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This Thursday, Formentera remembers victims of pro-Franco violence

Cementeri sant ferranFormentera's Office of Culture and Patrimony announces the unveiling, on Thursday, March 1,  of a sculpture and plaque commissioned by the Balearic administration and honouring Jaume Ferrer Ferrer, Josep Ribas Marí, Joan Tur Mayans, Jaume Serra Juan and Vicent Cardona Colomar. The five Formenterencs were killed on the island on March 1, 1937 near the back wall of the Sant Ferran cemetery.

Part of a bid to restore the five victims' place in collective memory on the island and ensure the tragic events of 81 years ago are remembered.

The unveiling, scheduled to take place next Thursday at 5.00pm in the Sant Ferran cemetery, will be attended by families of the victims as well as representatives of the Fòrum per la Memòria d'Eivissa i Formentera, Balearic culture and participation minister Fanny Tur, local culture secretary Susana Labrador, and a number of the Formentera administration's senior secretaries.

All are welcome to attend a small reception in memorial for victims of repression.

More than a day, a 'Diada', of culture, fitness and solidarity to celebrate Balearic Islands

Foto actes Dia de les Illes Formentera's Office of Culture and Festivities teamed up with the CiF sports department this morning in unveiling local plans for the region's self-celebratory holiday. Also on hand was Josep Claverol, the chief of inter-agency relations and exterior operations in the Balearics.

As for the activities in store on the Dia de les Illes Balears, or simply “la Diada”, on Thursday, March 1, local culture secretary Susana Labrador talked about a charity fun run, the Cursa per a la Dona, which is scheduled for that morning at 11.00am. The Council's official Diada commemoration will be staged in Sant Francesc's plaça de la Constitució at 1.00pm, followed by an affordably-priced community paella in sa Senieta car park to raise money for the Asociación Española contra el Cáncer (AECC). Later in the evening, the Casa del Poble in la Mola will host performances by Calipoe Trio and Bep Marquès.

Workshops and basketball tournament
Festive activities start earlier in the week on Wednesday, February 28, with a mural-painting workshop at Biblioteca Marià Villangómez (5.30pm-7.30pm) to focus on food in the Balearics. Sports have their place on the bill as well, and from Wednesday to Saturday the Antoni Blanc fitness centre will be the site of the sixth Trasmapi-sponsored Balearic Islands basketball tournament, an event with the participation of teams hailing from across the region.

Storytelling, traditional dance and theatre
The activities programme continues the following week. On Thursday, March 8, the Sant Ferran library will play host to an afternoon of storytelling, Cuentos para valientes, from 5.00pm. Then on Saturday, March 10 at noon in plaça de la Constitució, two Formentera troupes will be joined by three teams, or colles, from the region in giving a display of traditional dance. Then, at 8.30pm, the island's cinema (Sala de Cultura) welcomes Es Molí for their production of Es Mijorals de Don Mariano, which will mark the official end of this year's Dia de les Illes Balears celebrations.

L'Illa a Escena back this weekend with 'Evocación', a piano and dance recital

Foto evocacionFormentera's department of culture and festivities presents Evocación, a “choreographic recital” based on big-name composers like Albéñiz, Falla, Turina and Granados and dashes of contemporary poetry by way of Julio Herranz.

Taking spectators on a ride through some of the most recognised work in the Spanish classical catalogue, Evocación makes stops at Isaac Albéñiz's suite Iberia, Enrique Granados's Goyescas and Manuel Falla's La Vida Breu. On their way, Evocación's performers explore adeptly a repertoire which spans music and dance and dust off an all but forgotten mode of spectacle that brought success to an alternating cast of artists like La Argentina, Pilar López and Mariemma.

In this tribute to Spanish music and dance, ivory-tickling chops mingle with stirring dance moves, delicateness and brute force take shape, the sonic and visual come to the fore and a veritable chorus of elements converge in seamless union.

J. Jaime Hidalgo de la Torre will play piano at the event. Beyond his capabilities as a musician, Hidalgo de la Torre is a composer and currently director of Formentera's polyphonic choir. Nieves Portas will head up the dance effort. The pair, both seasoned and highly-regarded artists in their own right, are also instructors at the Formentera school of music and dance.

The evening performance, part of L'Illa a Escena, will begin Saturday, February 24 at 8.30pm in the Sant Francesc cinema. The day of the event, tickets will be available at the box office for €5 or €3 for those under 25.

Formentera cinema turns 30

Foto cinema sala de cultura The Formentera Council's Office of Culture reports that this year the island's cinema, or Sala Municipal de Cultura, will celebrate thirty years since opening.

The story of Formentera's “Hall of Culture” can be traced to the commemoration of Sant Jaume in 1987 and a conference which included the participation of historian Joan Marí Cardona. The stable, uninterrupted programming the Sala is known for today would begin a year later, on February 20, 1988, when, with the help of professionalised management, it was transformed into a multipurpose, 268-person capacity hall that played both as a centre for cultural programming and meeting place. What better pretext for the task than cinema, one of the most transcendent languages of artistic expression in modern society.

Thirty years after the Sala's first audiences saw La Misión, the site is a premier cultural outpost in constant renovation. The cinema's switch to digital was an expression of this, part of the Sala's passion for innovation in the service of islanders. It is this that makes the Sala a motor for up-to-date, stable film programming every Friday and Sunday of the year.

The cinema also hosts stage productions, music and dance series, conferences, book talks and theatre for kids, and serves as a backdrop for performing arts courses in theatre and dance.

Thirty-year celebration
To celebrate the event, at 9.00pm on Tuesday, February 20, the cinema will give a free screening of La Bamba, a film that originally ran the last week of March, in 1988, and generated the cinema's largest showing to date.

Tickets this weekend and next (February 16, 18, 23 and 25) are specially priced at €3. On Saturday the 24th, following Evocación, a recital by Formentera municipal school of music and dance teachers Nieves Portas and Jose Jaime Hidalgo de la Torre, light hors-d'oeuvres and cava will be served.

The Formentera Council would like to thank all the individuals whose efforts have made cinema possible on the island over the last thirty years.

As performing arts initiative keeps kicking, La Fornal dazzles Formentera audiences with 'adventures of Gepeto and Pinocchio'

foto gepeto i pinotxoThis weekend Formentera's Office of Culture and Festivities presents Les aventures de Gepeto i Pinotxo, a show for the whole family included in the Illa a Escena initiative to promote theatre.

La Fornal arrives with their take on the classic which, penned by Carlo Collodi in the late 19th century, unfolds in a tiny Italian village, where two old friends meet and decide to build a puppet. Their creation, Pinotxo, will be the son Gepeto has always wanted. But, a born troublemaker, the little wooden boy will be anything but what his father had in mind. Pinotxo's assorted adventures will leave him open to everything from disappointment and frustration to the splendour of becoming a real boy.

Tickets for the production, which hits Formentera's Sala de Cultura at 6.00pm on Saturday, February 17, are three euros.

Set in a room not much larger than a playpen, the show presents a wash of on-stage techniques which position it somewhere between storytelling and classical theatre. Props come to life, shadows are a source of light and puppets help the audience get their bearings.

The show is part of TALENT IB 2018, an initiative of the Govern's Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics.

The troupe
With over 25 years' experience under their belts and a dedicated venue to call home, La Fornal d'Espectacles offer a supportive, creative space for their member artists' independently-run projects.

The team disembark this weekend on Formentera for a performance on Saturday, February 17 at 6.00pm in the cinema. Tickets for the 50-minute show are three euros and available at the box office the day of the event.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=m0gQqBiYO5A

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