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.

Discovering walls, is the result of the artistic-therapeutic project Re-Creating identity, conceived and carried out by Albert Fernández and Mónica Cases in collaboration with L'ETNO and the Mental Health Hospital of the Diputación de Valencia. Aimed at people diagnosed with mental health, the works on display come from several sessions with a similar structure: a visit to the permanent exhibition, where generic concepts that define and identify us as a group are extracted and analyzed, and the creation of debates and experiences that promote reflection and knowledge of individual identity.

The work of approaching the concept of identity -the fundamental subject of study of anthropology- and the discovery of the factors and walls that have intervened in the processes of individual and collective construction, has favored the knowledge of the “I” and of one's own real identity by each of the participants.

As a paradigm of the rapprochement between culture and mental health, L'ETNO, in dialogue with the space that made its conception possible, presents Discovering Walls with the ultimate purpose of demonstrating: the ability to express and represent, through art, the museum's commitment to inclusivity and collaboration between two fields (heritage and health) for the benefit of the well-being of the whole collective and society as a whole.

Where does Discovering Walls come from?

From an institutional perspective, L'ETNO aims, and has been aiming for years, to bring the fields of heritage and health closer together through the construction of collaborative spaces and projects that promote social welfare.

The interest in the implementation of social actions and projects is justifiable from a double perspective: that of its typology, since the complex process of creation and change of cultural identity is a subject of fundamental study of anthropology, and that of a public social museum that transgresses its physical barriers or walls and is concerned with, and does its best to solve, the needs of its environment.

In this context, and through the Re-Creating Identity project, the present intervention arises. Discovering walls is just a physical sample of the multiple workshops carried out during the activity; a look at the creative process with which Albert Fernández and Mónica Cases, during their visit to the exhibition It's not easy to be Valencian, have worked on the construction of the identity of people diagnosed with mental health.

The project, based on a reflective, dialogic, artistic and creative methodology, has addressed: the nature of emotions and their management, the process of socialization within the group, the construction of the “I” and, above all, the identity or personal milestones that determine who and why we are or why we act in a certain way.
 

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. IMPORTANT: We inform you that due to unforeseen reasons, the group ODAIKO will not be able to perform at the ETNOMUSIC Festival. The Valencian group Trencaclosques-Rodamons Teatre will perform in their place.
• Titana. 29 May. 2015. h.
   

ETHNOMUSIC IN THE VILLAGES

• Eixa. 25 June. 20.00 h. Benettúser. Plaça del molí.. 
• Titana. 4 October. 20.00 h. Massanasa. Plaça Ajuntament.

‘Fadrines’ is an exhibition about women who did not marry when it was the right thing to do. Or, in other words, women who undermined the heteropatriarchal norm of getting married and having children. What were their lives like, taking into account the social environment that looked at them sideways, that stereotyped them, that ignored them? How did they construct themselves from that margin that was bachelorhood, from that periphery that attracted little attention? Far from scornful or pitiful readings, ‘Fadrines’ shows the diversity of the life trajectories of single women in the face of the monolith of the hegemonic model. Intuitive feminists of the 40s and 50s, the identity journey from stereotype to plenitude is the essence of this exhibition.

‘Fadrines’ explores resistances. Resistance to a norm: getting married and having children; resistance to stereotypes, applied to silence those women who have acted on the margins, outside the line, outside the established framework. ‘Fadrines’ shows trajectories of singleness, variations in other ways of being and living, far from the dominant patterns.

The plurality of forms that a life can take, despite the narrow parameters of the social imaginary, come together in this exhibition. ‘Fadrines’ is in praise of those intuitive feminists who said no to a marriage based on legitimised inequality. But it is also a recognition of those for whom singlehood was not an option, but an imposition against their wishes.

 ‘Fadrines’ is a challenge to the forms of female non-existence. We invite you on a journey through which we have accompanied the women interviewed, from stereotype to plenitude.

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.

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.

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.
 

 

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.

"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.

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.