According to The Harvard Crimson, “Dan Sousa is not a typical animator. Instead of creating films with strong narrative structure and central characters, he prefers to captivate his audience with an immediate visceral reaction.” A Providence-based film-maker Daniel Sousa – born in Cape Verde and raised in Portugal – moved to the United States in […]
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Daniel Sousa excels at film – Providence
Posted on 14 March 2011.
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Museum of Contemporary Art underway – Ponta Delgada
Posted on 13 March 2011.
The project to build the new Museum of Contemporary Art in Ponta Delgada, Azores, is well underway in partnership with Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. The project will connect the Autonomous Region with the ‘Paths Niemeyer’ worldwide. The project was worked out in Brazil between Ponta Delgada’s Mayor, Berta Cabral, and the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer […]
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Brazilian-Americans get organized – Boston
Posted on 13 March 2011.
Brazilian-Americans in Massachusetts want to show they are a political force by creating the website www.nosvotamos.com with the goal of registering 5,000 fellow Brazilians to vote. For António Massa Viana, a local musician and community leader, the time for the Brazilian-American community has come. He told the Boston Globe about Brazilian-Americans that “Sometimes what happens is that yes, […]
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Frustration grows as jobless rate rises – Portugal
Posted on 13 March 2011.
More than 300,000 thousand people protested Saturday March 12 in at least 11 major Portuguese cities. Tens of thousands had already responded to a national Facebook appeal to take part in this public demonstrations against the lack of jobs, poor wages and poor working conditions. According to figures published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), based in Lisbon, the unemployment […]
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“Six Metres of Pavement” depicts “Little Portugal” – Book
Posted on 13 March 2011.
Canadian author, Farzana Doctor launched her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, a fictional cross-cultural account of life in “Little Portugal” the Portuguese community of Toronto. Doctor who lives in the Brockton Triangle area said that the book is very much inspired by her neighborhood. In the book, Ismail Boxwala befriends Fátima and Célia, two Portuguese-Canadian […]
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E-Learning in Portuguese worldwide – Portugal
Posted on 13 March 2011.
Portugal based Leya Publishers, in partnership with Universidade Aberta (Open University), launched the E-Learning Project a distance learning program online which will provide college preparation, professional development and certification, to students and professionals in the Portuguese speaking countries, including the Portuguese immigrant communities worldwide. Starting in the academic year of 2011-2012, the online courses will focus […]
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