The Office of Youth Affairs of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to announce the activities organised at the Casal de Joves during the month of April. "Once again the programme is tailored to Casal youth", said Vanessa Parellada, youth affairs councillor, highlighting activities like "a workshop to prepare a first curriculum, as well as Sant Jordi celebrations with the spotlight on poetry".

Tomorrow, Wednesday 5 April, the youth drop-in centre will host an activity in connection with the 20^th Beni Trutmann photo contest. "We will encourage young people to take smart-phone snapshots that they can present as submissions to the youth category of the contest", added Parellada. Another highly anticipated event is "Anime", a workshop on traditional and computer-enhanced illustrations of Japanese origin on Saturday 8 April.

Movie nights (sofa and popcorn included) will continue certain Wednesday afternoons, a table football tournament is scheduled Friday the 14th, a taco cooking workshop Saturday the 15th, a resume-building workshop Wednesday the 19th and a karaoke night Friday the 21st.

Diada de Sant Jordi
Saturday the 22st, for the feast day of Saint George (Diada de Sant Jordi), youth will prepare postcards with poems. Wednesday the 26th the Youth Council (Consell de la Infància i Joventut) will be held. The last weekend of the month will come with workshops on mirror engraving and jump rope. The Casal de Joves is for children ten and up and is open Tuesday to Saturday, 4.00pm to 10.00pm all year long.

4 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

The Office of Youth of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to report that the Casal de Joves staged its 15th anniversary celebration on Friday 31 March. At 4.30pm, parents, children and many others came to see the facilities and meet Casal youth and staff at an open day.

Vanessa Parellada, youth councillor, came to the party to celebrate that "15 years on, the Casal de Joves is a benchmark and meeting place to share and grow for the multiple generations of local youth here today". Activity leaders, whose dynamic work she applauded, "are on hand to offer support and oversee programming tailor-made for Casal youth".

Children and youth were able to enjoy activities like spin art, mural painting, table football and other games. At 6.00pm attendees enjoyed a snack and from 8.30pm onwards, the audience guided participants in an activity called "Improxoc" in creating a totally improvised story. The performance was followed by a pizza dinner and the party culminated with a musical performance. Early generations of Casal youth —Lu, Tur, Acqua, Gawchito, Flaco Fer and Dj Day-n— came together to offer a rap concert.

1 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

The Directorate General of Language Policy launches the first Catalan-Language Manga and Anime Festival (FEMA), an initiative to promote the use of Catalan through the Japanese cultural expressions of anime cinema and manga comics.

The festival seeks to promote and energise the culture of manga comics and anime in Catalan as a gateway for the promotion of Catalan among younger audiences. It also aims to showcase Catalan-language publications in the genre and take the pulse of screenings of anime series and films in Catalan.

This is the first festival of its kind to be organised across the Balearic Islands and the first time it is held entirely in Catalan in the Catalan Countries. Formentera's part of the programme will take place 8 and 15 April at the Sala de Cultura (Cinema).

The programme includes various activities:

1) Introductory workshops to manga and kanji, colloquiums with experts in anime and manga in Catalan, karaoke, costume contests and more at Formentera's youth drop-in centre (Casal de Joves). From 10.00am to 2.00pm, Saturday 8 April.
2) Screenings of the recent anime releases Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time (8 April) and Blue Thermal (15 April) at Sala de Cultura (Cinema).

Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time
Tamaki Tsuru is a young athlete who has been in sports clubs until high school. Arriving at university, with the goal of advancing her love life and due to a series of events, she ends up in the campus glider club.

Blue Thermal
Fourth and final instalment of "The Reconstruction of Evangelion". Misato and her anti-NERV group, Wille, arrive in a Paris coloured red by nucleation. The crew of the Wunder ship land on a containment tower with only 720 seconds to restore the city. When a horde of NERV Eves appears, the upgraded Eva 8 Unit must intercept them. Meanwhile, Shinji, Asuka and Rey roam Japan.

Prices and tickets
Tickets are available on www.entradesformentera.cat for €3. Unemployed people, under-employed freelancers, retirees, under-25s, people with functional diversity, single-parent families and large families pay half price.

Complete information is available at dgpoling.caib.cat.

31 March 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

The Office of Youth of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to report that Friday 31 March, the Casal de Joves will celebrate the 15th anniversary of its opening. At 4.30pm, the island's youth drop-in centre will host an open day where all of Formentera can get to know the facilities and meet Casal youth and staff.

From 5.00pm, there will be children's activities like face painting, spin art, table football and other games so that, in the words of Vanessa Parellada, youth councillor, "pre-teens can start getting to know the centre too, with Casal teens on hand to lead the way". Parents and Casal attendees from years past can also come enjoy the celebration, said Parellada. "The idea is to open the space to children —who will soon be old enough to use the Casal too— and other family members, for a party that is inclusive and has a place for everyone, but which puts young people at the centre."

At 6.00pm, a snack will be offered to all attendees. From 8.30pm, the audience will guide the "actors" in an activity called "Improxoc" through creation of a totally improvised story. The performance will be followed by a pizza dinner and, at 10.00pm, the evening's crowning event: a rap concert from the first generations of Casal youth (Lu, Tur, Acqua, Gawchito, Flaco Fer and Dj Day-n).

13 March 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera