Meet the team: Gabriella Tomei
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Get to know our new team member, Gabriella Tomei!
Read MoreThe Shrine - family memories at the Smithsonian Museum
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The Shrine - family memories at the Smithsonian Museum
Read MoreA Letter from our President, Phil Potestio
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A Letter from our president, Phil Potestio. Happy New Year!
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Maria Rosa Martelli Brekke Cibo e Amici Fund
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Maria Rosa Martelli Brekke Cibo e Amici Fund was launched earlier this year. With this fund, PBSCA is committed to create a series of educational events to help us better understand and celebrate the power of Italy’s food culture, specifically that of the Emilia Romagna region, to bring us closer together.
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Meet the team: Margarett Waterbury
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Get to know our Marketing Director, Margarett Waterbury
Read MoreMeet the team: Catie Di Gregorio
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Get to meet our Youth Exchange leader, Catie di Gregorio
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PBSCA Youth Exchange: The Host Family Experience
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Read on to learn how the experience went for John and his daughter, Maddie, who participated in the exchange in 2016.
Read MoreLetter from Bologna
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Read about observations Phil Potestio has made during his current travels in Bologna, Italy.
Read MoreRicette dai Nonni Series - Natale
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From the house of our PBSCA President Phil Potestio and his wife Sally, we bring you a special holiday recipe, passed down from his Italian grandparents.
Read MoreLettere da Bologna - Autocertificazione for Santa
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We all knew that the holidays would be a difficult time to endure amidst the global coronavirus pandemic. We have been so accustomed to celebrating the conclusion of the year in the company of our friends and family and to be honest a Zoom call just doesn’t feel the same as an in person holiday “brindisi”(toast) with your loved ones.
Read MoreLettere da Bologna - Elena Vizzini
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In continuing our blog series Lettere da Bologna (Letters from Bologna), we are sharing the story of PBSCA’s current board member Elena Vizzini who has recently moved to Bologna to pursue dual citizenship and strengthen her Italian language skills all while discovering the deep connections between life in Portland and Bologna.
Read MoreLettere da Bologna - Mayor Virginio Merola
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Over the next few months we will be bringing you authentic perspectives and stories from citizens of Bologna in our blog series Lettere da Bologna (Letters from Bologna). Who better to feature in our inaugural post, than the Sindaco (Mayor) himself, Signore Virginio Merola.
Read MoreAn Open Letter to PBSCA Supporters
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Italy has struggled and suffered like no other country, in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Speaking for the Portland Bologna Sister City Association, I would like to express both our sympathy and prayers for the people of Bologna and Italy, and we all share the hope that this crisis can quickly abate.
Read MoreA Letter to the Oregonian Editor from former PBSCA board member Rob Johnson
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As a former Portlander and now Bolognese, I wanted to express my deep feelings about our unique and precious cities. Portland and Bologna are sister cities and are in many ways cultural and political twins. We must join with our sister cities and other worldwide partners to recognize, engage, and act with conviction to solve the growing global Covid-19 crisis.
Read MoreCelebrating 15 Years of Portland-Bologna Sisterhood
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Italians (and even Italian Americans), have the propensity for “regional affiliation”. Talk to any Italian and one of the first things discussed is where in Italy their family is from and how it is, inevitably, the best area in the country. That of course led to disagreement as to what Italian city Portland would approach as a potential sister. The players could not seem to agree, each pulling for their particular neck of the woods.
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