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During the week of its 92nd birthday, the Basque club in Comodoro Rivadavia in Argentinean Patagonia didn’t only celebrate its birthday, but it also participated in the commemorative festivities for the Day of the Motherland.  The Basque club has also organized a charity tea, to benefit a local institution where its dancers will also take participate. 

Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. The Basque club is putting on a charity “Tea Show” on June 20 to benefit Rotaract.  The event will begin at 4pm at the Basque clubhouse located at Alsina 446.  Admission is 150 pesos.  The club dancers will also provide entertainment throughout the afternoon.  

Anniversaries and parade

The Basque club celebrated its 92nd birthday on May 20, and celebrated with a lunch on Sunday the 24th that was attended by 100 people.  The festivities gathered members form all of the activities that the club carries out, and included a menu created by sukaldaris: Ignacio Baztan, Mauricio Viegas, Eduardo Vergel and Santiago Baztan with performances by the Lagun Artean Basque choir and dancing by the club dancers, Haize Dantzariak.

During the afternoon the club queen was chosen – twenty-one year old dantzari, Paula Zuluaga – and there was also pelota paleta for lovers of this sport.

The birthday celebration wasn’t the only event at the club during that long weekend in May.  In fact, the night before, dantzaris and choir members participated in the show for the 81st anniversary of the Spanish Theater, a main cultural institution in Comodoro; and on May 25, and as every year, they represented the Basque community at the Tedeum and the civil military parade organized by the city.