30 November 2024
By Len Port At a time of intense warfare worldwide, Portugal hosted the 10th UNAOC Global Forum, an international conference organized by the United Nations to promote global peace. Renowned as one of the most peaceful countries on the planet, Portugal was an appropriate venue. The 10th UNAOC Global Forum, held this week in Cascais, […]
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29 November 2024
The Regional Government of the Azores is organizing a free online training workshop for Azorean folklore groups based in South and North America to be held on December 14th at 5:00 pm Azores time. This initiative, offered through the Regional Directorate for Communities, aims to provide a platform for sharing and updating knowledge about Azorean […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People
23 November 2024
As a young man Fernando Pessoa aspired to, as he put it, “be plural like the universe.” He would fulfill this desire by inventing over one hundred fictional alter-egos which he called heteronyms. Beginning with Pessoa’s early days in Portugal, this philosophical biography explores this modernist pioneer’s life, work, and imaginative universe. Bartholomew Ryan offers […]
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22 November 2024
By Len Port Portugal has been contributing positively in its own way to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024. Unfortunately, the conference, which concludes Friday, has been mired in controversy and has failed so far in reaching essential international cooperation. Portugal came to the […]
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14 November 2024
By Millicent Borges Accardi I met PaulA Neves in 2011 when we were part of the first Writing the Luso Experience class, taught by Frank Gaspar at Disquiet in Lisbon. And, we became fast friends after many adventures with the Kale Soup for the Soul reading series, whose founding members include PaulA, Carlo Matos and […]
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14 November 2024
Earlier this month, the Azores Tourism Summit introduced the new Azores Tourism Portal, a digital platform designed to enhance the user experience by consolidating tourism-related services and information into a single, user-friendly website. The Azores Tourism Portal streamlines access to an extensive array of tourism resources and services, previously dispersed across multiple channels, to offer […]
