Maialen Lujanbio and Andoni Egaña are part of a unique research project

Announcing the opening of the Lehendakari Agirre Center with offices in NY and DC Juan Jose Ibarretxe, former president of the Basque government is scheduled to visit the U.S. this week for the opening of the Lehendakari Agirre Center, which will oversee research projects on policy issues in the Basque County. He will present details in SF and NY on [...]

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Cal State Bakersfield and the Kern County Basque Club are collaborating to bring a Basque language and culture course to the university. Unai Nafarrate, who comes from Gipuzkoa, will be a visiting instructor in the CSU Bakersfield Department of Modern Languages during the winter and spring 2012 quarters. The 3-unit course will represent the first time that the department will [...]

Popular Basque rock group Berri Txarrak hosts a party in Venice, Calif. where they holed up to produce an album.

Berri Txarrak, the popular rock group from the Basque Country, held a listening party at the Venice Beach home of well-known music producer Ross Robinson, where the group has been recording its soon-to-be-released seventh album. Robinson, who earned fame producing music for alternative rock groups such as Korn and Limp Bizkit, is completing the final mixes on the group’s songs, [...]

Berri Txarrak, one of the biggest names in Basque rock, jammed at a studio in trendy Venice Beach in September 2011.

Pilota has been a key part of the Basque cultural fabric in the United States.

A website dedicated to digital language learning has unveiled a series of interactive games to help people learn the Basque language known as Euskera. Developed by Digital Dialects, the program features text and audio games that teach phrases in Euskera, as well as the names for numbers, animals and colors. There are also games designed to help users build and [...]

Speakers, students and aficionados of the Basque language can now download a free android app with a dictionary that translates words in Euskera and Spanish The app has a memory to store all the translated words so internet traffic is reduced and translated words can be accessed with minimal connection problems, according to developer Arima Pinturi. You can download the [...]