In a human library, books are the people who transmit life stories and diverse tales that are never repeated. At L'ETNO Library we exchange paper books for human books that speak in the first person. In a human library you come to listen, to feel and to learn in a supportive and intercultural space because the books will be migrants from different countries who are willing to share their experiences with those who want to listen to them. All the human books are part of the València Acoge collective. 

L'ETNO Library is looking for readers interested in listening and living this experience. The recommended age is for people over 12 years old because the books are not fiction but contain very real stories and, as we all know, reality always surpasses fiction. However, if you have children over 12 at home, don't hesitate to take them with you because it is an enriching experience to activate and open the heart and mind. 
 
The books will change in each session, so you can attend both sessions without repeating readings. And a recommendation: plan your Saturday well and come without rushing, without thinking about shopping before lunch, without thinking about anything other than enjoying a good read.
 

In a human library, books are the people who transmit life stories and diverse tales that are never repeated. At L'ETNO Library we exchange paper books for human books that speak in the first person. In a human library you come to listen, to feel and to learn in a supportive and intercultural space because the books will be migrants from different countries who are willing to share their experiences with those who want to listen to them. All the human books are part of the València Acoge collective. 

L'ETNO Library is looking for readers interested in listening and living this experience. The recommended age is for people over 12 years old because the books are not fiction but contain very real stories and, as we all know, reality always surpasses fiction. However, if you have children over 12 at home, don't hesitate to take them with you because it is an enriching experience to activate and open the heart and mind. 
 
The books will change in each session, so you can attend both sessions without repeating readings. And a recommendation: plan your Saturday well and come without rushing, without thinking about shopping before lunch, without thinking about anything other than enjoying a good read.

"Sustainability. Museus km 0" is a collective exhibition that wants to show, and also claim, how some concepts and mechanisms of sustainable management that claim contemporaneity live in the traditional knowledge that ethnological museums keep. Knowing that, many times, today's society has forgotten them and that they can be considered beyond nostalgia and their heritage significance. Repair, reuse, exchange, share and collaborate are not our concepts.

Beyond the content, the exhibition is interesting as a project of joint work between museums, with all that this means. Coordinating an appointed group, covering the different rhythms and reaching consensus among diverse approaches has been a long and laborious process, but it has been more than compensated by the experience we have gained and by the demonstration that we are capable of doing things together.

This joint work has been done within the framework of ETNOXARXA, a project of collaboration and interconnection between local ethnological museums in the province of Valencia.

Una experència escénica que te hará revivir un episodio sobrecogedor de nuestra memoria democrática 

La propuesta es una obra teatral de ficción que se basa libremente en las vivencias de varias personas, entre ellas las de Leoncio Badia Navarro conocido también como “el enterrador de Paterna”, de las cuales ha quedado constancia en numerosos reportajes de prensa escrita y radio, como el episodio V de la serie *Vidas enterradas, emitido en el programa “A *vivir que su dos *días” de la Cadena SER, a partir de una investigación realizada por la periodista Conchi Cejudo. Como opción artística y con la voluntad de aportar a la propuesta un tratamiento plenamente respetuoso, no se hace mención ni a lugares ni a personas reales.

El espectáculo pretende también ser un homenaje a todas las personas, en muchos casos héroes anónimos, que con su determinación dejaron testigo de humanidad

Ficha técnica:

Actor y productor: Pepe Zapata
Dramaturgia y dirección: Gerard Vázquez
Asesoría espacio escénico e iluminación: Ignasi Camprodon
Nana*: Alba Carmona
Dossier pedagógico: Jordi Barra
Fotografía: David Ruano
Edición fotografía: Yulia Evseeva
Diseño gráfico: Satur Herraiz
Técnico de compañía: Pol Zapata
Producción ejecutiva y artística: Montse Enguita

*Nana compuesta por Gerard Vázquez e interpretada por Alba Carmona (voz) y
Jesús Guerrero (guitarra y arreglo de guitarra); Juan Casanovas (mezclas y masterización)

Espectáculo en valenciano

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Este acto se incluye en el proyecto Las Fosas del Franquismo un proyecto multidisciplinar realizado desde la Arqueología, la Antropología y la Memoria Histórica e impulsado por tres departamentos de la Diputación de Valencia: Delegación de Memoria Histórica y el Área de Cultura, con los Museos de Prehistoria y L'ETNO. 

Los dos museos  han producido las exposiciones:  Arqueología de la Memoria. Las fosas de Paterna, organizada por el Museo de Prehistoria de València, y 2238. Paterna, Lugar de perpetración y memoria, organizada por L'ETNO, Museo Valenciano de Etnología, las dos contribuirán a fortalecer el pensamiento crítico frente a unos hechos que no tendrían que repetirse nunca más.

The second selected experience can be found in the room HORTA I MARJAL: THE IMAGINARIES, where the final part is dedicated to food, specifically to the dish that represents the imaginary for the excellence of our territory, which has already become a global icon: Paella.

L' ETNO has collaborated with the photographer Ricardo Cases in the publication of the second edition of his work "Paellas y Coches", available in the museum shop. Accompanying the publication, we will be able to enjoy this original photographic series in the permanent rooms of the museum for a few months, in dialogue with the story of the permanent exhibition.

Nowadays it is not unusual to see paellas in the most unexpected places. In today's dynamic world, in which haste and lack of time threaten some classic social rituals related to food, Valencians have found solutions. With the good weather, our roads are filled with frying pans travelling in cars on their way to all kinds of homes. This photographic work was born in the restaurant L'Alter in Picassent (Horta Sud) which cooks more than 80 paellas a day to take away during the summer months. Ricardo Cases presents these motorised still lifes, where he explores new visual imaginaries around the representation of paella.

La obra es el resultado de las conversaciones entre el artista Fermín Díez de Ulzurrun y el comisario y escritor César Novella Alba sobre los fantasmas de una siderurgia desaparecida. Artista y comisario, comisario y artista… Esta paradoja a menudo clásica en la actualidad resulta una especie de contra cultura, un fuego amigo.

After convoca los restos de una siderurgia hecha desaparecer, convertidos sus rastros en parque de atracciones para los turistas, y sirve de escenario para que artista y comisario se enzarcen en una serie de reflexiones sobre las resonancias que deja la ausencia de lo que anteriormente era una presencia ineludible que lo marcaba todo (como la negror de los restos de la producción industrial siderúrgica de una época que ya no existe sino en nuestras propias fantasías y apariciones, de la que habla la propia madre del comisario), pero que para el comisario y el artista resuena en la escultura contemporánea, en el sonido del techno, en la selección de fotos de un Fermín más personal que nunca y en libros y voces más que familiares.

Autors:

Fermín Díez de Ulzurrun
César Novella Alba

EL SECULÒRUM I LA SECULERA. Contes i acudits llicenciosos valencians de tradició oral.

A work dedicated to the Valencian narrative folklore that is linked to the expression of sex. Its main objective is to highlight the value of a subgenre that, although it still has a certain validity in the oral tradition, in the Valencian context, unlike in other territories, has not been compiled and studied in a monographic way until now.

It supposes a contribution to the Valencian rondallística, offering, on the one hand, an anthology of a hundred stories and songs compiled from the oral tradition. It is the result of a field work carried out in different towns both in the Valencian and Castilian linguistic area. There is a sensitization to reproduce the oral materials through reliable transcriptions so that they have validity both as ethnographic documents and as testimonies of a linguistic patrimony.

On the other hand, the work offers an introductory study to understand aspects related to the stories as literary texts, such as the humoristic resources on which they are based, or referring to their context, for example, the sources and the fields in which they are disseminated. Likewise, the study proposes a classification of the materials according to the index of rondallistic types The Types of International Folktales.

The author will be accompanied by:

• Joan Seguí, director of L'ETNO
• Núria Sendra, from Edicions del Bullent.
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Discovering walls, is the result of the artistic-therapeutic project Re-Creating identity, conceived and carried out by Albert Fernández and Mónica Cases in collaboration with L'ETNO and the Mental Health Hospital of the Diputación de Valencia. Aimed at people diagnosed with mental health, the works on display come from several sessions with a similar structure: a visit to the permanent exhibition, where generic concepts that define and identify us as a group are extracted and analyzed, and the creation of debates and experiences that promote reflection and knowledge of individual identity.

The work of approaching the concept of identity -the fundamental subject of study of anthropology- and the discovery of the factors and walls that have intervened in the processes of individual and collective construction, has favored the knowledge of the “I” and of one's own real identity by each of the participants.

As a paradigm of the rapprochement between culture and mental health, L'ETNO, in dialogue with the space that made its conception possible, presents Discovering Walls with the ultimate purpose of demonstrating: the ability to express and represent, through art, the museum's commitment to inclusivity and collaboration between two fields (heritage and health) for the benefit of the well-being of the whole collective and society as a whole.

Where does Discovering Walls come from?

From an institutional perspective, L'ETNO aims, and has been aiming for years, to bring the fields of heritage and health closer together through the construction of collaborative spaces and projects that promote social welfare.

The interest in the implementation of social actions and projects is justifiable from a double perspective: that of its typology, since the complex process of creation and change of cultural identity is a subject of fundamental study of anthropology, and that of a public social museum that transgresses its physical barriers or walls and is concerned with, and does its best to solve, the needs of its environment.

In this context, and through the Re-Creating Identity project, the present intervention arises. Discovering walls is just a physical sample of the multiple workshops carried out during the activity; a look at the creative process with which Albert Fernández and Mónica Cases, during their visit to the exhibition It's not easy to be Valencian, have worked on the construction of the identity of people diagnosed with mental health.

The project, based on a reflective, dialogic, artistic and creative methodology, has addressed: the nature of emotions and their management, the process of socialization within the group, the construction of the “I” and, above all, the identity or personal milestones that determine who and why we are or why we act in a certain way.
 

Over 20 years Etnomusic has become a project branded L'ETNO that has enjoyed a certain autonomy that has allowed it to configure its offer with musical, territorial and, of course, artistic criteria, always full of curiosity and new perspectives. The creation within the festival of Perifèric, concerts for families and Etnomusic als Pobles, make this clear. After these years and its acceptance by the public, we can affirm that the formula has been well received. 

During these years, one of the challenges of L'ETNO has been to maintain a close relationship between what is exhibited at the festival and the exhibitions that the museum programs each year. A challenge not always achieved because often the musical offer of the moment does not always coincide with the deadlines and themes addressed in its exhibition line. This year our goal is to relate, as much as possible, the thematic offer of the exhibitions and the musical proposal of the festival. In this way, the 2024 proposal can be better understood.

“With a woman's gaze”, Etnomusic is presented to the Valencian public with a basically feminine program to coincide the festival with the exhibition “Fadrines”, one of the most important exhibitions that L'ETNO will hold in 2024. The exhibition tells us about women who did not marry when it was appropriate: single women who, by choice, subverted the norm of getting married and having children. Taking this common thread, Etnomusic presents a program composed basically by women, who from various perspectives show us their way of relating, intimacy, esteem, work and, of course, create.

PROGRAMMING

La María

A Valencian artist who is part of a new batch of artists who are breaking clichés and are taking the cant valencià to new areas to keep them as what they are, popular music that people listen and sing. 

Mayalde 

One of the most recognized groups of the Spanish traditional music scene will offer us a family concert that will make us relive the sounds of our yayas and yayos: those first songs made in many occasions with things of everyday life. With Amores, a Valencian group also with a great trajectory and international recognition, we will dance with Senegalese percussion embracing values of coexistence and brotherhood among peoples. 

El Nido

A concert full of contemporary values based on traditional rhythms and structures. A compilation of “jotas” and “ruedas burgalesas” that, far from looking at the past, will present us with current themes. 

Maria Mazzota 

With the Italian singer from Apulia we will review, to the rhythm of tarantellas mixed with new elements, the moods that like the waves of the sea can lead to tragedy or to the kindest calm. 

Carola Ortiz 

With the album Cantareras she takes us to the intimate universe of the women who, while filling the water jugs in the river -a basically feminine work of a not so distant time-, told each other their thoughts and moods. 

Alba Carmona and Jesús Guerrero

After her time with the formation Las Migas, in 2018 she decided to take a leap as a solo performer and at the end of that same year she released her first solo album that includes songs composed by the singer herself. In this intimate format, Alba forms a duo with guitarist Jesús Guerrero, one of the most important figures of the current flamenco guitar and regular squire of artists such as Miguel Poveda, Niña Pastori or Carmen Linares. 

Eixa 

Project of the Valencian artist Isabel Latorre. In a show that bets on the word, the Catalan Alba Carmona proposes an eclectic journey from flamenco that will take us to territories such as the songwriter's song, the copla or bolero. For her part, the singer and composer Isabel Latorre will offer us an exquisite marriage between the varieties of the Valencian grape and the traditional masica of the Mediterranean or even jazz. 

Karlos Nao

Young flautist who plays music in the key of flamenco. Within the program there will be concerts in municipalities (Etnomusic als Pobles) and a concert for families in collaboration with the SARC of the Diputació de València.

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The first selected experience is to be found in the CITY: LOCAL AND GLOBAL room, where the final part is dedicated to the walls of the city, a space for reflection on the urbanism that surrounds us in cities. The physical walls and the invisible walls towards other social strata, as well as a space for political, commercial and artistic communication.

We present LOVE ON THE OUTSKIRTS, where the urban artist and photographer Pedro Mecinas and Lucia Gimeno document photographically during their urban explorations a collection of spontaneous graffiti with messages of love scattered around the city, suburbs and villages of Valencia. Like all archives, it is still in process, open and expanding to other territories in the embers of Pedro and Lucia's travels. Together, they continue to document this collection of emotions that you can follow on their instagram account @amordeextraradi.

In the words of the authors "how intense what you are feeling must be to have to leave it written on any surface without knowing if anyone will ever read you, understand you and feel anything. Without knowing what story is behind it".

City walls are also used as a form of romantic and sentimental communication. Documentary remnants of affection, break-ups, desires, dreams, disappointments and sufferings that instantly connect with all the anonymous people who look at them. An explosion of the private personal world in the public space that reminds us that shared emotions are also part of what binds us together as a society.