La Fiesta Valor is a popular festival that wants to spread through the streets and squares of all parts of the Valencian Country, it is an opportunity to listen to professional storytellers, but also to grandmothers and grandfathers who know how to tell. A festival of the word for everyone's ears.

It is an initiative of the Enric Valor Chair of the Universitat d'Alacant, with the collaboration of the L'ETNO Library.

From the vocation that L'ETNO has as a social museum, we thought and designed our party so that it could be copied and adapted by any town that wanted to make one. 

In this article we wanted to tell you how the L'ETNO Courage Party went in case you would like to get ideas or ask us for resources. Everything we created was with that intention: that any Valencian town could reuse everything, from the graphic image of the festival, to the texts adapted from the fables of Enric Valor to make participatory readings and theatre.

The exceptional nature and value of the images recovered fin the project El Maestrat Filmat confronts us with documents of great heritage value. But, luckily or unfortunately, times have changed a lot since these images were recorded and people's respect and relationship with these films has changed a lot.

The current use of the image makes these recovered films a rare bird, an estrangement within the chaotic amalgamation of the contemporary image with which we live and to which we are exposed on a daily basis.

Taking  all this as a pretext, L'ETNO proposeS to carry out a conference-workshop around the image-archive. A session where you can reflect on the use of the archive in the current audiovisual while experimenting with this type of images.

BIBLIO-POP is the new initiative of L'ETNO and its library to connect libraries across the valencian territory throughout their interest in popular culture. We want to built up a net with libraries who love and want to work with the subject of valencian popular culture. 

Come to the presentation of the event at L'ETNO and join the project!!

Organizes: Biblioteca de L'ETNO.
 

The network of Museum Itineraries in a gender perspective incorporates the gender perspective into the cultural visit to the museum. A perspective that studies the cultural and social constructions that are specific to men and women, that which identifies the feminine and the masculine. This network offers visitors to the participating museums a different reading of the collections on display, with the aim of promoting gender equality in the face of diversity. 

L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia has developed a gender itinerary or tour, selecting a set of pieces and spaces from its permanent collection that show significant interest in relation to gender representations. Visitors can consult and download the information and material necessary to follow the proposed routes at www.relecturas.es. 

These itineraries do not focus exclusively on the figure of women, but also explore representations of men and masculinity, as well as the presence of transgender identities, third genders or alternative genders to the Western dual system of sex/gender. They also focus on aspects such as gender ideology and systems, stereotypes and roles, relations between spaces, history and gender, etc. 

Some of the objectives of the Relecturas network are to contribute to the knowledge and dissemination of Valencian cultural heritage, to promote intercultural dialogue, to strengthen links between Valencian museums, and to boost cultural tourism. It also seeks to teach values of respect, coexistence and tolerance in order to achieve real and effective equality between women and men.

N3rdistan is a French-Moroccan band that [re]thinks and mixes different dimensions, epochs, cultures, styles and instruments, from hip-hop, rap, electro-rock to the most traditional Arab melodies. All this with the voice of the disconcerting and fascinating Walead Ben Selim, who recovers part of the Moroccan poetry and presents his own songs. 

After three years of touring around the world, the group dedicated itself exclusively to creating this work, an unprecedented mix of committed poems and urban music. An album on the verge of trip hop and traditional music, with Arabic poetry as guest of honour, opening the doors of the digital century. Sixteen songs with a burning melancholy that intones a hymn to the glory of the word, with strong texts by Gibran Khalil, Nizar Qabbani, the poet of women, or Nazek El Malaeka, founder of free poetry and great defender of women's conditions in the Middle East. 

Walead Ben Selim (vocals), Widad Mjama (vocals and programming)

Maui has been able to create a character and a universe. Far from any known label - the Björk of Utrera, the Lady Gaga of flamenco, the Woody Allen of song, a singer-actress...─. Maui, a singer sponsored by Maribel Quiñones Martirio, is one of a kind, she is a weaver of stories that weave emotions that take us from laughter to tears and who, live, displays an overflowing talent that shows a rich amalgam of influences. 

The songs on his fifth album, Por Arte de Magia (2019), are a bouquet of fresh songs and a kaleidoscope of magic without tricks, colouring realities with no magic wand other than his stories told and sung.  But much more than a concert, Maui proposes with this show, a journey, an experience in which poetry, rhythm, theatre and humour coexist... and an invisible emotion that generates the surprise when the characters of the songs break the fourth wall and manage to trick the audience into their adventures.

Maui (vocals and cello), Josete Ordoñez (flamenco guitar), Kiko Martín and Noé Barroso (hand clapping, backing vocals and choreography).  

Ataxía was born in Valencia in 2011 from the meeting of Alberto Mateo with Andreas Melas, Julia Badenes and Diego López. Ataxía, a Greek name meaning disorder, and metaphorically, mischief or misbehaviour, serves as an excuse for this group to offer us a show made up of their own pieces, traditional songs and rebétiko themes, a Greek singing and dancing genre which, due to its marginal origin and theme, has certain similarities with tango, raï or fado, and which emerged in Greece at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. 

The group has released the albums Música del submón in 2017 and Ataxía in 2021. This second album features 30 musicians from different countries of the European and Eastern Mediterranean and includes themes that deal with various social and personal issues: the marginalised classes, love and heartbreak, censorship and freedom, underworld hustling and the hard work of the sea. "And by the end of the night, tightly embraced, the sweat drips right off. This is what remains.

Andreas Melas (tzurás and vocals), Alberto Mateo (oud), Julia Badenes (vocals and guitar), Diego López (percussion), Xavi Alamán (double bass), Omran Adrah (kanun) and Stefanos Filos (violin).
 

At only 24 years old, Momi Maiga is already a virtuoso on his instrument, the kora - an African harp-lute. The Senegalese singer is a curious and self-taught composer with a surprising musical sensitivity that stands out for his vocal fluency. 

Immersed in the rich musical heritage of West Africa, the young African musician grew up in the Casamance region of southern Senegal. At the age of six, he started playing the kora and began his career alongside renowned musicians from the Cissokho Family. Following the historical legacy of the griot, which goes back centuries, his artistic heritage is connected to Mandingo traditions and repertoires. 

In ETNOMUSIC 22 he presents "Nio" which means "soul" in Mandinka. In this work, the young Senegalese artist combines jazz, Afrobeat and flamenco in his compositions performed in his native language and in Wòlof, another of Senegal's own languages. Momi Maiga is part of a new generation of West African musicians who are interested in the prominent issues of our time and who use poetic forms to spread messages of joy and peace.

Momi Maiga (kora and vocals), Carlos Montfort (violins and vocals), Aleix Tobias (drums and percussion), Marçal Ayats (cello and vocals). 

ETNOMUSIC IN THE VILLAGES

MOMI MAIGA. 15th July. Plaça d'Espanya (Carcaixent). 23:00 h

Besarabia is a musical project born in Valencia that is inspired by the tradition of the Mediterranean and the Balkans. The group was created in 2013 and since then its members Heide Erbrich, Jaume Pallardó and Eva Mª Domingo have developed a very peculiar style of performing traditional songs. They have also expanded their repertoire with their own compositions that fuse Balkan and Mediterranean sounds and more modern elements, with lyrics in Valencian. In 2014 they released a work with six songs, and in 2017 they published their first album "Ritmes, trenes i gats" (Mesdemil). 

In 2021 they released "Animal Republic" (Segell Microscopi), a work that includes their own interpretations of songs from the Balkan and klezmer tradition and eleven newly composed and unpublished songs of their own. The trio's second album was selected as one of the Top 20 in the prestigious World Music Chart Europe (November 2021) and was awarded as 'Millor disc de fusió i mestissatge' in the IV Premis Carles Santos de la música valenciana. 

Heidi Erbrich (violin and viola), Jaume Pallardó (oud, laouto and baglama), Eva Mª Domingo (voice, darbuka, daf, tambourine and davul).

ETHNOMUSIC IN THE VILLAGES

BESARABIA: 05th August. Plaça de Sant Vicent (Bocairent). 23:00 h

BESARABIA: 02nd September. Plaza Gran Valencia (Torres Torres). 23:00 h.
 

Ana Alcaide is a musical explorer of hidden treasures and ancient traditions, who transports us to distant lands, to ancestral times and magical places. The artist proposes an invitation to build bridges between cultures and a call for tolerance, as a vehicle "to reach beauty, dialogue and encounter". 

Ritual, the sixth album by this singer from Toledo and player of the nyckelharpa (a traditional instrument of Swedish origin) is conceived as a mystical journey, as a hymn to the connecting power of everyday actions, born of her interest in Persian poetry and her encounter with the Iranian singer Reza Shayesteh.

"The greatness of a small everyday gesture, a place to return to, the smell of musk on my clothes. Sufi mystic verses, sounds of fish patches, dissolving in the purity of a colour. A meeting more than 15 years ago, a foreign city, an intimate and profound journey... The power of RITUAL. The diary of our life is written with the stories of our small daily gestures".
 
Ana Alcaide (vocals, nyckelharpa, tanbour and atmospheres), Reza Shayesteh (vocals, tanbour, setar and daf), Bill Cooley (ud, psaltery, percussions and atmospheres), Kaveh Sarvarian (ney and tombak), Sandra Rico (dance).