"Products
To Be Proud Of”
Last
January 6-12, 2013 , we had our Community Immersion held in Brgy. Calaya, Nueva
Valencia, Guimaras. It’s been a great experience for me, the one week stay in
the place. I discovered a lot of things about Brgy. Calaya and one of these is,
Calaya is known for its industrial products such as wallets, bags, mats and
even the making of their traditional costumes. Usually the products are made of
pandan leaves and pineapple. Their traditional costumes are used by the
students every “Rara Festival” to portray the livelihood, tradition and culture
of the people in the barangay. The barangay
is also rich in agricultural products such as coconuts, bananas, pineapples and
the pandan.
“Cultural Memories”
Brgy. Calaya,
Nueva Valencia, guimaras is rich in cultural memories like binalaybay and
composo. Their binalaybays are usually about the lives of the people in the
place and how they work for their living and also about nature. The composo is
more on about the feelings of a man towards a woman.
We had this
opportunity to hear the binalaybay and composo made by the grandfather and
grandmother of Joyce Torda, a resident of Brgy. Calaya.
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