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With the National Basque Festival in Elko cancelled the local Basque club organizes a dinner/dance next Saturday, July 4th

06/29/2020

The Basque community in Elko has organized a local Basque event next Saturday at the clubhouse and at the Star Hotel The Elko Basque Club announced the cancellation of its 2020 National Basque Festival due to COVID-19 some time ago (see here). After canceling the three-day festive gathering that attracts a large audience from various states to the city each year, the local Basque club is now organizing a local Basque festival at its clubhouse, which has an outdoor patio. This event is comprised of a family dinner followed later by ...

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With 115 works submitted to date, tomorrow is the deadline for the Corpus Christi Basque Club’s literary contest

06/29/2020

Image of the Eusko Etxea in Corpus Christi in this archival photo Tomorrow, June 30th, is the last day to submit original works to the 2020 Literary Contest sponsored by the Eusko Etxea in Corpus Christi, in the Argentine province of Misiones.  On behalf of the club, Olga Leiciaga, told EuskalKultura.eus that they had already received 112 works by last Saturday in Spanish and another three in Basque.  They have come to them from the Basque Country, Argentina, Spain, ...

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The Athletic Peña or fan club in Caracas is one of many in the world: interview with its president, Iker Ruiz de Sabando

06/29/2020

Iker Ruiz, at the stadium along with the Athletic Peña in Caracas We still don’t know when they will play, or if they will have an audience when they do so, or if it will be closed to the public, but what is sure is that fans are anxious for the final match of the Copa del Rey, that pitches two Basque soccer teams against each other in 2020: Real Sociedad from Donostia-San Sebastian, and Athletic from Bilbao.  We talked to Iker Ruiz de Sabando, president of the Athletic ...

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With a work on the Diaspora, Asier Barandiaran will be the 2020 Jon Bilbao Chair at the University Of Nevada, Reno

06/26/2020

Asier Barandiaran (photo Natalia Rouzaut-University of Navarre) The Jon Bilbao Chair at the University Of Nevada, Reno (UNR), consists annually of a research stay at the Center for Basque Studies (CBS) has already named the 2020 researcher.  The research project presented by Asier Barandiaran was selected allowing Barandiaran to come to the CBS to conduct research in order to carry out the project, according to the Etxepare Basque Institute.

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Argentine edition of the “Ada Byron Award for Women Technologists” from the University of Deusto; application deadline 9/25

06/26/2020

Virtual meeting about the presentation of the “Ada Byron Female Technologist Award,” in Argentina Established at the University of Deusto in 2014, the Ada Byron Award for Women Technologists and Scientists wants to acknowledge and make visible the work of current technologists, "whose careers have been especially relevant for society." The award is aimed at women with degrees or careers in technology, engineering, and other scientific fields closely related to technology, and is sponsored by ...

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The Argentine cider, Txapela, turns one: EuskalKultura.eus interviews Xabier Aguirre, project director, live today

06/26/2020

The event is tonight on Instagram at 8pm Argentina time, and 1am on Saturday, Euskal Herria time Today, June 26th, Sabrina Otegui from EuskalKultura.eus will interview an entrepreneur that is a member of the Basque-Argentine community and director of the Txapela Basque “made in Argentina" cider Project, Xabier Aguirre.  Txapela started a year ago making cider with apples native to Patagonia, Argentina, following recipes and the traditional ways from the Basque Country in a Basque-Argentine ...

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Aita Antton will celebrate mass online this Sunday, in Basque and English, commemorating the Homedale Basque Festival

06/25/2020

Aita Antton Egiguren during his online mass from last Sunday Next weekend on the US Basque calendar includes the Basque Festival in Homedale, organized by the Txoko Ona Basque Club.  Due to the current situation, with the pandemic still out of control in the United States, the physical gathering is not a possibility.  Nevertheless, Aita Antton will celebrate mass online, corresponding to this picnic, as he has done before for many others, for anyone wishing to ...

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Far from plazas and ancestral caves, the fire of San Juan 2020 burns online in Montevideo, Boise, Bahia, Viedma…

06/25/2020

San Juan 2020 Sainy John is one of the most recognized festivities at Basque clubs throughout the Diaspora, maybe because it invites everyone to come out and celebrate together; or maybe because with the anticipation of the arrival of a new solstice all the bad goes away, while the good comes.  It doesn’t matter the reason, every June dozens of Basque clubs around the world light a fire for San Juan and dance, sing and ...

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Representatives from Basque clubs around the world told Urkullu that the pandemic has seriously affected their activity

06/24/2020

This is how the Lehendakari was assured yesterday at a meeting held via Zoom.  Reporting matter-of-factly, the image they transmitted to the Basque Government clearly reflected that the Euskal Etxeak are not free from the situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic at an international level.  On the bright side: according to the data they have, the Coronavirus has not had a significant impact on Basque ...

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In Bogota, “El Vasco” makes the best omelette in town and they signed an agreement with the Basque club

06/24/2020

The club’s last event, Tamborrada 2020.  On the right “El Vasco” artisanal tortillas Led by Goio Usunaga Beltran de Gebara, Chef from Bilbao, the Basque-Colombian gastronomic venture, “El Vasco,” specializes in Bogota in the creation of artisanal omelettes “from an original recipe from Euskadi,” according to its advertising, although it also includes other typical recipes from Euskal Herria.  The establishment has just signed an agreement with the Basque club in ...

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