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Collective Signatures hits Formentera

Exposicio collective signatureFormentera's departments of culture, education and patrimony are backing Collective Signatures, a cultural initiative with the subtitle Letters from Formentera.

Collective Signatures and the “itinerant residency” it proposes artists and curators descend on Formentera for two weeks from April 11. Devised as a way to promote reflection on the cultural questions facing contemporary society, the programme is also aimed at encouraging the individuals who decide to write and create art, alone or as part of a group and in ways that are creative or experimental.

Participants in the geographically-themed and concept-driven project will be tasked with shaping a new, unique and creative map of Formentera and producing a genre-spanning body of text focussed on the island.

Pooling experience
On Friday, April 20, at 10.30pm, a final evening of readings and performance will take place at Sa Panxa, giving participants the opportunity to share lessons and reflections arising from the residency.

One final undertaking involves sharing some of the texts and audiovisual materials produced over the course of the project. The accompanying material will serve as the basis for a range of print and online publications, exhibitions and academic research projects which are on the horizon.

Balearic high court confirms: es Campament is heritage site

foto es campament 2The high court of the Balearic Islands has confirmed the designation of es Campament as a site of exceptional cultural value. In so doing, the court rejected a suit brought by the owners of es Campament appealing the Formentera Council's decision to characterise it as such.

On November 29, 2013, the plenary assembly of the Formentera Council voted to begin the process of ascribing the status of “Asset of Cultural Interest” or BIC (Bé d'Interès Cultural) to la Savina's erstwhile prison. The designation also included special mention of the site's historical value.

The measure cited a text adopted in plenary by the Eivissa-Formentera island council in 2002. Dated September 30, that text held that “the former prison of la Savina (es Campament) was declared historical BIC”.

Responding the 2013 declaration, es Campament's owners undertook the contentious litigation rejected earlier today by the court when it upheld the publication of the BIC designation in the official gazette of the Balearic Islands and its inclusion in Formentera's catalogue of historical interest sites.

Culture and patrimony secretary Susana Labrador welcomed the court's ruling, noting it would “help ensure this treasured historical heritage monument receives the recognition proposed by the Council”. “Today's climate is favourable to efforts to recuperate historical memory”, she asserted, and called es Campament “particularly important in that sense”.

Formentera Council's commitment to historical memory
The ruling reaffirms the Council's commitment to recovering historical memory on Formentera. On March 1, celebrated as Dia de les Illes Balears, administration officials unveiled a plaque commemorating the five Formentera residents that were killed by supporters of Francisco Franco in 1937. The plaque is the first of its kind in our community.

Formentera welcomes Nuria Varela's 'feminism for beginners'

Nuria varela feminismo para principiantesThis Monday, the Formentera Council's Office of Social Welfare will host a presentation of Nuria Valera's book, Feminismo para principiantes. At the event, Valera will lead a discussion of contemporary feminism and the contradictions pervading our society's relationship with it.

An expert in feminism, Varela got her bachelor's in information technology, works as a writer and holds two master's degrees—one in interdisciplinary gender studies and another in gender and gender-equality policy. On her current trip to the island, Valera presents a freshly-minted comic-book version of Feminismo para principiantes (“Feminism for beginners”, TN), first published as an essay in 2008. In its current iteration, the book uses updated language and a heady dose of illustrations to take feminism to a broader audience.

To hear CiF social welfare secretary Vanessa Parellada tell it, the Formentera Council rejects the idea that “feminism is for women”. She contends that finding ways to apply feminist thought in society at large is “essential to making the world a better place”. Parellada also urges “progressives in power enable broad access to these ideas” and equates feminists' contributions with “public service”. As such, Parellada encouraged all islanders to come out for the event.

The discussion and book presentation are scheduled for next Monday, April 16 at 8.00pm in Biblioteca Marià Villangómez in Sant Francesc.

Included in the Diada de Sant Jordi activities programme, the event is supported by Institut Balear de la Dona and will be attended by that agency's director, Rosa Cursach.

Blai Bonet and family-friendly theatre crown first six-month phase of L'Illa a Escena 2018

Foto fila cordafil redux circ acrobatesThis weekend, Formentera's Office of Culture welcomes to the island the two stage shows which will close out the first half of L'Illa a Escena 2018.

Blai Bonet
Dedicated to Majorcan poet and artist Blai Bonet, this series —with its conference, stage production and documentary inspired by the artist's dramaturgical side— will be performed on all four of the Balearic Islands.

The inaugural event on Formentera takes place at 8.00pm on Friday, April 13 in the CiF culture department's Sala d'Actes. In an evening moderated by Joan Tomàs Martínez, a professor at ESADIB and doctor of performing arts from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, attendees will learn about Blai Bonet, the artist's poetic side, and just what secured his inclusion in the history books as an out and out genius.

At 8.30pm on Saturday, April 14, the cinema will again offer up its stage, this time for a performance of Oficis al carrer. As a primary school student in 1985, Bonet penned the short piece as a year-end assignment while attending the Col·legi Bisbe Verger.

Director Jeroni Obrador of Tshock Cultura Emocional has managed to reunite the original 1985 cast 33 years after the show's première. For further insight into Bonet as a playwright, audience members can stick around after the show for a screening of the documentary El teatre de Blai Bonet.

The evening is all-ages appropriate and free to attend. Attendees will come away with a complementary DVD.

Family-friendly theatre
On Sunday, April 15, bring the whole family for a production that spans theatre, dance and circus. In Minorcan troupe s'Espai de Circ's El Viatge d'en Filo Cordafil, Filo and his stringy friends invite us on a journey packed with humour and fantasy, where all manner of objects transmogrify into improbable characters and draw us deeper and deeper into Filo's imagination.

Scheduled for 5.00pm on Sunday in the cinema (Sala de Cultura), the 55-minute show costs €3. Tickets are available at the box office the day of the function.

Soria film fest arrives on Formentera

Cartell cine a los 4 vientosWednesday through Friday, la Mola's Casa del Poble will host screenings of some of the top-ranking short films from the city of Soria's international festival of short films. Over three days, film fans will be treated to 32 productions from Formentera, mainland Spain and further afield.

This is the second time films from the Soria festival can be seen locally as part of Cine a los 4 vientos. The project isn't just about pushing the short-film format and creating new markets by showing the most-acclaimed works from last year's Certamen Internacional de Soria in a host of countries, festivals and towns, it represents an effort to promote the Soria film fest itself.

Screenings will be held at the Casa del Poble on Wednesday the 11th, Thursday the 12th and Friday the 13th from 8.30pm in twice-daily 45-minute sessions. On the final day, the programme will feature filmmaker Pilar Aldea's tribute to Miguel Angel Moreno “Tranquilito” and an 11.00pm jam session in Can Toni.

The evening screenings, which are organised by Espai F with help from Formentera Film, Can Toni and the Council, will also be attended by festival director Javier Muñiz.

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