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09/15/2014
The “31st Biennial of Modern Art” includes this year a remarcable Basque presence thanks to Asier Mendizabal and Juan Perez Agirregoikoa. The beginning of the event was attended by Aizpea Goenaga, Director of the Etxepare Basque Institute who during her stay also met with the Casa Basco Brasileira in Sao Paulo and the State University of Sao Paulo, to talk about the possibility of instituting a Basque language and culture lectureship.
09/15/2014
Basque culture and gastronomy come together once again at the Rosario Zazpirak Bat Basque Club, in Argentina, this time as part of the Baratxuri (garlic) Contest. With the premise of preparing dishes with recipes of Basque cuisine, three of the Basque club gastronomic societies competed; the winners, members of the Miercolinos Peña repeated last year’s triumph, and took away the trophy “Baratxuri,” for their Marmitako made with Abadejo (Pollock).
09/12/2014
It’s going to be the first time Boise’s Basque Club will host a cycling plan and they’ve called it Txirrindulari Bike Ride. As Izaskun Kortazar told Euskalkultura.com, “it’s going to be a free event opened to everybody, members and not members alike.” Kortazar and Geneva Ayarra helped organizer Delfina Krakau planning the event. The three of them are members of the Basque Club.
09/12/2014
The Basque Culture and Film Series is part of the Cultural Program “UNLugar para compartir,” (A place to share) organized by the Culture Department of the National University of Lujan (UNLu) and it will take place in different locations: at the University, at the Escuela Normal Superior Florentino Ameghino in Lujan, and also at the Eusko Aterpea Basque Club in the town of General Rodriguez where the film “Vacas” will be shown at 4pm this Sunday, September 14th. The event is coordinated by Professor Carlos Gabilondo and admission is free and open to the public.
09/12/2014
This past Sunday, September 7th, the Marin Sonoma Basque Association celebrated its annual picnic. It was “nice and calm, as always,” Valerie Arrechea, president of NABO, the federation of North American Basque Organizations, told Euskalkultura.com. Around one hundred people attended this year when the club celebrates its 25th anniversary.
09/12/2014
The Euskal Echea Basque club (founded under this name 91 years ago, in 1923) in Comodoro Rivadavia, in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina, was once again a protagonist in the activities organized by the city to celebrate the Immigrant Day. They represented the Basque People in a parade of communities as well as at the Gala Evening, a show that gathers more than twenty dance troupes. This next weekend they will also participate in the Gastronomic Fair with piperrade, txistorra and pintxos. The event begins this afternoon at the Comodoro Fairgrounds.
09/11/2014
Starting today, University of Nevada Reno’s Center for Basque Studies will host, every Thursday till November 20, a lecture by an expert on Basque topics. Ranging from ecodesign management in Basque companies to sheepherding and from migration to architecture, twelve scholars will show different aspects of the Basque culture. Regarding the variety of topics, Iker Saitua, organizer of this set of conferences, told Euskalkultura.com that “as Caro Baroja said, tradition and modernity coexist in Basque history.”
09/11/2014
Ziortza Gandarias is from Galdakao and is 27 years old. She has a degree in Philology and had a pretty secure position as a teacher at well known school in Donostia when she decided this summer, “now or never,” and jumped ship with a scholarship to move to the US to begin a Ph.D.
09/11/2014
From September 2-8, 2014, the city of Resistencia, the capital of the Chaco province in Argentina, was the site of a series of commemorative events for Immigrant’s Day. The local Basque club also participated in the festivities and provided a dance performance in the February 2 Plaza as a tribute to immigrants in the provincial legislature. At the event, and representing the Basque community, the architect Juan Iturrioz was honored.
09/10/2014
The Basque Studies Program of Boise State Universty, in collaboration with the Center for Basque Studies of the University of Nevada, Reno, is sponsoring the 2nd annual Basque Literary Writing Contest. The contest is open to all quality non-academic literary writings in English on any Basque related subject. Deadline for submissions is October 1st. It has cash prizes and includes the publications of the works.
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