The Government of the Azores will open the exhibition on "Migration and Diversity: Inclusive Azores" on Friday, May 8. It will be open to public until May 14, during the Holy Christ of Miracles Festivities, at the Chapel of São José Church in Ponta Delgada.

This collective exhibition, which will open at 7:30 PM, is intended to disseminate the richness of the Azorean cultural mosaic. It features several works, created individually or under integration projects, by immigrants from Brazil (Érica d`El-Rei Perello), Cape Verde (Mário Moreira), USA (Susan Burkat Trubey), France (Anne Bruyere), Mozambique (Julieta Tovela) and Russia (Maxim Pavlov) as well as by an Azorean emigrant who returned to the Azores (Marc Garcia).

Participants will present several artistic pieces created using different techniques in the fields of plastic arts and crafts, namely painting on canvas and fabric, ceramics, pallets, jewellery, patchwork, pictures on eucalyptus leaf and tracing paper as well as other techniques. These artists will demonstrate the contribution of their art to the integration process of migrants and the dissemination of the cultural identity of the archipelago, which home to foreign citizens from 75 countries.

This initiative is promoted by the Cabinet of the Regional Under Secretary for External Relations, through the Rgional Directorate for Communities, and is organised in collaboration with AIPA - Azores Immigrant Association, ARRISCA - Regional Association for Rehabilitation and Socio-Cultural Integration of the Azores and Cresaçor - Community Centre for Immigrant Support.

The exhibition "Migration and Diversity: Inclusive Azores" also aims to promote interculturalism, welcome emigrants and support the full integration of immigrant and emigrant communities in the Region, considering migratory routes as an important asset to the social, cultural and economic development of the Azores.