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This afternoon the exhibit, “The Bombing of Gernika,” curated by the Peace Museum in Gernika that arrived to Montevideo, thanks to the President of the Chamber and the Euskal Erria Basque Club will be inaugurated this afternoon.  This will be followed by a lecture on the bombing by Dr. Xabier Irujo.  In Salto, the Euskaldunen Taldea Basque Club will carry out a Euskal Festa on the weekend with a complete festival program that includes an international and national meeting of Basque clubs. 

Montevideo, Uruguay.   Today, Monday, December 4th, the inauguration of the exhibit “The Bombing of Gernika,” will take place at the Uruguayan House of Representatives beginning at 6:30pm.  The exhibit has been curated by the Peace Museum Foundation in Gernika, and its opening at the Uruguayan capital was made possible thanks to the work by the Euskal Erria Basque club with the support of the President of the Chamber.

Participating at the event is the Chamber’s President, Jose Carlos Mahia; historian Xabier Irujo Amezaga; and President of the Euskal Erria Club in Montevideo, Agurtzane Aguado.  The choir under the direction of de Francisco Simandoni will perform afterwards, along with a dantzari performing the Aurresku.

BASQUE FESTIVAL IN SALTO

Next weekend the Basque festivities will move to Salto, to the northwestern part of the country where the local Basque club the Saltoko Euskaldunen Taldea has announced the Salto Basque Festival with a program that will run Friday-Monday.  Full program follows:

Friday, December 8

-Showing of the documentary Elkarrekin-Together at the clubhouse on Mercado 18 de Julio
-Pintxo tasting
-Live music by local artists

Saturday, December 9

-International meeting of Basque clubs and associations from that corner of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
-Fourth meeting of Basque Institutions of Uruguay 21st Century Forum
-Presentation of the book The Basque Contribution to Uruguay by Dr. Raúl Iturria Igarzábal
-Lecture on the Basque pioneer Pascual Harriague by local historian Alberto Eguiluz
-Opening of an exhibit on the bombing of Gernika by the Peace Museum in Gernika
-Signing of an agreement between the Saltoko Euskaldunen Taldea Basque Club and the Government of Salto and the presentation of land to the club for building a “Basque Space,” monument and public boardwalk in honor of the victims of Gernika, for Peace and democracy and against Fascism
-Food event at the Harriague Cutlural Space, former bodega thanks to the sukaldariak at Salto’s Basque Taberna and Basque Chef Haritz Aramburu
-Wine tasting from local wineries

Sunday, December 10

-Race of the pioneers along the coast of Salto