Portuguese American Journal

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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. 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 […]

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 […]

Arts: Walk & Talk Street Art Festival returning with poetry – Azores

10 July 2014

The fourth edition of the Walk & Talk Street Art Festival will be held from July 18 through August 3 on São Miguel island, Azores. More than 60 national and international artists will participate in the creative arts event which activities are focused in promoting contemporary artistic expression in public spaces. Artistic interventions include the […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Featured, Film, Heritage, Music, Organizations, Painting, People, Photography, Portugal, São Miguel, World

Community: Teachers of Portuguese attending professional development program – Azores

08 July 2014

A group of eleven Portuguese language teachers, affiliated with different educational institutions in the United States, are attending  the FLAD Summer Course for Teachers of Portuguese in the US, held from July 8-18, at the University of the Azores in Ponta Delgada. Organized by Professor Graça Castanho of the University of the Azores, the intensive program comprises of workshops […]

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

Protest: Doctors on strike disrupt Portuguese national health services – Portugal

08 July 2014

The main doctors’ union, Federação Nacional dos Médicos (FNAM), has called a two day strike starting Tuesday, July 8, citing a range of government policies and cuts to the National Health Service budget. The Portuguese Constitution guarantees the right to universal health care. Doctors are protesting against what they called “the government’s progressive dismantling of the health […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World

Portugal: Jean-Claude Juncker pays lip service to Lisbon – By Len Port

05 July 2014

By Len Port, Contributor(*) The most relevant snippet of information to emerge from all the recent histrionics in Brussels was confirmation that Jean-Claude Juncker is a good friend of Portugal. In this country anyway, it well surpasses revelations about his drinking habits. On a visit to Portugal in May, Juncker let it be known that […]

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

Terceira: Teachers of Portuguese attend professional development workshops – Azores

03 July 2014

The Government of the Azores in partnership with the Association of Teachers of Portuguese in the United States and Canada (APPEUC) is co-sponsoring the 22th Meeting of Teachers of Portuguese in the United States and Canada being held July 3-6, in Praia da Vitória, Terceira, Azores. Under the theme Nos Mares da Língua Portuguesa [The […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Terceira, World

Business: IBM to launch global cloud center in Lisbon – Portugal

03 July 2014

Lisbon is one of the sites chosen by IBM to locate one of its newly created “cloud computing” centers through which user services and applications are aggregated in a “cloud” that can be accessed in any computing device anywhere in the world. The IBM Lisbon center will provide assistance to Portuguese and foreign companies that […]

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Posted in Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World