The Kate Festival celebration of the Cham people will take place at Po Sah Inu Tower in Phan Thiet City on October 15-16 with a series of traditional rituals and festivities.
The
festival is directed and run by the Cham people’s religious leaders in
Ham Thuan Bac District and it will include a procession of palanquins
and costumes of Po Sah Inu Goddess, a ceremony to open the tower’s gate,
washing the altar for linga and yoni ceremony.
Moreover,
the festival, which aims to preserve traditional culture of Cham people
and to promote the image of the local tourism sector, will also feature
traditional music performances, goods fair, weaving brocade contests,
pottery, baking cakes and folk games. Especially, the festival will have
a contest on making and arranging offerings for Cham people’s Goddess
and a fashion show on Cham people’ s costumes.
Tourists
will be instructed on how to play musical instruments like Ginang and
Baranung drums and the Saranai horn, and enjoy folk music performances
by artists from neighboring districts of Ham Phu, Ham Tri and Ma Lam
town.
(Source: SGT)
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