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05/08/2012
Baztango Eguna (Baztan Day) is celebrated in Mexico with great enthusiasm, thanks to the large community of natives of this valley in Mexico City. On May 1 the Euskal Etxea of Mexico was the scene of a new edition of the festivities that was attended by more than 130 people. As each year, the event is organized by a group of people from Baztan aided by other club members. The menu included traditional dishes from the region such as Baztan-zopa. Lourdes Arrechea, club president, who is also from Baztan shared with the readers of EuskalKultura.com a chronicle of the day’s events.
05/08/2012
The Boise Basque community is really supporting Basque and in the last few months has held various activities to promote the practice and visibility of the Basque language in this US city. Many of these are original and entertaining, like the second edition of the Korrika Fun Run, that took place on April 28. A group of euskaltzales got together at the Basque club and ran a few kilometers through the streets of Boise hoping to give the Basque language some visibility. On May 4 another group of Boise Basques practiced their Basque by singing while they bar hopped through the Basque Block.
05/07/2012
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05/04/2012
There are a thousand different ways to learn and practice Basque and this one, proposed by a group of Euskaltzales in Boise, is definitely entertaining. Today they will get together for a “kantu-poteoa,” (Bar hopping/singing) touring the bars and Basque haunts on Boise’s Basque block all the while singing songs in Basque. Knowing the songs is not even a prerequisite to participate since all of the lyrics are printed and passed out ahead of time. You don’t even have to be a good singer according to Izaskun Kortazar, NABO’s Euskara coordinator; the only requirement is to be open to the Basque language and want to have fun. The learning is a bonus!
05/04/2012
This weekend’s Basque picnic in Fresno, California will kick-off the Basque festivals that are held every year throughout the US organized by Basque communities in a dozen states. August is the month with the most festivals, even if this year’s main event, or NABO Convention, will be held in Elko, NV July 6-8 coinciding with the 49 edition of the “National Basque Festival.” You still have time to make plans and join in!
05/03/2012
Madrid’s Basque club continues with its usual fast pace of activities and is preparing new events for the month of May. Among these is the Soccer Cup final that will be played on May 25 in Madrid between Athletic of Bilbao and Barcelona for which the club has prepared a special day. To get warmed up, a group from Bilbao will give a concert at the Euskal Etxea before the game. Afterwards, they’ll watch the game live on the gigantic screen in the Pello Aranburu room.
05/02/2012
For the second year in a row, Basque creativity and talent was honored at the Brussels Short Film Festival, this year celebrating its XV edition and constituing one of the main events in the European audiovisual sector. The Basque participation in the event is framed within the Second European Cycle of Basque Culture and Talent that is supported by the Etxepare Basque Institute along with the Delegation of Euskadi at the European Union, the Basque Film Archive and the European Capital of Culture Donostia 2016. On Monday April 30 and on Wednesday May 2 specific sessions are devoted to Basque short films.
05/01/2012
Talks between the Basque club and the UNCPBA (National Central University of the Province of Buenos Aires) to assess the feasibility of the project began during the 2011 school year. With the goal being to reach the maximum number of people in academic fields possible, Gure Etxea provided the university with the resources to put a beginning level Basque language class in place. Now, the projected has been accepted and so classes are about to start in May, meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays and will be taught by Valeria Aramburu.
04/30/2012
Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga, Basque language and culture lecturer at Stanford University let us know about the some of the latest Basque cultural activities that have taken place in San Francisco. First the Basque Cultural Center remembered the Bombing of Gernika, with a commemorative event on April 20, and secondly, Kirmen Uribe, Basque writer from Ondarroa, gave a talk at Stanford University where he presented the English version of his latest work, the novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao. Uribe also remembered the Gernika tragedy that took place in 1937 by sharing his own family’s story.
04/27/2012
With a dozen or so editions, translated into four languages, the book Orhipean, Gure Herria ezagutzen (Under the Orhi mountain, Getting to know the Basque Country) by Navarrese writer Juan Carlos Etxegoien ‘Xamar,” is one of the best-known, and most widely accepted treaties on the Basque Country. This year Barcelona’s Basque club has supported its translation into Catalan, and is co-editing it along with publisher Pamiela. The book entitled, Orhipean. El país de la llengua basca (Orhipean. The Country of the Basque Language) was presented in Barcelona on “The Day of the Book” and Xamar was present at the stand at the center of Las Ramblas autographing copies of his work.
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