The Language Advisory Service of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to report that the 49th Onomastics Society Colloquium will take place Monday 1 May, with a presentation from authors Vicent Ferrer i Mayans and Enric Ribes i Marí of their book "La toponímia de Formentera".

The day kicks off at 9.00am in the Sala de Plens with a presentation by Ángel Custodio Navarro on legislating language and safeguarding place names, or "toponyms". At 9.20am Mar Batlle will discuss Formentera's toponyms in the DECat and Vicent Ferrer i Mayans, proposals to disseminate and reincorporate them. At 10.00am Enric Ribes will frame local place names as indicators to diachronically study the local variant of Catalan ("Eivissenc") and Marc Roses will speak about tech solutions for efforts to catalogue toponyms. At 11.20am Antoni Ferrer Abárzuza will unpack the toponyms borne of a 17th- to 18th-century settlement in La Mola, and Jesús Bernat Agut will discuss place names along the coast between Almenara and Alcanar. Then, Josep Miquel Ribés and Andreu Beltrán will pick apart names for geographic features at sea used by seafarers from Grau de Castelló de la Plana.

At 12 noon authors Vicent Ferrer i Mayans and Enric Ribes i Marí will give a presentation of their book "La toponímia de Formentera". The Onomastics Society co-published the book, a compendium of local place names, with collaboration from the Onomastics Office of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. It offers nearly nine hundred pages of toponyms and microtoponyms of the island previously found in scattered and, in some cases, unpublished collections. Published by the Consell de Formentera, the work also features a map allowing readers to travel name by name across Formentera's interior and coast.

Presentations last twenty minutes and are open to the public.

27 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

La presidenta del Consell de Formentera, Ana Juan, i la vicepresidenta i consellera d'Educació, Alejandra Ferrer, s'han reunit avui de manera telemàtica amb la delegada d'Educació del Govern balear d'Eivissa i Formentera, Margalida Ferrer, i responsables de l'Ibisec (Institut Balear d'Infraestructures i Serveis Educatius) per tractar la posada en funcionament del servei de menjador al CEIP El Pilar i el CEIP Mestre Lluís Andreu.

La presidenta del Consell, Ana Juan, ha destacat "la bona coordinació entre el Consell i la Conselleria d'Educació del Govern balear per avançar en la conciliació de la vida laboral i familiar a Formentera", després d'estrenar aquest curs escolar el menjador de Sant Ferran, un servei "que el curs vinent podrem fer extensiu als centres de Sant Francesc i la Mola".

Per la seua part, Alejandra Ferrer, ha agraït "la paciència i col·laboració dels centres educatius i les apimas durant aquest curs" i ha mostrat la seua satisfacció perquè "per fi el servei pugui arribar a aquests centres, i així millorar la situació de moltes famílies de l'illa que ho necessitin".

Conveni amb el Consell
La consellera ha recordat que el Consell va signar un conveni amb la Conselleria d'Educació i Formació Professional per fer-se càrrec de la gestió del servei escolar de menjador al CEIP Sant Ferran de ses Roques, que ara actuarà com a cuina centralitzada des d'on es traslladaran els menús als altres centres.

Segons han informat a la trobada, durant aquest estiu l'Ibisec realitzarà obres d'adequació al gimnàs de l'edifici de Migjorn del CEIP Mestre Lluís Andreu perquè es pugui fer servir com a menjador.

Al CEIP El Pilar el servei de menjador es començarà a oferir de manera temporal a la Casa del Poble de la Mola, en aquest cas el Consell de Formentera es farà càrrec de l'adequació d'aquest espai fins que el Govern balear faci les obres de millora i ampliació a l'escola de la Mola, amb les quals es crearà un menjador dins del mateix recinte.

27 d'abril de 2023
Àrea de Comunicació
Consell de Formentera

The Office of Culture of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to report that from Monday to Saturday, 25-29 April, the Centre Antoni Tur "Gabrielet" will host the exhibition of the 23rd Antoni Tur "Gabrielet" Bookmark Contest and Robert Lewis Baldon Children's Literature Contest. The exhibit is open from 10.00am to 2.00pm and 5.00pm to 7.00pm. This display showcases the work of pupils at CEIP Sant Ferran de ses Roques, CEIP Mestre Lluís Andreu, CEIP El Pilar, CEI Virgen Milagrosa and the escoletes.

Yesterday children and their families attended the gala for the Sant Jordi awards, the winning creations of which are featured in this exhibition. Vanessa Parellada, culture councillor, shared her satisfaction with the experience of last night's event, where "our cinema was packed with families and participants in these competitions that promote painting and writing and which have become important events on our island and in our schools". For her part, Vice President Ferrer praised participants for the high quality of submissions and thanked schools for their collaboration.

From the Office of Education and Office of Culture, joint gifts were awarded to the selected classes and individual gifts were awarded to winning students. Gifts included books and items related to painting and music. The awards gala started yesterday at 5.30pm in the Sala de Cultura (Cinema), where entertainment came in the form of La rosa i el drac, a show from the Anakrónica theatre company.

25 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

Saturday 29 April at 12 noon, the School of Music and Dance of Formentera will host its celebration of International Dance Day. The school's roughly 70 dance students between the ages of 3 and 18 will participate, as well as two former students, Lur Silbera and Hugo Zaragoza, who are continuing their careers as dancers in Mallorca.

Alejandra Ferrer, vice president and education councillor, invited islanders to attend a performance where, as she explained, "we will celebrate this day with various music and dances and a demonstration of what students practice at school". There will be classical dance, boleros, folklore, flamenco, modern dance, and music such as Basque fandango, tangos, Bach's "Prelude No. 1" and the score of the film Up.

25 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera