The Turia Gardens are a space of indisputable urban, social and heritage value that has evolved with the city since its very foundation. In spite of everything, the awareness that allows us to perceive it in this way is still, to a large extent, yet to be built. The narratives, often focused on the catastrophic floods, have overlooked other types of economic, social and emotional relationships between the city and its river.

The conversion of the river into a garden from 1982 onwards expanded the idea that, before the transformation of the old river into a large green belt, it was a wasteland that was alien to the city. A place where nothing happened.

The result of photographic and documentary archive research, this exhibition tells the story of a reality that was more diverse and complex. The exhibition is divided into three sections: Living on the river, which focuses on the riverbed as a living space; Living from the river, which points out the different uses of resources often related to water; Living the river, which reveals the development of its social and popular use until it became a garden thanks to citizen mobilisation.

Looking at the past shows us how our everyday environment is constantly changing, the result of the evolution of the relationships between people and the environment they inhabit. Observing these processes helps to strengthen the emotional roots that link us to the spaces we inhabit, enjoy and are used to perceiving as natural and familiar.

València was not born with its back to the sea, as is often said, but deliberately facing its river.

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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.

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.

We start the new season with renewed educational workshops for the whole family. Aimed at children from 4 years old accompanied by an adult, they are held on Sundays at 12:00 noon. 

Tickets will be distributed from the Thursday before each workshop and the person in charge will meet the participants in the museum foyer at 12:00 noon. 

The workshops will be held in both Spanish and Valencian.

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
 

ETNO has hidden himself in the display cases of toys in the exhibition. Can you help us find him? 

A game of discovery to experience in the rooms of L'ETNO. The museum seen through different eyes - those of children - in a playful and entertaining way. For children aged 4 to 7 accompanied by adults. 

The permanent exhibition of L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia "It is not easy to be Valencian" consists of three sections: the city, the irrigated farmland and the marshland, and the dryland and the mountains. This guide is a playful and educational proposal about the first one: the city. Through different activities that encourage creativity and critical thinking, we want adults and children to learn a little more about Valencian cities and the many changes that have taken place in them over the last century.

The guide is aimed at families with children between 6 and 11 years old. You can all take part in the activities and join in with them. Each proposal consists of three itineraries with different levels of difficulty. As a guideline, each level corresponds to an age range, although adults can choose the activities that you consider most appropriate to the profile of the children.

To do the activities, you can consult the information panels in the room and use the folder and pencil provided at the entrance. The suggested route can be completed in 1 hour. At the end of the City Hall there is a new rest area with tables where you can do or finish some activities. After the visit, you can continue learning at home with other suggestions at the end of the guide.

The guide is only available in Spanish and Valencian.

I don't want gold, I don't want silver, what I want is to break the piñata! In this traditional Christmas workshop, we will make together the traditional Mexican seven-pointed piñata so that you can fill it with wishes and your favourite sweets, and we will also discover together its symbolism. Are you in?