30 August 2018
Prime Minister António Costa has announced the creation of series of measures to attract Portuguese emigrants who left the country as a result of the economic crisis of 2010-2015. The incentives will target mainly young professionals who emigrated before 2015. “We are a country open to immigration, yet we must not forsake to attract to […]
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27 August 2018
The University of Massachusetts Lowell Saab Center for Portuguese Studies, in partnership with Lowell National Historical Park, announces the opening of a Community Exhibit on the Portuguese in Lowell, Massachusetts, titled “Immigration from the Atlantic Islands to Lowell, Massachusetts: Continuity and Change in the Mill City’s Portuguese Community.” The temporary exhibit which opens on Wednesday, […]
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23 August 2018
The Portuguese American community of Fall River (MA) is celebrating the 32st Holy Ghost Festival of New England, underway this weekend through August 29. The festival is held every year on the last weekend of August. The event has become one of the largest Portuguese celebrations in the United States and the one of the […]
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23 August 2018
A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation. Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)―the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves―was hailed in his lifetime […]
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22 August 2018
Democrat Lori Loureiro Trahan, of Portuguese descent, is running for Congress in the Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District. She is representing Lowell in the primary elections, to succeed US Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell). Lowell, with a population of 106,000, is the largest city in the Merrimack Valley-based district with a large community of Portuguese and Brazilian […]
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12 August 2018
By Cristina Ogden An exhibition of anthotypes by Toronto-based artist Teresa Ascencao is the focus of Daily Bread, running at the Workers Art & Heritage Centre in Hamilton, southern Ontario, until August 17, 2018. The exhibition features scenes from the Portuguese-Canadian immigrant community whose livelihoods have been characterized by physical labor. The works are influenced […]
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