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Diniz Borges

In 1990, in the small town of Tulare, a literary-dramatic symposium was started, which would impact the community at the local and state level. Filaments of the Atlantic Heritage existed for 12 years and brought to Tulare, a sister city with the city of Angra do Heroísmo in the Azores since 1966, a significant number of writers, poets, academics, visual artists, actors, and musicians. Twenty years later, Bruma Publications of the Portuguese Beyond Borders InstitutePBBI of California State University at Fresno launched this bilingual publication of arts and letters, naming it after the Tulare symposium, as it was popularly known. We believe that we are all here on someone’s shoulders.

Here we will have an amalgamation of works in the two languages of our diaspora in the United States. Filamentos will have as its primary goal to be a space for literary and artistic dialogue between our Diaspora in the US and Canada with the Azores, with Madeira, mainland Portugal, and the Portuguese-speaking world. We also want to dialogue with other cultures and identities that make up the multiculturalism of the two leading countries of our immigration to the North American continent.

With essays, creative and analytical texts, poetry, news from the world of arts and letters, with interviews, we will try to establish a space in the Diaspora that creates even more bridges between the Lusophone world, giving particular emphasis to the Azores and its Diaspora.

We thank all who contributed to this first edition.