At 7.00pm this Saturday 20 November, the Sala de Cultura-Cinema will host a session of short films titled Cinema de Dones (Women's Cinema), as part of the activities programme for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Cinema de Dones is presented by Cineastes de Balears and is organised in collaboration with Espai Dones and the Consell de Formentera.

Programme:

-'Soledad', Pilar Aldea (Formentera)
-'Es tu turno', Margalida Adrover (Palma de Mallorca)
-'Violència, assot costumista', Marta Grimalt Canals (Palma de Mallorca)
-'Sàvia', Maria Hernandez, CEF student (Palma de Mallorca)
-'La Fábrica (Vicio y Dependencia)', María José Ribas Bermúdez.
-'Facunda', Marta Romero.
-'Somos Gente', Pilar Aldea (Formentera)
-'Fantástica', Beatriz Regueira Pons.

16 November 2021
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera

The School of Music and Dance of Formentera (Escola de Música i Dansa) will celebrate the feast day of Saint Cecilia next Sunday 21 November with a special concert. The show will take place at 12 noon in the courtyard of Sant Ferran's Espai Cultural (the former school, Carrer Tarragona, 26). The event is free and open to the public as long as attendees stay a safe distance apart and wear masks for the duration.

Held on a day that is dedicated to musicians, performances will feature students in some of the school's most popular courses, like Traditional Music, the Children's Choir (director: Rosa Mago), the island's Polyphonic Choir (director: Juan Francisco Ballesteros) and the Municipal Band (director: Santiago Ramirez).

"The School of Music and Dance of Formentera celebrates Saint Cecilia's Day by bringing music to the community. Last year we had to do things digitally, so this year we are very excited that the public will be able to enjoy in-the-flesh performances again", signalled Councillor of Culture Susana Labrador, who encouraged students' families and all music lovers "to come enjoy this special celebration.”

12 November 2021
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera

The Formentera Office of Culture is pleased to report that at 7.00pm this Friday, the Casa del Poble will host a talk with Stella Rahola, an architect and sculptor and the artist behind "Fig Juice", an installation which opened recently in the Far de la Mola cultural and educational space.

Biography

Stella Rahola Matutes completed studies at the Barcelona School of Architecture and Goldsmiths at University of London, and received a degree in sculpture from Escola Massana. Rahola's solo shows include "Fig Juice " (Espai Micus, Eivissa, 2020-2021), "Babelia & Other Stories " (Can Mario Museum, Palafrugell, 2019) i"The other landscape" (Carles Taché Gallery, Barcelona, 2014). Among numerous collective exhibitions are "Politics of Translation, The Stone Space" (London, 2019) and "Syntonic State" at the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts (Galway, 2018).

Recently the artist was awarded the Vila Casas Foundation's Sculpture Prize.

Exhibition

Rahola's latest exhibition, "Fig Juice", is currently on view at Far de la Mola. In the installation, the three material bodies establish structures that are free to intertwine extemporaneously, without repetition, establishing tensions at different, decentralised points and occasionally breaking with the concept of humans as observers.

The title "Fig Juice" alludes to the unstable liquid state which nearly makes it possible for us to be ingested and embody ourselves. Islanders can catch the exhibition at the Far de la Mola gallery Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00am to 2.00pm.

10 November 2021
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera

This Wednesday 10 November at 8.00pm in the Marià Villangómez Library, author Antònia Cirer will tell crowds about her book "Eivissa i Formentera. Sargantanes i illes" . Cirer will discuss Eivissa and Formentera's characteristic lizard, Podarcis pityusensis, and describe the most peculiar features of its biology. She will trace the origins of the current configuration of islets and islands in the Pine Islands archipelago, given those origins have a bearing on the living things that call the archipelago home today.

For lizards, Eivissa and Formentera possess a diversity of factors known as ecological conditionners, which explains their profusion of colours. Humans often regard Formentera as being marked by a certain degree of ecological uniformity, but the vastly diverse ecological conditionners have a direct bearing on the lives, body shape and, above all, colour of lizards. Cirer will devote particular attention to the lizards of Formentera, focusing on the distinct populations that live at three ends of the island, their varying types of coloration, and how the colours on lizards' backs vary as observers travel from north to south.

8 November 2021
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera