ANGELES CITY, Pampanga, August 13, 2012-Angeles Tourism Office (ACTO)- in partnership with Center for Kapampangan Studies (CKS) of Holy Angel University, Parnasong Kapampangan and the Kuliat Foundation is enjoining secondary students in the city to participate in this year's Crissotan or the Kapampangan balagtasan which is slated on August 24.
ACTO head Christine Nunag explained that this project "aims to support the sustained interest and appreciation of Kapampangan language."
Crissotan consists of eight rounds, each round with two stanzas, each stanza composed of eight rhymed lines, and each line with 12 or 16 syllables.
It started in 1962 and was named after poet Crisostomo Soto.
A variation of the crissotan is the three-way Tolentinuan, named after another Kapampangan poet, Aurelio Tolentino.
Amado Yuzon, who coined the term crissotan, was the Ari nung Crissotan (King of crissotan) from 1930 until his death in 1979. Jose Gallardo of Candaba town was the last major proponent of crissotan.
Cash prizes and certificates will be given to the winning students after the program.
Representatives of HAU’s CKS, ACTO, participating schools, and local poets and polosadors or someone who sings in honor of a birthday celebrator, a guest of honor, a guest speaker or a newly crowned beauty queen will be present in the said event.
Interested schools may contact ACTO at (045) 625-2286 or HAU’s CKS at (045) 888-8691 loc. 1312.(Joelyn G. Baluyut)
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