Projects
- Erika de Casier's journey to self loveIn September 2021, Copenhagen-based Erika de Casier won Denmark’s Star Sprinkle Cultural Award for her innovative approach to music; a sultry, understated take on 90s R&B. In her acceptance speech, de Casier took the opportunity to speak about her experience as an immigrant in Denmark. This hardly came as a surprise. Born in Portugal to a Belgian mother and Cape Verdean father, Erika immigrated to Denmark at the age of eight. There, she spent much of her childhood being racially targeted...
- What makes The Azores, The Azores?The Azores, also known as Arquipélago dos Açores, is an autonomous region of Portugal that lies on the nexus of the European, American and African tectonic plates – roughly 1,600km west of mainland Portugal and about 3,900km from the east coast of North America. Born from the eruptions of underwater volcanoes, these nine islands – ranging from a whopping 288 square miles to a teeny 7 square miles – are divided into three widely separated island groups that are home to just 245,766 inhabitants...
- What makes Malta, Malta?https://www.journeetrips.com/culture-curious-malta Malta sits slap-bang in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, just south of Sicily in Italy. At just 121 square miles – that’s just a fifth the size of Greater London – the island is absolutely tiny! Amazingly though, this lilliputian isle is home to 440,000 souls, making it one of the most densely populated territories in the world! In Europe, its population density is beaten by only two other countries: Monaco and the Vatican City...
- Bali: A paradise on Earth...https://mailchi.mp/5e53bdc149a8/are-you-culture-curious-13402348 Bali - just one of Indonesia’s 17,500 islands - sits in the Indian Ocean, at the very eastern tip of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Just 8 degrees south of the equator, Bali is paradise on earth, boasting 12 hours of sunshine a day and an average year-round temperature of 27°C! At 5,780 km², this sprawling archipelago is home to 4,362,000 people, making it one of the most densely populated areas in Indonesia. In fact, its population de
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