Kulturang Kalikasan is the first contingent to perform in the festival.
(CDN PHOTO/NORMAN MENDOZA)
Dancers in colorful costumes from Consolacion’s 21 barangays converged for the Sarok Festival, an event highlighting the town’s 94th founding anniversary last Friday.
The Consolacion National High School is the festival’s first-prize winner in the high school division topping two other contingents while the Tayud Elementary School took the top plum for the elementary division besting four others.
Both first-prize winners took home P20,000.
The festivities attracted thousands of spectators, who gathered in barangay Poblacion.
The festival features the “sarok”, a hat made from bamboo strips and dried banana leaves usually worn by farmers to protect themselves from the sun or rain.
PRIZE MONEY
The second-prize winners each took home P15,000 and the third-prize winners each received P10,000. The rest of the contingents got P5,000 each.
Special awards were also handed out to the contingents who were the best in choreography, best in costume, best in street dancing and best lead dancer.
Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale, Provincial Board Member Thadeo Ouano and Cebu mayors’ league president Aljun Diamante of Tuburan were among the guests.
A high school contingent show their moves in front of the judges in the Consolacion event. (CDN PHOTO/ JUNJIE MENDOZA)
P1M COST
The contingents paraded along the streets from the Consolacion Community College in barangay Laray towards the Sta. Lucia lot where the showdown was held.
About P1 million was spent for the festival, said Councilor Julius Alegado, adding that the Capitol gave P500,000.