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Day of the Basque Diaspora (II): Remarkable friendly atmosphere at the event at the Hotel Unanue in Donostia

09/11/2018

Group photo taken at the Unanue Hotel in Donostia (photo EuskalKultura.com) The celebration of the Day of the Basque Diaspora in Donostia began at noon with some 50 individuals attending, in a gathering organized by EuskalKultura.com.  In this first edition, the best format and simplest, was gathering everyone for lunch so that people from different countries in the Basque Diaspora could meet and share a fun day in festive vindication of the reality of our Diaspora.

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Day of the Basque Diaspora (I): The Lehendakari remembered the character of migrants from Euskadi and emphasized the importance of the Diaspora

09/11/2018

Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu during his address at the official Day of the Basque Diaspora event (photo Irekia)

Beginning today we will publish a series of articles about the various Day of the Basque Diaspora celebrations that took place around the world and the success they enjoyed. Beginning in the Basque Country we include two articles about events that took place at the Lehendakaritza in Vitoria-Gasteiz and at the Hotel Heredad de Unanue in Donostia.  The first edition has set the path for future editions with an eye on the Diaspora deservedly recognizing its reality and its contributions, in Euskadi as well as around the world.

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¡Zorionak, Basques around the World!

09/08/2018

Today is the Day of the Basque Diaspora.  It is being celebrated for the first time with the intention of it becoming an annual event in the Basque Country as well as among Basques in communities around the world.  It was an old request that the current Directorate for the Basque Community Abroad has put into place. At the official event that will be held today in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Lehendkarai Urkullu will ...

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The young Publisher “Liberoamerica,” seeks support to publish a book of feminist poetry including poems in Basque

08/13/2018

New Project at Liberoamerica Publishing Liberoamerica is a new Ibero-American Publisher, “horizontal and self-managed,” funded by Argentineans Cecilia Resiale and Lucía Bima and Dario Zalgade from Canarias.  The book debut of the new business was 80 Contemporary Poets, an anthology of feminist poetry that was presented and received enthusiastically last June in Argentina and Uruguay.

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EuskalKultura.com holds a Diaspora Day celebration on September 8th at the Hotel Unanue in Donostia

08/10/2018

The Diaspora Day gathering will take place at the Hotel Unanue in Donostia, “the Diaspora’s hotel” Any occasion where we can celebrate, introduce and vindicate our Diaspora are welcome, especially in a festive context.  As such, EuskalKultura.com is joining in the initiatives to celebration Euskal Diasporaren Eguna – Day of the Basque Diaspora on September 8th, Saturday, inviting members of the Diapsora who may be in the Basque Country on this date, and other who are interested in the Diaspora to ...

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Next Monday marks the beginning of festivities in St. Pierre and Miquelon August 13-19 at the St. Pierre fronton

08/09/2018

Image from a prior edition of the Basque festival in St. Pierre and Miquelon (photo Patrick Boez) This Monday marks the beginning of the Basque festival in St. Pierre and Miquelon.  The event takes place annually in mid-August, this year the 13th-19th, at the Fronton in St. Pierre.  During a week, from Monday to Sunday, there is a complete program of activities with a special focus on Basque sports, along with other recreational, festive and gastronomic activities.  Providing entertainment for the ...

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Campaign in the Basque Country to find and rescue unpublished works by Aita Madina, who lived in both Argentina and the US

08/08/2018

Aita Madina, at the debut of “Oñati Rhapsody,” at the university

The goal is to rescue scores that have not been played, release them and disseminate them.  The Andres Egiguren Orchestra and the Archive of the Augustineans in Madina’s home town have brought the project to light with this proposition.  Aita Madina was assigned in 1931, to Salta and developed an important part of his create work in Argentina and the US where he lived for nearly a quarter century and a dozen years respectively.  The great composer would pass away in 1972, in Oñati.  The article is signed by Marian Gonzalez in El Diario Vasco. 

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The Official Bulletin of the Basque Country has published the list of 15 participants in the 2018 Gaztemundu Program

07/23/2018

Poster announcing Gaztemundu 2018 The Official Bulletin of the Basque Country (EHAA-BOPV) published a Resolution dated July 11, 2018 today from the Director of Basque Communities Abroad that includes the names of the 15 individuals who were chosen to participate in the 2018 Gaztemundu program.” The Resolution, signed by Gorka Alvarez Aranburu, can be read in Euskera  and in its Bilingual Version, or in Spanish here. Remember that ...

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Do you want to be in the Fair and Rodeo Parade in Owyhee? Txoko Ona Basque Club invites you to participate

07/23/2018

The Owyhee County Fair and Rodeo Parade on August 11th.  Great opportunity to get acquainted and share “Every year, karrokanpoak (sheepwagons) from the Txoko Ona Basque club participate in the annual Fair and Rodeo Parade in Owyhee County, Idaho, but this year, the club is inviting you and your family to join in.  You can do so by walking next to the sheepwagon with an Ikurriña (Basque flag)for example, or by playing Basque music or dancing, and by throwing candy to spectators.” This ...

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Have you ever wanted to show your friends in Euskal Herria how to prepare mate and found it difficult? Here you have a tutorial in Basque!

07/23/2018

Images from the tutorial The tutorial, a short film “A recipe almost as old as the mate hole,” is a project of Fernanda Sanjurio Olavarria, A/V producer from Uruguay that has lived in Argentina for the last two years.  As much from Rio Plata as the star drink of the film, Fernanda has had to explain innumerable times to outsiders what mate is, thus the origin of the project.

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