gawai dayak festival
On this day the Dayak community invites their friends including those from other ethnic groups to. The capital city Pontaniak hosts Gawai Dayak festival in late May. Gawai Dayak Dayak Day Fair Grounds National Ferris Wheel The manner of festivity varies from place to place. . Gawai Day or Gawai Dayak a festival celebrated in Sarawak on 1 June every year is both a religious and social occasion. The Dayaks are the name given to dozens of individual ethnic tribes of the region which are chiefly divided into two major groups. Traditions of Gawai Dayak. Gawai Dayak is a regional public holiday in the Malaysian state of Sarawak observed on June 1st and 2nd. Two radio producers Tan Kingsley and Owen Liang were the ones who originally initiated this festival which was later on carried forward by the Dayak community. It is estimated that under the Dayak umbrella over 200 branches of ethnic subgroups exist including the Iban the Bid...