Giant bees, serpents and spiders towered over the city streets on Sunday, but the hundreds of thousands of revelers who came were thrilled rather than scared by the hideous creatures.
Freshly Tumanon and Roberto Castel would be among the hundreds of performers in the Ati tribe presentation today in Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival.
A telecommunications company supported the Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City by providing first aid services to the devotees and conducting cleanup activity during and after the Mardi Gras.
Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival drew an estimated 1.2 million spectators over the weekend as it continued to boost its stock as one of the country’s most attended tourism events, according to police and local organizers who oversaw crowd management in the celebrations.
Devotees in Cebu and Iloilo are gearing for the annual feast of the Holy Child Jesus. At least 20,000 devotees joined the dawn procession in Cebu on Thursday that signals the start of the novena preceding the feast of the Sto. Niño on Jan. 15.
Iloilo City — The famed drumbeats and dancing of Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival will hit the streets of New York and Washington, D.C. for the first time during festivities marking the 113th anniversary of the Philippine Independence Day. A 38-member delegation including 26 Dinagyang troupe dancers will be among the performers in Sunday’s street activities organized [...]
