have been ...
11/15/2019
The president of the Gure Mendietakoak Basque Club, Oscar Urrea Aristizabal, wrote us to announced the election last weekend of “our new Queen of Colombia, my cousin Maria Fernanda Aristizabal Urrea.” Representing the region of Quindio she is 22 years old, and studying Social Communication at the Luis Amigó Catholic University. She is descendant of Basques form Hernani (Gipuzkoa) ...
11/14/2019
Their main performance is on Saturday, November 16 at 9:25pm, but the Navarrese club in Rosario will be part of the event from day one beginning on November 8 to November 17th. The club will have a stand with sections dedicated to gastronomy (with pintxos, rabas and paella among other specialties), culture and a stage where they will provide artistic performances, especially on the night of Thursday the 14th, when ...
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