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01/18/2013
A group of creators and young Xiberuan singers have begun to prepare a new pastoral that will be performed in March in the town of Gotaine. The sneak-peak (Mustraka) will be performed in Urdiñarbe. The pastoral will tell the story of gypsies in the Basque Country, performed by a group of 14 young singers. The author of the work is musician Mixel Etxekopar who spoke to EuskalKultura.com about the necessity to renew the pastorals and include youth: “Youth try to get involved and participate in new things. That is why we always ask ourselves, ‘What is transmission?’ ‘What can we change and what can’t we?’”
01/18/2013
Basque emigration to America will be the central theme during a cycle of talks organized by the Chair of Basque Language and Culture at the University of Navarre that begins today. Historian Oscar Alvarez Gila, professor at the University of the Basque Country who specializes in the Basque Diaspora will be charged with opening the cycle with his talk, “The Legal Framework of Overseas Emigration: Rethinking Basque Migration.” This year the Chair celebrates its fiftieth year dedicated to the diffusion, instruction and research of Basque culture.
01/18/2013
The Etorritakoengatik Basque club in Puerto Madryn, in the Argentinean Patagonia, is beginning 2013 happily after meeting the goals set for its first year of existence. The club celebrated its first anniversary in March 2012, and during the last few months has dedicated itself into growing and strengthening its dance group as well as to the dissemination of the Basque culture. Its president, Nicolas Fagoaga, summarized the 2012 activities.
01/17/2013
We found out through Henar Chico’s blog that the Spanish translation of the book An Enduring Legacy: The Story of Basques in Idaho is now available online in pdf format. The work, written by Mark and John Bieter, prominent members of Idaho’s Basque community, is a fascinating journey through the history of the Basque in this state, from the arrival of the first sheepherders to today, becoming one of the most characteristic ethnic groups in the area.
01/17/2013
Anyone wanting to teach Basque language and Basque culture now have the opportunity to take a preparatory course online, thanks to the Etxepare Basque Institute and the University of the Basque Country’s summer course program. The course is called “Training Course to Teach Euskera and Basque Culture at Foreign Universities. Excellence in Basque Studies (II)” and runs for five weeks. The deadline to enroll is January 31 and spots are limited.
01/16/2013
If you are between the ages of 18 and 30 years old and want to travel to Europe, ETB’s “Txapela Buruan” program is for you. Auditions will take place this Friday at the Basque Television headquarters in Bilbao and you may be one of the four youth chose to travel with InterRail for two weeks all expenses paid. You will visit cities like Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Warsaw and Lausanne. On the other hand, if you are a Basque living in any of these European cities contact ETB at the address below.
01/15/2013
Do you have pictures of Danborrada, or planning to take some of this year’s Danborrada celebration or pictures of Carnival, or an event in your Basque club or locality? A picture of any Basque celebration is enough to make you the winner of a Canon PowerShot SX120, the prize in the latest raffle sponsored by EuskalKultura.com. So you don’t have a camera and you need one? Write a paragraph describing an event in your Basque club, or explain what you get out of being part of your Basque club or community and you can win this wonderful prize, for yourself or to give to anyone you’d like.01/14/2013
Having only been active for just over a year, the Euskal Etxea in Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil has managed to bring together a group of approximately 200 people from this area interested in the Basque culture. This part of Brazil that borders Uruguay and Argentina is the state with the largest concentration of Basques in the country. Among its plans for 2013 the club has set as a goal locating and recuperating historic archives of Basque families in the area.
01/02/2013
Dear readers, as every year during this time, for a few days EuskalKultura.com will stop publishing its daily bulletin, with information on the Diaspora and the Basque culture, to take care of some administrative tasks as well as to do some internal reorganization that will make what we do here more efficient in the New Year. We are starting 2013 a little uncertain of our future and our presence on the web. In any case, we will keep abreast of situations as they arise. The bulletin will resume on Monday, January 14. Urte Berri On!
12/31/2012
The Basque Government published the call for economic aid to Basque clubs in order to aid members living in Basque communities abroad with healthcare or those in extreme situations of need in the Official Bulletin of the Basque Country last Friday, December 28. The total budget is 202,000 Euros and the deadline to apply is February 28.
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