basque heritage worldwide
11/07/2017
The Euskal Echea Basque club in Comodoro Rivadavia wil celebrate its 95th anniversary next year, but the festivities have already begun. 2017 continues to be an optimum year for the club that didn’t only gather three hundred guests for its annual dinner, but also welcomed Mikel Ezkerro, as well as the girls from the local Haize Dantzari group who performed a version of “Zinta Dantza” that they had learned online form the Duguna Group in Pamplona.
11/06/2017
The city of San Nicolas, in the province of Buenos Aires will be the host of this year’s Semana Nacional Vasca November 6-12 when it will become the epicenter of a large number of cultural manifestations from the Basque Country. It will also be an international meeting point for Basques, their descendants and friends of the community. As part of the festivities the host Basque club will also celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Etxe Nasaia program, one of its most important solidarity projects.
11/06/2017
From Tuesday to Saturday, November 7-11, the Conference “Science and Exile,” will take place in Donostia-San Sebastian, “in hopes of analyzing the work and contributions of exiled scientists from Euskal Herria and the Republic, and to salvage the intellectual heritage.” Organized by the Hamaika Bide Association and the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), this conference happens every two years and works to recover and disseminate the proper names and contributions made from exile.
11/06/2017
Gaztemundu is a program organized annually by the Basque Government for youth belonging to Basque clubs around the world, and is something that is especially well-received in the Diaspora. The latest edition the focus was on music and gathered musicians and individuals who play traditional instruments at their respective Basque clubs. The website of the Euzko Etxea in Villa Maria, Argentina, now includes a testimony by Nicolas, club member, telling about his experience.
11/03/2017
The messages were deposited in a time capsule in hopes that in fifty years, they will be read by the new generations in the city. The time capsule was buried next to the Immigrant Monument, inaugurated during the 150th anniversary festivities of Benito Juarez’s party. Referents of the Euskal Juarez Basque club were in attendance and promised that their descendants would be part of the capsule’s opening ceremony in 2067.
11/03/2017
Eighty descendants of Francisco Eguiazu Ibarzabal from Bergara, Gipuzkoa gathered last weekend in Victoria, Argentine province of Entre Rios for their first family reunion. Great-grandson Sergio Eguiazu led the organization in a very Basque event that included sharing photos and anecdotes, discovering new cousins as well as completing the family tree. Doves were released to remember family members who have already passed away.
11/02/2017
The collection of traditional clothing made by Magdalena Mignaburu has now arrived at its last destination in Karrantza, Bizkaia after circulating through Argentine Basque clubs. Magdalena Mignaburu has donated the exhibit to the local town hall that has provided two room in its Office of Tourism to accommodate the 27 models that will now be permanently exhibited.
11/02/2017
This is the first time that the singer from Helette has visited Argentina and the trip has begun with great expectation and excitement, both for the artist and his hosts. In collaboration with the San Nicolas Basque club, the alma mater of the Zazpirak Bat Basque Club in General Las Heras, Luis Alberto Echegaray, has taken charge of the performances by Etcheverry and he sent his the schedule of performances including that at Semana Naciional Vasca.
10/31/2017
The Basque Government, through its Governing Council held on Tuesday, October 31st as approved the publication in the Official Bulletin of the Basque Country (EHAA) the call for four scholarships specialized in the area of Basque clubs and communities. Two of them are based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, at the Secretary General of Foreign Action, and the other two are at the Delegations of Euskadi in Argentina the US respectively.
10/31/2017
The latest publication by Cesar Arrondo is entitled, Hipolito Yrigoyen: the first Century of the Popular Sovereignty (1916-2016) and talks about the Basque roots of the Yrigoyen family and the road travelled by the leader of radicalism to get to the presidency, among other things. After its presentation at the national University of La Plata, Arrondo will present his work on November 1st at a committee at the UCR in the capital and again on Wednesday at the Iparraldeko Euskal Etxea.
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