basque heritage worldwide
07/30/2012
We read it on the Etxepare Basque Institute's website. The film Waayu: the Maracaibo girl "has all the elements that a thriller should: an impossible love, shootings, intrigue ... but in addition to these components, the film The Girl of Maracaibo has an added value: the diversity of languages . the film is recorded in Euskera, Spanish and wayuunaiki (the language of the waayu tribe). Basque actor Asier Hernandez is one of the stars of this movie that was released this month in Colombia."
06/13/2012
The Euzko Etxea Basque Center of La Plata Blind Soccer team just started the first weend of June the new season of The Blind Soccer National League. Aupa Euzko Etxea!!!
06/01/2012
Euskera and the Basque group Kalakan are part of Madonna’s present tour. She kicked off it last May 29th, including a modern version of Aldapeko, a tradition Basque song, performed by the group formed by Thierry Biscary, Xan Errotabehere and Jamixel Bereau. Want to listen it? The transition from "Open Your Heart" to "Sagarra Jo" begins at minute 2:05. What do you think?
05/05/2012
Video recorded in the memorial gathering that took place in London, organized by the London Basque Society, on the 75th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque town of Gernika by Nazi German and fascist Italian planes, allies of Spanish general Franco, on April 26, 1937 (image London EE)
02/26/2012
Each year in early February the St. Agatha (Agate Deuna or Santa Agueda) festival is celebrated in many places of the Basque Country. Traditional choirs and improvised rgoups of people come out house to house singing the traditional song and verses. The custom is reflected in a growing number of Basque centers and communities all around the world. The video shows the celebration held this year in Madrid, organized as annually by Euskal Etxea of the Spanish capital.
01/21/2012
20th of January, St Sebastian Day and city festivals in the Basque coastal city of Donostia-San Sebastian, being the festivals an all day long popular drumming parade following the music that local musician Raimundo Sarriegi composed in the 19th century to be played just this particular day. This year, a group of people from Donostia happened to be in London, they didn´t want to miss the celebrations so decided to organized their own modest drumming session, under the Big Ben. These are the images, taken by members of the London Basque Society-Euskal Elkartea.
10/01/2011
The images below show a dance, a tango and aurresku fusion, a fusion of Argentinean and Basque traditional dances, showed to the audience of the 'Buenos Aires celebrates' day dedicated to the Basque Country in Argentina's capital last August 28, 2011 . The choreography is due to Basque dancer and dance teacher Aitor Alava, director of the Buenos Aires based Ekin Dantzari Taldea or Ekin Basque Dance Group (image Hernan de Renteria; eskerrik asko, Belen Girasole)
09/21/2011
Basque Singer and Songwriter Mikel Markez will perform this Saturday, September 24th, at the Haggerston Community Centre, sponsored by the London Basque Society. Markez played in London last year, also. This, 'Txoria Txori', is a song from that concert:
07/04/2011
London Basque Society is holding a San Fermin Party, complete with their own 'running of the bulls'. Well, kind of. They will meet at 12:00pm in Oxford House (Bethnal Green), rename Derbyshire Street as Estafeta for the 'encierro' and afterwards lead a pub-crawl to London Fields Park. Here is a video of last year's party!
12/27/2010
The Etxe Nasaia program of the Basque Club in San Nicolas begun after the deep crisis that Argentina suffered in 2001. The local Basques decided that one good idea to pay their contribution to the people in need of the area was to receive at their headquarters schools and students of families of low income, offering them an explanation about the Club, the Basques and their culture and giving them a meal consisting in a paella made by the team of cooks of the Euskal Etxea. It has been a really succesful initiative.
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