An association established by older folks to enhance community life and participation, which is more often reserve for difficult tasks, usually the kapayatep or the restoration of the cogon rooftops where volunteers give their service for free.

A song usually sung while working in the fields or sawing tree trunks to lift the spirit of the workers, make the task lighter and enhance bonding.

cooperative farming system where neighbors, relatives and friends provide free labor for land clearing and planting

cooperative fishing for dorado during the months of April – June; fisherfolks and their passages to the sea are a cleansed through a ritual at the beginning of the season. An ending ritual “closes their boat passage.

an oral literary-musical tradition where a short poem or story is sang according to a definite musical arrangement/melody

literally means doing things as friends, a more spontaneous or less organized form of helping during house construction or planting where neighbors, friends and community members come unannounced. Popular in Basco.