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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 | PALCUS celebrates 35th Anniversary with a Leadership Awards Gala in Ponta Delgada
 

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 […]

Community | PALCUS celebrates 35th Anniversary with a Leadership Awards Gala in Ponta Delgada – Azores

The Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) prepares to celebrate its 35th anniversary and 28th Annual Leadership Awards Gala on October 17 at the Coliseu Micaelense in Ponta Delgada, Azores. For the first time in the organization’s history, the PALCUS Leadership Awards Gala will be held outside the continental United States, bringing […]

Community: Silicon Valley Portuguese Education & Culture Foundation – San Jose, CA

23 June 2017

The Silicon Valley Portuguese Education & Culture Foundation (SVPECF) was launched to support Portuguese language education at the San Jose State University. Located in Silicon Valley, the newly founded support group replaces the Portuguese Studies Advisory Board which has served the Portuguese language and culture courses at the university. The goal is to attract more […]

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Posted in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Community, East Timor, Education, Featured, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Mozambique, Organizations, People, Portugal, São Tomé and Prince, World

Book: ‘The City of Ulysses’ by Teolinda Gersão – Editor’s Note

23 June 2017

A man and a woman meet in Lisbon and fall in love. City of Ulysses is their story, and the city’s love story besides. It is a story that leads readers down multiple paths, through myth and history, reality and fantasy, literature and the visual arts, the past and the present, male and female relations, […]

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

Travel Alert: Security workers on strike at all national airports – Portugal

23 June 2017

According to SITAVA, the airport workers’ union, Portuguese airport security screeners will be on strke for 48 hours at all airports in Portugal, including Madeira and the Azores, beginning on June 24 and ending on June 25. These workers, who carry out security checks, are also staging demonstrations at the Lisbon International Airport on June […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, Travel

Community: The 20th edition of the Cultural Youth Education Camp – Sonoma, CA

19 June 2017

The 20th edition of the Cultural Youth Education Camp, sponsored by the Luso-American Education Foundation, in partnership with the Government of the Azores, begins today at Sonoma State University, California. Sandra Melo, a teacher from the Tomás de Borba Primary and Secondary School in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, will lead the camp. She will introduce […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Terceira

Survey: Highly qualified young Portuguese continue to emigrate – Portugal

19 June 2017

A recent survey, conducted by the Portuguese Business Association Foundation (AEP) [Fundação Associação Empresarial de Portugal], revealed that 62% of the most qualified young Portuguese workers continue to emigrate. In the survey, conducted between December 2016 and April 2017 in the Portuguese diaspora, with a special focus on Europe, the majority of responds was aged […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal

Pedrógão Grande: How you can help the forest fire survivors – Portugal

18 June 2017

On Sunday Portugal declared three days of national mourning for the many victims claimed by the forest fires in the mountainous regions of Pedrógão Grande, central Portugal, northeast of the capital Lisbon. Without knowing yet the total number of victims, Prime Minister António Costs offered his condolences to the families of the victims, describing the […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Portugal