02/15/2019

Every month of February, the Basque community in Northern California celebrates another anniversary of the inauguration of its Basque Cultural Center. The celebration of its 37th edition this weekend marks the creation of an infrastructure that has become the reference for the preservation and continuation of the Basque culture and community in the region. It is also a building that was created ...
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02/15/2019

Last Saturday, the N.A.B.O. Winter meeting and the hosting club’s, the Basque Club of Utah’s, dinner dance were a complete success. The event organized annually by the local Basque Club consists of dinner, and dance performances, raffles, silent auction, as well as other activities that serve to raise funds towards the club’s operations during the rest of the year.
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02/15/2019

In the United States, January is the month when candidates take office after the elections that took place in the fall. A few days ago, we announced the swearing in of sheriff Aitor Narvaiza in Elko, Nevada. Today we are moving a little further north for the swearing in of Basque-American Diana Lachiondo as the new County Commissioner in Ada County that is located in the city of ...
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02/14/2019

There will be a presentation of the Hotel Heredad de Unanue this Saturday at the San Francisco Basque Cultural Center’s Library. The hotel that was inaugurated at the end of last year in Donostia-San Sebastian combines its commercial aspect with a call to serve the Basque Diaspora. The establishment has embarked on the organization of cultural activities in order to promote the knowledge about the ...
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02/14/2019

The visit took place on January 27th and was due to a personal commitment that the model had in the city of Doblas, just 30kms from Macachin. Carolina Ardohain spent the night at the Euzko Alkartasuna Hotel and enjoyed its remodeled facilities. She also welcomed photos with anyone who asked her, as well signing the hotel’s guestbook.
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02/14/2019

Basques in Boise celebrated Santa Ageda last Monday, singing on Grove Street and the Basque Block. The activity gathered some 30 people, with makila or sticks in hand, who started their tour after practicing at the Basque Museum and stopping first at the Leku Ona Bar and Restaurant to the sounds of a trikitixa, accompanied by the voices singing the traditional “Zorion, etxe hontako denoi” ...
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02/13/2019

Last Friday, February 15, the choir from the Itxaropen Basque Club gave its first concert in front of an audience at the gardens at city hall as part of the activities that were part of a project to train clarinetists, and directors known as "Convivencia Clarinetística" (Clarinetist Coexistence). At the presentation, the choir successfully performed songs in Euskera “Basatxoritxu” ...
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02/13/2019

The city of Saladillo, in the province of Buenos Aires, will again be the site of another “Convivencia Clarinetsitica” (Clarinetist Coexistence), a training program for clarinetists and directors coordinated by Julieta Ugartemendia, along with Masters Alberto Brass, and Edgardo Palotta. According to Ugartemendia, in parallel with the meeting of musicians that took place this week, the Itxaropen Basque ...
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02/13/2019

The “Festival of the Confluence,” is organized in the region of the Confluence in the Patagonian province of Neuquen with top-rate performances by local and national figures, as well as the participation of mini-entrepreneurs, institutions and collectives that offer projects such as food and drink, clothing and crafts. The festival that celebrated its 7th edition in 2019, takes place in the middle ...
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02/12/2019

The 2019 Foire du Livre de Bruxelles (Brussels Book Fair) will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year, with an edition that will go from February 14th to 17th. Two Basque writers have been invited to this year’s event, Karmele Jaio and Edurne Alegria, who will both participate in an activity as part of the official programme. The activity have been organized by the ...
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