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Community | Azores Government offers cultural exchange grants for diaspora applicants Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans Community | The FABRIC Arts Festival explores themes of identity and place Diplomacy | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Lisbon this week
 

Community | Azores Government offers cultural exchange grants for diaspora applicants – Azores

The Government of the Azores has opened applications for grant opportunities supporting cultural and community projects in Azorean emigrant communities abroad, as well as educational exchanges and immigrant integration initiatives for 2027.  The funding opportunities are particularly relevant to Azorean organizations, cultural associations, and educational institutions in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, Brazil, and other […]

Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization – Portugal

Portugal has selected Germany’s Lufthansa Group as the strategic investor in TAP Air Portugal, marking a significant turning point for the country’s aviation industry and with important implications for Portuguese communities in the United States, Canada, and beyond.  The selection does not mean that Lufthansa has already taken ownership of TAP. Rather, it represents a […]

Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans – Portugal

Former United States President Barack Obama returned to Lisbon on Saturday, October 10, where he delivered a keynote address at the 6th edition of the Game Changers Forum.  During his two-day stay in Lisbon, Obama met with Portuguese President António José Seguro at the Palácio de Belém, the official residence of the Portuguese head of […]

Community | The FABRIC Arts Festival explores themes of identity and place – Fall River (MA)

The FABRIC Arts Festival, founded in 2019 and now in its seventh edition, returns to Fall River October 8–11, showcasing Portuguese contemporary art, music, performances, exhibitions, food, and storytelling, exploring themes of migration, identity, memory, belonging, and place and connections across borders. With particular significance in Fall River, historically one of America’s leading textile-manufacturing centers […]

Diplomacy | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Lisbon this week – Portugal

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to visit Portugal this coming week as part of a European tour from October 5–8, with Lisbon as the final stop. Secretary Rubio is expected in Lisbon on Thursday, October 8, following visits to Reykjavík, Iceland, and Athens, Greece.  He is expected to meet with Prime Minister […]

Trail Run:  Azores Triangle Adventure open to participants – Azores

02 August 2017

The Azores Triangle Adventure (ATR) will take place October 6, 7 & 8 on the islands Faial, Pico, and São Jorge. The competion is a Trail Run race, consisting of a three-stage 100km, 6,000+-meter elevation, across the three islands. The race includes two long races (Blue Island Trail – 70km and Faial Coast to Coast […]

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Posted in Azores, Faial, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Pico, São Jorge, Travel

Community: The 103rd Annual Feast of the Blessed Sacrament – New Bedford, MA

01 August 2017

The 103rd Annual Feast of the Blessed Sacrament is taking place this week, August 3-6. The festival is is all about music, history, food, fun and family. Founded in 1915, by the Portuguese immigrant community of Madeira descent, the event has become one of the largest Portuguese feasts in the United States and the largest […]

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Posted in Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Music, Organizations, People, Religion, World

Heritage: Network of quality Portuguese restaurants around the world – Portugal

27 July 2017

The Government of Portugal, in partnership with the Association of Restaurateurs and Similar Products of Portugal (AHRESP), is developing a project to create, under a brand name, a network of quality Portuguese restaurants around the world. With the support of the Portuguese embassies, the project is already in the process of identifying a number of […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Food & Wine, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal

Lisbon: Hosting the 2018 Eurovison Song Contest – Portugal

26 July 2017

The 2018 Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, the European Broadcasting Union has confirmed. The event will be held in Portugal for the first time, in 53 years, after Portuguese vocalist Salvador Sobral won the 2017 contest in Kiev. According to Rádio Televisão Portuguesa (RTP), the host broadcaster, the grand event will […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Heritage: Sculpture will honor the cultures of Portugal and First Nations – Canada

26 July 2017

By Cristina Ogden, Contributor (*) Lisbon will be home to a new public artwork that celebrates Canada’s Indigenous heritage. Earlier this year, the Embassy of Canada announced that West Coast artist Ts’uts’umult Luke Marston will produce a sculpture that links the cultures of Portugal and the Coast Salish First Nations. The sculpture of a cod […]

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Posted in Canada, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Launched: First National Portuguese-American Community Survey – PALCUS Index

25 July 2017

The Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) is launching a first-of-its-kind national community survey to be known as the PALCUS Index. The PALCUS Index, will be conducted bi-annually and aims to collect data regarding the issues that matter to the Portuguese-American communities across the United States. In addition, the survey seeks to take […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People