Portuguese American Journal

Portuguese American Journal

Featured Stories
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 Arts Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV
 

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. The festival has established itself as a multidisciplinary platform for contemporary art and […]

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 […]

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 […]

2014: Holiday Reading Picks for Booklovers – by Millicent Accardi

17 December 2014

By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) This holiday season as a contributor to the Portuguese American Journal (PAJ), it only seems appropriate that I should present my own selected Christmas Gift List, featuring poetry, fiction, non-fiction and other media by and about Luso writers mostly in English, but some bilingual and one book in Portuguese. […]

Read the full story

Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

News Alert: ETAN exposes East-Timor policies hostile to democracy and the rule of law

16 December 2014

In a prepared statement, dated December 15, 2014, the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN), a human rights watch group based in the United States, alerts the international community to recent events in East-Timor (Timor-Leste) that are hostile to democracy and undermines the rule of law in the former Portuguese colony. Established in 1991, […]

Read the full story

Posted in East Timor, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World

Update: A new shake-up in the Madeleine Mccann case? By Len Port

15 December 2014

By Len Port, Contributor(*) The Operation Grange investigation by the Metropolitan Police into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is said to be “upbeat” and set to continue despite mounting costs, a top resignation and apparently still no breakthrough in sight. The latest episode in this extraordinary case, with Scotland Yard detectives questioning ten people in […]

Read the full story

Posted in Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Terceira: US Congress to reconsider strategic relevance of Lajes Airfield – Azores

14 December 2014

The US House of Representatives has requested a “specific revaluation” on the strategic relevance for the United States of the of Lajes Airfield on Terceira, Azores, under the current $585 billion Defense Authorization Bill (approved December 4) for the fiscal year 2015. Accordingly, the US Administration is prevented from reducing military personnel at Lajes Airfield […]

Read the full story

Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Book: ‘Chasing the Dream’ – By JC de Melo – Editor’s Note

13 December 2014

Ben and Silvio are best friends from a remote island in the Azores with big dreams of coming to America. They each marry an American woman in order to emigrate. Margaret and Charlotte, niece and aunt, offer the young men a home, and they establish a loving extended family. Ben and Silvio’s lives in California, […]

Read the full story

Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Travel: Azores leading top 100 world sustainable green destinations – Award

12 December 2014

The Global Sustainable Tourism Review (GSTR), by QualityCoast, has listed the Azores as one of the most sustainable green destinations in the world and the leading 2014 European green tourism destination. The Azores ranked highest with a final score of 8,9 over a total of 10 points the highest global sustainability score by GSTR. The top of […]

Read the full story

Posted in Awards, Azores, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

« Newer Entries
Older Entries »

Follow Us

facebook twitter