Mujeres con Raíz (Women with Roots) was born at the end of 2014 to pay a well-deserved tribute to the traditional voice of Murcian women, the owners of a large part of the oral heritage of the southeast of the peninsula. Women's voices that most of the time were relegated to the domestic sphere through lullabies, or also to intimate and family prayers; but who also worked, like men, and then threw their harvest and threshing songs to the wind. Either they asked the heavens for water or they celebrated with malagueñas, jotas and seguidillas. Women, in short, who set all ages of life to music.

The project is presented as a look at space and time in which female voices bring us closer to the east and west of each day, recognising in it our past and our destiny, that of the everyday stories told and sung by all and that of the geographies travelled by the members of the group from their different trajectories, travelling from east to west and from north to south through the territory of Murcia, to build a project to recover and listen to this musical repertoire. 

Carmen María Martínez (vocals and castanets), Mari Cruz Sánchez (vocals), Tomás García (guitar, guitarrón, tambourines, cymbals and backing vocals), Juan José Robles (guitar, guitar, lute and backing vocals), R. Enrique González (percussion and backing vocals).

*Concert included in the ETNOMUSIC ALS POBLES cycle.

Silento is a duo formed by the Valencian musicians Celina Jiménez and Ana Ferrer, two artists who began performing together at a very young age and over the years have performed in different countries as a duo. Based in Berlin, Celina Jiménez works as a lyric singer and has performed in emblematic venues such as the Juan March Foundation in Madrid and the main hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. Ana Ferrer, guitarist and composer, graduated in classical guitar at the ESMUC (Barcelona) and holds a Master's degree in Music from the UPV. Beyond their training and activity, both show a great interest in musical traditions and experimentation. 

Their concerts are characterised by creating a close and emotional atmosphere, with a careful selection of repertoire that includes folk pieces, singer-songwriters' songs, their own compositions and traditional music, all of them arranged with a personal language full of creativity. 

In De València i ultramar, with an intimate and acoustic format (two voices, a guitar and small percussions), Silento offers a concert fed by a selection of their own compositions and original arrangements that cover multiple fields: the copla of Concha Piquer, Sephardic music, traditional Valencian songs related to everyday work or parenting, the poetic world of Federico García Lorca, the decadence of the Viennese waltz, or Argentine tangos. 

Celina Jiménez (voice and percussion), Ana Ferrer (guitar).

*Concert included in the Cicle Música en construcció of the Área de Cultura de la Diputación de Valencia. Before the concert (5:00 p.m.) there will be a visit to the exhibition It's not easy to be Valencian, a permanent exhibition at L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia.

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.

Mudanzas is a project promoted in 2021  by the Centro de Formación de Personas Adultas Vicent Ventura in collaboration with the photographer Lidia Jaramillo. The project used the photovoice technique in combination with life interviews and workshops with the aim of giving  voice to immigrant and native students who were at the centre at the time. The idea was to let them  tell their story around three moments (origins, crossing and arrival) activating a shared reflection of the experience.
 
Through this project, L'ETNO aims to continue with its task of disseminating and reflecting on the plurality of Valencian society, and in particular the situation and experience of migrants living with us. In addition, the project strengthens the line of work of collaboration with institutions such as the Vicent Ventura training centre, until recently located in the same neighbourhood than the museum.

Lidia Jaramillo, photographer of the project, Coloma Mestre, teacher of the Centre de Formació de Persones Adultes Vicent Ventura, a student of this centre and participant in the project and Joan Seguí, curator of L'ETNO, will take part in the event. 
 

A hores d'ara is a digital archive that encompasses the experiences and knowledge of the people and groups that have defended l'Horta de València over the last few decades. It contains visual and graphic material and different types of documentation produced by the collectives. It is an archive in process, built from the archives of many people and groups. Thus, the proposal does not include all the urban aggressions that have taken place in the territory of l'Horta, but those for which it has been possible to trace a social response with its different strategies to denounce and try to prevent violence on the territory and on the lives that make it up, sometimes with success and sometimes not, but always full of lessons learned.

Participants: Natalia Castellanos, Alba Herrero and Anaïs Florin. 

Organised by: L'ETNO Library and the Valencian Association of Anthropology.

The free information that is currently available on the most consulted online encyclopaedia in the world is insufficient and can be improved. 

L'ETNO wants to take the opportunity of the future exhibition Espill de festa. El Corpus, which will be inaugurated in July, to open a parallel viquiproject to improve free knowledge about the Corpus Christi festival in the city of Valencia. This project will be developed in collaboration between L'ETNO, the Department of Festive Culture of the City Council of Valencia, Amical Wikimedia and Wikimedia Spain.

The viquiproject will have three main activities: a wikitakes to be held on the weekend of the Corpus celebrations, a photographic competition and a viquimarathon to edit textual content.

1- The wikitakes is a meeting whose aim is to photograph a geographical space or an event and then release the images on Wikimedia Commons. This project, a sister project of Viquipèdia, feeds the free encyclopaedia with images and audiovisual resources. In the case of Corpus Christi in Valencia, there is a lack of graphic resources about the festival, so the aim is to document all the elements and manifestations of the festive calendar. From 17 to 19 June, it will be easy to find viquipedistas, with their cameras, living the festival in the street to be able to document everything and, later, to release it. 

2- A photographic competition will be held among all the photographs about the Corpus Christi that are released on Wikimedia Commons. In this case, the contest is not limited to the city of Valencia, but is extended to all Valencian towns that celebrate this festival. 

L'ETNO is looking for collaboration to fill the most consulted encyclopaedia in the world with Valencian Corpus Christi. The first step is to enjoy the festival and take lots of photographs; the perfect excuse for the weekend of 17-19 June.

3- The viquimarathon is a meeting of people interested in editing. In this case, on the elements of the Corpus Christi festival, with the aim of creating new articles in the Viquipèdia or improving existing ones with new bibliographical references. This viquimarathon will be held at the ETNO Library once the exhibition Espill de Festa is open.

The exceptional nature and value of the images recovered fin the project El Maestrat Filmat confronts us with documents of great heritage value. But, luckily or unfortunately, times have changed a lot since these images were recorded and people's respect and relationship with these films has changed a lot.

The current use of the image makes these recovered films a rare bird, an estrangement within the chaotic amalgamation of the contemporary image with which we live and to which we are exposed on a daily basis.

Taking  all this as a pretext, L'ETNO proposeS to carry out a conference-workshop around the image-archive. A session where you can reflect on the use of the archive in the current audiovisual while experimenting with this type of images.

The network of Museum Itineraries in a gender perspective incorporates the gender perspective into the cultural visit to the museum. A perspective that studies the cultural and social constructions that are specific to men and women, that which identifies the feminine and the masculine. This network offers visitors to the participating museums a different reading of the collections on display, with the aim of promoting gender equality in the face of diversity. 

L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia has developed a gender itinerary or tour, selecting a set of pieces and spaces from its permanent collection that show significant interest in relation to gender representations. Visitors can consult and download the information and material necessary to follow the proposed routes at www.relecturas.es. 

These itineraries do not focus exclusively on the figure of women, but also explore representations of men and masculinity, as well as the presence of transgender identities, third genders or alternative genders to the Western dual system of sex/gender. They also focus on aspects such as gender ideology and systems, stereotypes and roles, relations between spaces, history and gender, etc. 

Some of the objectives of the Relecturas network are to contribute to the knowledge and dissemination of Valencian cultural heritage, to promote intercultural dialogue, to strengthen links between Valencian museums, and to boost cultural tourism. It also seeks to teach values of respect, coexistence and tolerance in order to achieve real and effective equality between women and men.