The inauguration of the Icelandic Basque Centre in Djúpavík took place Saturday 20 September 2025. The program started at 13:00 Saturday 20 September with speeches and then there will be a concert, some delicacies and a theater in the old factory in Djúpavík. Speeches were given by Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, former President of Iceland, French
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Monday 15 September at 13:00, there was a presentation at the National and University Library of Iceland introducing the Basque Centre.On this occasion a small exhibition was opened with manuscripts from Jón Guðmundsson the Learned containing his drawings of whales. Speeches were delivered by the partners in the project as well as the ambassador of
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The inauguration of the Icelandic Basque Centre in Djúpavík will take place Saturday 20 September 2025. The program will start at 13:00 Saturday 20 September with speeches and then there will be a concert, some delicacies and a theater in the old factory in Djúpavík. Speeches will be given by Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, former President
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Monday 15 September at 13:00, there will be a presentation at the National and University Library introducing the Basque Centre.On this occasion a small exhibition will be opened with manuscripts from Jón Guðmundsson the Learned containing his drawings of whales. Speeches will be delivered by the partners in the project as well as the ambassador
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3.-13. October 2024, the Haizebegi festival will be held in Bayonne and in Pasaia in the presence of Mrs. Unnur Orradóttir Ramette, Ambassador of Iceland in France, and Mr. Jean-René Etchegaray, Mayor of Bayonne and in cooperation between Haizebegi and the Icelandic Basque Association, the University Centre of the Westfjords and Albaola, as part of
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In spite of bad weather the Basque Centre opened an exhibition in Djúpavík 6-8 June 2024, organized by the Icelandic Basque Association, the Albaola Itsas Kultur Faktoria from Pasaia, the Haizebegi Festival from Bayonne and the University Centre of the Westfjords – in the presence of the ambassadors of France and Spain. The program started
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On Friday, June 7, the first phase of the Basque Centre will be opened in the old herring tanks in Djúpavík. On this occasion, there will be a program in Djúpavík related to the history of the Basques in Iceland in cooperation with partners in the Basque regions of Spain and France. Albaola in Spain
On 16 th and 17 th of October 2023 a symposium was held in the museum and shipyard Albaola in Pasaia in the Basque Country of Spain. The title of the symposium was “The Basque whaleboat at the origin of industrial whaling.” The symposium was a part of the BASQUE project that received a grant
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In August was the first joint event of the Basque partners, Albaola in Spain, Haizebegi in France, University Centre of the Westfjords and the Icelandic Basque Association. It was a promotional event for the Basque Centre in Djúpavík, a concert by two bands from Bayonne in the Basque region of France. The Habia trio and
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