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03/07/2017
With national and international reach, the Grape Harvest Festival is the most popular in the province of Mendoza. The festivities are part of the local folklore and gather winemakers and everyone who works year-round in the vineyards and soil with the locals. After 20 years, the Euskal Etxea once again participated in the festival, adding music, dance and Basque images to the already colorful festival.
03/06/2017
The proposal was approved last Friday, and provides for a central part of a street to be renamed Gernikastrasse, in memory of the victims who died in the attack on the Basque village that was carried out in 1937 by Nazi aviation and General Franco’s Italian Fascist allies. This coincides with the 80th anniversary of the event that will be commemorated on April 26th.
03/06/2017
With a Basque past and Chilean present come together deliciously in the wines produced at Korta Wines, located 200 kilometers south of Santiago, Chile in the Lontue Valley. Grandson of Gipuzkoans, Francisco Korta Bucarery does not hesitate in awarding the responsibility with which they undertake every new initiative, to their Basque origin, proudly claiming their Basque identity and Basque roots. “We proudly carry our Basque culture,” the general manager of Korta Wines says.
03/03/2017
This university in Missouri is ranked 23 out of the best universities in the world and has invited the Basque writter to talk to its students. Uribe will discuss in his classes his creative process as a poet and writer in Basque. He also will give a talk about the same subject to the whole university.
03/03/2017
The tournaments will be held November 27-December 2nd, followed by the World Youth Trinquete Championship in Buenos Aires, with the solid support of the FIPV. The “Balda” and the "Del Rio” Cups will make visible the work done by the Federation in support of this discipline of pilota, with already a dozen schools in America. EuskalKultura.com provides a list of contacts.
03/02/2017
The Loretako Euskaldunak Basque Club in the Argentine city of Las Flores participated in the Cor-Rosas festival of people with parades, floats and musical performances that Paraje Rosas in Las Flores celebrates every year at Carnival. The local Euskal Etxea dazzled the public with mythical Basque characters, and the parade’s judges, elected Marion Richard Olivera, Basque club representative as the Queen of the 2017 Festival
03/02/2017
“Ramon Jayo, son of immigrants from a small town in the county of Lea Artibai in Bizkaia, has become the first Basque mayor of the council in Australia.” As reported by El Correo in an article by Mirari Artime. Here is the translation of the article.
03/01/2017
After having served as the President of the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) until the end of 2016, Iñaki Goirizelaia is in Boise and will teach a class on “Nation-Making: Education and Media” at Boise State University. The class that runs until March 11th will analyze how the Basques have survived as a nation – “nation, though not a nation-state,” after 40 years of dictatorship under Francisco Franco.
03/01/2017
The Guillermo Larregui Basque Club in Chacabuco is already warming to get through a 2017 that is full of activities. The first in an extensive list is the “BAC,” but the dance performances will continue at other area festivals. The Basque Club will also be the site of the National Mus Tournament, an event that organizers are anxiously awaiting. And a group from Chacabuco is getting ready to travel to the Basque Country in September.
02/28/2017
Gurutzne Etxeberria was elected to succeed Lorea Palacios Urquiola as president of the Euskal Etxea in Mexico in the year they will celebrate its 110th anniversary after its founding in 1907. Ten people comprise the new board of directors that includes Julen Ruiz de Azua, vice-president; Irakusne Incierte, secretary and Josu Garritz, treasurer, among others.
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