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06/15/2018
The Barnetegi or Intensive Winter Training course in South America for Basque teachers as part of the Euskara Munduan Program, that as of January 1st is now under the Etxepare Basque Institute, returns to Villa Maria organized by FEVA and the local Euzko Etxea Basque club. The Barnetegi will begin on July 14th and will run for a week with the participation of some 20 ikasle-irakasles (student-teaches) from ...
06/15/2018
Thanks to the association “Manos Amigas-Esku Lagunak,” the Euzko Txokoa Basque Club in Gral. Acha, La Pampa, is participating in the National Special Olympics in soccer, track and swimming. The colors of the Ikurriña have taken their places various times on the podium, especially thanks to swimmers, Santiago Perez and Anabela Romero, who took first and third places in free style and the breaststroke respectively.
06/14/2018
The Basque Government and the Provincial Government of Bizkaia honored “child of war,” Paulita Lopez Gonzalez, with a visit from Director of the Basque Community Abroad, Gorka Alvarez, and the Deputy of Social Action in Bizkaia, Isabel Sanchez, at her residence. Born in 1928, Paulita was evacuated to the Soviet Union when she was only 9. Now at the age of 90, she is back in Bizkaia where she lives at a residence in her hometown of Trapagaran.
06/14/2018
The seventh edition of the St. Ignatius Feast of Basque, Argentine and Guarani Cultures has been confirmed for its usual weekend in July. Even if the last touches of the festival program are yet to be made, club president, Olga Leiciaga confirmed tha the event will begin this year on Saturday the 28th at 10:30am with the award ceremony for the Literary Contest. The ceremony will take place in the ...
06/14/2018
The group led by Aitor Alava taught its fifth dance workshop at the Tandil Basque club, this time for 30 dantzaris from clubs in the area. The long day included both theory and practice, and concluded with a dinner where the groups could show the dances they learned.
06/13/2018
The Federation for Basque Institutions in Uruguay invited clubs in Montevideo and the interior to participate sending their support through photos or videos. They also proposed two meetings, one at Haize Hegoa to create a Chain, and another in the rambla, to include typical images of the coast in Montevideo to include in the video to be sent to Gure Esku Dago before Sunday, June 10th, the day when a chain ...
06/13/2018
The Cañuelas Basque Club, in the province of Buenos Aires joined in Gure Esku Dago’s (GED) Human Chain on Friday, June 9th. Veronica Zulaica, club president, told EuskalKultura.com that they had been previously working on what was going to take place on Sunday the 10th in Euskal Herria. In her words, “In the txiki workshops we told them about the chain and they were participating in ...
06/13/2018
The Necochea Basque Club held a Human Chain event on Friday the 8th, just days before the official event, in hopes of gathering the largest number of people possible in Necochea. They succeeded, and were able to link all four sides of the basketball stadium. Kiti Zubillaga, the club’s new president, told EuskalKultura.com that when members and families learned the significance of the Human ...
06/12/2018
Last Friday, Ander Caballero Barturen, to date Delegate of Euskadi in the United States, addressed officers and delegates of NABO at the 2018 convention meeting, via videoconference. His last intervention in this capacity as an official representative. On Tuesday, the Council of the Basque Government has accepted and made official his resignation, after serving in this capacity for just over five years, ...
06/12/2018
At an event especially attended by youth, Euskaltzaleak was the site of the first Mintzodromo in the area and another Triki-poteo through the streets of San Telmo. Euskaltegi sources stressed the attendance of Basque teachers and students from La Plata, Necochea, as well as a large group of locals including dantzaris, and musicians from Laurak Bat, Centro Navarro, Denak Bat from Cañuelas, and an authentic koadrilla of Basque exchange students (see video).
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