Gilberto Fernandes

  • My presentation at the Toronto Workers History Project on Vimeo

    On November 14, 2016, I gave a presentation at the Toronto Workers History Project’s general meeting where I introduced the audience to the PCHP’s mission and activities. That presentation was recorded and can be seen on Vimeo here.

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  • RTPi’s “Hora dos Portugueses” to continue for a third season

    The daily show “Hora dos Portugueses” on Portugal’s international TV and radio broadcaster RTPi/ RTP1/ RDP, will continue for a third season, from January to December 2017. Together with Pedro Rodrigues, Luis Moreira, Daniela Costa (Toronto), and Marta Raposo (Montreal), I will continue my work as a co-producer, content editor, researcher, and reporter dedicated to showcasing Portuguese immigrants…

  • “Oh Famous Race!” New article in The Public Historian

    My latest article came out in the University of California Press’ and National Council on Public History’s journal The Public Historian, 18: 1 (February 2016): 18-47. It examines the transnational and international politics and motivations behind the Eurocentric campaigns of Portuguese American heritage advocates to memorialize the sixteenth-century navigators Miguel Corte-Real and Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo…

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  • My interview with stand-up comedian Mike Rita on RTPi

    My interview with the stand-up comedian Mike Rita aired on RTPi’s “A Hora dos Portugueses” (weekend episode 10, minute 34). You can watch it here. | A minha entrevista com o comediante Mike Rita foi transmitida no programa “A Hora dos Portugueses” da RTPi (episódio de fim de semana 10, minuto 34). Pode vê-la aqui.…

  • Interview with author Anthony de Sa

    Yesterday I got to interview the acclaimed Toronto author Anthony de Sa – Barnacle Love (2008), Kicking the Sky (2013) – for the RTPi show “A Hora dos Portugueses.” After a sit down conversation at the Sanderson Toronto Public Library branch, we walked down Palmerston Ave’s “memory” laneway where much of the action in Kicking…

  • Interview with comedian Mike Rita

    Yesterday I spent the last evening of my 35th with the hilarious Mike Rita, one of the top new stand up comedians in Toronto. I got to hang out with Rita and record our conversation while driving between shows – in the style of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Drinking Coffee – and later interview…

  • Interview with punk rocker Sandy Miranda of ‘Fucked Up’

    Our filming for RTPi’s “A Hora dos Portugueses” continues. Last week we interviewed Sandy Miranda, the bass player for Fucked Up, one of the most prolific and international punk/hardcore bands from Toronto, winner of the Polaris Prize in 2009 (nominated again in 2012). We sat down with Sandy on the stage of the legendary Horseshoe…

  • PCHP & RoughCut collaboration w/ RTPi

    (Texto em português segue-se ao inglês) Earlier this month I started a new project with Pedro Rodrigues of RoughCut Audiovisual (and Luis Moreira) producing content for Portugal’s international public broadcaster RTPi’s new daily TV show “A Hora dos Portugueses.” We are now interviewing various individuals at the heart and on the fringes of Canada’s Portuguese…