08 May - 02 Oct 2025

Etnomusic 2025

From the Mediterranean 

The Etnomusic festival returns as every year to the appointment with the public of the city of Valencia, in an edition full of enthusiasm and courage after the flood that our territory suffered last October 2024. To this end, L'ETNO offers a proposal full of groups of Valencian origin that, with an international vocation, present works that cover our closest geographical framework and the one that configures the Mediterranean, this sea, sometimes the source of massive storms, but always a robust bridge between cultures and peoples.  

Cabra, Valencian group formed by musicians from different origins in Spain will offer us a journey through the Iberian Peninsula in a sonorous journey in which tradition and the personal contribution of each performer are mixed.

Andrés Belmonte will propose a fusion between Arab music and traditional Valencian music with a central instrument, the nai, a flute from the Middle East of millenary origin. Meanwhile, Noelia Llorens, Titana, one of the most consolidated, powerful and empowered voices of our traditional music, will take us on a journey through our musical present rooted in the past.

The trio formed by the Catalan duo ZA! and the singer Perrate will offer a groundbreaking concert in which flamenco gives way to percussion and electronic music in a ‘meticulously’ improvised game.

Etnomusic will include a concert from the ‘Música en Construcción’ cycle of the Culture Department of the Diputación de València. This year we will have the chance to enjoy the Valencian group Saüc Ensemble, a classical ensemble that will perform music created in the Mediterranean during the Renaissance. The festival will also include a concert for families offered in collaboration with the SARC (Department of Culture of the Provincial Council of Valencia) by the Galician percussion group Odaiko.

PROGRAMMING AT L'ETNO

  • Cabra - Vol 1.  8 May. 20.15 h. 
  • SAÜC ENSEMBLE - Mármara.  10 May. 18.30 h. 
  • ZA! Perrate - Jolifanto.  15 May. 20.15 h
  • Andres Belmonte - Gharbí. 22 May. 20.15 h. 
  • ODAIKO PERCUSSION GROUP - Vaya ritmo. 25 May. 11.30 h.
  • Titana. 29 May. 2015. h.
     

ETHNOMUSIC IN THE VILLAGES

  • Eixa. 25 June. 20.00 h. Plaça del molí.. 
  • Titana. 2 October. 20.00 h. Massanasa. Plaça Ajuntament.
08 May - 02 Oct 2025
30 Mar 2025 - 12:00 - 13:00
01 Jun 2025 - 12:00 - 13:00
Visita teatralizada

Viajeras en el tiempo: Semillas de saber y conciencia

Visita teatralizada en «La Ciudad: local y global» –primer ámbito de la exposición permanente de La *ETNO–, que tiene por objetivo concienciar sobre la importancia de la supervivencia del comercio local. 

El trato personalizado y humano, la proximidad con la clientela, el diálogo o el asesoramiento son características de un hecho social en riesgo de desaparecer. 

Dos viajeras del tiempo (una de 1925 y otra recientemente llegada de 2125), a través de un recorrido por las curiosidades del pasado y por las sospechas de un predecible futuro, nos ayudarán a poner en valor el papel del comercio tradicional y a comprender la relevancia y la trascendencia de las acciones presentes.

30 Mar 2025 - 12:00 - 13:00
01 Jun 2025 - 12:00 - 13:00
Organización y forma de acceso
  • Visita destinada a público adulto y joven. 
  • Idioma: castellano. 
  • Entradas disponibles desde las 10 horas en el hall del museo. 
  • Máximo 2 entradas por persona. 
  • El punto de encuentro es a las 12.00 horas en el hall del museo. 
  • En caso de que alguna persona no llego puntual, se utilizará su entrada.
08 Feb 2025 - 19:30 - 23:00
FESTIVAL D’ORALITAT

AL CALIU DE LES PARAULES: CONTE I CLOWN

Volvemos un año más con «Al caliu de les paraules», y ya son nueve!!! En esta edición hemos querido abrir una ventana al clown profundizar en la esencia del humor

El humor es la capacidad humana para percibir aspectos ridículos o absurdos de la

realidad y destacarlos ante los demás de forma ingeniosa. Es transgresor y subversivo

por naturaleza y siempre se mueve en lo informal y en lo crítico. Por tanto, el humor es

plausible y divertido para quienes están en contra de las verdades oficiales, y su

carácter heterodoxo lo convierte en un excelente aliado de los cuentos populares.

En esta edición del Caliu de les Paraules hemos querido abrir una ventana al clown y

profundizar en la esencia del humor, en su papel como ingrediente básico de muchos

relatos y su función como algo que transgrede lo pertinente, lo decente o lo lógico.

En la medida que una payasa o un narrador oral de cuentos populares expresa lo que

no es correcto expresar, el juego va más allá de los límites establecidos y ambos se

convierten en defensores sociales de un público ávido de experimentar la irreverencia,

aunque sea “por poderes”, delegando el riesgo en unos seres humanos que,

parapetados tras su nariz roja –o no- y usando la comicidad, hurgan en nuestras almas

y nuestras costumbres sociales para evidenciar nuestras flaquezas y absurdidades.

¿Por qué esta irreverencia, este atrevimiento y este descaro? Porque sólo cuando se

sale del orden suceden las aventuras y ¿a quién no le seduce la aventura de inventar

otro mundo, que sostenga el que llevamos a cuestas día tras día? Es decir, otro mundo

que nos permita continuar en éste. 

L´ETNO invita a acercarse al calor de las hogueras, a que vivamos la aventura de la

oralidad irreverente, que no es otra que la inteligencia crítica frente al poder, la

inteligencia liberadora frente a los límites de la condición humana, y la inteligencia

divertida frente al enigma de la existencia.

PROGRAMA:

19.30 h. «Clowncuento-cuentoclown»
 Coloquio.  

21.00 h. Sopar de pa i porta
Cena en tres hogueras con adivinanzas y brindis. Las personas participantes deberán traer la cena y la organización proporcionará la picadeta y la bebida.

22.00 h. «Palabrasas»
Contadas simultáneamente en tres hogueras.

23.30 h. despedida
Celebración conjunta con bailes y cantos.

Cuentistes:
Maricuela, Carlos Alba y Maria Colomer

Idea, proyecto y coordinación:
Vicente Cortés - Vividor del conte.

08 Feb 2025 - 19:30 - 23:00

Acceso gratuito previa recogida de entradas a partir del 04/02/25 en el vestiibulo del museo. Máximo dos entradas por persona

29 Apr 2023 - 11:00 - 13:30
27 May 2024 - 11:00 - 13:30
Human libraries

Human Libraries are back!

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.
 


 

29 Apr 2023 - 11:00 - 13:30
27 May 2024 - 11:00 - 13:30
Information

Venue: rooms of the permanent exhibition of L'ETNO.

Pre-registration is required by sending an e-mail to: biblioteca.etnologia@dival.es and leaving your full name and date of attendance. 

This activity is recommended for children over 12 years old.

15 Jun 2024 - 11:00 - 13:30
13 May 2024 - 11:00 - 13:30
Human libraries

Human Libraries are back!

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.

15 Jun 2024 - 11:00 - 13:30
13 May 2024 - 11:00 - 13:30
Information

Venue: rooms of the permanent exhibition of L'ETNO.

Pre-registration is required by sending an e-mail to: biblioteca.etnologia@dival.es and leaving your full name and date of attendance. 

This activity is recommended for children over 12 years old.

29 May - 22 Sep 2024

Sustainability. Museus km 0

"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.

29 May - 22 Sep 2024
02 May 2024 - 31 Dec 2025

Paellas and cars

The permanent rooms of museums are usually too static, enduring in time and at risk of losing contact with current phenomena. We activate from now on small spaces where to introduce temporarily new layers of meaning that enrich the main story of NOT EASY TO BE VALENCIAN/VALENCIANA.

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.

 

02 May 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
11 May - 22 Sep 2024

Etnomusic 2024

A wide-ranging and quality program in this XXI Edition, “With a woman's gaze”.

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.

We wait for you!!!!!

11 May - 22 Sep 2024
Organization and access

Limited capacity. Free admission. 

Tickets can be collected from the Tuesday before each concert (maximum 2 tickets per person) in the lobby of the Museu Valencià d'Etnologia (10 am to 8 pm) or through the website: www.letno.es.

Important: before booking tickets, it is necessary to register on the platform if you were not previously registered:

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01 May 2023 - 31 May 2025

love on the outskirts

The permanent rooms of museums are usually too static, enduring in time and at risk of losing contact with current phenomena. We activate from now on small spaces where to introduce temporarily new layers of meaning that enrich the main story of NOT EASY TO BE VALENCIAN/VALENCIANA.

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.

Exposició permanent
01 May 2023 - 31 May 2025
18 Dec 2023 - 23:00
Press release

Treasures with history II

In this exhibition you can see objects from the second and third seasons of 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.

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