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05/14/2015
Her voice is a powerful shot that shudders when singing songs like Lau Teilatu by Itoiz. With eight CDs already, she is Mariana Dominé Irigoyen, leader of the group Maral from Arrecifes: songs and genuine Basque feeling “Made in Argentina.”
05/14/2015
Six youth from the Basque Country will participate in this year’s Hator Hona exchange program between Euskal Herria and Argentina, organized by the Euzko Etxea in Nechochea with the collaboration of member families. The program will take place between July 17 and August 9 and during three weeks the visitors will teach a variety of workshops.
05/13/2015
Living in Montreal (Canada), Antton Curutchet (Angelu, Basque Country, 1992) is member of Euskaldunak Quebec and has edited a 10 minutes video that shows footage from different Basque communities around the globe celebrating Korrika−the biannual Fun Run in support of the Basque language. More than twenty clubs from 15 countries sent pictures and videos to Curutchet to create the clip.
05/13/2015
This summer, the women’s Basque Country Softball Team will travel to Vancouver to compete in an international tournament July 2-13. The group participated in the same tournament last year, and received a lot of support from the Zazpiak Bat Basque Club in Vancouver that filled the stands with Ikurriñas. This year, the team wants to return the gesture, by inviting North American players to join them in sharing this experience.
05/13/2015
As every year, as a tribute to all of the workers on May 1, the Eusko Etxea Basque Club in Corpus Christi, in the Argentine province of Misiones, honored three local individuals presenting each with a diploma. The club invites everyone to participate in the “Amazing Stories” contest that is now in its 7th year. All of this and more, in the club’s newsletter Berripapera.
05/12/2015
Sponsored by the city government, and organized by the Laurak Bat, “Buenos Aires Celebrates the Basque Country 2015,” took place last Sunday, May 10. More than twenty thousand people visited the event making this “the most successful edition of the festival,” as Laurak Bat Basque Club’s president, Arantxa Anitua, told EuskalKultura.com.
05/12/2015
Ronnie Lynn Patters left his native Kansas 24 years ago and since then he has toured the world, finally settling in Paris. In March he played in Xiberoa at the Xiru Festival, but that wasn’t his first trip to the Basque Country, as he confessed to the online radio Radiokultura.com. He says that he deeply loves Basque culture and we believe him because... he made the interview in Basque. You can listen it.
05/12/2015
The Gure Mendietakoak in Caldas (Antioquia) participated in the 9th edition of the book fair in Medellin, Colombia that gathered more than 30,000 people and 62 stands with various academic, cultural, literary and musical activities. Among the books displayed at the Basque stand, were various volumes of Basque literature, history books on the Basque Country as well as on local history, including the work by local historian and researcher, and founding member of Gure Mendietakoak, John Alejandro Ricaurte.
05/11/2015
Yesterday the Avenida de Mayo was converted into a small Euskal Herria where one could enjoy dancing, music and food, Euskera and rural sports, just meters away from the Cabildo as part of “Buenos Aires Celebrates the Basque Country.” The event was a success, not only by the number of people it attracted, but also by the presence of representatives from Basque clubs from all over the country, many from the province of Buenos Aires, but also from Cordoba, San Juan, Chubut…
05/11/2015
The New England Basque Club, home of many Basque rural-sport athletes, celebrated, on Saturday, its annual picnic. More than a hundred friends gathered at former Jai Alai player and current rural-sport amateur athlete Riki Lasa’s farm, in Suffield, Connecticut. “It was amazing,” told Lasa EuskalKultura.com. “What a show! We were seven wood-choppers, people also participated in the txingaruten (weight carrying)… Everything was perfect!”
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