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July’s Compra a Casa prize goes to a good cause

The Formentera Department of Commerce reports that the July winner of the summer edition of Compra a Casa received his prize today, a €100 gift card he plans to regift to local NGO Formenterers Solidaris. Marco Carnevali has been a faithful user of his Compra a Casa card since 2016. Hatched in an effort to promote local small business and reward shoppers for doing the same, the latest edition of Compra a Casa is backed not ju...

Eba Marí Guaita’s “En paral·lel al cel” opens at Centre Gabrielet

Sacred geometry, starry skies and nocturnal seascapes . . . these are the inhabitants of Eba Marí Guaita’s universe, which the Valencia-born and Formentera-based artist channels in an exhibit due to take up residence tomorrow at Centre Antoni Tur ‘Gabrielet’ and set to stay until Saturday the 15th. Through paintings in acrylic and resin, the artist reveals an inner world that is both hers alone and communal, and replete with ...

Submissions accepted for Consell’s 2020 research grant, now worth €8,5k

The Formentera heritage office has launched a call for applications for the Consell’s research grant, recently subject to a €2,500 funding increase bringing the value of the award to €8,500 in 2020. The terms of the call are already available on the BOIB regional gazette website, and interested researchers have until 11 September to submit applications. The initiative is designed to promote scientific research in the arts, hu...

Abandoned cats

The Formentera government wishes to raise public raise awareness around the growing number of abandoned cats on the island. Recent weeks have come with numerous discoveries of litters of cats left in rubbish bins. The Consell de Formentera reminds islanders that it is illegal to abandon animals and pet owners who no longer want their animals can contact the Consell’s veterinary service. Fines for abandoning animals vary from €...

Álvaro Mendoza’s “Aïllat” settles into ‘Ajuntament Vell’

The latest display of work from Álvaro Mendoza, Aïllat, opens at the ‘Ajuntament Vell’ exhibition space today, starting a run that is scheduled to conclude 15 August. The artist describes the show as an “exploration of thought inside our soul”. “Whether voluntary or imposed, isolation is neither the beginning nor the end”, he explains. “It’s part of the process of transformation. Throughout the entire exhibit I attempt to beco...

Plenary participants press Madrid to seek consensus around domestic and international guarantees on travellers’ health safety

A number of proposals got the green-light when members of the Consell de Formentera gathered today for the July full-house assembly: one in particular, brought to the floor by Sa Unió party members and brokered by the GxF-PSOE senior cabinet, calls on the national government to “work toward consensus on international agreements” to control the movements of covid-19 patients before they leave countries of origin and to establis...