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Necochea, Argentina.  The last delegations just said goodbye from Necochea’s Danish College promising to see each other again next year in Rosario.  The countdown begins again while Necochea 2011, with its special guests, its varied activities, talks over a drink or steaks from the cider house, become memories.  We at EuskalKultura will do our best to ensure that these memories are lasting ones.

[After having visited a number of euskal etxeas, Cesar Arrondo gave his talk, “Euskal Herria: the brief story of a nation” at Semana Vasca (photo EuskalKultura.com)]

[Without a doubt, Aukeran Dantza Konpainia, left a deep mark both on the dancers as well as the public in general.  Pictured, the short performance by the group on Thursday at the euskal etxea (photo EuskalKultura.com)]

[Night at the cider house: cider, steaks and cider-house ambience all in Necochea (photo EuskalKultura.com)]

[A large number of delegations arrive at Semana Vasca on Friday and that is why activities geared towards the youth are reserved for then.  Even though a downpour forced the cancellation of the games earlier than expected, there was still time for some of the contests to take place (photo EuskalKultura.com)]

[And yes there are herri kirolak, you can’t miss the soka-tira (video EuskalKultura.com)]

[The choir recital took place at the Santa Maria del Carmen parish.  The Coral del Mar choir, from the hosting city, opened its performance with a medley of Maria Elena Walsh (photo EuskalKultura.com)]

[For its part, Gure Abestiak Basque Choir, from Tandil, directed by Martin Tumbarino, performed a repertoire with various traditional Basque songs including: 'Maitia Nun Zira' and 'Soy de Santurce' (photo EuskalKultura.com)]

[The Camerata de la Luna from Villa Mercedes, San Luis, also participated in Semana Vasca in Necochea.  Under the direction of Francisco Mensa, the choir performed some pieces by Basque composer Javi Busto and closed with is characteristic bilingual version of Calle Angosta (photo EuskalKultura.com)]

[To end the performance, the three choirs sang Agur Jaunak together (photo EuskalKultura.com)]

[The Aukeran Dantza Konpainia performed the show Gernika on Friday night in the theater (video EuskalKultura.com)]

[After the Friday night dinner there was a dance with music provided this year by the Basque group Drindots, from Gipuzkoa.  The Basque musicians covered a number of musical styles from traditional to modern.  The Drindots had the audience dancing and singing until late at night (photo EuskalKultura.com)]

[Participants from various editions of Hator Hona returned to Necochea to participate in the Semana Vasca 2011.  They even danced at the Friday night event to the music of the Drindots as shown here (video EuskalKultura.com)]

 More to follow tomorrow