JAIALDI BOISE

Departure by flight from Bilbao at 06:50 a.m. to Boise. Arrival at 5:20 p.m. Hotel moving and lodging.

Breakfast at the hotel and Jaialdi Activities. The "Basque Block" will become the meeting place for friends and families. There will be handball and shovel exhibition matches at the fronton. The Basque Museum will be open with exhibitions on Basque themes. Throughout the day you can buy food and drinks in this area.

Breakfast and departure to make a route through the mining towns.

HISTORY: “During the early decades of the 20th century, small towns throughout southern Idaho had boarding houses, filled to capacity, with Basque shepherds. The largest concentrations of Basques were in the Treasure Valley (around Boise), in towns like Emmett and Nampa,... but Basques also settled in towns along the Snake River Plain, beginning in Ontario, Oregon. to as far east as Pocatello, and including the towns of Mountain Home, Shoshone, Gooding, Twin Falls, and Rupert. Hailey's town also had Basque families who ran Basque hotels and restaurants.

Mining in northern Idaho, in Mullan, attracted a few Basques but only lasted 14 years, from 1925 to 1939. Recently a logging mill in Spokane, Washington, has placed many Basques in northern Idaho, near the City of Coeur d'Alene.

Many of those who came seeking their fortune returned to the Basque Country and the children of those who stayed are more American in their behavior (language, philosophy, etc.) than anything else, but still define themselves as Basque. It is something that they feel and imagine, it is a transnational and diasporic identity”. Return to Boise in the afternoon to participate in Jaialdi activities:

7:00 p.m. Evening of Basque rural sports at the Century Link Arena, admission included. Professional athletes from the Basque Country will carry out stone lifting, log cutting and “sokatira” exhibitions. Competitions of other forms of rural sport will also be held.

Breakfast and in the morning visit to Boise: Idaho Memorial Museum, Memorial Rose Garden, Boise Art Museum, Boise Basque Cemetery.

1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. “Basque Block”: Time to eat, have a drink and enjoy Basque music with old and new friends.

7:00 p.m. “Festara” (To the party!) will be held at the Egyptian Theater (limited tickets). Evening of music and dance. “Festara” is a celebration of traditional music and dance from the Basque Country, including artists from Euskadi, locals such as the famous Oinkari Dancers from Boise, etc.

Tickets not included.

Breakfast at the hotel and Jaialdi activities.

10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.: 'Expo Idaho” (Fairground): We will enjoy the Opening Ceremony, Basque food, Basque rural sports competitions, music and dance, stalls selling art, souvenirs and crafts. Dozens of dance groups from all over the West-West will put on their performances. Basque vendors will be available in the Expo Idaho building with Basque novelties, souvenirs and clothing for sale. As well as food, drink and a display of sheepwagons.

19:00 Catholic Mass: The annual mass of San Inazio will be celebrated in Basque and English. The Oñati dance group will perform a liturgical dance at the altar in San Marcos, with the assistance of the Basque Oinkari.

9:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. Dantzaldi at the Centurylink Arena Admission included. The Celebration continues with a verbena where international and local groups will perform dance music.

Breakfast at the hotel and Jaialdi activities.

11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Expo Idaho (fairgrounds): Admission included. Activities and events of the most fun (like the events of the previous day that continue). Closing ceremony.

Breakfast and free morning until transfer to the Arpto, to take the flight back to Bilbao at 3:00 p.m. via Minneapolis and Paris. Night on board.

Arrival of the flight to Bilbao at 10:15 p.m. and end of the trip.