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

Amb l’arribada del mes de setembre i l’inici del curs, L’ETNO presenta dues noves propostes per famílies i col·legis derivats de la nova exposició permanent No és fàcil ser valencià/na. 

Els projectes per famílies són dos: ETNOVIATGE i BUSCA L’ETNO. El primer proposa un etnoviatge en la secció de Ciutat (Ciutat: Global – Local) de la mostra permanent del museu, l’objectiu de la qual és que estes famílies puguen aprofundir i valorar/comentar entre pares i fills els continguts de la mostra sense necessitat de guia o monitor/a. Es tracta d’una guia que proposa diferents activitats sobre el fenòmen urbà. En ella les famílies desevoluparan exercicis i jocs sobre la mobilitat urbana, els edificis singulars, la forma de la ciutat antiga i el seu reflexe en la moderna, la festa urbana, les noves formes de consum o de treball, així com la diversitat cultural que aporten les persones que venen de fora.

ETNOVIATGE està pensat per famílies amb xiquets i xiquetes de 6 a 11 anys que puguen visitar i recórrer de forma autònoma (visita lliure) esta secció de l’exposició, i està organitzat amb exercicis amb diferents graus de dificultat segons l’edat. La guia pot completar-se durant la visita, en casa, o en una sala de descans que L’ETNO ha posat en marxa este estiu destinada al descans i la lectura, ubicada al final de la secció de la Ciutat.   

BUSCA L’ETNO és un joc en el què cal trobar a L’ETNO (mascota del museu) entre les diferents vitrines de tota l’exposició permanent. Una de les modificacions introduïdes fa dos anys amb la renovació de la mostra permanent del museu fou la instal·lació de vitrines menudes a baixa alçada dirigides a un públic més menut (menor a 6 anys). Estes vitrines mostren amb objectes (joguets) cadascun dels continguts de l’exposició, però amb una iconografia i un llenguatge pensat per xiquets. El joc proposa el repte per famílies de trobar la nostra mascota a llarg de l’exposició. 

Amb estes novetats, L’ETNO amplia la seua oferta per a públic familiar i proporciona recursos per a que les famílies puguen gaudir de la mostra de forma autònoma i puguen utilitzar el museu com un recurs per l’oci familiar.  

Durant els caps de setmana L’ETNO continua oferint les seues visites guiades realitzades pels conservadors del museu a les mostres temporals i permanents (per adults) i tallers de caràcter etnològic per xiquets i xiquetes. 

L’oferta per centres educatius i associacions es conforma amb: El joc de l’horta, joc de taula sobre l’ús de l’aigua dirigit a grups d'Educació Primària; De cap a peus, taller sobre indumentària tradicional, dirigit a grups d'Educació Primària i 1er cicle de l’ESO; Faltar o morir, projecte educatiu que reflexiona sobre la mort sorgit de l’exposició Faltar o morir. Un recorregut per l’absència produïda pel museu en l’any 2020, dirigit a grups d'Educació Primària, ESO i Batxillerat.

Com tots els anys, en arribar la tardor, L’ETNO posarà en marxa 7ena edició d’ESPANTA LA POR, projecte de recuperació de l’imaginari tradicional sobre la por, dirigit a grups d'Educació infantil i Primària. 

Així mateix, el museu continuarà amb els seus programes de salut i benestar: Caixa dels records, memòries d’una vida projecte dirigit persones amb demència en estat inicial, i L’ETN(H)OSPITAL, projecte en qual el museu proporciona recursos educatius pels xiquets i xiquetes ingressats en la Unitat Pediàtrica de l’Hospital Doctor Peset (UPH Peset) per millorar el seu estat emocional i afectiu
 

Mudanzas is a project promoted in 2021  by the Centro de Formación de Personas Adultas Vicent Ventura in collaboration with the photographer Lidia Jaramillo. The project used the photovoice technique in combination with life interviews and workshops with the aim of giving  voice to immigrant and native students who were at the centre at the time. The idea was to let them  tell their story around three moments (origins, crossing and arrival) activating a shared reflection of the experience.
 
Through this project, L'ETNO aims to continue with its task of disseminating and reflecting on the plurality of Valencian society, and in particular the situation and experience of migrants living with us. In addition, the project strengthens the line of work of collaboration with institutions such as the Vicent Ventura training centre, until recently located in the same neighbourhood than the museum.

Lidia Jaramillo, photographer of the project, Coloma Mestre, teacher of the Centre de Formació de Persones Adultes Vicent Ventura, a student of this centre and participant in the project and Joan Seguí, curator of L'ETNO, will take part in the event. 
 

A hores d'ara is a digital archive that encompasses the experiences and knowledge of the people and groups that have defended l'Horta de València over the last few decades. It contains visual and graphic material and different types of documentation produced by the collectives. It is an archive in process, built from the archives of many people and groups. Thus, the proposal does not include all the urban aggressions that have taken place in the territory of l'Horta, but those for which it has been possible to trace a social response with its different strategies to denounce and try to prevent violence on the territory and on the lives that make it up, sometimes with success and sometimes not, but always full of lessons learned.

Participants: Natalia Castellanos, Alba Herrero and Anaïs Florin. 

Organised by: L'ETNO Library and the Valencian Association of Anthropology.

The free information that is currently available on the most consulted online encyclopaedia in the world is insufficient and can be improved. 

L'ETNO wants to take the opportunity of the future exhibition Espill de festa. El Corpus, which will be inaugurated in July, to open a parallel viquiproject to improve free knowledge about the Corpus Christi festival in the city of Valencia. This project will be developed in collaboration between L'ETNO, the Department of Festive Culture of the City Council of Valencia, Amical Wikimedia and Wikimedia Spain.

The viquiproject will have three main activities: a wikitakes to be held on the weekend of the Corpus celebrations, a photographic competition and a viquimarathon to edit textual content.

1- The wikitakes is a meeting whose aim is to photograph a geographical space or an event and then release the images on Wikimedia Commons. This project, a sister project of Viquipèdia, feeds the free encyclopaedia with images and audiovisual resources. In the case of Corpus Christi in Valencia, there is a lack of graphic resources about the festival, so the aim is to document all the elements and manifestations of the festive calendar. From 17 to 19 June, it will be easy to find viquipedistas, with their cameras, living the festival in the street to be able to document everything and, later, to release it. 

2- A photographic competition will be held among all the photographs about the Corpus Christi that are released on Wikimedia Commons. In this case, the contest is not limited to the city of Valencia, but is extended to all Valencian towns that celebrate this festival. 

L'ETNO is looking for collaboration to fill the most consulted encyclopaedia in the world with Valencian Corpus Christi. The first step is to enjoy the festival and take lots of photographs; the perfect excuse for the weekend of 17-19 June.

3- The viquimarathon is a meeting of people interested in editing. In this case, on the elements of the Corpus Christi festival, with the aim of creating new articles in the Viquipèdia or improving existing ones with new bibliographical references. This viquimarathon will be held at the ETNO Library once the exhibition Espill de Festa is open.

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.