Lapyahan Festival 2010 (San Remigio, Cebu

 

 

 

 

 

The Municipality of San REMIGIO

celebrates the LAPYAHAN Festival in

cognizance of the Town Fiesta. Lapyahan

means shoreline, symbolized the arrival

of the development and progress in

the midst of this proud town after

a long wait, when then it’s a venue

of community where posted to

guard the town or a stronghold

when the Moro depredators were

sighted. Laterally LAPYAHAN describes

the unique feature of San Remigio for

having the longest shoreline in Cebu

Province with ala Boracay white beaches

enough to taunt foreign and local tourists.

 

 

 

 

The theme of this festival is a combination of

 Town’s History and God’s gift natural beautiful shoreline.

The first section of the festivity is history, the ritual dance

chronologically symbolize from

the very beginning from pre Spanish era,

Japanese occupation then to American

 regime until the independence of

what we are now.

 

 

The costume and props use by the upland

section, camouflage their motive of

promoting the agro-forestry product to

the low land community.

Another concept of

the farmers which they are going to portray is

the products of agro-forestry system

that are being sold to the shoreline

community and the tourist market- like

organic foods and ornamentation and

made of

variety crafts for

souvenir item

that come from the indigenous materials or

recycle one. To sum up the people in the mountain

have also a role to

follow the flow of eco-system.

The props and costumes used by

the dancers in coastal area still camouflage

on how the cycle of deforestation, soil erosion and

the greatest and the most damaging problem to the sea resources

which is the siltation.

The sea section to the line in

 the preservation of

 the marine resources as not to

damage the productivity and diversity has allow

the low land people to live comfortably along the LAPYAHAN; will be

 protected from strong sea currents and waves,

 and allow them to harvest a bountiful fish product

and other marine life. The creativity of the dancer show how

 the pollution coming from the upland area down to the sea,

that damage

the coral reef by dirtying the sea bed

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