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For Sant Jordi Day, Imàrantia will presents new album "RetrUc" on Formentera

The Office of Culture of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to announce that the duo Imaràntia will present their latest album RetrUc at the Sala de Cultura (Cinema) of Formentera on the feast day of Sant Jordi, Sunday 22 April, at 8.30 pm.

RetrUc, a tribute to UC
Retruc finds the duo formed by singer/guitarist Maria José Cardona and Majorcan pianist Miquel Brunet sharing their unique take on the music of Eivissa and Formentera and delving into UC's musical catalogue as an expression of gratitude and recognition towards its three founding members. The captivating melodies and lyrics, which have not lost an ounce of validity, are now presented in Imaràntia's characteristic intimate and heartrending key. They will be accompanied by Eduard Riera on violin and Pep Lluís Garcia on drums and percussion.

Prices and tickets
Tickets are available on www.entradesformentera.cat for €7. Unemployed people, under-employed freelancers, retirees, under-25s, people with functional diversity, single-parent families and large families pay half price.


14 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

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Carmen Liberal Siso presents 'Mediterrània, ser i esdevenir' in 'Ajuntament Vell' exhibition space

The Office of Culture of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to report that from 17 to 29 April, "Ajuntament Vell" exhibition space will host artist Carmen Liberal Siso's work "Mediterrània, ser i esdevenir".

The featured work speaks, in Liberal's words, "to the Mediterranean Sea –a vast space of encounters and links across time– as the origin of the essence of our culture", and "to its multiple cultural versions, which are bound together by rich diversity, trade, myths, water and light".

The artist's most recent work finds her linking concept and chance to generate a formal language moving from geometry to the stroke of gestural connotations. In a project titled Forma i Moviment, Liberal also records videos with fragments of nearby landscapes and subsequently crafts compositions by combining these with details of pictorial works. This highlights the fluid relationship between organic forms and basic structures, which the artist describes as "a metaphor of human relationships and our interaction with nature, the ties that bind us, intertwine and are diluted again and again in their incessant transit".

The exhibition will open Monday 17 April at 7.00pm. It can be visited in the Sala d'Exposicions "Ajuntament Vell" from Tuesday to Saturday, 11.00am to 2.00pm and 6.00pm to 8.00pm.

Biography
Carmen Liberal Siso was born in Navarra and lives on Eivissa, where she develops her work in pictures and education. She graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, specialising in Photo Cinema-Video.

In pictorial creations, one of Liberal's core materials is paper collage (opaque or translucent), which she combines with other techniques. She uses tracing paper as a glaze and experiments with water and colour, incisions and drips, and salt and sun. She then tears or cuts the paper and transforms it into subtle strokes, creating harmonious, nature-inspired compositions that are full of light.

In 2021 Liberal won the Consell d'Eivissa's Vuit d'Agost Painting Prize for Emprendada (the award was shared with Josefina Torres Riera).

The artist has had solo and group exhibitions in Navarra, Basque Country, Eivissa, Mallorca, Alicante and Galicia, some of which have been promoted by Art amb B (Association of Friends of Contemporary Art of the Balearic Islands).

13 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

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Brutus the bear leaves the mountain to play and sing for the children and adults of Sant Ferran

The Office of Culture of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to report that as part of the local activities programme to celebrate Sant Jordi, the Príncep Totilau theatre company will perform their production El meu amic Brutus on Formentera.

Brutus is curious, affable and funny, and likes to hug people, smell what they eat and scratch his back against trees and walls. The 2.5m, 400kg brown bear and his nutty, happy-go-lucky family of mountain peasants decide one fine day to leave the cave where they live to see the world and exchange the apples from their orchard for stories and tales. Along the way, they will get all the families they meet to sing, dance and play traditional games.

El meu amic Brutus will be performed on Saturday 22 April at 12 noon in the square of the Church of Sant Ferran. The show lasts 50 minutes and is free of charge.

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13 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

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City of Eivissa Symphonic Band heads to Formentera in step with baton beat and with Harry Potter, Aladdin and Sinatra in tow

The Office of Culture of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to announce that as part of the activities planned to celebrate Sant Jordi, the City of Eivissa Symphonic Band will come to Formentera to perform an assortment of the most iconic and beloved pieces in cinema.

The concert will begin with "Coplas de las divisas", an endearing piece from Bienvenido, Mister Marshall. Next they will travel to North Africa and return with a selection of songs from the soundtrack to Aladdin. Then, it's "all aboard" the high-speed train with Robert Smith's "The Great Locomotive Chase". Stepping off the train, the audience will enter a magical dimension of melodies from Harry Potter. This will be followed by "Gallito y Vito", a classic paso doble by maestro Santiago Lope. Then it's back to the theatre for a bit of entertainment for the little ones: the soundtrack of one of the great works of animated cinema, Ratatouille. Mancini's "The Pink Panther" will follow. The band will also play "Centura", a piece by James Sweringen. Finally, the performance will conclude with "America" (excerpt from West Side Story) and Stephen Bulla's "Sinatra.

The free show, programmed for Saturday 22 April at 5.30pm, will unfold in the Sa Senieta courtyard and last roughly 60 minutes.

12 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

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Presenting "Noves rondaies d'Eivissa i Formentera"

The Office of Culture of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to report that it has scheduled a presentation of the book Noves rondaies d'Eivissa i Formentera on Thursday 13 April at 7.30pm in Marià Villangómez Library. The event will be presented by author Lluís Ferrer Ferrer, illustrator Antonio Rodríguez Cano and Maite Ferrer.

This work showcases the oral tradition of the Pine Islands through a series of popular short stories marked by costumbrismo, humour, a slight moralizing touch and supernatural elements. Eivissa's go-to folklorist Joan Castelló Guasch (1911-1984) was the principal promoter of the preservation of these age-old legends, which he compiled in several volumes.  His latest literary adventure finds the acclaimed writer from Cala Mestella proffering a side-splitting assortment of folk tales.

As noted on the book's back cover: "Noves rondaies d'Eivissa i Formentera embodies the personal commitment of this pair of clueless individuals who, through no fault of anyone else, have embarked on the mad task of expanding and revitalising the popular literature of Eivissa and Formentera with previously unpublished stories".

11 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

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