Join us on the Basque Block (and bring your friends!) for Boise’s best Basque pub crawl! In the name of San Fermin, wear your whites with red belts (gerrikos) and scarves (pañuelos) and get ready to run…from bar to bar. There will be friendly competitions, music, prizes, and plenty of drinks flowing.
What is Running of the Bars?
ROTB is a pub crawl in downtown Boise that starts on the Basque Block, includes bars like the Basque Center, Leku Ona, Tom Grainey’s, Cactus, Whiskey Bar, & Silly Birch. Participants can take part in a special activity at each bar (shearing sheep, roping a bull, carrying weights, trivia, etc.), have a beverage or two with your friends, and then join us back on the Basque Block for dancing, food and more drinks! OH! AND it’s a fundraiser for the Basque Museum & its educational programs!
How do I Sign Up?
There are two ways!
If you would like to go all-out and really get into the fun, we are partnering with Bonfire to help! Click the Bonfire link below and pick a shirt. Once you checkout, your event ticket(not an actual ticket, your name will be on the check-in list), cup, drink and food (chorizo or tortilla) is included. If you sign up by June 23, your shirt will be delivered to you before the event. You can still sign up and get a shirt until July 12, you just may not get the shirt on time.
If you want to participate but don’t want to get a shirt (it’s a cool shirt, but sometimes we get it – one more shirt is too many), you can click the Museum link below and purchase your Running of the Bars ticket (still not a physical ticket, but your name will be on the check-in list). Your purchase includes the event, cup, drink, and food (just no shirt).
Tentative Schedule
5pm – Event Start
Check in, get your goodies (your shirt will be shipped to you, but the other goodies will be at check-in), and start heading to the bars!
Other info is still being confirmed like how much our band will be playing music, etc.
9pm – Raffle drawing (for those that participated & finished the pub crawl)
What is the Cost?
The cost via Bonfire is $50 per person and includes a shirt, cup, drink (beer or kalimotxo) & food (chorizo or tortilla); and the cost without the shirt is $25 and includes everything except the shirt.
What do I Get When I Sign Up?
Again, it depends on how you sign up, but everyone will get a cup, drink (kalimotxo or beer), food (chorizo or tortilla) and access to all the event fun like the bar games and drink specials. The only difference is if you want a shirt or not. Up to you. It is a fundraiser for the Museum so we make a little off the shirt sign ups as well as the non-shirt sign ups.
You can also purchase a Running of the Bars neck scarf (pañuelo) and other items at the event, if you want.