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Newest wave of PIMEF training courses

curs jornades formatives fent pimefPIMEF, Formentera's coalition of small and medium-sized business owners, is putting on a new round of day-long training sessions called “Fent Pimef”.

The seven associated courses will be held at the group's head office from April 4-30. Paid for by the Formentera Council, the classes are free and open to the public. The training is provided for in an agreement, signed by PIMEF and Formentera Council representatives, for business-related training and consultancy.

TRAINING PROGRAMMES
April 4 Selecting staff. Who's choosing who? 4.00pm to 8.00pm. PIMEF headquarters

April 9 Preventing drug and alcohol consumption. 4.00pm to 8.00pm. PIMEF headquarters

April 10 Sell more with the Internet (without setting up your own website). 4.00pm to 8.00pm. PIMEF headquarters

April 12 Communication and social skills. 4.00pm to 8.00pm. PIMEF headquarters

April 24, 26 and 30 Semi-automatic defibrillators. 4.30pm to 8.00pm. PIMEF headquarters

April 11 and 13 Burnout. Mindfulness for stressful work. 4.00pm to 7.00pm. PIMEF headquarters

April 16, 18 and 23 Photography for businesses. 6.00pm to 8.00pm. PIMEF headquarters

Registration is open now. Call 971 32 25 20 or send an email to info@pimef.es.

Formentera offers courses in traditional world dances

curs de ballMarch 19-27, the Formentera Council's Office of Social Welfare will offer a course on dances of the world. The free classes are part of programming for the island's sixteenth Festa Intercultural scheduled to take place Sunday, April 8.

Department head Vanessa Parellada highlighted the importance of offering classes to “push dance—whether from far-off lands or right here at home—into the consciousness of islanders”and, in so doing, create a kind of “cultural synergy” among attendees.

Classes will be held afternoons from Monday the 19th to Friday the 23rd and pick up again on Monday the 26th and Tuesday the 27th. Iris Palomo will teach attendees the local blend of dance known as ball pagès (literally “farmers' dancing”) while Jassmin Londoño is scheduled to head up instruction on Dominican bachata, Cuban salsa and cumbia, a dance popularised in Argentina and Colombia.

Participants will have a chance to show their moves on a dedicated stage during the Festa Intercultural.

Here and now: Formentera welcomes expo's 'transformative look' at volunteer work

expo fest intercultural 018Formentera's Office of Social Welfare reports on the opening this Wednesday of a photo display in Sant Francesc's central plaza. In El voluntariat: una mirada transformadora, Yago Soria shares the reflective take on volunteer work that earned him the Art Jove prize in a recent contest of young photographers.

The travelling, twelve-piece display of 1.2-metre wide prints and accompanying texts is presented by the regional minister of culture, participation and sport. Part of Soria's quest to provide visibility to volunteering in the Balearics, the show has already made stops in Palma and at the Universitat de les Illes Balears and plans are afoot for more on Eivissa and Menorca.

Volunteer on Formentera
Formentera currently possesses a strategy to coordinate local volunteer work. Islanders keen to join the Council's catalogue of registered volunteers can sign up via the Agenda Cultural linked to the Formentera Council website. There, hopeful volunteer workers can access the registry, details, a link to the explicative text posted on the Balearic Islands' official gazette, informational brochures and the form to register. (https://goo.gl/nwCpw2)

Volunteer workers for April 8's Festa Intercultural
The Council wishes to launch a call to all islanders interested in volunteering to assist the organisation of the sixteenth Festa Intercultural, Sunday, April 8 at Mestre Lluís Andreu primary school. Volunteers can register for that and other events by following the above link or visiting the Office of Social Welfare (àrea de Benestar Social).

International Women's Day supporters pack central Sant Francesc plaza

Dia internacional dona 1Some 400 answered the call for a 12-noon assembly at Sant Francesc's plaça de la Constitució in observance of International Women's Day.

The day got started an hour earlier as gender equality campaigners mounted stands around the plaza offering information and messages of advocacy. At approximately 12 noon, islanders began to congregate before the entrance of the administration's head office. An atmosphere of festive solidarity permeated the square amidst the feminist call to halt business as usual. It was an effort to draw attention to demands of funding and resources for the Spanish central government's pact on gender violence. More broadly, attendees added their voices to the call for a society free of violence against women, for respect for sexual diversity, the right to make decisions about their own bodies, the full decriminalisation of abortion, and the right to an education free of hetero-patriarchal values.

At the heart of the general strike was the demand for equal assessment of domestic and care work, not to mention answers on issues like job insecurity, retirement benefits under attack and regulating domestic work.

Observance of strike
The offices of the Council saw 100% participation in the call to stop working for two hours. Four-point-seven per cent of administration staff observed the day-long strike.

Other International Women's Day activities
At 5.00pm, the Sant Ferran library will welcome Maritza Caballero as she presents island youngsters with Cuentos para valientes, a storytelling session about equality.

Then, at 7.30pm in the Office of Culture's hall of ceremonies (Sala d'Actes), supporters of gender equality are invited to attend a screening of the documentary Excluídas del Paraiso. A discussion will follow.

Formentera celebrates International Women's Day

foto presentacio dia dona 2018Social welfare secretary Vanessa Parellada sat down this morning with one of the administration's equality specialists, Azuzena Carrasco, and Espai Dones chairwoman Dolores Fernández Tamargo to unveil the activities programme for next Thursday, March 8, International Women's Day. A multifarious spread of activities —with each one, at the centre, women— began last Thursday on the Dia de les Illes Balears (Day of the Balearic Islands). Celebrations will conclude April 16.

The programme continues this Monday at 8.00pm with the opening of an exhibition by Maria Arjona. The title, “Dones amb massa coses al cap”, translates roughly as “Women with too much on their mind”, and is on display until next Saturday, April 17.

International Women's Day
Next Thurday a whole series of activities and events are lined up to celebrate International Women's Day. To start, there will be informational stand from 11.00am in plaça de la Constitució in Sant Francesc. After that, the day's programme kicks off with a 12-noon rendezvous in the square ahead of a 12.15pm reading of the day's manifesto. High turnout is expected, not least because unions have called a strike to combat discrimination of women, in all of its forms—professional, economic, social. The Formentera Council will participate as well.

At 5.00p.m. in the Sant Ferran library, Maritza Caballero will be on hand to lead a family-friendly storytelling session, “Cuentos para valientes” focussing on equality.

Organisers are also planning a 7.30pm screening of “Excluidas del Paraiso” with discussion to follow in the Office of Culture's Sala d'Actes.

Other activities
Expect a dose of cinema, too. On Friday the 9th and Sunday the 11th, a Spanish-language version of Hidden Figures (Figuras Ocultas, in Castilian) will be shown in the island's cinema.

At 4.30pm on Friday the 16th, organisers are teeing up an initiation to batucada drum gatherings, and Saturday the 17th will holds an International Women's Day tradition, the sopar de germanor (“supper for sisterhood”).

Seven p.m. on Monday the 19th, Victòria Alemany will lead a workshop entitled Mindfulness for Wellbeing in the Sala d'Actes and, Thursday the 22nd, island youth meeting point, the Casal de Joves, will host a storytelling session with Encarna de las Heras.

At noon on Sunday the 25th, Formentera's dependent care centre will be the site of the tenth Homenatge a la Dona major (“Tribute to the elderly woman of Formentera”).

Celebrations come to an official close on Monday, April 16, at 8.00pm in the Marià Villangómez library. There, writer Núria Varela, who holds a masters in policymaking on equality between women and men, will talk about gender equality and her latest book “Feminismo para principiantes”.

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