DAGUPAN City will host the National Performing Arts Festival called “Fun Fiesta Sa Pilipinas 2014” on April 1 to 3, and the event will formally kick off this year’s Dagupan Bangus Festival slated from April 1 to May 1.

The three-day event will showcase national competitions in folk dance and one-act play; song composition and interpretation and dance drama contest;  and contemporary dance and chorale competition to be held at CSI Stadia in Lucao.

The competitions, to be participated in by elementary and secondary students from around the country, will be sponsored jointly by the Dagupan City government and the Bulwagang Filipino Theatre Guild., Inc. with Bennylito Reyes as executive director, in coordination with the Philippine Arts and Culture Educators Society (PACES).

Mayor Belen Fernandez said the inclusion of the Fun Fiesta sa Pilipinas event in the Bangus Festival 2014will add glitter to the month-long festivities directed at further promoting bangus (milkfish), the number one agricultural product of Dagupan.

Reyes said 46 to 48 recognized school-based performing arts groups, including representatives from Dagupan and Pangasinan, will compete only in the second National Performing Arts Festival in the country, the first of which was held last year in Pasay City with 20 participants.

This year’s festival has the theme: “Kabataang Pilipino, Dangal ng Lahi’t Bansa Ipagdiwang…  Ipagmalaki Natin Ito”.

The competition is in line with the cultural enrichment program of the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCAA) and is intended to promote, review, reinvent and strengthen the Filipino culture with the active participation of the youth.

Dr. Zenaida Sinlao, commissioner on arts and culture of the Dagupan government, said the city is glad to host the festival which will encourage the youth to further hone their skills in various performing arts.–LVM

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