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Midnight on Sunday is the deadline to send your ideas to the Basque Government for a date to celebrate Diasporaren Eguna – Diaspora Day.  Remember that the Directorate of the Basque Community Abroad has requested suggestions and reasoning to decide which day of the year would be the most appropriate to celebrated Diaspora Day in the Basque Country and around the world.  It would be a day to show, reach out, celebrate and declare the extension that the Diaspora is of Euskal Herria in the world.

Vitoria-Gasteiz.  The ideas should be sent via email to the Directorate of the Basque Community Abroad: euskaletxeak@euskadi.eus. All proposals received by the deadline will be reviewed and a final date to celebrate Diaspora Day will be chosen.

If you have an idea, or suggestion in regards to the celebration, don’t hesitate to write an email with the proposed dates, as well as why you feel it is an appropriate date to celebrate the extension of the Basque Country in the world that the Diaspora represents.

This inquiry is the result of requests at the World Congress of Collectivities held every four years.  The request was included in the last Congress celebrated just over 2 years ago in Vitoria-Gasteiz  One of the ideas to reflect the theme of the conference “diasporizatu,”  to celebrate the Diaspora’s contributions to the Basque Country with an institutional day to provide visibility to this, along with a world-wide celebration.