Histories of Portugal’s transition to democracy have long focused on the 1974 military coup that toppled the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and set in motion the divestment of the nation’s colonial holdings. However, the events of this “Carnation Revolution” were in many ways the culmination of a much longer process of resistance and protest originating […]
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Book: ‘The Revolution before the Revolution’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 27 April 2016.
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Honor: Nelly Furtado to receive the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award – Canada
Posted on 25 April 2016.
Portuguese Canadian singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist, Nelly Furtado, will be the recipient of the 2016 Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award. The award recognizes her social activism and support of humanitarian causes. The award will be presented at the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards gala to be held on Thursday, May 5, at The […]
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Book: ‘The Pessoa Chronicles: Poems, 1980-2016’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 24 April 2016.
The least known of the great European Modernist poets of the twentieth century, Fernando Pessoa was born in 1888. A virtuoso of poetic voices, he created a coterie of distinct heteronyms, individual voices for whom he created full biographies and full bodies of work that were not only distinctive and original but so distinguished that […]
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The Week: It’s all down to numbers – By Len Port
Posted on 22 April 2016.
By Len Port, Contributor (*) As Portugal, other EU members and even the United States wait with bated breath, it seems that Britain’s referendum on staying or leaving is likely to go down to the wire. The expatriate vote could be decisive, it is said. But does anyone have any idea how many expatriates are […]
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IPMA: 2016 International Portuguese Music Awards – New Bedford, MA
Posted on 20 April 2016.
Interviews by Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) The International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA) is back April 23, at the Zeiterion Theater, in New Bedford, MA, along with a gala red-carpet event the night before (at the Cultural Center in Fall River). Established in 2013, the IPMA has grown to be a premier music award, in both […]
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Holy See: President Vasco Cordeiro invites Pope Francis to visit the Azores – Vatican City
Posted on 20 April 2016.
The President of the Government of the Azores, Vasco Cordeiro, was received today at the Vatican by Pope Francis to formally invite His Holiness to visit the Azores next year. The meeting was held in St. Peter’s Square during the greetings meeting between the Pope and guests, after the end of the papal weekly public […]
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