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05/05/2020
With much excitement and desire to contribute to the cultural dynamic in its surroundings, the Eusko Etxea in Corpus has organized a Literary Contest since 2009. It began under the name “Amazing Stories,” and since then has maintained firm in its organization and allowing everyone with something to tell the opportunity to do so. It is a popular contest and all contributions are welcomed all ...
05/05/2020
As busy as they are excited, members of the Laurak Bat Basque Club are putting the final touches on the “Buenos Aires Celebrates the Basque Country” that will take place this year virtually. The list isn’t definitive yet, and there are still times to be determined, but putting together something that was only an idea a month ago is exciting, and organizers what to share what they’ve been ...
05/04/2020
Visual artist, Maria Anglea Juanena, approached the Saltoko Euskaldunen Taldea Basque Club in Salto, Uruguay to relive what she had nurtured as a child; what her parents, natives of Lekunberri Navarre Eugenio Juanena and Regina Beraza, were longing for. But she received much more from the Basque club including the possibility of teaching art and getting to know Euskal Herria through its visual ...
05/04/2020
The University of Kentucky confirmed the addition of María Villanueva Aperribay (Donostia, 2001) to its women’s golf team. Villanueva took her first successful steps in professional golf in Europe, being her 2019-2020 season in the US at Augusta a very good one. Now in the fall, she will joining the Kentucky Wildcats where she has been welcomed with great expectations and ...
05/04/2020
The song talks about the Coronavirus situation that we currently find ourselves in that hits families, and that can only be fought with solidarity and love. The lyrics are by California Basque, Begoña Echeveria, dedicated to her aunt Mari Carmen Echeverria Itzea, who passed away on April 1st in Lekaroz from the Coronavirus. Out of the seven Echeverria Itzea children, the four boys, ...
05/03/2020
May 2nd was the date marked for the Fresno Basque Festival cancelled as many other due to the pandemic; but Basques in the area did not give in to the virus, and honored the date, not letting it go unnoticed. The Etchechury family, that manages the Fresno Santa Fe Basque Restaurant, celebrated on the internet, on Facebook and shared images so that all the Basques who usually attend would feel ...
05/01/2020
The “Ekitatea” (equality) Association works from Jose C. Paz on the promotion of “exercising women’s rights and gender equality.” With this goal as well as offering other options during social isolation, it will certify, along with other institutions in the area, a Virtual Course “Violence against Women and Diverse Identities. Tools to Identify and approach ...
04/30/2020
The farewell ceremony and funeral for Jose Mari “Joe” Goicoecha took place this morning with only his closest family present due to the quarantine. For those that had wished to attend but couldn’t, the family recorded and shared the video of the ceremony. There we see the coffin covered with an Ikurriña, with some of his most beloved objects, a txapela (Basque beret), and ...
04/30/2020
Antonio Andres Urbieta lived a long fruitful life. Born in Plentzia (Bizkaia) on September 22, 1918, he was 16 when Franco’s coup d’etat took place, and that September was wounded in Bilbao in a bombing. In April of 1937, he joined the Irrintzi batalion of Gudarostea, the Basque Army. Taken prisoner in Orduña, he was in a concentration camp in Burgos; later he was part of ...
04/30/2020
At the end of February Itziar Aguirre (see here) announced a new persona project “Trainera Basque Cooking.” At that point, nobody imagined that the virus would affect our daily activities shortly after. Since February, the circumstances have completely changed but not the enthusiasm of the Basque-Rosarine chef to launch her “Trainera” (rowing boat) into the water.
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