05/17/2019

The photo exhibit “Gernikako Bonbardaketa – the Bombing of Gernika,’ was created with the collaboration of the Basque Government, the Gernika Peace Museum Foundation and the Delegation of Euskadi in Argentina – Mercosur. The exhibit was at the Vieja Estacion Cultural Center in Chascomus from May 4-11th. An Aurresku by Basque club dantzaris inaugurated the event followed by ...
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05/16/2019

Sponsored by the City’s Directorate of International Cooperation and Community Affairs of the Secretary of Culture, the festival will take place on Sunday, May 19th at 6pm at the Colon Theater in Mar del Plata where “communities will celebrate their homeland,” organized by the Forum of Collectivities in Mar del Plata and Batán. The goal of the show is to exhibit for the local ...
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05/16/2019

Last Friday, May 10th, organized by the Trujilloko Euskal Etxea, a conference entitled, “Identity and Culture in Euskal Herria and the Diaspora,” by Wilfredo Lizarzaburu inaugurated the Cycle of Conference and Workshops, as part of the Bicentennial of Trujillo’s independence.
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05/16/2019

The lunch to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the foundation of the Urrundik Association and for the 29th anniversary of the radio program “Presencia Vasca,” took place on May 5th in the hall at the Circulo Hotel in Paraná. The festivities included a large number of invitees including Professor Mikel Ezkerro and Cristina Arregui, President of the Zazpirak Bat Basque Club in Rosario who also ...
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05/15/2019

Arantxa Anitua is the new President of FEVA, the Federation of Basque Clubs in Argentina. Elected in April of 2018 the current president, Javier Ederra presented his resignation last Saturday at the institution’s May meeting. “This is due to personal reasons,” he told EuskalKultura.com, and soon he will move to the Basque Country to live. According to FEVA’s statues, the ...
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05/15/2019

These individuals from Lekunberri comprise one of our groups that has achieved the most international projection, reaching varied audiences with their lyrics in Basque, with more than one thousand performances in their 25-year career spanning concert venues from New York to New Zealand, via Sao Paulo, Managua, Madrid, Beijing or Buenos Aires. The tour beginning this Friday in Portland, Oregon is their ...
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05/15/2019

As part of her European Tour, and after having performed in various places in the south of Spain, Barcelona and Madrid, the renowned Argentine singer, Hilda Lizarazu, is headed to various stages the first week of June. Lizarazu will debut in Donostia and will continue to the following performances on a tour organized by her Argentine Producer Lagunak Creative Productions that leads the also Basque-Argentine ...
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05/14/2019

Another edition of BAC took place last weekend and as prior editions, it only left good memories, thousands of meetings and photos that guarantee what has been said. It also left a good taste in the mouths of the team, “the sum of wills,” as expressed by the President of the Laurak Bat Basque Club, Arantxa Anitua, with the task well done.
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05/14/2019

The Basque community in Argentina paid tribute to the Tree of Gernika that grows meters away from the Casa Rosada, seat pf the nation’s executive, last Saturday, one hundred years after planting it on May 11, 1919 in the presence of the President of Argentina at the time, Victorino de La Plaza and the local Mayor Arturo Gramajo. Saturday’s event was attended by officials from FEVA, Laurak Bat ...
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05/14/2019

“Jainkoak ez dit barkatzen” (God won’t forgive me) tells the story of a twentieth century person, “whose story deserves to be recused from oblivion,” Josu Martinez emphasizes. He goes on to say that “Lezo Urreiztieta bought thousands of weapons for the Basque antifascist during World War II and risked his life to save hundreds of people and was even on point to end Franco’s ...
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