Gotad Ad Kiangan 2023

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Integral to the uya-uy is the observance of the “holyat” which culminates the long nights of observing the naba. The holyat then is a prelude and the start of the celebration of “gotad” when the whole community joins in the festivity with the beating of gongs, butchering of animals, drinking of rice wine, and dancing.

The festival celebration started with a “Dog-al” which means to drive away. This was a practice by the Ifugao ancestors to drive away whatever was harmful or detrimental in the homes and the environment.

Some of the highlights of the festival were the indigenous dances, chants, and games, and iKiangan Got Talent Competition among others.

Kiangan  Mayor Raldis Andrei Bulayungan  thanked the Almighty, the people and the guests  for the success of the two-day festival after the two-year postponement.

“This pandemic brought us closer together. It made us work closer together. It became an opportunity for us to be more hardworking, to exert more effort in combatting, protecting and guiding our people,” said Bulayungan.

Vice Governor Glenn Prudenciano also shared that the province adopted an Ordinance establishing the Ifugao Provincial Heritage Museum, and its operation and management that aims to gather the culture, traditions or artifacts of Ifugao to maintain and preserve the Ifugao culture and a means of educating its people.

“There are many challenges today especially to our culture, and the best thing that we should do is not to get tired of practicing our culture,” said Prudenciano.(JDP/FBR-PIA CAR, Ifugao)

Kiangan Fiesta: April 31 – May 3

Gotad Ad Kiyangan: May 1

GOTAD AD KIYANGAN is the annual festival of Ifugao performing arts of dancing, chanting and folk singing centered at Kiangan.  The festival has now grown to a 4-day fiesta with May 1 as the main event.

The celebration aims to create, intensify and sustain understanding of interest in and appreciation for the Ifugao performing arts.  By witnessing the performances during the festival, the young Ifugao, hopefully, will understand and appreciate their own ethnic performing arts and be inspired to perform them themselves, thus insuring promotion and preservation of these important aspects of our cultural heritage.

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has been funding the GOTAD AD KIYANGAN starting in 1996 with the Municipal Government of Kiangan putting a minimal amount as its counterpart.  Starting in 2001, Kiangan continued to sponsor the arts festival on its own.

Gotad is an Ifugao Tuwali word which has two distinct but related meanings.  Ordinarily, the word means a big gathering of people.  In ritual usage, it refers to the day-long phase in the performance of the prestige rites.  These rites are the ballihong, balog, uyauy and hagabi.  During this particular phase of any of these rites, people from far and near converge in the village of the family sponsoring the rite.  They will come in their best attire and adorned with their personal accessories.  The rich make the gotad the appropriate occasion for them to display their jewels and other valuable personal adornments.

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