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Announcing Mar e Floresta, the new Concordia Language Village

Since 1961 Concordia Language Villages has offered a summer language-immersion camp for young people aged 7-18. In July 2008 it will add a Portuguese-language Village, Mar e Floresta ("Sea and Woods"). During two-week immersion sessions, participants will study the language and take part in a variety of educational and cultural activities typical to Portuguese-speaking cultures. Mar e Floresta will be located at a camp facility in northern Minnesota.

Concordia Language Villages offers 15 world languages to 11,000 youth, families, and adults from all 50 states and 32 countries yearly. The addition of Portuguese is in keeping with its tradition: teaching critical world languages and cultures to pre-collegiate young people.

During two-week immersion sessions, Mar e Floresta participants, known as villagers, will be surrounded by a supportive staff of native and non-native speakers. Villagers need no previous knowledge of Portuguese to participate. Instruction will be given in small language-learning groups according to proficiency levels.

BAMcinématek: The Talking Pictures of Manoel de Oliveira

BAMcinématek’s upcoming series, The Talking Pictures of Manoel de Oliveira, runs March 7 – 30. This retrospective of features and shorts marks the centennial of the acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker, and includes early documentaries and recent dramatic features. We are happy to announce that Oliveira will be at BAM on the opening night of the series, March 7, for a rare question-and-answer following the screening of his most recent film, Christopher Columbus, The Enigma (Cristóvão Colombo—O Enigma) (2007).

Other highlights include Oliveira’s first feature, Aniki Bóbó (1942), a portrait of childhood; The Past and the Present (O Passado e o Presente) (1971), the stunning first film in Oliveira’s epic Tetralogy of Love; the scathingly hilarious satire The Cannibals (Os Canibais) (1988); the poignant meditation on loss, I’m Going Home (Je rentre à la maison), starring Michel Piccoli and John Malkovich; and Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo) (1997), featuring Marcello Mastroianni in his final role as the director of a touring troupe of actors.

Phone: 718-636-4125 ext. 8
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Invitation to the 2008 Portugal–US Gala Ball

The Board of Directors requests the pleasure of your company at the 2008 Gala Dinner, Friday evening, March 28, at The Metropolitan Club, New York City — reception and dinner, with dancing to the music of The Peter Duchin Orchestra. R.S.V.P. by March 19. We regret we cannot accept payment at the door. Event details >

Battery Dance Company 33rd-Anniversary Gala Celebration

Battery Dance Company is celebrating its 33rd anniversary season on February 13, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Please join us to see the Company’s latest creation, “The Other Side,” a collaboration with the Quorum Ballet from Lisbon, Portugal. The Anniversary Gala Celebration includes a pre-theater dinner at 6:00 pm; gala performance at 8:00 pm; and an after-party and silent auction at 9:30 pm. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke will present the award. Ambassador Alexandre Almeida de Fernandes, Consul General of Portugal in New York, will be a guest of honor. Further details, ticket information, and pricing is available online at NYCharities.org.