Welcome to Novidades, an ongoing newsletter from the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute (PBBI) from Fresno State.  Since our inception that we have been wanting to put fort a simple newsletter with PBBI events, news, and information about all our ongoing projects.  We will also feature various information on the Portuguese classes at Fresno State, the Portuguese Club, and small segments on cultural aspects of the Portuguese Speaking World, including a special Azorean Corner.   From Bruma Publications to the Cagarro Colloquium; from our oral history to our lecture and conference series; from our HUB collaboration project to community engagement, we will register our ongoing projects, give you information of new and upcoming events and feature the many accomplishments of our students.

Why Novidades? The name refers to something new and the news.  It also has a history in the Central San Joaquim Valley.  In 1984, almost 40 years ago, with two other friends, Pedro Valadão Costa and later with, Nazário Borba and Fernando Valadão, we began a free newspaper dedicated to the Portuguese-American community titled: Novidade.  As a tribute to this endeavor and what it meant to the community at the time, it was decided to build upon that name with a newsletter that focuses on all being done at PBBI-Fresno State.   We are all here on the shoulders of someone, and the spirit of Novidade and the service to our multicultural society lives on with the work we all do at the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute.

This site will be an ongoing NOVIDADES, with information about PBBI-Frenso State, but also about our community throughout California and our relationship with the Azores.

Abraços

Diniz Borges