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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 […]

MLA: Portuguese is the 12th most spoken language in the United States – Community

25 February 2013

According to the Modern Languages Association (MLA) Language Map, Portuguese is the 12th most spoken language the United States, spoken by 564,630 people after Spanish (28,101,052), Chinese (2,022,143), French (1,643,838), German (1,383,442), Tagalog (1,224,241), Vietnamese (1,009,623), Italian (1,008,370), Korean (894,063), Russian (706,242), Polish (667,414), and Arabic (614,587). Based on the US Census 2000, the MLA […]

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

Fado: Ana Moura’s 2013 North American concert tour – USA

23 February 2013

Portuguese fado vocalist, Ana Moura, is launching her 2013 North American concert tour, on February 28, with a number of concerts scheduled coast to coast in the United States and Canada. The tour is a promotion of her most recent issued CD titled “Desfado” for sale on February 26, 2013. Moura, who has toured the […]

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

Arts: Nathan Oliveira to be memorialized at Stanford University – California

22 February 2013

The late Portuguese-American artist, Nathan Oliveira, will be memorialized at Stanford University with the creation of the Windhover Contemplative Center. The new center will display four large oil paintings of Oliveira’s Windhover series inspired by birds in flight. Oliveira began working on the series in the 1970s, which took a lifetime of art to complete. […]

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

Book: Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism: Alagiyavanna and the Portuguese in Sri Lanka by S. C. Berkwitz – Editor’s Note

18 February 2013

Stephen C. Berkwitz’s Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism examines five works by a single poet to demonstrate how Buddhism in Sri Lanka was shaped and transformed by encounters with Portuguese colonizers and missionaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By following the written works of Alagiyavanna Mukaveti (1552-1625?) from the court of a powerful Sinhala king […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, World

Travel: Azores winner of the 2012 Quality Cost Gold Award – Azores

17 February 2013

The Azores are the winners of the 2013-2014 Quality Cost Gold Award as the best European most sustainable holiday destination. The Ierapetra island, in Crete, was awarded second place and the islands of Gozo and Camino, in Malta, won third place. The Quality Coast Awards are considered a prestigious honor aimed to assisting tourism operators […]

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Posted in Awards, Azores, Corvo, Faial, Featured, Flores, Graciosa, Heritage, Madeira, Pico, Portugal, Santa Maria, São Jorge, São Miguel, Terceira

Film: João Viana awarded at the Berlin International Film Festival – Germany

17 February 2013

Portuguese film director João Viana,46, was awarded a “Special Mention” for “A batalha de Tabatô” at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), one of the most high profile international movie events. The 2013 Berlin International Film Festival was held February 7-17. Set for the most part in Guine-Bissau, the film incorporates many documentary elements […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Entertainment, Featured, Film, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, People, Portugal, World

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