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PBBI-Registering Stories, Creating Narratives
PBBI-Fresno projects are the hub for cultural, literary, pedagogical, and research resources for the diverse Portuguese Diaspora in the San Joaquin Valley and the entire State.
We are building a congregating venue for cultural events, teacher workshops, literary resources, artistic showcases, legacy archives, interdisciplinary panels and discussions, research, and performing arts, not only for our students, faculty, and staff but also for the enrichment of the Portuguese-American community at large.
With your donation, you will contribute to PBBI's continuing work in building a solid relationship with the Portuguese Diaspora in California and the Lusophone World, allowing Fresno State students to establish connections with other cultures and experiences and expand career opportunities locally and globally. From archiving oral history (available to all through our Fresno State Library) to creating documentaries that can be used in classrooms throughout California to publishing translated literature and original works that are relevant to our Portuguese-American experience, to building bridges with the Azores and all of Portugal through exchange programs, to building community through projects like Bruma Publications (with Novidades and Filamentos), the Cátedra Natálaia Correia, the Alfred Lewis Bilingual Reading Series, the Cagarro Colloquium, housing the Azorean Diaspora Media Alliance, Among others, PBBI can only do this and other upcoming projects thanks to your generosity.
Please support our efforts by contributing to the crowdfunding campaign!
$25
Friend
As a Friend, your donation could assist PBBI in the Portuguese oral history collection and all the preparations to get the oral histories into our Collection.
$50
Supporter
As a Supporter, your donation of $50 could help us achieve the goal of building community through outreach to community organizations. This fosters more contact between our students and the community, as the students do oral history projects and connect with the Portuguese-American experience.
$100
Patron
With a $100 Patron donation, you could assist us in achieving the goal of building community through outreach to community organizations to foster more contacts between our students and the community. The students do oral history projects and connect with the Portuguese-American experience and have more BRUMA publications available for our students in our Language and Culture Classes.
$250
Pillar
As a Pillar, your $250 donation could help us develop and sustain our cultural activities for students, including the Portuguese Language Student Youth Day at Fresno State, which brings many high school students throughout the Valley and the State to Fresno State. We also have a dynamic speaker series that connects our students and community with the rich culture of the Portuguese-speaking World.
$500
Benefactor
As a Benefactor donor, your $500 donation could ensure that our conference series and Bruma publications projects will reach as many students as possible, allowing the students and the community at large to learn about the Portuguese-American experience in our multicultural Valley and State as register our stories and create our narratives.
$1,000
Legacy
As a legacy donor, you could assist us in bringing Portugal and Portuguese-speaking cultures, especially the culture of the Azores, to our students and our valley through translations, publications, presentations, and talks. The books, translated into English, are offered to our students in our courses at no charge. As a legacy donor, you could help PBBI to build an array of projects that build community and will enable us to continue our daily projects of NOVIDADES and FILAMENTOS, both reaching our Fresno State students and the community at large, creating a strong Diaspora on the West Coast of the US.
