By Millicent Borges Accardi At the age of twenty, Irene Marques migrated from mainland Portugal to Canada and now lives in Toronto where she teaches in the English Department at Ryerson University and in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University. A bilingual writer, educator and researcher, she has led an interesting […]
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Irene Marques: On women’s voices and cultural identity – Interview
Posted on 02 April 2014.
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Film: “The Gilded Cage” debuts at the Museum of Modern Art – NY, NY
Posted on 02 April 2014.
The Arte Institute is presenting the screening of the French-Portuguese production “The Gilded Cage,” at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, on April 12, at 4pm. With director Ruben Alves and actors Joaquim de Almeida and Rita Blanco attending, the event is sold out. Based on the lives of a Portuguese immigrant […]
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Update: Madeleine McCann’s case in a right old muddle – by Len Port
Posted on 28 March 2014.
By Len Port, Contributor(*) News of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann seems to be going round in circles. ‘Revelations’ turn out to be old stories recycled. ‘Key suspects’ come and go and are then brought back again. ‘New leads’ seem to be leading nowhere. The British newspaper Mirror on March 25 declared: […]
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Book: Author Anthony De Sa to launch “Kicking the Sky” – Providence, RI
Posted on 27 March 2014.
Portuguese-Canadian author Anthony De Sa will be in Providence, RI, to present his book Kicking the Sky, on April 1, at 6pm, at the Providence Athenaeum, located at 251 Benefit Street. Sponsored by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, at Brown University, the session will be conducted by professor Leonor Simas-Almeida, Senior Lecturer and […]
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Poem: The Broken Foot – By George Monteiro
Posted on 26 March 2014.
The maker of such widely beloved poems as “After Apple-Picking,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Winter Evening,” and “Home Burial,” to name only a few out of dozens, Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. He is also remembered for his wonderfully dramatic reading of his poem, […]
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Film: “The Gilded Cage” presented at the Cinéfranco Film Festival – Toronto, CA
Posted on 26 March 2014.
The film “The Gilded Cage,” a French-Portuguese production, will be screened at the 17th Cinéfranco Francophone International Film Festival taking place, from March 28 to April 6, in Toronto, Canada. Titled in Portuguese “Gaiola Dourada” the film was directed by Ruben Alves, the son of Portuguese immigrants in France. Hugo Gélin and Jean-André Yerlès, a […]
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