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10/31/2014
Entitled, Il giardino dei sensi risvegliati- Antologia di sei poeti baschi contemporanei, (The Garden of Awakened Senses – An Anthology of Six Contemporary Basque Poets) the University of Milan will publish an anthology of Basque poetry translated into Italian. The book includes works by Bernardo Atxaga, Joseba Sarrionandia, Rikardo Arregi, Miren Agur Meabe, Kirmen Uribe and Harkaitz Cano and will be available online tomorrow in the digital magazine “Tintas.”
10/30/2014
The Direction for the Basque Community Abroad has published the list of entities and people who have been awarded grants provided to those in situations of extreme need in the Diaspora. Up to 86 people will receive this grants.
10/30/2014
We interviewed Fabio Javier Echarri at his home in Resistencia. Echarri is an historian, writer, and university professor, a critic and committed to his both sides, Argentinean and Basque. At 31 years of age he founded the Euskal Etxea in his native province of Chaco. Today at 49, his spirit and passion have not faded.
10/30/2014
The Provincial Government of Bizkaia has launched “Bizkaidatz, You Write this Story,” a literary contest with a special feature: two stories are presented, one in Basque and the other in Spanish, and participants have to finish them. In this edition, Ana Urkiza will begin the story in Basque and Ivan Repila will do the one in Spanish. The contest is open to the Diaspora and has two separate awards of 1,500 Euros in each category.
10/29/2014
Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu began his institutional trip to Mexico with the inauguration, this Monday of the University of Mondragon-UCO campus in Queretaro. It is a new educational project from the alliance between Mondragon International Education – MEI (Basque Country) and the Contemporary University in Queretaro (Mexico). At the event, Urkullu indicated that the new university marks a new milestone in the internationalization of the Basque Country. The inauguration was also attended by the President of Mondragon University, Josu Zabala; the Delegate of Euskadi in Mexico, Ibon Mendibelzua; members of the Basque community and representatives of Basque businesses in the area.
10/29/2014
Members of the Txoko Ona Basque Club, in Homedale, Idaho celebrated, this past Saturday, their annual fall dinner. They sold out the 130 tickets and enjoyed a dinner cooked by chef Jesus Alcelay. “We had such a good time that at the end we even forgot to toast for the mus players,” said joking Gloria Garatea Lejardi, member of the euskal etxea, to EuskalKultura.com.
10/28/2014
On the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the bibliographer, professor and Basque-American writer, Jon Bilbao Azkarreta, the Institute of Basque Studies at Deusto University remembers this figure with an exhibit and a day dedicated to his work. Bilbao was, along with anthropologist William Douglass and writer Robert Laxalt, a cofounder of today’s Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, home of the largest Basque library outside of the Basque Country.
10/28/2014
Jose Antonio Martinez Osses is one of the most important Alboka luthiers in Euskal Herria. His work has had invaluable repercussions in the world of traditional Basque music, not only in recuperating this instrument but also by improving its quality from the point of view of innovation and manufacturing the components in relation to new designs. Osses will be in Argentina from the end of October through the end of November and will tour Basque clubs to get to know the local Basque movement and teach workshops on this art. If you are interested, just email.
10/27/2014
Starting today, Semana Vasca will be celebrated in Paraguay through Thursday the 30th with a program that includes placing a plaque in the San Jose College, founded in the 19th Century by the Betharram Basque priests, called “Bayoneses”. Invited guests who will also give talks include Sara Pagola, Delegate of Euskadi in Argentina and Mercorsur, and Joseba Etxarri, director of EuskalKultura.com.
10/27/2014
The host had the upper hand, or in this case, donned the winning txapela at the 37th World Mus Championships, that took place this week in Cancun. Second place went to the team from Venezuela, followed by Euskadi. The championship left the participants with great memories, in spite of the persistent rain. They enjoyed a week of games and activities in this beautiful part of Mexico.
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