basque heritage worldwide
06/27/2014
The Basque Club of Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) has already set a day, a time, and a place to celebrate San Fermin – it will be on July the 5th, at 1:00 p.m., at Hume Park. The menu for the picnic will consist of Marmitako (a typical Basque fish stew, made of tuna, potatoes, tomatoes, green pepper, and spices), txorizo, and potato omelette sandwiches. “People usually dress white and red clothes and, also, a red kerchief,” told Elena Sommer, president of the Club, to Euskalkultura.com. “The red kerchief is almost mandatory,” added, joking, Sommer, as it is a tradition to wear a red-colored kerchief in Irunea-Pamplona, during San Fermin.
06/24/2014
Chino Basque Club (CA) celebrated, last Saturday, a homage-dinner to those Basques now living in the area that migrated to the American West on the second half of the 1950’s. Around 20-25 honorees attended a dinner that was celebrated “in a very nice atmosphere,” as Maite Maisterrena, member of the Board of Directors of the Club, told Euskalkultura.com.
06/23/2014
On Monday, Bardenay Restaurant and Distillery of Boise organized a fundraiser event in support of Boiseko Ikastola. 20% of all profits made between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m. shall be donated to the Basque school in Boise (ID). The event was “extremely successful,” as Mara Davis, director of the Ikastola, told Euskalkultura.com.
06/20/2014
65 boys and girls aged 10-15 will begin next Sunday in Elko Nevada the 2014 edition of Udaleku, the NABO Basque Summer Camp. The activities will begin on the 22nd of June and will end on the 4th of July, “ready to kick off Elkoko Jaiak (Elko Basque festivals)”, told Teresa Franzoia, camp coordinator to EuskalKultura.com.
06/18/2014
Pedro J. Oiarzabal, PhD in Basque Studies-Political Science from the University of Nevada-Reno, will conduct a number of workshops in the US and Canada, between June 20 and August 20. “The goal is to teach people the techniques to conduct quality interviews with persons of a certain age in the Basque diaspora as part of the Memoria Bizia (Living Memory) program,” president of the North American Basque Organizations NABO, Valerie Echarren, told Euskalkultura.com.
06/17/2014
Despite the inclement weather and competition with the recently begun World Cup, a number of public and members and of the euskal etxea in Havana attended a talk on the reality of Euskera in Euskadi, and the world, by coordinator of HABE’s Euskara Munduan Jose Francisco “Kinku” Zinkunegi, on June 12th in the capital city. All this at a time when new steps are being taken towards implementing Basque classes on the island.
06/17/2014
The Gallery Studio Lofft San Angel in Mexico City will inaugurate today an exhibit of seven contemporary Basque artists entitled, “Euskal Dirdira Mexikon: The Basque Glow in Mexico.” The artists gathered in this exhibit have grown up with the influence of the prestigious Basque school led by Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida, legacy that “reenacts the current complexity.” Exhibiting artists include: Fernando Biderbost, Aitor Etxebarria, Naia del Castillo and brothers, Fernando and Vicente Roscubas, Luís Candaudap and Gorka Larrañaga, who is based in México.
06/17/2014
On June the 7th, around thirty people participated in the 'Korrika Fun Run' event in Mountain Home (ID), to show their support for the Basque language. Men and women, runners and walkers, of all ages finished the 3.1 mile-long march “all having a good time,” as Goisalde Jausoro told Euskalkultura.com. Jausoro was one of the many that helped organize this event.06/17/2014
Lunch will take place at the local La Positiva Restaurant as part of a large program of activities that will be taking place throughout the year. Askatasunaren Bidea has also published the themes of the 2014 talks and anticipates projects that will be developed with other institutions. Members of the group renew their commitment “to disseminate the culture and contribute to the strengthening of the traditional values of the Basque people,” in San Miguel.
06/16/2014
The Basque-Peruvian journalist, Chema Salcedo, follows the footsteps of his father during the war of 1936 in the documentary Aita that debuts today at the Basque Museum in Bilbao. Jose Salcedo Molineuvo was a gudari in the MAI Irrintzi Battalion of the PNV (Basque Nationalist Party), and after surrendering in Santoña, was a prisoner in Burgos. In 1951 he went into exile with his family, among them was Chema who was only five years old, and they settled in Peru. Jose died in 2012, but his memory and the story of his experience return to Bilbao today thanks to the film.
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