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.

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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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

The Graves of Francoism (Las fosas del Franquismo) is a project with a public service vocation that aims to promote democratic memory. Society has a moral obligation to undo the base of oblivion in order to never again repeat the most tragic episodes of our history. The project is multidisciplinary in nature, as it is approached from the perspective of archaeology, anthropology and historical memory.

The Diputación de València, with the Historical Memory Delegation, and the Department of Culture, with the Museums of Prehistory and L'ETNO, have produced two exhibitions, a publication and a programme of cultural activities, which aim to contribute to the truth, justice and reparation of the memory of the people shot in the Paterna Cemetery between 1939 and 1956. Special attention has been devoted to the victims and their families.

The exhibitions are: Archaeology of Memory. The Graves of Paterna (Arqueología de la Memoria. Las fosas de Paterna), organised by the Museum of Prehistory of Valencia, and 2238 Paterna. A place of perpetration and memory  (2238 Paterna. Lugar de perpetración y memoria), organised by L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia, which will help to strengthen critical thinking in the face of events that should never be repeated.

2238 Paterna. A place of perpetration and memory.

Approaching the contemporary exhumations of the graves of victims of Franco's regime from the perspective of social anthropology allows us to look beyond these graves. From this discipline, the analytical focus is placed on understanding in depth and in all its dimensions the dynamic social world that surrounds them and endows them with meaning, whether in institutional, associative or family environments.

From this point of view, exhuming involves much more than digging up bones. The view widens and allows us to introduce new agents, to move through time and space and to put ourselves in the place of those people who were murdered and humiliated by Franco's repression, as well as to walk with them along the paths of memory and oblivion.

All these issues are present in one way or another in the exhibition 2238. Paterna, Place of Perpetration and Memory, organised by L'ETNO. Through different spaces and periods, it takes us from the past to the present, from the houses and locked chests of drawers to the cemetery of Paterna and inside the graves, from the experiences of several generations to the suffering of men and women repressed for their way of thinking and living, for defending the legitimate government or for their political militancy.

In the first room (Room 2) we enter a mass grave. From inside, we are led to reflect on its existence and the reasons for the current demands for exhumations, thanks, above all, to the transmission of memory by women.

The first courtyard recreates the Paterna cemetery, showing us the spaces, the small and humble family tributes, the different political demands that have taken place there over time up to the present day.

In the second courtyard we can stop to assimilate all that we have been shown, digest the violence and fear of so many families and share the seeds of hope that encapsulate their demands.

This project is the result of the joint effort and work of many people: the curator, the person responsible for the design, the institution and its workers (restoration, conservation, communication, didactics, administration and management...). And, of course, it is the fruit of the generosity of the families who have selflessly allowed their private and intimate memory to become public heritage and collective memory.

Consult press release in the right-hand column.

We invite you to a bike ride through the Turia Garden where we will tell forgotten stories, collective experiences, identify archaeological remains of ancient uses and reflect on the process of construction of this emblematic space of the city that has not always been as we see it today. We want to renew the way we look at a space that we take for granted and activate new feelings of esteem, understanding, knowledge and responsibility towards the city we inhabit.

The route will sail up the river by bicycle with several explanatory stops, up to the Naturia building for a guided visit to the exhibition BEFORE THE GARDEN, where we will see photographic and archival documentation of everything we experienced on the bike ride.

Duration: 2 h. 30 min.
Departure point: Caixa Forum (Agora Building)
Starting time: 9:30 a.m.
Small groups of a maximum of 10-12 people.
Please register by e-mail: letno@dival.es
Phone number: 963 883 633
Bring your own bicycle. 
Low difficulty

For more information, please contact: letno@dival.es

The Graves of Francoism (Las fosas del Franquismo) is a project with a public service vocation that aims to promote democratic memory. Society has a moral obligation to undo the base of oblivion in order to never again repeat the most tragic episodes of our history. The project is multidisciplinary in nature, as it is approached from the perspective of archaeology, anthropology and historical memory.

The Diputación de València, with the Historical Memory Delegation, and the Department of Culture, with the Museums of Prehistory and L'ETNO, have produced two exhibitions, a publication and a programme of cultural activities, which aim to contribute to the truth, justice and reparation of the memory of the people shot in the Paterna Cemetery between 1939 and 1956. Special attention has been devoted to the victims and their families.

The exhibitions are: Archaeology of Memory. The Graves of Paterna (Arqueología de la Memoria. Las fosas de Paterna), organised by the Museum of Prehistory of Valencia, and 2238 Paterna. A place of perpetration and memory  (2238 Paterna. Lugar de perpetración y memoria), organised by L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia, which will help to strengthen critical thinking in the face of events that should never be repeated.

2238 Paterna. A place of perpetration and memory.

Approaching the contemporary exhumations of the graves of victims of Franco's regime from the perspective of social anthropology allows us to look beyond these graves. From this discipline, the analytical focus is placed on understanding in depth and in all its dimensions the dynamic social world that surrounds them and endows them with meaning, whether in institutional, associative or family environments.

From this point of view, exhuming involves much more than digging up bones. The view widens and allows us to introduce new agents, to move through time and space and to put ourselves in the place of those people who were murdered and humiliated by Franco's repression, as well as to walk with them along the paths of memory and oblivion.

All these issues are present in one way or another in the exhibition 2238. Paterna, Place of Perpetration and Memory, organised by L'ETNO. Through different spaces and periods, it takes us from the past to the present, from the houses and locked chests of drawers to the cemetery of Paterna and inside the graves, from the experiences of several generations to the suffering of men and women repressed for their way of thinking and living, for defending the legitimate government or for their political militancy.

In the first room (Room 2) we enter a mass grave. From inside, we are led to reflect on its existence and the reasons for the current demands for exhumations, thanks, above all, to the transmission of memory by women.

The first courtyard recreates the Paterna cemetery, showing us the spaces, the small and humble family tributes, the different political demands that have taken place there over time up to the present day.

In the second courtyard we can stop to assimilate all that we have been shown, digest the violence and fear of so many families and share the seeds of hope that encapsulate their demands.

This project is the result of the joint effort and work of many people: the curator, the person responsible for the design, the institution and its workers (restoration, conservation, communication, didactics, administration and management...). And, of course, it is the fruit of the generosity of the families who have selflessly allowed their private and intimate memory to become public heritage and collective memory.
Consult the brochure of complementary activities in the right-hand column.