14 March 2011
Faced with a $42 million cut in public funding, the University of California Berkley announced the elimination of basic instruction in Portuguese, Russian, Swahili and Japanese, while adding more than 30 new foreign language courses to its offerings. Beginning in 2011-12, over $500,000 will go towards supporting an additional eight Chinese courses, six Spanish courses, […]
Posted in Education
14 March 2011
According to The Harvard Crimson, “Dan Sousa is not a typical animator. Instead of creating films with strong narrative structure and central characters, he prefers to captivate his audience with an immediate visceral reaction.” A Providence-based film-maker Daniel Sousa – born in Cape Verde and raised in Portugal – moved to the United States in […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Cape Verde, Community, Film, People
13 March 2011
The project to build the new Museum of Contemporary Art in Ponta Delgada, Azores, is well underway in partnership with Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. The project will connect the Autonomous Region with the ‘Paths Niemeyer’ worldwide. The project was worked out in Brazil between Ponta Delgada’s Mayor, Berta Cabral, and the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer […]
Posted in Azores
13 March 2011
Brazilian-Americans in Massachusetts want to show they are a political force by creating the website www.nosvotamos.com with the goal of registering 5,000 fellow Brazilians to vote. For António Massa Viana, a local musician and community leader, the time for the Brazilian-American community has come. He told the Boston Globe about Brazilian-Americans that “Sometimes what happens is that yes, […]
Posted in Community
13 March 2011
More than 300,000 thousand people protested Saturday March 12 in at least 11 major Portuguese cities. Tens of thousands had already responded to a national Facebook appeal to take part in this public demonstrations against the lack of jobs, poor wages and poor working conditions. According to figures published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), based in Lisbon, the unemployment […]
Posted in Politics
13 March 2011
Canadian author, Farzana Doctor launched her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, a fictional cross-cultural account of life in “Little Portugal” the Portuguese community of Toronto. Doctor who lives in the Brockton Triangle area said that the book is very much inspired by her neighborhood. In the book, Ismail Boxwala befriends Fátima and Célia, two Portuguese-Canadian […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Canada, Community, Heritage, World
