basque heritage worldwide
05/26/2017
The Uruguayan city of Salto is making an important effort to promote its rich history culturally and economically, specifically the one related to winemaking, thanks to an initiative supported by its Basque Club, the Municipality and the University of the Basque Country. In the video, nice images and reference of the talk on "Basques and wine in Latin America", explained by Luis Zaldua, president of the "Saltoko Euskaldunen Taldea" Basque Club. Zorionak! (video Agrouno).
05/22/2017
Last Saturday, May 20, Boise, Idaho celebrated its Sagardotegi Dinner 2017. Organized by the local dantzari group Oinkari, with Bereziartua cider from Astigarraga, everyone that approached the Boisean Euskal Etxea enjoyed the best Basque cider tradition of Txotx, with a classic menu based on fried cod, cod omelet, txuleta, and nuts and cheese, accompanied by cider. Chef, Jesús Alcelay. The video came thru Mercedes Mendive, the musician in charge of the live music of the event. Txotx!
05/17/2017
In the Argentine city of Azul, interior of the province of Buenos Aires, the Gure Txokoa Basque Center of Azul carried a ceremony at the Municipal Park, near the shoot of the Tree of Gernika that grows there, for the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Gernika. The Azulean act joined the dozens of towns, cities and places in the world who organized similar acts paying tribute to the victims and launching a message of peace, solidarity and respect for human rights in whatever place in the world they are threatened (image Azul es Cultura).
05/05/2017
Born in the Basque coastal town of Zumaia, Gipuzkoa, jai-alai player Iñaki Osa Goikoetxea first crossed the ocean and jumped to the American adventure in 1997. That year he arrived to Newport, Connecticut, and later he would move in Orlando, Miami and the Florida jai-alai courts. They were years in which he used to travel between the American courts and the Basque Country. Journalist Xabier Madariagak interviews him about nostalgia, for the program Ur Handitan of ETB, the Basque public television.
05/01/2017
Patxi Albizu spent 10 years of his life in Venezuela and ended up building houses for the peasants. This priest who lives now in Donostia had an intense relationship with Eusko Etxea of Caracas and the Basque-Venezuelan community. he remembers those years as very growing and enriching for him, "the best of my life," he admits, although he felt daily the lack of his Basque country This report is the result of his conversation with journalist Xabier Madariaga, of the program Ur Handitan of ETB.
04/27/2017
As every anniversary of the bombing, Guernica Platz in Berlin's Zehlendorfe neighborhood hosted this year's one, the 80th anniversary, with a civic event organized by the Basque association and euskal etxea 'Gernika' of Berlin, combining word, music and a wreath. After that and in a different place of the same district in Berlin, a historian talked about Gernika and the Germans (video BEE)
04/18/2017
Fermin Zelaieta is from Sunbilla, in Navarre., where he lives. Like many around him, he got the oportunity to emigrate to the States to work as a sheepherder and that's what he did. He was just a few months herding sheep and then he moved to other tasks. He has strong feelings and many good memories about the time he spent in the West. He explains his story and how he feels, and misses all that in this interview in Basque with Xabier Madariaga in Ur Handitan, a TV program in Euskal Telebista (video EiTB.eus)
04/15/2017
Busy weekend at the Euzko Etxea Basque Club in Necochea, celebrating the Club's 72nd anniversary, Aberri Eguna, Korrika and the spectacle Bertso Pilota. Club's president Jose Antonio Alustiza and Club's Basque teacher and Board member Maite Bilbao explain the program (Tsnnecochea.com.ar)
03/13/2017
The Basque town of Donibane Garazi, and the Californian of South San Francisco are sister cities. The video includes its signature in 2012, between Mayor Richard Gabarino of So San Francisco and Councilor Graxiana Paris, of Donibane Garazi. It should be remembered that waves of Basques established in the Bay Area their new home and that right there, in South San Francisco, the Basque community built in 1982, the Basque Cultural Center, which is their heart and meeting point in the area (image Jean-Paul Barthe, Milesker, Jean-Paul).
02/11/2017
On Saturday, February 11, 2017, the Basque community of Utah celebrated its already classic annual "Basque Dinner & Dance" fundraising festival. It is a Basque style menu dinner prepared by the volunteer chef team of the Basque Club of Utah, with entertainment by the Utah-ko Triskalariak Basque dancers. The video shows the first of the dances, a greeting and salute dance to the Ikurriña or Basque flag (video EuskalKultura.com)
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