Treasures with history is a programme that the Valencian Public Television À Punt has been broadcasting successfully for the last three seasons. It deals with the objects that people keep as precious material, as an emotional treasure full of experiences and memories. It is a well-known fact that objects have the capacity to establish emotional connections with people, and the complexity of this relationship is the subject of Treasures with history. L'ETNO now brings you closer to this universe of objects that from history, ethnology or art have built part of our memory as a people over the last 200 years. 

Produced in collaboration with the Valencian Institute of Culture, Treasures with History 2 is an exhibition organised by L'ETNO to show the public the more than one hundred treasures selected for the programme.

Treasures with history is a programme that the Valencian Public Television À Punt has been broadcasting successfully for the last three seasons. It deals with the objects that people keep as precious material, as an emotional treasure full of experiences and memories. It is a well-known fact that objects have the capacity to establish emotional connections with people, and the complexity of this relationship is the subject of Treasures with history. L'ETNO now brings you closer to this universe of objects that from history, ethnology or art have built part of our memory as a people over the last 200 years. 

Produced in collaboration with the Valencian Institute of Culture, Treasures with History 2 is an exhibition organised by L'ETNO to show the public the more than one hundred treasures selected for the programme.

A workshop where children will paint little houses and Christmas trees to create their own Christmas village. A village made with paper, glue, paints, beads and lots of glitter. Afterwards, the children will be able to put LED lights in their houses to illuminate the windows of their little Christmas village, just as they used to do in the olden days.
These decorations, which were already popular in the 18th century and especially from the second half of the 20th century onwards, were miniature villages that people made out of cardboard and paper in their homes.
And where does this tradition of decorative Christmas villages built around the Christmas tree come from? Well, it has its roots in the late 18th century Christmas traditions of the Moravian Church, a Protestant denomination with early settlements in Salem, North Carolina, Bethlehem and Pennsylvania. After World War II, some companies began mass-producing houses, churches and other buildings. Buildings usually had holes in the back or bottom through which Christmas lights were placed to provide illumination.
We will create our own Christmas village to decorate our house as they did in the 18th century, with a lot of creativity and imagination.

Once again this year, the Espanta la por campaign is here to vindicate our fantastic imagination with activities of all kinds, both for adults and for children. And as every year for the last eight years, we are not alone, we are accompanied by many local ethnological museums, libraries and Valencian schools!

This year we have something new: as well as being in the real world, we have also entered the world of podcasts. Espanta la por 2023 is the birth of The names of fear, the first podcast of L'ETNO in which we will reflect on the fears of adults, the fears of Valencian people, and we will be accompanied by Valencian podcasters on this four-programme journey, in Valencian, to talk about monsters, legends, literature, death... You are invited to the recording of some of the programmes, but please let us know that you are coming, lest you don't leave room for monsters and imagination!

Of course, we will also enjoy many activities in the "real world", which we are sure you will like very much. Come and have a great time in our space to scare the fear away!

Check out the programme!

22 October, at 11 a.m. and 12.45 p.m.

Lletjot, el vampir golafre (Ugly, The Gluttonous Vampire), by Xana Teatre.
Tales that have travelled around the Mediterranean by word of mouth. Tales without an owner that only belong to those who listen to them and that connect us as intercultural peoples.

29 October, at 11.00 a.m. and 12.45 p.m.

Contes de por (Tales of Fear), by the NANO Association.
Carles Cano, Laia Cuentacuentos, Mr. Fem, Amparito Iserte and the Great Jordiet will be in charge of making us tremble with their witticisms..., and making us laugh until our jaws drop!

5th November, at 11.00 and at 12.45

De por i altres coses (Of Fear and Other Things), by Dani Miquel.
De por is not only music for children. It is also songs by adults who are not afraid to sing and dance with laughter and jump. It is the gateway to the age of fantasy and an opportunity to recover our origins and identity, to feel like children again.

Organised by: SARC - Department of Culture, Diputació de València.

The Plaça del Llibre is the largest showcase for literature in Valencian, with authors and publishers from all over the linguistic area represented. The Plaça is a celebration of the daily work of authors, booksellers and publishers, and an opportunity to meet with readers.

From 27 October to 1 November, L'ETNO Library will be participating in the Plaça del Llibre to recommend readings about the Valencian imaginary of fear for young and old, and about other more contemporary fears that frighten us when we are older. We will also present two publications that are very present in our library about fears:

1 November, at 12.00 noon.
Missing or dying, a catalogue on loss
Presentation with Raquel Ferrero and José Mª Candela, curators of the exhibition, and Eusebio López, designer.

1 November, at 1 p.m.
A vermouth of fantasy with the Unfinished Guide
Presentation with Joan Borja, Francesc Gisbert, Víctor Labrado, authors of the Guia inacabada de la fantasia valenciana, and Amparo Pons, librarian of L'ETNO.

Almudena Francés, the author, will tell us and teach us how to tell tales, and Marc Bou, the illustrator, will perhaps draw a bogeyman. In any case, the presentation of the new story in the collection "Espanta la por" will be great fun.

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, because her stories are linked to a specific territory, although she also tells the stories from far away as if they had happened in the Vall d'Albaida, because stories know no borders. What she is most proud of in her work is the Contes a la Fresca project, in which a local storyteller has storytellers who are professionally dedicated, transmitting a way of being and existing in the world and giving anchors for people to hold on to.

Marc Bou has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat Politècnica de València. During his studies he already shows interest in different artistic fields. He collaborates as a comic artist and scriptwriter for the fanzine Cinco and participates in different roles in different short films, one of which, Hasta que la muerte te separe (Until did do you part), received the award for best photography at the Ciutat de Castelló short film festival. He has worked in various fields, from muralist and designer to illustrator of album covers and storyboards. During 2013-2014 he held a travelling solo exhibition entitled Versos en blanc i negre/Il-lustrant a Estellés (Verses in black and white/Il-lustrating Estellés). He is the author of the illustrations for the Guia inacabada de la fantasia valenciana (The Unfinished Guide To Valencian Fantasy) (L'ETNO, 2022) and the Calendari Fantàstic for 2024. 

Other titles in the collection Espanta la por:

• Núm. 1 Marta y la Tarasca (Marta and the Monster) (2018)
• Núm. 2 Marta es un duende (Marta is a Fairy) (2019)
• Núm. 3 El hombre de las narices (The Man of Noses) (2020)
• Núm. 4 Bienvenida Quarantamaula (Welcome Quarantamaula) (2021)
• Núm. 5 ¿Soy una bruja? (Am I a Witch?) (2022)
• Guia inacabada de la fantasia valenciana (The Unfinished Guide To Valencian Fantasy) (2022)

The Open House Valencia -OHV- festival is a privileged rendezvous between the city and its most prized architecture. A multitude of buildings open their doors, displaying their functional, typological and formal uniqueness. The capital of the Turia thus joins other great metropolises such as New York, Milan, Athens, Lisbon,... inviting all members of the international community to explore the collective space, entering the architectural universe to enjoy the richness of its history and cultural diversity.

Open House Valencia is a multidisciplinary project that is open to everyone and was created with the aim of helping people to live and enjoy the architecture, landscape and urban art of the city by promoting new ways of contemplating and inhabiting it.

It is a non-profit and cross-cutting initiative based on social cohesion and the participation of the greatest number of urban actors: students, young people, professionals, technicians, artists, musicians, shopkeepers,...

For a weekend, infrastructures, squares, gardens and buildings can be visited and explained by the architects and designers who conceived, transformed, restored and made them possible.

La Beneficencia joins this year's event and opens its doors with special visits:

21 October 2023: 10 am. Guided visit by Joan Seguí (director of L'ETNO), María Jesús de Pedro (director of the Museum of Prehistory of Valencia) and Rafael Rivera (architect responsible for the restoration of La Beneficencia Cultural Centre). Free access until full capacity is reached.

21 and 22 October 2023: The rest of the day's visits will be open to the general public, with free access until full capacity is reached.

This workshop will explore the intriguing idea of the city as a living entity or large organism in constant evolution. It will focus on the city of Valencia as a case study and will analyse the process of transformation of urban space and reflect on the amenities that are often taken for granted today, comparing them to the responsibilities that the city had towards its residents in the past.

To help better understand the city, we will use the museum's cabinets, which will become real territories full of puzzles and surprises. In addition, participants will be provided with a booklet of Etnoviaje activities that will allow them to delve even deeper into the cultural and social fabric of Valencia.

This workshop is designed for children from 6 to 11 years old and promises to be an educational and fun experience for the participant. We are waiting for you to embark on this exciting journey of urban exploration!

Once again this year, the Espanta la por campaign is here to release our fantastic imagination with activities of all kinds, both for adults and for children. And as every year for the last eight years, we are not alone, we are accompanied by many local ethnological museums, libraries and Valencian schools!

This year we have something new: as well as being in the real world, we have also entered the world of podcasts. Espanta la por 2023 is the birth of The names of fear, the first podcast of L'ETNO in which we will reflect on the fears of adults, the fears of Valencian people, and we will be accompanied by Valencian podcasters on this four-programme journey, in Valencian, to talk about monsters, legends, literature, death... You are invited to the recording of some of the programmes, but please let us know that you are coming, lest you don't leave room for monsters and imagination!

Of course, we will also enjoy many activities in the "real world", which we are sure you will like very much. Come and have a great time in our space to scare the fear away!

Check out the programme!