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Community | Atlantic Celebration Day  celebrates America and Portuguese  pride MiratecArts | II Curta Pico Prize draws international filmmakers FLAD | Essay Competition for Young Portuguese-Americans July 4th | Portugal and the United States have remarkable historical ties Community | Nicholas Ferraz graduates from Harvard University
 

Community | Atlantic Celebration Day celebrates America and Portuguese  pride – New Bedford, MA

The Portuguese-American community gathered in New Bedford (MA) on Sunday, July 19, to participate in the Atlantic Celebration Day, marking America’s 250th anniversary of its independence and the longstanding friendship between Portugal and the United States.  The initiative was sponsored by the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), whose president, José Manuel Durão Barroso, addressed participants, emphasizing […]

MiratecArts | II Curta Pico Prize draws international filmmakers – Azores

The II Curta Pico Prize has attracted notable international interest, receiving 27 original film proposals from creators in the Azores, mainland Portugal, Argentina, Canada, the United States, and Spain.  Organized by MiratecArts, the competition is a way to strengthen the Azorean audiovisual industry while promoting Pico internationally. The winning project, to be announced during the […]

FLAD | Essay Competition for Young Portuguese-Americans – Portugal

The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) has launched a new essay competition inviting young Americans of Portuguese descent to reflect on the enduring relationship between Portugal and the United States.  Announced to coincide with the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, the initiative encourages a new generation of Portuguese-Americans to explore the historical, cultural, political, and human […]

July 4th | Portugal and the United States have remarkable historical ties – Azores

As the United States commemorates its 250th Independence Day on July 4, the longstanding relationship between Portugal and the United States offers a remarkable chapter in the history of the Atlantic world.  Although Portugal remained officially neutral during the American Revolutionary War, due to its centuries-old alliance with Great Britain under the Treaty of Windsor […]

Community | Nicholas Ferraz graduates from Harvard University – Cambridge, MA

This spring, Nicholas Ferraz graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a Master of Education in Teaching and Teacher Leadership, earning a 4.0 GPA. Already a certified mathematics teacher in Massachusetts, Ferraz represents a generation of Portuguese American educators whose professional journeys reflect both academic excellence and a deep commitment to multilingual and […]

Azorean student delegation visiting Massachusetts

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 […]

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Posted in Awards, Azores, Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, People, São Jorge

13th AngraJazz International Festival – Azores

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 […]

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Posted in Azores, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, People, Terceira

International Symposium: Portuguese-Canadian Immigrant Descendants in Canada

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 […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Education, Featured, Heritage

José Saramago’s Cain, neither literature nor diatribe – Book Review

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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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, People

Life on the Douro: A Documentary about Wine and Culture

26 September 2011

The documentary “Life on the Douro,” produced and directed by Zev Robinson, was released in the United States and will be shown in California in mid-November, including Los Angeles on November 15 and San Francisco on November 17, 2011. The screenings are followed by wine tastings and seminars. The 90 minute film documents about 300 […]

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Posted in Entertainment, Featured, Film, Food & Wine, Heritage

Police thwarts youth demonstration in Luanda – Angola

25 September 2011

Police stopped 100 demonstrators in Luanda, Sunday, protesting against President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ 32 years of autocratic rule. The Portuguese news agency Lusa reported that protesters were pushed back by the police when they planned to march from Luanda’s Santana Cemetery to Independence Square. No arrests were made. Previous protests in Luanda, on September […]

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Posted in Angola, Politics, World