The Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the United States
Serving our Community for 29 Years!
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LUSUS Newsletter
New Edition of LUSUS to Highlight Portuguese Culture
Part of PALCUS' mission is to promote the Portuguese culture and those who are helping to keep it alive. We welcome input from anyone on people or groups to feature, as well as additional categories to include.
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Featured Folklore Group - Rancho Casa do Ribatejo Newark
Rancho Casa do Ribatejo Newark is a Portuguese folk dancing group from Newark, New Jersey.
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Traditions / Customs -
Day of Portugal Parade Boston, MA
The Boston Portuguese Festival annually organizes a Portugal Day parade in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Featured Fado Singer – Ana Vinagre
“Ana Vinagre (Fado Singer) was born in the fishing village of Buarcos - Figueira da Foz - Portugal. Very early, she began participating in the church choir and in local Community Playhouses doing stage plays and operettas. At the age of 13 Ana joined the local Folk Dance Group "CANTARINHAS DE BUARCOS" and toured the entire country of Portugal as well as several European countries at Folk Music and Dance Festivals.
In 1972 married Joe Vinagre, a U.S. Disk Jockey, and set roots in New Bedford, Massachusetts.”
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Featured Photographer –
Peter Pereira
“Peter Pereira was 9 years old when he moved to the United States from Figueira da Foz, Portugal, in 1978. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in 1992 with a degree in computer engineering, and even started his own computer company before giving it up in 2001 to focus on his true passion, photography.”
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Featured Restaurant – O Lavrador
“Since 1981 O Lavrador Restaurant and Bar has dazzled the neighborhood with authentic cuisine from Portugal and Spain. Our extensive menu features unforgettable seafood dishes, fresh fish, and traditional meat specialties to entice every palate.
"O Lavrador" is literally "The Farmer" in Portuguese.”
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Featured Architect – Tomás Taveira
“Tomás Taveira (born 1938) is a Portuguese
architect. He has a degree in architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon and owns a post-graduation from the MIT (U.S.A.). Some of his most recognizable works include Amoreiras Complex in Lisbon, and three of the new stadiums for Euro 2004 in Portugal.”
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Featured Designer – Angela Silveira
The founder of Silveira Designs states: “My name is Angela and I am the creator of Silveira Designs.
I am a Graphic Designer and Community Organizer. First generation born of Azorean parents. A graduate from San Jose State University B.A. in Graphic Design and a Minor in Portuguese. I have worked and designed for multiple nonprofit organizations, small business, and larger tech companies.”
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Featured Fashion Website – Lisbon Blue
Lisbon Blue sells shirts expressing Portuguese culture as well as religion. They also sell mugs, home decor, etc.
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Featured Author – Stephen Rebello
“Stephen Rebello is a screenwriter and author of the bestselling Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of ‘Psycho‘. He has written screenplays for Disney, Paramount, Focus Features, and others.”
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Featured Winery – Mais Fica Winery
“Mais Fica is a small, family-owned vineyard and winery in the Sierra Nevada foothills. We produce Rhone style wines, exclusively, from our Grenache, Mourvedre, and Syrah grapes. Our focus is to produce the highest quality fruit possible from our vineyard to ensure the finest wine.”
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Featured Scientist – Carlos Paulo
Carlos Paulo was “born in Portugal and is a nurse at the largest Catholic Hospital in New England.”
An article was written about him, in Portuguese, tilted: “NASCEU EM PORTUGAL E É ENFERMEIRO NO MAIOR HOSPITAL CATÓLICO DA NOVA INGLATERRA.” It is located on Henrique Mano’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/henriquemanonewyork
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Featured Actor – Tom Hanks
“Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has called a "fractured" family. He moved around a great deal after his parents' divorce, living with a succession of step-families. No problems, no alcoholism - just a confused childhood. He has no acting experience in college and credits the fact that he could not get cast in a college play with actually starting his career. He went downtown, and auditioned for a community theater play, was invited by the director of that play to go to Cleveland, and there his acting career started.”
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Featured Singer –
Nuno Bettencourt
“Guitar virtuoso Nuno Bettencourt made his name with the eclectic pop-metal outfit Extreme during the height of the guitar-shredder era, and embarked on a solo career after the band's breakup. As a soloist, Bettencourt's most immediately recognizable influence was Eddie Van Halen, but as a songwriter, he might draw from Queen, the Beatles, Prince, and anything in between. The youngest of ten children in a musical family, Bettencourt was born Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt in the town of Praia da Vitoria, on the island of Terceira in the Azores (an archipelago governed by Portugal) on September 20, 1966. His family moved to Boston when he was four and he began playing music as a teenager, trying out drums, bass, and keyboards, but settling on guitar.”
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If you would like to feature your artwork or written works in this newsletter, please send your bio, images and other information to [email protected]
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JOIN PALCUS
Are you a PALCUS member yet?
We are stronger together!
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If you agree with the work undertaken by PALCUS to build the social, cultural and political capital of our community, then please join us and become a member today!
Strong membership participation means a stronger voice in the national Portuguese-American agenda. In order to advance Portuguese language education, increase presence in the congressional caucuses, and provide economic opportunities, the collective voice of thousands is needed!
In addition, PALCUS is a member-driven non-profit organization that depends on membership dues and fundraising events to fund its operations. Members of the all-volunteer board of directors donate their time and personal funds for travel, lodging and tickets to attend networking events and planning sessions so our administrative costs are relatively low but nonetheless critical to doing business on a daily basis.
There are membership categories to suit every budget and level of interest. Please click on our membership webpage and join our voice today!
Questions? Contact Graci for more information!
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Jobs for Portuguese Speakers
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PALCUS Mission
In order to create a singular voice to advocate for the Portuguese-American and Luso-American communities at large, the Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the United States Inc. (PALCUS) was founded in 1991 as a non-partisan, non-profit, organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.
The PALCUS mission is to address domestic and international concerns of the Portuguese-American Community.
The Council conducts an expanding program of educational and public affairs activities on issues of interest to the Portuguese-American community and of salience to the Luso-American Relationship.
PALCUS is committed to serving the community through increasingly active government relations efforts, the promotion of a greater awareness of ethnic accomplishments and encouraging stronger ties between Portugal and the United States. In this role PALCUS advances the community professionally, politically and culturally while working to ensure that issues directly affecting our community are addressed through our network of government and community leaders.
PALCUS is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization under the IRS tax code and incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia. Donations are tax deductible to extent allowed by law and will be acknowledged.
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PALCUS has earned the 2019 Gold GuideStarUSA Nonprofit Profile Seal of Transparency. Visit our profile HERE
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Contact Information
Phone: 202-466-4664
9255 Center St., Suite 404
Manassas, VA 20110
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