Department Of Tourism “Tunay na Pyestang Pinoy” seminar-workshop opens in Tacloban

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The seminar-workshop tagged as “Tunay na Pyestang Pinoy” under the Department of Tourism (DOT) Operation: Tunay na Kulturang Pinoy Program, started yesterday at the SMED Center in Tacloban City, DOT 8 Regional Director Karina Rosa Tiopes said.

The cultural seminar-workshop hopes to conduct the review and re development of cultural festivals, the principle of correcting and enhancing the events through a tedious process of educating the community on correct music and correct dance movements and correct props and costumes that are based on their own history and traditions, Director Tiopes explained.

The seminar will be conducted by experts from the Department of Tourism Central Office, from the National Commission on Culture and Arts and from the Philippine Normal University, Director Tiopes added.

The participants will undergo, from March 11-13, an intensive training on aspects involved in festival management. The participants will include choreographers, artistic directors, local government tourism officers, local government officials and even barangay leaders who are involved in yearly street dancing parades, in order to provide them with ample knowledge of their own culture and to teach them tried-and-tested systems and methods to preserve and enhance their old rituals and traditions.

During the workshop, the participants will be divided into groups. The workshop output will be put together to create a cultural festival that carries the image and character of an ideal Eastern Visayan Pyesta. This will be critiqued by a panel of reactors from the Region’s cultural communities and the academe, Director Tiopes added.

Director Tiopes said that the Department of Tourism recognizes the fact that cultural festivals is an important component of the Philippine Tourism Industry, thus, it has the responsibility to put culture to where it should rightly belong. After all, culture is the soul of the nation and it is the one that differentiate a Filipino from his Asian brothers and sisters.

It is in this context that the DOT Operation: TKP (Tunay na Kulturang Pinoy) was conceptualized, to review and re-do all cultural events and festivals that have been created in the regions to make sure that they reflect the community’s dreams and joys, true beliefs and creative expressions, Director Tiopes concluded.