18 February 2014
The Regional Director for the Azorean Communities, Paulo Teves, will be visiting California and Massachusetts, February 20-25, in representation of the Government of the Azores. On the West Coast, February 21, Teves will meet with a group of students of Azorean descent in San Francisco to address the promoting the Azorean cultural heritage amongst the […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
17 February 2014
The President of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, will be visiting San Francisco in the United States and Toronto in Canada from February 25 through March 1. The President is accompanied by Vasco Cordeiro, President of the Government of the Azores, and Rui Machete, the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs. Traveling with the First Lady, Maria […]
Posted in Azores, Canada, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
17 February 2014
Portuguese Under-Secretary of Tourism, Adolfo Mesquita Nunes, announced in Tell Aviv, Israel, that Portugal is granting citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from the country five centuries ago. The announcement follows a recent amendment to Portugal’s “Law on Nationality” that allows descendants of Jews who were expelled in the Portuguese Inquisition to […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, Religion, World
15 February 2014
By George Monteiro, Contributor (*) This talk was given 48 years ago, on March 23, 1966, at a Brown University Freshman Convocation. A relic or vestige, an artifact, if you will. It is published now, for the first time, at a moment when useful computer-generated search-engines pop up regularly, as well as, less happily, computer-created […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Conferences
14 February 2014
The Portuguese Heritage Publications of California (PHPC) is calling for Portuguese-American stories for a new book project. Portuguese-American author Frank Gaspar is writing the introduction and Tony Goulart is the project coordinator. PHPC is seeking non-fiction and poetry submissions about the experience of California’s Portuguese-Americans, historical stories, family remembrances, humorous tales, romantic trysts, legends and […]
Posted in Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
14 February 2014
Portuguese cartoonist Rodrigo de Matos has won the “Press Cartoon Europe Grand Prix” with a cartoon published in Expresso, a Lisbon based weekly. The winning cartoon, published in November of 2013, takes on football and the economic crisis in Portugal. The piece depicts a beggar holding a ladled with a football, in reference to the […]
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