La Plata, Argentina. The Basque Language and Culture Lectureship at the National University of La Plata (UNLP), belongs to the network of lectureships created by the Etxepare Basque Institute all over the world. They would now like to invite everyone to a virtual gathering “History of Basque Cider” tomorrow, Thursday, October 29th on Zoom and rebroadcast on Facebook.
The event will feature Jon Torre Gurutzealde, Director of Communications at the Petritegi Cider Company, and the Sagarlore Hotel, in Astigarraga; and Xabier Aguirre, creator and director of Argentine Basque cider “Txapela.” “Jon torre Gurutzealde will provide a tour through the history of Basque cider since Roman times, while Xabier Aguirre will explain the process of the Basque style cider production in Argentina with the Petritegi recipe with Patagonian apples, lecturer Sabrina Otegui explains.
The event is at 7:30pm in Argentina, 11:20pm in Euskal Herria. The event will be in Spanish and the Zoom link is provided here:
Topic: Basque Cider
Link: https://zoom.us/j/96559847028?pwd=cXZRc1V5MFROcmlNVXAzMkx1Wm55QT09
Meeting ID: 965 5984 7028
Password: 042572
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Lectureship activity during the pandemic
The teacher let us know that just as at many other universities around the world, classes were moved online due to the pandemic. “The beginning of the 2020 course coincided with the beginning of the quarantine in Argentina which obliged us to make decisions quickly on how to continue. As in all educational areas, there was a period of adaptation at first; but once we ‘got used to it,” the course stabilized and things are going well, always aware that this is an exceptional situation, and hoping that at some point we will return to the classrooms, which is what we miss the most,” she asserts.
“This year has been difficult and for many students classes are a way of escape, a moment to put their minds on other things. Now we are thinking about Euskera Day… it would be nice to be able to get together, social distancing, but celebrating together,” she concluded.
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