Modernization has taken away some of our lives from us that
sometimes we feel emptiness in our hearts, the yearning to seek and discover
the part of our life that is long forgotten. We may have forsaken our past
because of bad memories but still, deep in our heart lays our passion of our
hometown. The feeling that maketh you wants to envisage your youthful days.
Those days when you were part of performing rituals or listening to elders’
stories about their stories of faith and adventure that excites you to also try
what they have done. You might also miss joining your community in celebration
of victory or success, the community dance, community songs and the games you
play with your fellow youth.
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| Banga dance, one of the hardest dance that is danced by Pasilians |
The best way to satisfy what you are yearning for is to
return where you came from and fill your heart with all the happy moments that
you have miss over the years. You might not get over what you will experience that
you will keep them in your heart and every time you look back, you will feel
that strong urge to return and feel that moment again.
Aside from the natural beauty of Pasil that will surely take
your breath away, we also have the festival which is very rich with culture and
traditions of Pasil. From the creative minds of Pasilians they created the
Salip Festival. Salip Festival is usually celebrated during the months of April
or May.
During the festival, 14 baranagys from Pasil come together
and celebrate the festival. Each barangay will perform cultural presentations
like cultural dances, cultural songs and sometimes they will perform
traditional rituals. Sometimes, they also organize a pageant for the selection
of the provincial pageant competition.
Additional activities also include sports competition which
they also call sports fest. Games that are included are basketball men,
volleyball men and women and also board games like chess and scrabble. There
are two divisions in playing the games, the division for the young people aged 15-18
and open league which is for people who are aged 18 and beyond. The competitors
will composed of the 14 barangays and sometimes there are other teams also from
other places who will join either by invitation or by entry.
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| Dancers presentinging one tradition of Pasil |
The festival is a celebration of all Pasilians where they
share, reconnect and revitalize their culture to reach the younger generation’s
awareness to their roots and also to those Pasilians who have lived in far
places for them to see and feel again the lifestyle that they have lived then.
It is also a time to gather and make connections stronger to other barangays and
to make the people feel the beauty of our culture.
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