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Guimaras Manggahan Festival 2010 – All you can eat Mangoes!

Marcos — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Island Province of Guimaras- Home of the Manggahan Festival is now ready for celebration on April 11-18, 2010. The weeklong festival will showcase various events that every tourists and guests will enjoy. These include the jumpstart event at Robinsons Mall: Manggahan sa Robinsons on April 5-8, 2010 with an opening ceremony and Guimaras booth- displaying province’ bests and finest. Stunning beauties of Mutya ng Guimaras will be witnessed on April 8 as they showcase their casual wears.

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Ati-atihan Festival 2010 Schedule

Marcos — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:20:58 +0000

A week before the Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival, another famous festival called the “Ati-atihan Festival” in Kalibo, Aklan is also being held. The Ati-atihan 2010, on its 798th year, is thought to be the mother of all Philippine Festivals. The Ati-atihan 2010 Festival is also held in honor of the Santo NiÃ±o (Infant Jesus) and consists of tribal dance, music, accompanied by indigenous costumes and weapons, and parade along the street.

Here’s the schedule of the Ati-atihan 2010 Festival:

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Katagman Festival 2008

Marcos — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:14:20 +0000

KATAGMAN FESTIVAL is unique for its great variety of special events.

Celebrating 436th Foundation Day celebration.

Oton, under the dynamic leadership of their municipal mayor, Hon. Vicente FLORES, welcomes everyone to their KATAGMAN FESTIVAL that will formally open Salvo Parade on April 28, 2008.
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Iloilo Festivals vie for Aliwan Fiesta 2008 Champion: Dinagyang, Saad of Leganes and Kasag of Banate

Marcos — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:00:36 +0000

This first week of May, the top festivals of the country will converge in Manila to compete for the title of Aliwan Fiesta 2008 champion. For those who don’t know yet, Aliwan Fiesta is the ultimate competition of festival champions with their beauty queens and floats. The highlight of the Aliwan Fiesta 2008 is the street dance competition, where spectators get to experience a non-stop explosion of color, sound, culture, and synchronized movement during the street dance competition.

This year, two festival champions of Iloilo and a special contingent, which will be taken into the limelight later, will be joining the Aliwan Fiesta 2008.

Representing the City of Iloilo will be Tribu Paghidaet, champion of the Dinagyang Festival 2008 – Ati Competition.

Tribu Paghidaet to join the Aliwan Fiesta 2008. Click here to view more pictures of Tribu Paghidaet.
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Guimbal Celebrates 6th Bantayan Festival

Marcos — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:00:06 +0000

The Bantayan Festival of the town of Guimbal is celebrated during the last week of March to commemorate its founding anniversary as a civil government. The five-day Bantayan Festival is filled with interesting events that showcases Guimbal’s rich history, heritage and tradidion. This year the festivities is slated on March 25 to 29. The highlight of the Bantayan Festival is a cultural presentation through a street dancing competition that tells the history of the town of Guimbal held on the last day.
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Iloilo’s Chinese New Year – Ilonggos Welcome the Year of the Rat with a Blast

Marcos — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:33:52 +0000

Even before the coming of the Spaniards, Iloilo played an important role as a major trading post in the Visayas. Chinese merchants would sail to Iloilo to trade and in effect, building flourishing relationship with the natives. Today, Iloilo holds the distinction of having the third largest concentration of “Tsinoys” or Filipinos with Chinese ancestry or descent in the country. This year of the Rat, the Ilonggos strengthened that Filipino-Chinese relationship with a grand celebration and festivity last February 8, 2007.
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Tribu Ilonganon bags 2nd place in national festival showdown

Marcos — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:26:15 +0000

Tribu Ilonganon won first runner-up and Tribu Kahilwayan finsihed in the top 10 in the recently concluded Street Dancing Competition of the Aliwan Festival held last April 28, 2007. While, Cara Jeanne Sullano, Iloilo’s contestant for the Reyna in Aliwan, won 2nd place and the Dinagyang Float of Iloilo won the second runner-up title in the float competition.
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