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Mai 03

Press Freedom in Camara de Lobos

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The Museu de Imprensa da Madeira in partnership with the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department of Universidade da Madeira (DLLC – UMa), is going to commemorate the International Press freedom Day, on May 3^rd. The event will be marked by a conference on “journalistic speech in the Madeira regional press in the early 20^th century – opinion and information in the coverage of the Funchal shelling in 1916 and 1917, in the Diário de Notícias and the Diário da Madeira.

The event, open to all (free admission), will take place at the Museu de Imprensa (in Camara de Lobos), starting at 10h00, with Samuel Mateus (DLLC-UMa), with Ricardo Oliveira, the director of Diário de Notícias as a moderator.

Mar 25

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São Martinho in Portugal’s top -10

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The civil parish of São Martinho received the Ecofreguesias 21 banner and certificate, as announced, during the Torres Vedras GreenFest, being placed in an honourable 9^th place within Portugal, within the ten parishes with scores of over 70 percent.

At the ceremony, where civil parishes from the whole country were distinguished, were the parish president, Duarte Caldeira Ferreira, and the president of the parish assembly, Thomas Dellinger.

São Martinho is again to be congratulated for its defense of the environment, which make it a different parish – and a city.

Fev 26

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Madeira tastes in Lisbon

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Bistro & Tapas, at the Tryp Lisboa Oriente presents, until next March 3rd, the Madeiran gastronomy week, an event in which all visitors can take the opportunity to taste our typical dishes.

The menu of that well-known restaurant boasts bolo do caco (unleavened bread) with garlic butter, as an appetizer, and various main courses: filieted espada (scabbard) with fried banana, sweet potato puree and passion fruit sauce, tune with “vilão” sauce, rice seasoned with savoury, season vegetables, octopus with sauted onion and potatoes and vegetables, marinated mackerel with fried maiz and salad, fish stew, marinated pork with white rice, roasted pork loin with rosemary, grilled beef on the skewer, roast beef with Madeira wine and potatoes, and chopped beef with chips. For desserts, Bistro & Tapas presents a series of sweets: ginger cake with vanilla ice cream, malassadas (sweet fried dough) or passion fruit pudding.

The event has place Monday through Saturday, from 12h30 to 15h00 and 19h30 to 22h30.

Fev 06

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Machico twinned in Australia

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Last February 3^rd, in Autralia, there was a meeting between the Machico mayor and various representatives of the new council of Inner West, Sidney, New South Wales, where many of the Madeirans in Australia live, In this meeting the mayor, accompanied by the general consul for Portugal in Sidney, Paulo Domingues, and by the conselheiro of the Madeiran Communities for Australia, José Gois, met the representatives of the Australian council.

Basic concern was the need to enhance relations between the Machico council and the new Australian council unit, given the number of Machico-born residents. The Machico mayor challenged the new council to accept a twinning agreement, which was well received by the Australian group, given the way in which the Madeiran community is seen in the area. The added relationships will translate – one hopes – into real benefits, on all levels, but especially social, cultural, tourist and economics.

Ricardo Franco invited his Australian counterparts to visit Machico and get to know Madeira, something which will be discussed and decided at a later stage.

The meeting also raised an important issue for the Madeiran community, the possibility that the council will cede a plot of land or a building to be turned into a day centre for the communty’s elder living in Sidney.

This was the last of the institutional contacts promoted by Ricardo Franco before his return to Madeira.

Ricardo Franco invited his Australian counterparts to visit Machico and get to know Madeira, something which will be discussed and decided at a later stage.

This was the last of the institutional contacts promoted by Ricardo Franco before his return to Madeira.

Fev 03

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Funchal nominated for Gastronomic Destination of the Year

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Funchal is amongst the nominated cities for “Gastronomic Destination of the Year” in the category “The Best of 2016” of Revista Wine – A Essencia do Vinho. The magazine has announced the candidates in its 100^th edition, and the ceremony to announce the winners will take place tonight in Porto. The Funchal vice-mayor Idalina Perestrelo will represent the city, and is convinced that “this nomination recognizes not only the extraordinary gastronomic and winer making tradition of the city but also the efforts developed by the council in the last years to promote local economy, revitalize its commerce and services, increase tourism and rehabilitate its historic nucleus and reference historic buildings, like the city markets”. Funchal is facing cities like Braga, Estremoz and Mealhada.

In its hundredth edition Revista Win revealed the list of the Best of 2016 as a selection in which, regarless who ultimately wins, the “excellence of the work developed in Portugal in terms of gastronomy and wine making” during the year. Funchal was chosen as a finalist for “Gastronomic Destination of the Year” because it is “much more than a beautiful postcard”. With thousands of visitors crisscrossing its streets every day, says the magazine, “Funchal goes beyond the landscapes and wine, and has in gastronomy one of its biggest attractions”.

Jan 06

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Charitable wings auction

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In www.esolidar.com/b/tapvoluntarioscomasas you find an auction. This would be nothing new were it not for the fact that it is an auction for aircraft equipment, namely for Airbus A319, as TAP is refurbishing both CS-TTK and CS-TTO.

Also interesting is the fact that the proceeds of these auctions are intended for charitable associations associated with TAP Portugal corporate volunteer movement, “Voluntários com Asas”. In this specific case, the aircraft equipment is mainly chairs, and the proceeds of the sale will be given to CASA – Centro de Apoio aos Sem Abrigo, supporting homeless people.

Dez 19

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Can you feel the smell of custard apple?

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If you go close to the city square, on Wednesday at 18h30, and feel the scent of custard apple, it won’t be from a tree nearby, but from the title of an old acquaintance. The name Luz Marina Kratt may sound unknown, but it is the present name of one of the faces of RTP/Madeira in the nineties. Marina Moss, or Marina from tv, would enter our houses during the news some twenty years back.

Well, lets get to the tree. The “Smell of Custard Apple” is published by Oxalá Editora and by the Portugal Post, based in Dortmund, Germany. It is part of a programme that aims at supporting Portuguese writers, called “Autores da Diáspora”. The book is distributed through all the German bookshops with foreign writers, in the countries with Portuguese communities, in the Portuguese speaking African countries and, of course, also in Portugal, namely in Bertrand and FNAC, and possibly others.

In the foreword, one can read that “when the world that Rafaela had built for herself and for her daughter was disintegrating like a sand castle, she doesn’t let herself drown by defeat and despair.

Fate, according to a tarot session, says the future in where her childhood was spent.

She then opens the door of that forgotten world. As if leafing through a photo album, she remembers the old estate where she was born, the village of small white houses, the colourful boats moored by the pier. The men playing cards under the sun-drenched palm trees, and the women embroidering under the steep mountains. And that deep blue sea that, in stormy nights, would throw itself on the village with raging white foaming waves.

Lost, she seeks in the past a route that a tarot card points to like an arrow at a crossroad.

“Cheiro da Anoneira” is an enthralling novel, with traces of humour on the part of some of the village inhabitants. But it is, above all, a novel filled with romance and magic, revealing an occult facet, where parallel dimensions cross.

Rafaela lives on the edge of the world we know, on the threshold of the world we feel and, somehow, fear.

Marina takes us to a world where séances and spirits and paranormal contacts are constant, but which doesn’t aim at revealing anything new. Just touch a reality that is to mark the new millennium.

Next Wednesday go and feel the scent of the season’s fruit at the Funchal council (18h30).

Dez 19

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“The Voice” finalist with Madeira links

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Miguel Carmona will be “representing” Madeira at the final of “The Voice”, the RTP programme with the final scheduled for next Sunday.

Miguel is part of a very well known Madeiran family, Favila Vieira, and was chosen by the audience and by her mentor, Marisa Liz, to be present at the final which is to take place on Christmas day, with direct streaming by the public tv channel.

Miguel won the public preference by singing the mythical Sara Tavares song “Chamar a Musica”, having attained wide praise by his mentor due to his humbleness, politeness and dedication.