The councilor of Culture, Education and Heritage of the Consell Insular d’Eivissa, Sara Ramon, together with the vice-president of the Federació de Colles de Ball i Cultura Popular d’Eivissa, Eduvigis Sánchez, have presented the programmed events to celebrate the XXIV Jornades de Cultura Popular, under the title ‘Medicina i remeis pagesos’. These days are organized by the federation and this year’s program includes the IV edition of ‘Illes per la cançó’ (Islands for the song). As explained by the councilor Sara Ramon, for these days has been chosen the theme of the
Medicine and folk remedies’, “the last editions have been about the traditional song because we believe it was important to give it a value and a boost. This year, the conference, which begins this Thursday, we have decided to focus on medicine and folk remedies, as part of our intangible heritage”.
Thus, the councilor explained that Sa Nostra Sala will bring together several presentations. The first one will be this Thursday, January 31 at 8:00 pm and will begin with a lecture by Marià Torres Torres, PhD in philology and researcher of the popular culture of the Pitiüses, on “Remeis pagesos: entre la ciència i la superstició”. The next one will be on February 6 at 8:00 pm on “La maternitat ahir i avui” (Motherhood today and today) by midwife Pilar Martínez Tur. And finally, on February 21 at 8 p.m. it will be the turn of Josep Maria Tugues, internist and former head of the Internal Medicine Service of the Hospital de Can Misses, who will give a lecture on “Medicine in Ibiza in the second half of the twentieth century and the first quarter of the twenty-first century. For her part, the vice-president of the Federation explained that the program includes an exhibition on traditional medicine and remedies that will be on display at the Can Ros Ethnographic Museum, which will open its doors on February 8 for a guided tour at 11:00 a.m. to take a walk through traditional medicine and folk remedies. On February 15 at 7 p.m. the Auditorium of the Multipurpose Building of Cas Serres will host a lecture by the social and cultural anthropologist Marta Torres Ribas under the name of “the symbolic effectiveness of the Eivissa remedies”. Likewise, there will be a tribute to Margalida Bonet Ribas, founder of Sa Colla de Sant Rafel and a presentation of the book of the XXIII days of popular culture of the Pitiüses: ‘La cançó des de la tradició a la modernitat’ (The song from tradition to modernity). The conference ends with the celebration of the IV edition of ‘Illes per la cançó’, an event that is included in the celebration of the events for the Day of the Balearic Islands, which will be presented by the journalist Sonia Ribas. As a novelty, in this edition there will be an exhibition of singers from Eivissa, troubadours from the Region of Murcia and versadors from Terres de l’Ebre.
