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Arts Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV Diplomacy | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro to address the  81st UN General Assembly Community | Nazaré and Half Moon Bay to establish sister-city partnership Community: Remembering the Portuguese victims of September 9/11
 

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 […]

Diplomacy | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro to address the  81st UN General Assembly – New York, NY

Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro will travel to New York from September 22 to 24 to represent Portugal at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. On Thursday, September 24, Montenegro is expected to deliver Portugal’s national address to the Assembly at approximately 2:15 p.m. New York time. The theme for this year’s […]

Community | Nazaré and Half Moon Bay to establish sister-city partnership – California

The Municipality of Nazaré, Portugal, and the City of Half Moon Bay, California, are moving forward with a new sister-city partnership designed to strengthen ties between two coastal communities united by the sea, maritime traditions, tourism, Portuguese heritage and an international reputation for big-wave surfing. On July 21, 2026, the Half Moon Bay City Council […]

Community: Remembering the Portuguese victims of September 9/11 – New York, NY

As the United States marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Portuguese-American community joins the nation in remembering the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives, including five Portuguese citizens and four Portuguese descendants known to have been killed at the World Trade Center in New York City. The nine […]

Irene Marques: On women’s voices and cultural identity – Interview

02 April 2014

By Millicent Borges Accardi At the age of twenty, Irene Marques migrated from mainland Portugal to Canada and now lives in Toronto where she teaches in the English Department at Ryerson University and in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University. A bilingual writer, educator and researcher, she has led an interesting […]

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

Film: “The Gilded Cage” debuts at the Museum of Modern Art – NY, NY

02 April 2014

The Arte Institute is presenting the screening of the French-Portuguese production “The Gilded Cage,” at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, on April 12, at 4pm. With director Ruben Alves and actors Joaquim de Almeida and Rita Blanco attending, the event is sold out. Based on the lives of a Portuguese immigrant […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Film, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Update: Madeleine McCann’s case in a right old muddle – by Len Port

28 March 2014

By Len Port, Contributor(*) News of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann seems to be going round in circles. ‘Revelations’ turn out to be old stories recycled. ‘Key suspects’ come and go and are then brought back again. ‘New leads’ seem to be leading nowhere. The British newspaper Mirror on March 25 declared: […]

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Book: Author Anthony De Sa to launch “Kicking the Sky” – Providence, RI

27 March 2014

Portuguese-Canadian author Anthony De Sa will be in Providence, RI, to present his book Kicking the Sky, on April 1, at 6pm, at the Providence Athenaeum, located at 251 Benefit Street. Sponsored by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, at Brown University, the session will be conducted by professor Leonor Simas-Almeida,  Senior Lecturer and […]

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Posted in Azores, Books, Canada, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal

Poem: The Broken Foot – By George Monteiro

26 March 2014

The maker of such widely beloved poems as “After Apple-Picking,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Winter Evening,” and “Home Burial,” to name only a few out of dozens, Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. He is also remembered for his wonderfully dramatic reading of his poem, […]

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Film: “The Gilded Cage” presented at the Cinéfranco Film Festival – Toronto, CA

26 March 2014

The film “The Gilded Cage,” a French-Portuguese production, will be screened at the 17th Cinéfranco Francophone International Film Festival taking place, from March 28 to April 6, in Toronto, Canada. Titled in Portuguese “Gaiola Dourada” the film was directed by Ruben Alves, the son of Portuguese immigrants in France.  Hugo Gélin and Jean-André Yerlès, a […]

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