Bangus Festival

Bangus Festival
The Bangus Festival is an annual celebration in the city of Dagupan. It highlights the city’s rich
milk fish aquaculture industry in the province of Pangasinan and in the country.The city of
Dagupan is an independent component city created by virtue of Republic Act No 170 signed by
President Manuel Roxas on June 20, 1947.The city’s name was derived from the local dialect word
“pandaragupan” meaning a gathering since the city has been for centuries the regional market
center in particular the Ilocos Region or Region 1.Dagupan City is in north of Manila and are
serviced by bus companies such as Victory Liner, Dagupan Bus and the Five Star with a travel
time of approximately four (4) hours.On the 3rd of May 2003, the populace of Dagupan City created
an event as part of the Bangus Festival, the longest grilled “bangus” street party measuring
1,007.56 meters (3,305.6 feet). It broke Canchia’s, Peru 613 meters (2.011 feet long record set in
November 1999. Hence, the city gained the Guinness World Record of the longest barbecued grill
worldwide.Alongside, cooking experts participated in the cooking festival of the milk fish dishes
such as sinigang, kilawen, daing and the local favorite pigar-pigar to delight the taste of the local
crowd as well as tourists. Through this competition the “100 Ways to Cook Bangus” was reared,
too.To this day, a variety of restaurants serve the dishes in the area of Bonuan – Tondaligan district
fronting the beach of Lingayen Gulf. The succulent taste of the milk fish in the city is due to the
fact that it is raised in fish pen within the salty water of Lingayen Gulf.The milk fish (scientific
name is Chano chanos) is of symmetrical streamlined appearance, and a sizeable forked caudal fin
generally feeding on algae and invertebrates due to its absence of teeth. The usual size in length
ready for the market is fourteen (14) inches.The Bangus Festival has been one of the most awaited
celebrations in the province of Pangasinan as it is the melting pot of Northern Philippines.
Dinagyang Festival
Dinagyang began after Rev. Fr. Ambrosio Galindez, the first Filipino Rector of the Agustinian
Community and Parish Priest of the San Jose Parish introduced the devotion to Santo Niño in
November 1967 after observing the Ati-Atihan Festival in the province of Aklan. On 1968, a
replica of the original image of the Santo Niño de Cebu was brought to Iloilo by Fr. Sulpicio
Enderez of Cebu as a gift to the Parish of San Jose. The faithful, led by members of Confradia del
Santo Niño de Cebu, Iloilo Chapter, worked to give the image a fitting reception starting at the
Iloilo Airport and parading down the streets of Iloilo. In the beginning, the observance of the feast
was confined to the parish. The Confradia patterned the celebration on the Ati-atihan of Ibajay,
Aklan, where natives dance in the streets, their bodies covered with soot and ashes, to simulate the
Atis dancing to celebrate the sale of Panay. It was these tribal groups who were the prototype of
the present festival. A participant of Dinagyang Festival.In 1977, the Marcos government ordered the
various regions of the Philippines to come up with festivals or celebrations that could boost tourism
and development. The City of Iloilo readily identified the Iloilo Ati-atihan as its project. At the
same time the local parish could no longer handle the growing challenges of the festival.
Dinagyang was voted as the best Tourism Event for 2006, 2007 and 2008 by the Association of
Tourism Officers in the Philippines. It is one of few festivals in the world to get the support of the
United Nations for the promotion of the Millennium Development Goals, and cited by the Asian
Development Bank as Best Practice on government, private sector & NGO cooperatives.
Ati-atihan Festival
The Ati-Atihan Festival is a feast held annually in January in honor of the Santo Niño (Infant
Jesus), Held on the third Sunday, in the town of Kalibo Philippines in the island
of Panay originally came from Batan, Aklan, then adopted later by some neighboring towns. The
name Ati-Atihan means "to be like Atis" or "to make believe Atis", the local name for
the Aeta aborigines who first settled in Panay Island and other parts of the archipelago.The festival
consists of tribal dance, music, accompanied by indigenous costumes and weapons, and parade
along the street. Christians and non-Christians observe this day with religious processions. It has
inspired many other Philippine Festivals including the Sinulog
Festival of Cebu and Dinagyang of Iloilo City, both adaptations of the Kalibo's Ati-Atihan
Festival, and legally holds the title "The Mother of All Philippine Festivals" in spite of the other
two festivals' claims of the same title.The costumes worn at the festival is patterned after the
African tribal design like those seen at the Rio Carnaval.
Higantes Festival
The festivities are a two-day annual affair observed in November 22 and 23

annually in the town of Angono.[1] The festival features a parade of hundreds of
papier-mâché giants which are locally referred to as higantes. The puppets rendered
as man or woman in various costumes; their faces give a commanding look, their
hands on the waist. A 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall higante could take about a month to make.
The Angono local government holds seminars on how to create the craft, keeping
the tradition alive. Another tradition observed during the festival is The Fluvial
Procession of Saint Clement, where participants, Called "Parehadoras" from each
baranggay wear colorful dresses and celebrates as they proceed with the procession
in the streets of the town going to the lakeside where they take the Holy Images of
Saint Isidore, Saint Clement and the Virgin Mary into a Float and the Fluvial
Procession takes place where they pray the Rosario Cantada. The float, Locally
known as "Bangka ni San Clemente" will take port at the end of the Angono River.
From there, the participants will do the "Prusisyon ng Pag-ahon" where everyone
sprinkles water at each other.They believe that this practice is a gesture of wishing
for blessing for others and the water is believed to symbolize Saint Clement, the
patron saint of Angono, Mariners and Fishermen.
Sangyaw Festival
Sangyaw Festival is a religious and socio-cultural event in

the Philippines. It was revived in 2008 by the city government
of Tacloban, Philippines. Sangyaw means "to herald news" in Waray
language. Various festival-participants from different parts of the country
participate in this tribal procession. It was held a day before the city fiesta.
The festival was first held in 1974 but was cancelled in 1987.
Festival Dance
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