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Monday, May 01, 2006
Costanilla: Summer of festivals
By Sam Costanilla
Spot light
FESTIVALS. It’s nice to know that more and more Cebu municipalities are doing their respective festivals in answer to Gov. Gwen Garcia’s challenge. Just recently, this writer emceed the launching of Santander’s Tostado Festival as well as Daanbantayan’s 2ndHaladaya Festival. Both activities, like the rest of the festivals being prepared by other towns, showcase local talents in lively festival dances as well as products that best identify each locality. We Cebuanos can now proudly claim that our province is truly thecountry’s festival island.
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SPECTACULAR. Both Tostado and Haladaya were spectacular in sight and sound. They truly amazed the spectators in terms of presentation. For instance, the Santander festival featured dancers in at least four movements or steps showing how tostados (nativecookies) are being made. The municipal basketball court where the launching was done had four small huts where each hut had a demonstration on the steps in baking the town delicacy. In Haladaya, the governor had only one word to describe the event - wow! The two festivals were ably directed by the incomparable Junjet Primor whose skill in handling major festivals is truly impressive. Junjet is a hard act to follow.
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MANTAWI. And talking of festivals, another major one that Junjet is set to direct is Mantawi Festival on Sunday, May 7. As its emcee, I already have an idea as to how the presentation will be made, but I’d rather keep the details under wraps in the meantime. But trust Junjet to do magic with this year’s Mantawi Festival and put up an amazing production for the general public.
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COMMEND. We should commend the men and women behind those Cebuano teleseries productions being aired over Cebu Catholic Television Network channel 47 (alsoSkycable 56). The network may be small, but its contribution to the upliftment of the local teleseries industry is so great. Mind you, even the veteran Tagalog film director Maning Borlaza is deeply involved in the network’s Cebuano teleseries productions. We should also salute and thank Nonito “Tatay Dodong” Limchua, the top honcho of CCTN channel 47, for his concern in this regard. His personal love for local teleseries productions is beyond question and compare. What is heartwarming to note here is the fact that such a venture could give local writers and talents, which we have a surplus of, a chance to hone their artistic capability.
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CONCERT. The municipality of San Fernando headed by Mayor Antonio Canoy has contracted Ultimate Born Diva Raki Vega to do a concert on May 13 at the town’s cultural and sports complex. The show is another chance for Cebuanos to see and hear one of their very own in a fantastic musical engagement.
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BLUNDER. The narrator of last week’s reenactment of the Lapulapu-Magellan encounter off Mactan shores committed a big blunder when he said that “Lapulapu fell into the water” when it should have been Magellan’s name. Okay, the narrator may not have doneit intentionally, but the blunder surely elicited giggles from the spectators - and erroneously “changed” an important historical detail. What a letdown.
(E-mail: samcost@yahoo.com or text 0915-4992844).
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