Mangyan Festival of Mansalay

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Have you come to Mansalay?? Have you featured the beauty and richness of the Mangyan cultures there?  If not, hurry! Come to Mindoro and witness what beyond in Mansalay.



In the province of Mindoro, municipality of Mansalay celebrated the Mangyan Festival. About 35-40% of Mansalay's population is composed of the native Mangyans. Mindoro is their home.





Mangyan Festival is celebrated every 25th day of the month of November. The feast aims to honored the Mangyans for the legacies and pride they brought. 








Mangyan festival celebration started at 2013. During the feast each barangay's or school have a well-prepared dance inspired by Mangyans that will represent to their pride and compete with other competitors. The  program was held at Mansalay gymnasium every 1:00 at the afternoon to maybe ends at 7 evening of November 25.
Every year I watched the street dancing competition and every year different petards are showned by the dancers through the  creative imagination of their choreo's. Rain or shine  the show must continue, I could not see tired to the faces of every dancers even how tough are they doing all I have saw from them are eagerness to gave happiness not  just for the people who watched them, not just for the prized they could received from the competition but their eagerness to denote that their dance is for the beloved Mangyans of Mansalay.


This is Ginaw Bilog of hanunuo mangyan recognized as the National Living Treasure of the Philippine Government therefore Mangyans are really artistic  and creative.





These are the Hanunuos. They live happily with their simple life. They are contented for what they have. I have a Hanunuo classmates I observed that they are very friendly to us but others of them are shy but they are all good, very thoughtful and super kind. They are renting boarding house that's why once a week they come home even they have a good life in lowland they still chosed to go back home maybe because with their families they could felt the real home and happiness.




Mangyan Festival is the major cultural event in Mindoro  which acknowledge the 7 tribes of Mangyans.
Mangyan Festival aims to raise awareness of the richness of Mangyan culture to tourist and lowland Mansalenyos and promote respect and recognition for the mangyans and their diverse cultures through various forms of artistic expression together with their unique crafts and arts. Instill among the Mangyan population especially among the youth a deeper understanding and appreciation of their own heritage and of the need to keep it alive for the next generation.


Reference: www.mangyan.org
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