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09/25/2013
According to Jaione Arrieta Galarraga, founder and soul of the VascosMexicanos group, who has been in charge of the network for 10 years, the event will take place at the Alaia Restaurant in Mexico City on October 19. The original idea was to get Mexican Basques and Basques living in Mexico in touch with each other through a mailing list and the list has become so active that it has become a website and an association with the same name. The event promises to be huge and anyone wanting to participate should RSVP soon.
09/25/2013
The Ontario Basque club has prepared a complete program of activities to celebrate Saint Michael this Sunday and fill the city with music, food and Basque atmosphere. Kalakan will also join from the Basque Country. They are a Basque music trio that recently concluded touring with Madonna. The group is now touring the US where they will perform at various Basque clubs. Besides, their concert, the festival will include a procession, rural sports, dance and various contests.
09/24/2013
It doesn’t appear on any American maps but last weekend it could have; Donibane Garazi was converted last Saturday into the meeting point for a multitude of folks from both sides of Nafarroa who once lived in the US and after years of working as sheepherders returned from the US to settle permanently in the Basque Country. They haven’t forgotten that experience that marked their lives. It was a day full of emotions, reunions, and memories organized by the Euskal Artzainak Ameriketan Association.
09/23/2013
Gaztemundu 2013 is over and the participants have returned home. Many of them will soon begin to apply what they learned in the classes and will teach others to play the txistu, tambourine, alboka, trikitixa…Their stay in the Basque Country was two intense weeks full of classes, rehearsals, concerts, trips and new friends. Following is a photo chronicle of Gaztemundu 2013. Photos have been provided by the Directorate of the Basque Community Abroad.
09/23/2013
The program includes the open sessions of the Bernardo Atxaga Chair at CUNY (City University of New York), talks at Columbia University and the clubhouse as part of the “A History of the Basques in New York” conference and more festive and commemorative events including mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral celebrated by Bishop Josu Iriondo, a Centennial Gala and participation in the Columbus Day Parade. Lehendakari Urkullu is expected to attend along with the Deputy General of Bizkaia, Jose Luis Bilbao, as well as artists, Kalakan, Amuma Says No, Soprano Amaia Arbera, and Zortzi by Christophe Pavia and Adelaide Daraspe.
09/20/2013
The drawing took place yesterday for five 2014 NABO calendars that will leave shortly for their destinations in Argentina(2), the US (2) and one will stay in the Basque Country even though entries came from these countries as well as others like Mexico, Chile, Brazil, France, Colombia, Canada, Spain, Italy, Germany, England and Uruguay.
09/20/2013
We have heard about various activities from both Mexico and the Basque Country carried out by Mexican-Basques. One the one hand a group of Basques originally from Mexico but who now reside in the Basque Country celebrated “El Grito” or Mexico’s Independence day with a meal that took place in Gordexola. Maitena Jauregui shared the events of the day. In addition, in Mexico a large group of Athletic’s fan club there gathered at the Mexico City Basque club last Monday the 16th to see the first game to take place at the new San Mames Stadium. The atmosphere, of course, was full of red and white! In addition, yesterday food was collected for the victims of floods in Guerrero at the Basque club.
09/18/2013
Basque writer, Kirmen Uribe, will visit New York City this weekend in order to participate in various literary events. On Friday September 20 he will participate at an event at CUNY (City University of New York) where two speakers will discuss their literary work. On Sunday, Uribe will read some of his poetry in the heart of the Brooklyn Book Festival and will participate in the roundtable with other writers. On Monday he will give another recital at the Bowery Poetry Club.
09/18/2013
After summer vacation, the Berlin Euskal Etxea has returned to work and has started the new year. One of its first activities was the celebration, on September 13, of its annual general assembly. The event included elections for the new board, where Ainhoa Añorga Osa, from Donostia, was reelected club president. Along with her, Constanze Lindemann and Lourdes Eizaguirre were voted in as vice-presidents.
09/18/2013
The Bordeaux Basque club gathered numerous friends and many curious people in the Basque Fair that it held on the river bank at the Quai Richelieu. The event provided locales the possibility to get to know and taste Basque food, as part of the Heritage Day event. The Kuxkuxtu txaranga also attended from Urruña and enlivened the festival with its music and song. There was also an exhibition of Basque rural sports that gathered a large number of spectators among other events.
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