The Panagbenga Festival is held annually in Baguio City to celebrate its recovery from an earthquake in 1990. One of the highlights is the parade featuring floats and dancers in flower-themed costumes. Events during the month-long festival include parades, traditional dances, bazaars, and performances celebrating Baguio's natural beauty.
The Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City celebrates the feast of Santo Niño with massive street parties and competitive dances and floats each January. It commemorates the pact between local leaders and 10 Bornean datus who fled to Panay in the 13th century. Their initial celebration involved painting bodies with soot and dancing, which the festival recalls
The Panagbenga Festival is held annually in Baguio City to celebrate its recovery from an earthquake in 1990. One of the highlights is the parade featuring floats and dancers in flower-themed costumes. Events during the month-long festival include parades, traditional dances, bazaars, and performances celebrating Baguio's natural beauty.
The Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City celebrates the feast of Santo Niño with massive street parties and competitive dances and floats each January. It commemorates the pact between local leaders and 10 Bornean datus who fled to Panay in the 13th century. Their initial celebration involved painting bodies with soot and dancing, which the festival recalls
The Panagbenga Festival is held annually in Baguio City to celebrate its recovery from an earthquake in 1990. One of the highlights is the parade featuring floats and dancers in flower-themed costumes. Events during the month-long festival include parades, traditional dances, bazaars, and performances celebrating Baguio's natural beauty.
The Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City celebrates the feast of Santo Niño with massive street parties and competitive dances and floats each January. It commemorates the pact between local leaders and 10 Bornean datus who fled to Panay in the 13th century. Their initial celebration involved painting bodies with soot and dancing, which the festival recalls
The Panagbenga Festival is held annually in Baguio City to celebrate its recovery from an earthquake in 1990. One of the highlights is the parade featuring floats and dancers in flower-themed costumes. Events during the month-long festival include parades, traditional dances, bazaars, and performances celebrating Baguio's natural beauty.
The Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City celebrates the feast of Santo Niño with massive street parties and competitive dances and floats each January. It commemorates the pact between local leaders and 10 Bornean datus who fled to Panay in the 13th century. Their initial celebration involved painting bodies with soot and dancing, which the festival recalls
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PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL
Panagbenga in Kankanaey language means “a season of blooming”. Every year, the city of Baguio holds
a flower festival as a celebration of Baguio rising from the destruction caused by an earthquake in 1990.
One of the highlights of the festival is the parade, which features floats artfully decorated with flowers
and the street dancers wearing well made flower-themed costumes and props. An ode to Baguio’s
stunning flora, the Panagbenga flower festival is truly a sight to behold.
Events that you can expect during the month-long festivities include the Opening Parade, Canao, which is
a traditional festival dance, bazaars and fairs, the famous Float Parade, and the closing ceremony. A lot of
the roads will be closed during the parades to make way for the floats, dancers, and marching bands. The
dancers are usually composed of different tribes and even different groups from participating schools.
The roads will be filled with people from different corners of the country and the globe. Expect a lot of
dancing, street parties, and perfectly timed drum beats filling your ears. The stunning performances of the
dancers and the beautifully decorated floats will definitely be the highlight of your trip. DINAGYANG FESTIVAL
Dinagyang is a Hiligaynon word that means “merrymaking.” Just like the Sinulog and Ati-Atihan Festivals, Dinagyang Festival is one of the religious festivities in the Philippines that celebrates the feast of the Santo Niño and the pact between the Datus and locals. Every 4th Sunday of January, the festival transforms the Iloilo City into a massive street party with overflowing drinks and food. The most exciting part is that the city hosts a highly competitive Dinagyang Festival dance contest and grand float parades.
The Dinagyang festival history started in 1967 when an Augustinian priest from Cebu gave a replica image of the Santo Niño as a birthday gift to a fellow Augustinian priest in Iloilo. Since then, a novena mass was held every Friday at the San Jose Parish Church.
In 1969, a competition was organized similar to the popular Ati-Atihan Festival of Kalibo town in Aklan province. That time, the Dinagyang was known as “Iloilo Ati-Atihan.”
“Dinagyang” became the official name almost a decade later when radio broadcaster Pacifico Sudario insisted on using a local word to distinguish the festival from the well-known Ati-Atihan of Kalibo.
Another thing to note is that the Dinagyang Festival performances are anchored on a folkloric story about the Barter of Panay. The story revolves around how 10 Bornean datus and their families fled a tyrannical ruler in Borneo early in the 13th century and sailed towards the island of Panay. When they arrived, the Borneans bargained with the native Atis to occupy the lowlands. To celebrate the barter, the Borneans painted their bodies with soot and danced with the Atis. Because of the remarkable celebration, Dinagyang Festival has been famous not just in the Philippines, but across the world.
BUGKOSAN SA ISLA The name of the province itself is from the local love story between “Prinsesa Dina” and “Prinsipe Gat.” On the approach to San Jose port, the mountain peaks in the island of Libjo shows the contour of a woman sleeping. On the other side from the Basilisa municipality is the mountain range of “Lalaking bukid". The outline of that mountain range shows the silhouette of a man. The romance between the two legendary figures is just one of the reasons for the description “Mystical Island Province of Love.”
Early December, Dinagat celebrated the “Bugkosan” Festival where their history and unique cultural dances are in display. It commemorates the declaration of Dinagat as a province, a move initiated by Congresswoman Glenda Ecleo in 2006. Since then the towns and inhabitants have experienced an improved way of life. They have been able to initiate more infrastructure projects that are badly needed
such as roads and improved piers.
The name Bugkosan is both an acronym and derived from the word “Pagbugkos” or to bind. In the local dialect the word is “Pagbug-os” or coming together for one cause. The meaning is perfect because seven different municipalities participate for the success of the festival. The acronym however forms a catchy phrase in English: Best Unique Gathering for Kudos Organized for Sustainable Advocacies and Networking development.
The most awaited part of the fest is a street dancing competition between representatives from the seven participating towns. The colorful costumes and dances are based on the culture of the Manobo, who are the original inhabitants of the islands. For most of the towns red, yellow and black are the predominant colors. Feathers, beads shake violently to the rhythmic swaying of the dances.
