20 November 2013
Touro Law Center, Central Islip, NY, hosted a Kristallnacht remembrance event on November 12, honoring Aristides De Sousa Mendes, the “Portuguese Schindler.” Sousa Mendes was a WWII Portuguese diplomat who disobeyed orders of his government and granted visas out of occupied France to an estimated 30,000 refugees, including 12,000 Jews. This was one of the largest […]
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20 November 2013
The Porto Surf Film Festival is calling for submissions for its Short Rides 2014 competition. The organization will accept features with a total running time under 30 minutes, coming from any country in the world. On its 2nd edition, the 2014 Porto Surf Film Festival will include in its program a short film competition with surfing, windsurfing, kitesurfing, […]
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18 November 2013
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) Helena Maria Galvão Amaral – “Lena Gal” – has been painting professionally for over twenty five years. The apparent ease of her composition reveals mastery, dedication and nurturing. Her art is eclectic, dynamic and technically skillful. She likes to explore the borderline between dreams and reality and paints largely from […]
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13 November 2013
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, Department of Portuguese, the MA & PhD Program in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives announce a book talk by novelist Jacinto Lucas Pires scheduled for Wednesday, November 20, at 12:00 noon. The event, free and open to the public, will […]
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13 November 2013
Sara Oliveira has been appointed Director of Brand and Communications at Vodafone Portugal. Oliveira has 16 years of experience in management, working as vice president of the Portuguese-American Post-Graduate Society (PAPS), in Boston, MA. Oliveira, who has a degree in Economics from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with a major in Business Economics, was responsible […]
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12 November 2013
A petition sponsored by the Portuguese-American Citizenship Project (PACP) was posted on Facebook to stop the proposed reduction of US military presence at Lajes Air Force Base, on Terceira, Azores. The initiative urges Portuguese-Americans to undersign the petition requesting Congress to continue supporting Lajes Air Force Base on Terceira. Petition Background For more than six […]
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