What is a SONA? The SONA is the yearly State of the Nation Address by the President of the Philippines, patterned after United States practice. As I write this, it is 21 July 2005; on Monday, 25 July, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will deliver her SONA before members of Congress inside the Batasang Pambansa. She is expected to paint a clean picture of the country. Outside, protesters are expected (100,000 bodies, one leader was claiming on TV) to deliver their own SONA and paint a dirty picture of the country. That's prostituting the art of painting. The Compuser’s Dictionary