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01/26/2021
This Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday dawn in Euskadi, Tracy Basterrechea will sworn in as the new Chief of Police in Meridian, Idaho. Basterrechea has served as the Deputy Chief of Police since 2009, and in recent weeks was acting Chief after Jeff Lavey, former Chief left the post to become the Executive Director of the Idaho Sheriffs Association. Of Basque descent, Basterrecha is a BSU graduate and has ...
01/25/2021
Researcher, Pedro Oiarzabal, who has lived in the Diaspora as well as in Euskal Herria is collecting data on Basques in the world. If you are a young person from the Diaspora, he would like to know what your motives and reasoning is. Why to be Basque in the Diaspora? What do you get out of it? Why do you want to keep going your Basqueness thousand of miles from the Basque ...
01/25/2021
The London Basque Society, Euskal Elkartea invites to interested persons to a talk about Brexit next week. The event includes the participation of the Basque Government and SPRI, and will take place in Zoom, Thursday, February 4th. It will discuss, among other topics, returning to the Basque Country (social aid, pensions, unemployment…) or moving to the United Kingdom as a student, worker or ...
01/22/2021
The Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno has organized its annual writing contest for 2021. Texts must be original, unpublished and in English on Basque topics, Basque culture, life of Basques in different countries, or anything else related to Basques. Works may be submitted between February 1st and September 30, 2021 at 6pm (PST). Names of the winners will be announced in ...
01/22/2021
We received the second issue of “Txistuaz,” an online magazine that began in June of 2020, where we have found two articles regarding the Diaspora. From Argentina, the dantzari from Araba established in Buenos Aires, Aitor Alava interviews in Spanish txistulari and Argentine musician, Martina Saa (San Nicolas, 1989). And a second article, musician Eneko Espino explains in Basque about ...
01/21/2021
Almost a week ago, organizers of Jaialdi, the massive Basque-American celebration in Boise Idaho, announced that they were forced to postpone the event again. Originally planned for 2020, and postponed until 2021, it has now been postponed until July of 2022. The reason being, with the given facts, they could not be sure that it could be held safely in the traditional way. This week, NABO the Federation ...
01/21/2021
Having overcome the difficulties imposed by the pandemic and arriving, via a jammed Barajas due to snow storm Filomena, Lazkao is hosting ten young people from Argentina and Uruguay as part of their training as Basque teachers. The group took its exams in Argentina in mid-2019, as part of the Euskara Mundan Program, training that they will now be complete with this Barnetegi at the Maizpide Euskaltegi in ...
01/19/2021
These are 28 online students from Basque clubs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay in the “Euskara Munduan Program” that are being trained to be Basque instructors in their respective Euskal Etxeak. The pandemic has modified their learning. After a first regular Barnetegi in January 2020, their last Barnetegi in July (winter) was held online, just like this one, which they attended ...
01/19/2021
This Wednesday is San Sebastian Day, the traditional day of the Tamborrada celebration in Donostia. This year, in the middle of a pandemic, it is strange, with mobility restrictions, curfews, and the festivities, as we know them, canceled in Donostia, although Tamborrada lives and beats in those who live and feel it every year. The hope of recovering the celebration as it was ...
01/18/2021
Once again, we are just days before January 20th, San Sebastian Day, but as in many other areas, this time in a rare and unprecedented context because of COVID-19. In Donostia, the Town Hall had announced that the usual celebration would be impossible with no in person events taking place. In our case, the main headquarters of EuskalKultura.eus is in Donostia, and during this time, we always participate ...
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