NCCA Celebrates Dayaw: Indigenous Peoples’ Month 2011
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ (NCCA) annual celebration of National Indigenous Peoples’ Month moves to Davao Region in Mindanao with Tagum City as its main venue. This October, Dayaw: Indigenous Peoples Festival 2011, under the auspices of the NCCA’s Subcommission on Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts and Mindanawon Foundation, in partnership with local governments, government agencies and the private sector, focuses the spotlight on the country’s indigenous peoples, celebrating their arts and ways of life, discussing important issues and making more people aware of the richness and importance of indigenous cultures. The leaders and representatives of more than 100 indigenous peoples of the Philippines will converge together for the five-day event in the first week of October to showcase their rituals, performing arts, cuisines, games, crafts and others. Additionally, they will be joined by delegates from six Southeast Asian countries in simultaneous excha