Migrant Communities Project

Thanks to Cape and Islands NPR for their radio spot and write up of MCP's community history initiative and Mass Humanities grant.

Join us for an evening that celebrates Cape Verdean music and help support this cause to raise money for scholarships for Cape Verdean students.

The tickets are $50 a person and if you are interested in attending this event you can contact Angelo Barbosa or Carlos Almeida.

Great write up about the Migrant Communities Project grant award from Mass Humanities to Expand Massachusetts Stories! Write us if you are interested in participating in the Community Scholar Immigrant History project and preserve immigrant stories!

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Migrant Communities Project wins grant to highlight Portuguese and Cape Verdean history Migrant Communities Project wins $20,000 from Mass Humanities Foundation to highlight Cape Verdean and Portuguese history. Here's all the details

Happy to announce having won this grant from Mass Humanities to expand Massachusetts stories

Latest Round of Stories Grants Announced - Mass Humanities Mass Humanities' blog, The Public Humanist, and featured funded grants.

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Article about a conference on Portugal's effective, humane, and ground breaking drug policy that MCP helped to organize

What can Massachusetts and Rhode Island learn from Portugal decriminalizing drugs? Forum offers detailed look Should the U.S. follow Portugal’s path to breaking drug addiction? Mass. and R.I. lawmakers, health and law enforcement officials come together at Fall River forum to learn about the Portuguese drug experience from Portuguese key players.

Link to the the Washtenaw, MI April FAN Forum given by MCP Exec. Director Miguel Moniz on Drug Policy in Portugal and its relevance to US efforts to reduce harm and save lives

Perspectives from Portugal: Lessons from a Successful Approach to an Opioid Crisis In the late 1990s, Portugal had one of the highest rates of “problematic drug use” in Europe, with 1% of Portugal’s population (100,000 people) suffering fro...

Viktor Orbán é uma ameaça contínua à democracia e liberdade europeia. A UE deveria invocar o artigo 7 contra a Hungria A última tirada ra***ta, anti-imigrante e historicamente errada de Viktor Orbán provocou indignação entre os líderes governamentais e defensores da democracia liberal e do projeto da União Europeia. Falando em bombástico de extrema-direita na sua peregrinação anual irredentista à Universid...

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/program/book-talk-acushnet-avenue-pelos-caminhos-de-chiquinho/

Book Talk: Acushnet Avenue (Pelos Caminhos de Chiquinho) - New Bedford Whaling Museum Join award-winning author, José J. Cabral, as he discusses his recent publication, "Acushnet Avenue (Pelos Caminhos de Chiquinho)," as he takes us through a lively presentation of the novel’s protagonist’s footsteps. Learn about Cabo Verde and the Cabo Verdean American odyssey, of not only surv...

This important program/study from some colleagues at Yale and Rutgers is reaching out to Portuguese speakers in New England who have family members and friends who may be confronting mental health crises and who would be willing to participate in an interview session.
Their goal is to look at and address factors faced specifically by Portuguese-speaking communities. In order to assess these problems however they need input from these communities.
Thank you for your willingness to forward this to your mail lists or to families and groups you think may be able to help contribute to this important initiative.

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Este programa/estudo de alguns colegas da Yale and Rutgers está a tentar falar com comunidades lusófonos na Nova Inglaterra que têm familiares e amigos que estão a enfrentar crises de saúde mental e que estariam dispostos a participar numa sessão de entrevista.

O seu objectivo é analisar e abordar os factores enfrentados especificamente pelas comunidades lusófonas.

Obrigado pela sua vontade de re-encaminhar isto email ou informar famílias e grupos que pensa poder ajudar a contribuir para esta iniciativa.

Obrigado

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vamos-conversar-tickets-196646574197

A link to the MCP's first Forgotten Histories class for Falmouth Public library that provides a background of the first arrival of Azorean and Cape Verdeans on the Cape and uncovers some of the very first arrivals in town. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3y5odJALp8

Forgotten Histories : Stories of Portuguese & Cape Verdean Immigrants, How They Shaped the Cape Recorded session 1 of a 4-week Joy of Learning class! Dr. Miguel Moniz and Lew White gave a course on Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants and settlement...

A link to the MCP's second Forgotten Histories class for Falmouth Public library that provides some historical context for the first large scale settlement of Azorean and Cape Verdeans on the Cape and talks about some of these first families, including John Emerald, Alexander Barrows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bXidc8pNcU

Forgotten Histories : Stories of Portuguese & Cape Verdean Immigrants, How They Shaped the Cape Recorded session 2 of a 4-week Joy of Learning class! Dr. Miguel Moniz and Lew White gave a course on Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants and settlement...

This October the Migrant Communities Project (Cape Cod) will be offering a free on-line class as part of Falmouth Public Libraries Joy of Learning program "Forgotten Histories: The Unknown Stories of Portuguese and Cape Verdean Immigrants and How They Shaped the Cape"

Tuesdays, October 5, 12, 19 and 26, 10-11 AM

This course uses recent research uncovering unknown histories of Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigration to Falmouth and Cape Cod. Classes will focus on immigrants and settlement of the town and Cape in four key historical periods (early mid 1800s; the Industrial Agricultural period 1870-1930; WW II and its aftermath; and the 1960s-1980s). Key themes to be explored the whys and where’s of migration, and stories of conflict and cooperation in the town between Yankee and Portuguese and among different groups of Portuguese speaking settlers. The class will dispel some of the myths of about Falmouth’s Portuguese-speaking communities and offers a chance to understand how this migration fit into broader regional, US and world history.

To register, follow the link

https://www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/blog/joy-of-learning-classes-for-fall-on-zoom/

Joy of Learning classes for fall, on Zoom! - Falmouth Public Library Come join us in October for our ever-popular “Joy of Learning” series! Joy of Learning classes have been offered here for many years, in April and October. They are taught by educators and other experts on a volunteer basis, for adults and for and teens at a high school/college learning level. C...

Participants and sponsoring organizations of the Building Communities / Comunidades a Construir Cape Cod MCP History Exhibit created for the Grand Opening of the Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center. June 25, 2021.

Available by request: the PDF slide show presentations of the Azorean, Cape Verdean, Portuguese, and Brazilian communities civic and social organizations, based on the groups' interviews, and research and historical recovery projects. Compiled for the Building Communities / Comunidades a Construir Cape Cod MCP History Exhibit created for the Grand Opening of the Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center. June 25, 2021.

Historical summaries of the Azorean, Cape Verdean, Portuguese, and Brazilian communities civic and social organizations, along with other historical societies that participated in the project and have done work recovering the histories of these migrant communities. Compiled for the Building Communities / Comunidades a Construir Cape Cod MCP History Exhibit created for the Grand Opening of the Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center. June 25, 2021.

Panels from the Building Communities / Comunidades a Construir Cape Cod MCP History Exhibit created for the Grand Opening of the Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center. June 25, 2021.

Images from the Building Communities / Comunidades a Construir Cape Cod MCP History Exhibit adn historical presentation created for the Grand Opening of the Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center. June 25, 2021.

Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center celebrates Juneteenth in its first year as a Massachusetts state holiday.
• African drumming workshop with Sam Holmstock, who has played with Gil Scott-Heron, Babatunde Olatunji, Bo Diddley, James Taylor.
• Exhibit of Gullah Geechee sweetgrass woven baskets.
• Play Ourin, the Cape Verdean and African board game.
• History of Juneteenth.

Great reporting from the new New Bedford Light pointing out the many difficulties faced by so many immigrant social and cultural organizations during the pandemic.
https://newbedfordlight.org/new-bedfords-social-clubs-feel-pain-of-pandemic/

New Bedford’s social clubs feel pain of pandemic - The New Bedford Light In the past year, some social clubs in New Bedford have closed their doors, perhaps even permanently. The Young Cape Verdean Athletic Association and the Elks Lodge have listed their properties for sale.

Recording of the Falmouth Forum on Opioids and Overdose a Migrant Communities Project initiative with the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Opioids and Overdose (NIH). Co-sponsored by the Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center, the Cape Verdean Club of Falmouth, and the Portuguese American Association of Falmouth

Falmouth Forum on Opioids & Overdose https://opioidcobre.org/event/falmouth-forum-on-opioids-and-overdose/The Falmouth Forum was an online webinar to stimulate conversation about best practices ...

Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center cccvmcc.org Board Meeting. Some pre-planning for the June 25 grand opening

Corrie Green (Treasurer) and Philomena Gilbert (President) give their presentation on the Cape Verdean Club of Falmouth. Part of the June 25 opening exhibits of the Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center

Presentation on the Falmouth "Azorean Feast" or the East Falmouth I.D.E.S. by Miguel Moniz, who has been going to the feast since the 1980s. Part of the opening exhibit of the museum.

Patricia Oshman and Luciana Castrillion presentation on a history and current state of Falmouth's Brazilian community. Part of a the June 25 opening exhibits.

Cape Cod community history project is working with Falmouth Historical Commission to identify and help Portuguese and Cape Verdean migrant associations to achieve historical landmark status for their halls and buildings. The process is helpful to secure preservation funds and general recognition of the material and intangible cultural heritage produced at the organization. The chairman of the historical commission presented information they have on each of the buildings and is collaborating with the group to amend older Form B information on buildings the commission knows about, identify buildings they dont know, and help to write up Form B information on those.

Wendy Bierwirth presents on Cape Verdeans in Marston's Mills and research by James Gould on Portuguese speaking communities of the upper cape at the Marstons Mills Historical Society. Her presentation will be part of the exhibit presented on June 25 at the grand opening of the Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center.

Lew White, lifetime member of the society, presents on the Fresh Pond Holy Ghost Society.

At our weekly meeting, Barbara Burgo, Clerk and Curator, presents on the Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center. cccvmcc.org