Sign up to Volunteer at the Living Traditions Festival! May 15 - 18
Every year, for 40 years, our club members get together to sell churros, chorizo sandwiches, and other items to raise money for our club. This is an annual free festival located in downtown Salt Lake City.
Living Traditions is around the corner, and we're in need of volunteers to help us make it another great fundraising year! Please see below for details, and click here to sign up for any time slot that works with your schedule.
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Living Traditions is one of the best festivals in Salt Lake City! The festival celebrates cultural diversity through music, dance, crafts, food, and traditions from around the world. The Basque Club of Utah has participated in this vibrant event annually since its inception in 1986. Now, it is one of the club’s biggest and most exciting fundraisers of the year, and we can’t do it without YOU!
Whether you can help for an hour, a shift, or the whole day, every bit of time makes a huge difference—and we promise a lively atmosphere, great food, and plenty of teamwork and fun.We need volunteers before, during, and after the festival. If you’re able to sign up for a full day, that’s amazing—just be sure to select both shifts for that day. Can’t stay the whole time? No problem at all! Just let us know if you’ll be arriving late or leaving early so we can keep the booth fully staffed.
Why Volunteer? Volunteer to support the club, share great food, and be part of one of Salt Lake City’s most vibrant cultural festivals!Join the fun, serve amazing food, and help power one of the club’s biggest fundraisers of the year!
Your time helps fund club activities while celebrating culture, community, and tradition!Good food, great people, and an even better cause—volunteer with us at Living Traditions!
The Basque Club of Utah attends the Carmelite fair every year, our dancers perform, and we sell food to donate money to the Carmelite Monastery. The fair is usually on a Sunday in September on the monastery grounds, 5714 S. Holladay Blvd. The Carmelite Nuns depend on the annual fair as their main source of income. There are dancers from around the world, a live auction, drinks, games, rides and giveaways.
Our Basque dance group was founded in 1975 . They perform tradition Basque dances at various events in Utah as well as other states. If you would like more information, head to our dancer's page and make sure to follow them on social media.
Prior to the dinner, club members will gather and make the blood sausage from scratch. Members then come together, the week after, to enjoy the sausage, and other dishes, at a communal dinner usually ending with entertainment.
Korrika is a 10 day - 24 hour run put on by the AEK (Basque Language Schools). Korrika is a race for the Basque language that winds its way through the Basque Country. In Salt Lake City, we also love to participate in this event, we do three rounds around Sugarhouse Park every other year to coincide with Korrika in the Basque Country.
Basque Club Picnic
Every year our club members get together and host a summer picnic. This includes an outdoor mass at 11 am, followed by a Steak or Chorizo lunch, games, a horseshoe competition, and sometimes we have Basque weightlifters perform!
Basque Diaspora Day
Every year we celebrate Basque Diaspora Day together as a club. On this day, we celebrate Basque people and Basque culture around the world.
Basque Club Picnic
Every year our club members get together and host a summer picnic. This includes an outdoor mass at 11 am, followed by a Steak or Chorizo lunch, games, a horseshoe competition, and sometimes we have Basque weightlifters perform!
Basque Diaspora Day
Every year we celebrate Basque Diaspora Day together as a club. On this day, we celebrate Basque people and Basque culture around the world.
Members gather at each other's homes to play the fun and strategic game of Mus. To learn more about this card game, visit the Mus page.
Every year we host a Halloween party full of games, prizes, good food, and fun.
Our annual Christmas party is a very fun event, Santa or Olentzero comes to visit, and the Utah'ko Triskalariak always put on a great performance.
