KILEMA is a musician from Madagascar with more than forty years of experience in world music. Always faithful to the cultural tradition of his country, this vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist works especially with the indigenous instruments of the south of Madagascar.

From his residence in Cordoba, he has projected his music to the five continents. More than forty countries have been able to enjoy his rich personal style that fuses a multitude of influences, without losing the purity of his Malagasy roots. Four albums on the market summarise his recording career, but experts always highlight the strength of his live concerts: he is a born communicator with an extraordinary ability to connect with all kinds of audiences and backgrounds.

Today, this global ambassador of Malagasy culture combines his work as a musician with an important pedagogical work in which he carries out workshops for children and families, and a great deal of solidarity and aid work for disadvantaged communities. 

Marked by a didactic character, the concert will bring us closer to the instruments, rhythms, harmonies and words of his country as an excuse to propose universal values such as respect, solidarity, interculturalism and sustainability.  

Kilema (marovany, valiha, kabosy, katsá and vocals), Nesa Randrianantoandro (vocals, melodica and katsá), Manuel Luque (percussion), Carlos Léon (bass and vocals).

*Concert performed in collaboration with the SARC (Área de Cultura de la Diputación de Valencia).

Mujeres con Raíz (Women with Roots) was born at the end of 2014 to pay a well-deserved tribute to the traditional voice of Murcian women, the owners of a large part of the oral heritage of the southeast of the peninsula. Women's voices that most of the time were relegated to the domestic sphere through lullabies, or also to intimate and family prayers; but who also worked, like men, and then threw their harvest and threshing songs to the wind. Either they asked the heavens for water or they celebrated with malagueñas, jotas and seguidillas. Women, in short, who set all ages of life to music.

The project is presented as a look at space and time in which female voices bring us closer to the east and west of each day, recognising in it our past and our destiny, that of the everyday stories told and sung by all and that of the geographies travelled by the members of the group from their different trajectories, travelling from east to west and from north to south through the territory of Murcia, to build a project to recover and listen to this musical repertoire. 

Carmen María Martínez (vocals and castanets), Mari Cruz Sánchez (vocals), Tomás García (guitar, guitarrón, tambourines, cymbals and backing vocals), Juan José Robles (guitar, guitar, lute and backing vocals), R. Enrique González (percussion and backing vocals).

*Concert included in the ETNOMUSIC ALS POBLES cycle.

Silento is a duo formed by the Valencian musicians Celina Jiménez and Ana Ferrer, two artists who began performing together at a very young age and over the years have performed in different countries as a duo. Based in Berlin, Celina Jiménez works as a lyric singer and has performed in emblematic venues such as the Juan March Foundation in Madrid and the main hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. Ana Ferrer, guitarist and composer, graduated in classical guitar at the ESMUC (Barcelona) and holds a Master's degree in Music from the UPV. Beyond their training and activity, both show a great interest in musical traditions and experimentation. 

Their concerts are characterised by creating a close and emotional atmosphere, with a careful selection of repertoire that includes folk pieces, singer-songwriters' songs, their own compositions and traditional music, all of them arranged with a personal language full of creativity. 

In De València i ultramar, with an intimate and acoustic format (two voices, a guitar and small percussions), Silento offers a concert fed by a selection of their own compositions and original arrangements that cover multiple fields: the copla of Concha Piquer, Sephardic music, traditional Valencian songs related to everyday work or parenting, the poetic world of Federico García Lorca, the decadence of the Viennese waltz, or Argentine tangos. 

Celina Jiménez (voice and percussion), Ana Ferrer (guitar).

*Concert included in the Cicle Música en construcció of the Área de Cultura de la Diputación de Valencia. Before the concert (5:00 p.m.) there will be a visit to the exhibition It's not easy to be Valencian, a permanent exhibition at L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia.

Xabier Díaz is one of the leading names in Galician traditional music. With more than three decades behind him, this musician from A Coruña has received numerous awards and has performed at various international festivals. 

In this concert he presents As Catedrais Silenciadas, the third work of a project carried out in collaboration with Adufeiras de Salitre that began in 2015 and in which the differential element is the impressive group of female vocalists and percussionists.  Throughout these years, the musician has carried out research in Galician villages, rescuing women's songs and giving them his personal touch. His music and his new lyrics give freshness to a traditional raw material from the northwest that combines pasodobles, jotes, alalás, ribeiranas, muñeiras and agarrados. 

The album has been recognised by the specialised critics and the public (Top Ten in the World Music Charts Europe and Top of the World in Songlines magazine) and is presented with a force that seeks to move an audience in which they always find complicity, with a modern and contemporary look at the traditional festivities of the villages and towns. 

Xabier Díaz (vocals, percussion and bagpipes), Iván Costa (hurdy-gurdy), Roberto Grandal (accordion), Adufeiras de Salit (accordion), Iván Costa (hurdy-gurdy) and Roberto Grandal (accordion).
Adufeiras de Salitre (percussion and vocals)

The publication of Orgànic in 2001 marked a turning point in the career of this renowned Valencian musician and at the same time was a very important milestone in Valencian popular music. The work was based on modern approaches applied to traditional musical structures, in a very personal mixture in which the rhythmic patterns or melodic lines that had accompanied the author until then were placed at the service of a renewed cançó de autor. 

Having become, as Josep Vicent Frechina points out, an inescapable reference in our contemporary musical canon, this project is now presented in a renewed and revised version under the title of 20 anys d'Orgànic. In it, Miquel Gil reviews two decades of his solo career through the most celebrated songs of his repertoire.

The musician from Catarroja offers us a concert that recreates the original sound and features some of the musicians who formed part of the first band, reunited expressly for this project. To link and celebrate both birthdays (Orgànic and ETNOMUSIC) he will be accompanied by his friend Borja Penalba, producer and musician with whom he has collaborated on different occasions throughout his career, and by Noelia Llorens Titana, the new voice of Valencian singing with whom Miquel Gil has shared one of his latest musical projects (Arrel) and with whom he has a great musical affinity and affinity.

Miquel Gil (guitar and vocals), Toni Porcar (classical guitar), Eduard Navarro (various instruments), Tobal Rentero (various instruments), José María Reillo (percussion), Gusmà Gil (electric bass), Nel·lo Alfonso (keyboard and vocals).

Collaborations: Noelia Llorens Titana and Borja Penalba.

From May to May. From Thursday to Thursday. 

This is the rhythm with which ETNOMÚSIC has been presented to the Valencian public every year for the last 20 years. When May returns, from Thursday to Thursday, it resumes its engagement with the public this project born in a museum - L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia - which, due to the dedication of its staff and institutional support, has also opted for music as a way of presenting itself to the public. 

ETNOMUSIC has allowed us to present in Valencia performers from various continents who have gone on to establish themselves on the international scene. With the aim of keeping the project up-to-date and relevant, over time we have introduced new spaces and concerts for young audiences and families into the programme. Throughout these 20 years of the festival, we have been accompanied by professionals, friends and a good handful of specialists who have worked to offer this music that is so much ours and at the same time so universal to an audience that every May, from Thursday to Thursday, diligently attends ETNOMÚSIC, and whom we at L'ETNO would like to thank for their enthusiasm and their company.  

It is no coincidence that the prologue to the twentieth edition is a special presentation concert by Miquel Gil, who will offer us his work 20 anys d'Orgànic (20 years of Organic) in April. In May, the festival will begin its usual series of concerts with the musician from A Coruña, Xabier Díaz, accompanied by the Adufeiras de Salitre. This performance marks the beginning of a musical journey that has a second stop with the Murcian group Mujeres con raíz (Women with Roots).

With an ensemble formed especially for the 20th anniversary of ETNOMUSIC, Efrén López will take us from Valencia to the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and Central Asia. On the return journey, the festival will stop in the region of Apulia, where Antonio Castrignanò will offer us a personal rediscovery of the musical tradition of Southeast Italy.

ETNOMÚSIC PERIFÈRIC presents two very remarkable projects, both of which have received critical acclaim. On the one hand, the stimulating project of Maestro Espada, where analogue synthesizers marry with castanets and lutes. On the other, Rocío Márquez + Bronquio, a new project by this prestigious flamenco musician.

The 2023 programme will include a family concert by Kilema in collaboration with the SARC (Diputación de Valencia). As a new feature in 2023, ETNOMÚSIC will include in its programme a concert by the duo Silento as a part of the Music in Construction Series (Cicle Música en Construcción) (Diputación de Valencia) . 

The festival will be touring the municipalities of the province (ETNOMÚSIC ALS POBLES) with two Valencian groups: Krama and Urbàlia Rurana. Their concerts will be preceded by Naiet Cirerer, with a show that pays homage to the storytellers and singers who travelled from town to town.

This contest has been held since 2017 and over the years more than 3,100 images have been released showing how Valencians live the Fallas Festival. A work still necessary to be able to document the work of the fallero artists and the festival in the street every year.  

L'ETNO, together with Wikimedia España, Amical Wikimedia and with the collaboration of the Concejalía de Cultura Festiva of the València Council and the Fallas Research Society, organizes, within the international call Wiki Loves Folklore, a special contest centered on the Fallas Festival with the aim of expanding the existing images in Wikimedia Commons from this annual event.

L'ETNO proposes to go out in the streets, enjoy the festival, take photos and share them on Wikimedia Commons. The period for uploading the photographs is from 15 March to 15 April 2023 and the uploading system is very easy and intuitive, but if you have any questions, the L'ETNO Library offers to guide your through the process. This competition is open to any Valencian town that celebrates Fallas as long as the photographs are from 2023.

A jury made up of six people linked to the organising entities will choose the winners in the two established categories:

• The best photo of a falla, of the monument, both a general view and a detail.
• The best photo of a fallera activity, whether it is the plantà, the cremà, the offering to the Virgin Mary, the fritters, the music, the parades, the street parties... any aspect that shows how we Valencians live the festival.

The prizes are two sets of publications and gifts courtesy of L'ETNO and the Department of Festive Culture, including books such as the Guia inacabada de la fantasia valenciana, an extraordinary letter from the Fallera Calavera Espanta la por, a folder with two original prints by Marina Puche, designer of the municipal falla 2023, and a scarf designed by Marina Puche and inspired by the falla's motifs. 

The photographs will also be entered in the Wiki Loves Folklore competition, which is held all over the world.

From the first years of life, every human being is immersed in the complex process of constructing his or her own identity. However, although it is an individual and idiosyncratic process, it takes place in a specific socio-cultural context in which other adults, institutions such as the family or school, and explicit or implicit norms and already defined social patterns have a great influence.
The aim of this workshop is to approach this phenomenon openly and to deal with it from the first-person experience of each of the participants, to facilitate reflection and the joint creation of a space for artistic expression that helps to understand the self, one's own real social identity and to identify the factors that have intervened in this process of construction.

The people in charge of the workshop are:

Therapeutic part: Alberto Fernández, graduate in Psychology.
Artistic-creative part: Mónica Cases, graduate in Fine Arts.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE ACTIVITY

In each of the sessions there will be a brief visit to different areas of the permanent exhibition of the museum No és fácil ser valencià (It's Not Easy Being Valencian), extracting reflections and concepts that are raised in a global way for the personal construction of identity. Afterwards, there will be a break and we will move on to a practical activity related to the subject dealt with through experimentation, emphasising the main objective of this process: to understand and work on identity through art and reflection.

ACTIVITIES

Walk through Identity 

Walk through Identity is an introduction to identity as a concept and how it is formed in each of us, how it is constructed throughout our lives. This activity is an approach to the museum as an entity and a space for leisure and relationships. It consists of two sessions:

- SESSION 1: Urban Signs _ Human Signs
- SESSION 2: Vital X-ray

Journey through Identity

In Journey through Identity we will delve into both global and individual identity. In addition to the concept and its formation, we will discuss the changes it undergoes during our lives, the conditioning factors that cause these changes and how to approach the way to Re-Create our Identity.
This activity consists of four sessions:

- SESSION 1: Urban Signals _ Human Signals.
- SESSION 2: To be or not to be
- SESSION 3: Discovering Walls
- SESSION 4: Vital X-ray

Claudine Bernardes, writer and teacher of narrative in therapy, collaborated with us in the session Discovering Walls. She is the author of the story The Walls of the City, created for this project.

Organisation of the sessions

Both Walk through Identity and Journey through Identity will have a duration of 3 hours, including group reception, break and farewell. These sessions will take place in consecutive weeks, subject to possible changes in duration depending on the process we are in.

PARTICIPANTS

Although the project could be developed for the general public or people belonging to other groups, in this case it has been adapted for a very specific public, people diagnosed with mental health conditions. The appropriate number of participants for these sessions is 10 people, with a minimum of five, and a maximum of around fifteen, bearing in mind that the activity is offered to groups belonging to the same area:

- Day hospitals
- Medium-Stay Hospitalisation Units (UME)
- Medium and Long Stay Hospitalisation Units (UMLE)
- Rehabilitation and Social Integration Centre (CRIS)
- Day centres
- Sheltered housing
- Associations
- Other mental health facilities

Among these centres, the collaboration with the Psychiatric Hospital of Bétera, belonging to the Provincial Council of Valencia, stands out.

Ethnology, as a science linked to traditional and popular culture, deals with all those manifestations, beliefs, knowledge and activities through which immovable, movable and immaterial goods are generated that determine the identity of a people, community or civilisation.

With the contemporary definition of cultural goods, which, beyond the valuation and temporal criteria related to the artistic, ancient and historical, considers the intrinsic meaning of objects and representations, ethnological heritage has new opportunities for valorisation, conservation and dissemination.

However, the cultural and museological reality still often provides adverse, unfavourable or, at the very least, complex scenarios for the management of ethnological assets. Social and institutional awareness of the importance of traditional and popular culture is the key to reversing this type of situation, which must find strategies for promotion and development.

L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia is collaborating in this technical meeting, which is being held in three venues, with the participation of Isabel Álvarez, the museum's restorer.

The ETNO Library and the Valencian Association of Anthropology invite you to participate on 29 September at 6 p.m. in Comboi i Antropologia: Listen to tell. An artistic look at ethnological research. 

We have two very special guests: Almudena Francés and Tània Muñoz, two Valencian storytellers who know how to tell very well because they know how to listen very well: "Professional oral storytelling has been nourished, to a large extent, by the compilations of stories and materials made by folklorists. But on the other hand, there are professional storytellers who also have an artistic interest in these spontaneous storytellers and their stories. The written versions of the stories do not keep the way of telling, the silences, the relationship created with the audience... in short, all the elements that form the backbone of artistic communication. We have a passion for stories, we go in search of aesthetic enjoyment and we understand storytelling as a communal art that is continually recreated and of which we can all be a part, because we all have a story to tell and a way of telling it.
"Pos señor..." We come to tell you how we do this task of research, artistic involvement and social transfer".

Almudena Francés is dedicated to telling and listening to stories but also to life stories, riddles, tongue twisters, she does it from the Vall d'Albaida, her stories are linked to a specific territory, although she also tells stories from far away as if they had happened in the Vall d'Albaida, because stories don't know about territories. What she is most proud of in her work is the project Cuentos a la Fresca, in which a local storyteller relies on professional storytellers, who suggest a way of being and being in the world and create anchors for people to hold on to.

@almudenafrances

Tània Muñoz Marzà is an oral storyteller. She tells stories in her own voice for young and old in schools, cultural centres and town squares. She is currently working on a doctoral thesis on the narrative folklore of Castelló, although her artistic work is also influenced by written literature and a vivid imagination. She has coordinated several cultural projects such as Ellas habitan la ciudad (MUCC) or Minúscula, arte&infancia (MBAC). She has been the creator and artistic coordinator of Conta'M. Festival de cuentos al Maestrat.

@taniabullerbyn