The Portuguese Circle is organizing the 1st Portuguese & Brazilian Festival to celebrate more than five centuries of a common language and shared culture between the two countries. The festival will be held from 3pm, November 5, to 5:30am through November 6, on a 14,000 sqft loft, at 623 Broadway (2nd floor) in New York. […]
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1st Portuguese & Brazilian Festival – NYC
Posted on 28 October 2011.
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Author José Luís Peixoto visiting East Coast
Posted on 27 October 2011.
Portuguese author José Luís Peixoto will be visiting colleges and universities in the East Coast, November 2-9, on a lecture tour sponsored by Lisbon-based Instituto Camões. On November 3, Peixoto will lecture at Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; on November 4, he will be at Brown University (Providence, RI); on November 7, […]
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International project to teach Portuguese worldwide launched in the Azores
Posted on 26 October 2011.
By Carolina Matos, Editor — A team of educators from the United States visited private and public schools on São Miguel island to set up a pilot project to apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to the development of pedagogy and materials to teach Portuguese as a second language anywhere in the world. The […]
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Banco Espírito Santo compensates customers in the USA
Posted on 26 October 2011.
Lisbon-based Banco Espírito Santo (BES) has agreed to pay $6.9 million to settle U.S. civil charges that it sold thousands of investments that weren’t registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Associated Press reported Monday. According to the source, most of the customers who bought mutual funds and other investments from BES were […]
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As you make your bed, so shall you lie in it
Posted on 25 October 2011.
By John Howard Wolf — Not a hard-and-fast rule, but worth repeating in this particular case study of Portugal. There is another proverb that reads thus: those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. As I said in Part I of this study, it is absolutely necessary to become familiar with the past in […]
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Britney Spears to perform in Lisbon – Portugal
Posted on 24 October 2011.
American entertainer Britney Spears will perform in Lisbon, Portugal, November 9, at the Atlantic Pavilion on her last performance of her world tour. She performed in Portugal in 2004, at the Rock in Rio Lisbon festival, to a full house of disappointed fans for her alleged “playback” performance. She is now retuning to launch her […]
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