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Arts Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV Diplomacy | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro to address the  81st UN General Assembly Community | Nazaré and Half Moon Bay to establish sister-city partnership Community: Remembering the Portuguese victims of September 9/11
 

Arts & Letters | Portugal Takes Center Stage at Lincoln Center – New York, NY

Portuguese culture will take center stage at New York City’s Lincoln Center on Saturday, October 3, with a full day of cinema, literature and live music featuring acclaimed Luso-American writer Katherine Vaz, Portuguese musical performances by Expresso Transatlântico and The Gift, and a festival of Portuguese animated short films. The program, titled “Contemporary Portugal at […]

Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV – Vatican

Portugal’s President, António José Seguro, arrived in Rome on Wednesday, September 23, for a two-day official visit to the Holy See, with an audience with Pope Leo XIV scheduled for Thursday, September 24, at 9:00 a.m. local time at the Vatican.  The Portuguese Presidency confirms that the official visit program also includes talks with Archbishop […]

Diplomacy | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro to address the  81st UN General Assembly – New York, NY

Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro will travel to New York from September 22 to 24 to represent Portugal at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. On Thursday, September 24, Montenegro is expected to deliver Portugal’s national address to the Assembly at approximately 2:15 p.m. New York time. The theme for this year’s […]

Community | Nazaré and Half Moon Bay to establish sister-city partnership – California

The Municipality of Nazaré, Portugal, and the City of Half Moon Bay, California, are moving forward with a new sister-city partnership designed to strengthen ties between two coastal communities united by the sea, maritime traditions, tourism, Portuguese heritage and an international reputation for big-wave surfing. On July 21, 2026, the Half Moon Bay City Council […]

Community: Remembering the Portuguese victims of September 9/11 – New York, NY

As the United States marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Portuguese-American community joins the nation in remembering the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives, including five Portuguese citizens and four Portuguese descendants known to have been killed at the World Trade Center in New York City. The nine […]

Viva Portugal! Festival celebrates Portuguese culture- New Bedford, MA

02 May 2018

The festival ‘Viva Portugal!’ is returning to New Bedford on May 5 to celebrate the art, music and culture of Portugal. On its 3rd edition, the festival is sponsored by the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center in partnership with 14 local Portuguese-American organizations. The festival starts at 12:45pm opening with a Portuguese brass band parading up […]

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Community: Prof. Maryellen Brisbois creates ‘Bridging the Atlantic’ project – UMass, Dartmouth

29 April 2018

UMass Dartmouth Assistant Professor of Nursing, Maryellen Brisbois, Ph.D, APHN-BC, was awarded for creating a transatlantic health education project –Bridging the Atlantic – between Massachusetts and the Azores to improve health globally. The Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER)’s “Projects That Work” competition sought projects from around the globe to improve […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People

Faith & Feast: Santo Cristo dos Milagres Festa to be held next week – Azores

28 April 2018

The religious celebrations of the 2018 Festas do Senhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres, [The Holy Feast of Christ of the Miracles] will be held on the weekend of May 5-6, in Ponta Delgada city, on São Miguel, Azores. The festivities, which open on Saturday April 28, will last through May 1-7, closing with three days […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Religion, São Miguel

Today in History: Portugal celebrates April 25th Freedom Day – Portugal

25 April 2018

Since 1974 the Portuguese nation has celebrated “Freedom Day” with a national holiday on April 25th to mark the bloodless military coup which brought democracy and civil liberties to the Portuguese people. Also celebrated as the Carnation Revolution, the event of April 25th came about after almost five decades of an authoritarian regime led by […]

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Posted in Angola, Azores, Cape Verde, Community, Featured, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Madeira, Mozambique, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, São Tomé and Prince

Book: ‘The Strange Order of Things’ by Antonio Damasio – Editor’s Note

22 April 2018

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal

REVIEW: Carlos do Carmo and Celeste Rodrigues Fado Town Hall Concert – New York City

19 April 2018

By David Mendonça, Contributor (*) By looking into fado’s past, one can see the future. In fact, the deeper one can see into the past, the further one can see into the future. At their Town Hall concert on 7 April, held as part of the 2018 New York City Fado Festival, Carlos do Carmo […]

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