28 September 2011
Portuguese-Canadian pop singer, Nelly Furtado, said Tuesday she is donating $1 million to Free the Children, a global charity organization. She said the money will help build an all-girls secondary school in Kenya. Reportedly, the donation amounts to the sum Furtado earned performing a 45-minute private concert for family members of ousted Libyan leader Moammar […]
Posted in Azores, Canada, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Music, People, São Miguel
27 September 2011
The body of Aristides Pereira, Cape Verde’s first-ever president, has now arrived in the West African country following his death at age 87 in Portugal last week. There was a large crowd in attendance at the airport, including former president Pedro Pires, members of the government, the military, family and friends. The state funeral of […]
Posted in Cape Verde, Community, People, Politics
27 September 2011
By Carolina Matos, Editor – They are only sixteen, but Ana Silva, Ana Silveira and Ines Amarante are having the experience of a lifetime. They are students at Escola Básica e Secundária das Velas, São Jorge Island, in the Azores, visiting the United States for the first time from September 23-27. They were the winners […]
Posted in Awards, Azores, Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, People, São Jorge
27 September 2011
The Angra Jazz Cultural Association is hosting the 13th AngraJazz International Festival to be held October 6-8, at Centro de Congressos, Angra do Heroismo, Terceira, Azores. Guest musicians include Portuguese jazz performer Júlio Resende and Larry Coryell, Bill Carrothers, Kurt Elling, Charles Lloyd, and Dave Douglas from the United States, among many others. The event […]
Posted in Azores, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, People, Terceira
26 September 2011
The University of York is hosting the “International Symposium on Identity, Civic Engagement, Multiculturalism and Transnationalism: Portuguese Canadian Immigrant Descendants in Canada,” to be held on October 11-12, in Toronto, Ontario. Professor Fernando Nunes will be the keynote speaker for the event which will congregate 26 international scholars and researchers. The topics to be addressed […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Education, Featured, Heritage
26 September 2011
By John Howard Wolf — Pace, pace, literary critics, comrades, general readers, et al. This book*, purportedly written in a short four months near the author´s end, seems to have been done in a “trance” as has been said. Seen in the context of his symphonic literary output, this is merely the coda consisting of repeated […]
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