2012 Sinulog to show Cebu’s creative goods

PREPARATIONS for next year’s Sinulog are underway, this time highlighting   Cebu City’s two-year status as an “Asean city of culture”.

Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr.  sent word he would be attending the Cebu festival.

Sinulog Foundation executive director Ricky Ballesteros said they will operate on the same P2.5 million budget.

“The dancers will perform around the featured furniture and other creative products of Cebu,” he said.

Even the Miss Cebu pageant will adopt a related theme of “What’s new in Old Cebu”,   tapping  the  heritage of the oldest Christian settlement in the country.

Choreographed dance contingents  in  Sinluog 2012 will perform on the street and a  stage that shows  a daytime and nighttime view of Cebu City.

“What you could see in the daytime will be the horizon with nature and vegetation but as it turns to dusk and night time falls, you will see the city lights and skyscrapers of modern Cebu City,” Ballesteros said of the stage being designed in the Cebu City Sports Center.

The Sinulog will formally open on Jan. 6, he said.

A  street fair in Osmeña Boulevard was set up last Dec. 2 and will remain open until Jan. 31.

The Sinulog sa Kabataan parade  will be participated by 17 groups  from Cebu City and 20 from the province.  Out-of-town contingents will also participate.

“For the grand parade we are expecting two contingents from Masbate and in the Visayas with Santa Catalina from Negros Oriental, Dulan Leyte, Tacloban Leyte, Alang-alang Leyte and probably from Eastern Samar,” Ballesteros said.

From Mindanao, Tangub City, Zamboanga Del Norte, Cotabato and Lanao del Norte signified interest.

“We still looking forward to Surigao and Camiguin for next year’s Sinul og,” Ballesteros said. Correspondent Edison delos Angeles