basque heritage worldwide
12/10/2014
The event was attended by coachs Pablo Ubierna, from the Laurak Bat Basque Club in Buenos Aires, and Sebastian Errecart from the Zingirako Euskaldunak Basque club in Chascomus, as supervisors. The school is located in in the trinquete of the Progreso Club with Patxi Etchevers Rosas, Vice-President of the Basque Club of Concordia, as local person in charge.
12/09/2014
Michel Iriart passed away yesterday in Buenos Aires where he was member since the age of three of the French Basque Club or Iparraldeko Euskal Etxea, as it is called latelly. He served on the board of the institution, was a former president of the Club and since 2008 an honorary member. He was a member of the club’s “old guard” of the CVF. Iriart was born in Buenos Aires in 1920 and would have been 95 next February.
12/09/2014
Houston, Texas is the fourth largest city in the US. Iñigo Iraola, from Hernani, is a telecommunications engineer there and is part of the legion of people form other parts of the states, or world, who have moved to the city to study or work, including a few Basques. “I know that there are fifteen in my area who have come like me, to study or work and sometimes we get together to go out, or just visit,” he says.
12/09/2014
Last week two books related to the Basque Country were presented in Lima, with professors and members of the University of the Basque Country, Deusto University and the University of Navarre present. The first was on Ezkioga and the other was on Monsignor Martin Elorza, Bishop of Moyobamba, according to a note sent by the organizers. They are also announcing the presentation of another book, in March, by Josu Legarreta, on Basque-Peruvian, Francisco Igartua.
12/08/2014
We have received the program of the “Montevideo Basque Film Festival,” entitled “A Basque Look at the World” that begins this afternoon in Montevideo at the Uruguay Cinemateca (Cinematech), thanks to the Aldaxka Basque cultural group. The documentary Amerikanuak by Nacho Reig (2010) will kick off the festival and present the reality of Basque emigration to Elko, NV, in the United States. The festival will run through next Sunday December 14.
12/08/2014
The intensive training course for Basque professors supported by HABE in South America will take place in Salto, Uruguay organized in conjunction with the local Basque club, the Saltoko Euskaldunen Taldea and FEVA. The event will begin on January 17, 2015 and will gather teachers in training from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.
12/05/2014
Today at 9:30 the 49th edition of the Durango Book and Record Fair, the Durangoko Azoka opens its doors. Today is especially dedicated to school students but the fair is fully open to the public. As in prior years, stands in the Landako pavilion become the showcase of the latest in Basque publishing and music. Following is a small summary of the titles relation to the Diaspora that will be available in the Fair.
12/05/2014
The Senate of the Nation was the site yesterday afternoon in Argentina for the “Chapter Argentina Conference for Peace in the Basque Country.” With a turnout that filled the room to its capacity, the event was led by Alberto Spektorowski, member of the International Contact Group (GIC), Paul Rios coordinator of Lokarri, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nora Cortiñas president of the Mothers of the May Plaza founding line, the latter two responsible for the reading of the manifesto of support.
12/05/2014
On her last tour of the year, Sara Pagola, delegate of Euskadi in Argentina and Mercosur has visited clubs in Concepcion del Uruguay and Concordia, in the Province of Entre Rios, Argentina; and some other in Uruguay, meeting in this case with the Basque communities and euskal etxeas of Salto, Trinidad, Carmelo, San Jose, Juan Lacaze and Rosario.
12/04/2014
Members of the Eusko Alkartasuna Basque club in Sao Paulo celebrated their 55 years in style on November 30. The celebration gathered members and friends at the clubhouse where there was a special tribute to Elias Echegoyen and Carmen Lizarzaburu, members of the original group of founders. The club has shared photos of the event with us that we provide here.
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