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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 […]

Community: Arthur Lemos – The Man and His Music – Interview

11 October 2013

By Millicent Accardi, Contributor (*) Arthur Lemos, a Portuguese-American composer, teacher and musician is a You Tube sensation! With 200 videos, the 81 year old’s most popular You Tube video, Paso Doble, has received nearly 20,000 views. All together, Lemos has composed thirty-six pieces of music including marches (Spanish, Italian, and German), choral pieces, religious […]

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KSFS: Kale Soup for the Soul to present poetry readings – East Coast

09 October 2013

Award-winning, Portuguese-American writers will travel to Providence (RI) and Dartmouth (MA) to deliver two writing workshops and present four public readings at Rhode Island College, Brown University and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Associated with the KSFS (Kale Soup for the Soul) reading series, the group will read poems, stories and memoirs about family, food […]

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Terceira: Pyramidal structure found by amateur sailor not man-made – Azores

09 October 2013

An underwater pyramidal shaped structure identified by amateur sailor Diocleciano Silva, at a depth of 40 meters off the coast of Terceira Island, most likely ”not man-made,” according to Portuguese Navy bathymetry experts. The structure found by Silva had been previously documented by the Portuguese Navy and was known to bathymetric researchers – they said. […]

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Posted in Azores, People, Portugal, Terceira, World

Florbela: XVIII Edition of the Boston Ibero-American Film Festival – Boston College, MA

07 October 2013

The film Florbela (2012), written and directed by Vicente Alves do Ó, will represent Portugal in the XVIII Edition of the Boston Ibero-American Film Festival. The screening of Florbela will take place on October 10, at 6 pm, at Boston University’s College of Communication. In Portuguese with English subtitles, the feature is based on the […]

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Crime: Can the media help find Madeleine? – By Len Port

07 October 2013

By Len Port, Contributor (*) The media hype that has surrounded the Madeleine McCann mystery for the past six years has been unleashed with renewed vigor by none other than Scotland Yard. On announcing that their ‘Operation Grange’ review of the case had been elevated to a full-scale inquiry in July, Scotland Yard asked for […]

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Fado: Sounds of Portugal kicks off Rodrigo Félix US Tour – Lowell, MA

06 October 2013

The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) will present “Sounds of Portugal: Fado,” a concert by renowned fado singer Rodrigo Costa Félix joined on stage by Portuguese-American fado vocalist Nathalie Pires. Félix and Pires will be accompanied by Marta Pereira da Costa, a virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar, and Pedro Pinhal a veteran performer of […]

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