Lisbon-based Carbono Theatre Company will present its latest production “Alma” at the 6th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival in Massachusetts. The festival celebrates the centenary of playwright Tennessee Williams. The world premiere of Alma, by the Carbono Theatre Company, takes place on September 22, 24, and 25. After the premiere in Provincetown, the play […]
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Carbono at the 6th Tennessee Williams Theater Festival – Provincetown,MA
Posted on 15 September 2011.
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Film: Heaven’s Mirror: A Portuguese Voyage – World premiere
Posted on 14 September 2011.
The world premiere of Heaven’s Mirror: A Portuguese Voyage will take place at the Santa Rosa International Film Festival in Kenwood, California, on September 17th , and in Santa Rosa, California, on September 18th. It took six years for Joshua Dylan Mellars to direct and produce this Portuguese themed documentary, a film aspiring to capturing […]
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Miss Angola crowned Miss Universe 2011
Posted on 13 September 2011.
In a live telecast that reached over a billion viewers around the world, Miss Angola, Leila Lopes 25, was crowned Miss Universe 2011 at the Creditcard Hall in São Paulo, Brasil, defeating the competition from 88 contestants. Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes was crowned Miss Universe Monday night, smoothly handling an interview question about […]
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Young professionals will look for opportunities abroad – Azores
Posted on 13 September 2011.
Young professionals will leave the Azores in the near future to seek job opportunities abroad in richer European countries or will “rediscover the Americas,” warned the Luso-Canadian immigration expert José Carlos Teixeira, at the 16th International Metropolis Conference underway in Ponta Delgada, September 12-16. “Azorean young professionals will have to leave. I do not see […]
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Portuguese film competing for 2012 Oscar nomination
Posted on 12 September 2011.
A documentary film about the life of José Saramago, the 1998 Nobel Prize of Literature, and his lifelong companion Pilar del Rio, will represent Portugal at the 2012 Oscars in Hollywood. A co-production of Fernando Meireles (Brazil) and Pedro Almodóvar (Spain), the documentary titled “José e Pilar ” will compete for the Best Foreign Film […]
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9/11: President Obama invites Açoriano Oriental
Posted on 10 September 2011.
President Barack Obama invited Azores based daily newspaper Açoriano Oriental to participate at the commemorative ceremonies of the September 11 anniversary. The invitation was extended to a select number of newspapers wordwide. Açoriano Oriental, with 175 years of continuous publication, is the oldest Portuguese daily newspaper and one of the oldest newspapers in the world. […]
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