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Basque Educational Organization Events
The Basque Educational Organization is keeping busy this month. Not only are they preparing their Basque Cultural Day, but this Friday, they are also hosting a movie night featuring Hil kanpaiak (DeathKnell) starting at 7:30pm at the Basque Cultural Center. The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP please click here.
As part of their annual cultural day event on October 21st, this year honoring women in the Basque community, they have now extended the deadline for submissions of photos and a few words about a woman in the Basque community for their upcoming publication to accompany the event. The deadline for submissions is now Saturday, October 7th. If you would like to include someone, please click here and follow the links. If you have difficulty submitting online, simply email your submission to: info@basqueeducational.org
Plaza Urrutia to Become Historical Property
We learned this week that Plaza Urrutia, the fronton in Grand Junction, Colorado was recently given the green light to take its place on the Colorado Register of Histoical Properties. This fronton has been in the news a lot recently thanks to the Colorado Euskal Etxea who held an event their last year. On behalf of NABO, we would like to congratulate everyone for their efforts to make this happen. Grand Junction was a charter member of NABO and so it is only fitting that the Basque heritage be honored in this way. Zorionak deneri!
Gaztemundu 2023
Don’t forget that the deadline to apply for Gaztemundu 2023 is this Saturday, October 7th. This year’s program is open to 15 participants between the ages of 18 and 35 that live outside the Basque Autonomous Community, and the program dates are December 10-21, 2023. At the end of the program, participants will also have the opportunity to attend this year’s World Congress of Basque Collectivities in Donostia which takes place every four years, and gathers Basques from all over the world to share experiences and get to know each other better. In order to apply please provide If you are interested, you must submit a written summary (no more than 15 lines) and a video (no more than 2 minutes) elaborating a proposal for cultural management in a broad sense.
Applications will be judged as follows:
Video presentation (40 points)
Length and intensity of involvement in a Basque club/organization (40 points)
Knowledge of Euskara (10 points)
Not having ever visited the Basque Country (10 points)
Complete information, in Spanish, is available here.
Trailing of the Sheep Festival
Please join our friends for the Trailing of the Sheep Festival that is celebrating its 27th year this year! The event takes place in Wood River Valley, Idaho and runs October 4-8, 2023. The mission of this event is to “Gather, celebrate, present and preserve the history and cultures of sheepherding in Idaho and the West.” For more information on the event’s history, or to see this year’s program, click here.
10/5/2023
