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Mountain Province is preparing for the long awaited
Lang-ay Festival this coming April 1, 2008. This is the
fourth staging of the Lang-ay Festival and the theme is
"Living Tradition: We care and share." Lang-ay Festival
has a series and various of activities that is created
by different committees for this years weeklong
celebration of Lang-ay Festival.
The activities that the Lang-ay Festival committee
created include a series of events like agro-industrial
fair, tribal sports on ‘Gimata’ race and pounding rice,
indigenous games and exhibits, cultural dance
presentation combined with street dancing parade,
indigenous sports, Day-eng contest, and cultural fashion
show among others.
The street dancing will be composed of two groups : the
Children Street Dancing which shall be participated in
by elementary pupils and first and second year high
school. Participants in this category shall be composed
of a minimum of 25 to a maximum of 30; and the Mixed-age
Group street dancing which shall be participated by the
community of all ages with a minimum of 60 to a maximum
of 100 performers to include dancers, musicians and
prop-bearers.
The other exciting activities that will be conducted in
this weeklong Lang-ay Festival includes mountain
trekking; skills fair/showcase; Ms. Mt. Province
Pageant; Lang-ay Theme song competition; farmers
forum/congress/lectures; medical/dental mission; coffee
sipping experience; indigenous worship and concert;
Theater presentation; 11th Community get together; Job
fair and Serbisyo Caravan of selected agencies; Chorale
Fest; Oratorical contest for the youth with the theme,
‘Gawis ay Mountain Province’.
The Lang-ay Festival, which was first staged in 2004, is
the biggest crowd drawer in the province. |