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 […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
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 […]
Posted in Canada, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
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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24 July 2017
According to the Government of Madeira, in the recent months over 4,000 Portuguese of Madeiran heritage have returned home from Venezuela due to the climate of instability in the country. The number is projected to increase exponentially in August. A great number of Portuguese families residing in Venezuela are waiting for the closing of the […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, People, Politics, Porto Santo, Portugal, World
18 July 2017
To meet the growing demand, SATA/Azores Airlines intends to expand its service in Canada, projecting to increase its operations by 21% this year, transporting around 128,000 passengers between Canada the Azores and mainland Portugal. “For 2017, the Azores Airlines plans to operate 40 more flights between Canada and Portugal, in addition to introducing a larger […]
Posted in Azores, Canada, Cape Verde, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Terceira, Travel, World
18 July 2017
The Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) is looking for new individual and organizational members for Fiscal Year 2018, in an effort to promote the involvement of community members, businesses and organizations in the agency’s mission of improving the lives of Portuguese-speaking individuals and families from Massachusetts and help them become contributing, active participants in […]
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