by Anne-Marie | May 28, 2019 | Events |
If you’ve been following Hella Basque on social media this weekend, you would have seen some footage from the 47th annual Kern County Basque Club picnic / North American Basque Organizations’ Convention in Bakersfield, California. I just got back home yesterday night so I haven’t had much of a chance to process or write anything about the event. But I wanted at the very least to share with you today some of the photos I took over the weekend.
by Anne-Marie | Apr 30, 2019 | Events |
Summer is approaching, and just like Basque towns have their annual festivals throughout the year, most Basque clubs in the United States also host annual picnics during the summer. A few people have suggested I compile a list of Basque events happening this summer,...
by Anne-Marie | Apr 2, 2019 | Culture, Euskara, Events |
This post contains affiliate links, meaning if you click through and make a purchase, I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Korrika is just around the corner, and I wanted to dedicate a blog post to this event because maybe you’ve heard of it but...
by Anne-Marie | Jan 21, 2019 | Events |
When I opened the Hella Basque shop in November, my goal was to release new products every month in 2019.
So here we are with our first product drop of 2019!
I’ve got something practical, something cute, and something funny for you this month.
by Anne-Marie | Jan 15, 2019 | Culture, Events, History |
This Sunday, January 20th, the streets of Donostia-San Sebastián will fill thousands of people for the annual Tamborrada festival. It is the most significant festival for donostiarras (the locals of Donostia) all year.
The festival will see more than 15,000 people playing the drums for a full 24 hours. At midnight on January 20th, kicking off the feast day of the city’s patron Saint Sebastian, the mayor will raise the city flag on Constitution Square to mark the beginning of Tamborrada.
by Anne-Marie | Oct 23, 2018 | Events |
There’s an interesting event coming up in the Basque American community next week that I’ve been asked to share information about. It is to commemorate and educate about the 1937 Nazi bombing of Gernika.
If you’re around Reno, Nevada next Friday, November 2nd, the Center for Basque Studies is hosting Etxea: Memoirs of Gernika at 7PM in the UNR Wells Fargo Auditorium. Admission is free!
A Basque dance group from Lamoille, Nevada, Ardi Baltza Kontalari, will be performing at the event.
Ardi Baltza has been catching my eye on social media for a while now because they’re doing something different from a lot of the Basque dance groups in the US. They mix traditional Basque dance steps with lyrical and contemporary dance in their own unique choreographies to evoke a theme.
