This year’s Dinagyang Festival will feature three nights of fireworks competition from January 23 to 25. “It will be spectacular,” promised Mayor Jerry Trenas. The fireworks will be launched at the vast car park of SM City Iloilo in Mandurriao district. There are at least 16 entries from the various parts of the country. The [...]
New Gigs Up for Dinagyang 2009
The city government assured this year’s Dinagyang Festival will have additional attraction that tourists and visitors can look forward to. City Tourism Officer Benito Jimena said foremost in the list of enticements are the three-day “Luces in the Sky”, “Wanders”, and the “Salvo of a Thousand Drums.” The three-day “Luces in the Sky” is a [...]
Dinagyang 2009 Parade Route
The Dinagyang 2009 Parade Route is here: Judging Area # 1: Freedom Grandstand (JM Basa Street ) Judging Area # 2: Solis Street (near Midtown Hotel) Judging Area # 3: General Luna-Quezon (near St. Paul’s Hospital) Judging Area # 4: Quezon Ledesma (near Robinson’s Place Iloilo) Judging Area # 5: Iznart Street (in front of [...]
Rotary And Dinagyang: Diamond And Ruby
The participation of the Rotary Club of Iloilo (RC Iloilo) in the world-renowned Iloilo Dinagyang Festival is a commitment to serve through a community activity considered as a focusing event – an activity that gets the attention of the public and most especially one that serves as the unifying element for Iloilo City. It is [...]
Dagoy the Official Mascot of Dinagyang
This is the official mascot of Iloilo City’sdagoy Dinagyang Festival namely as “ DAGOY” he have 9” tall, the headdress that meliorate his dark brown complexion was from the indigenous materials. This mascot was primitively a caricature used in promotional materials of the festival in 2002. Then the iloilo Dinagyang Foundation Inc., a private non-profit [...]
Dinagyang Organizer Starts Sell of Tickets on Wednesday
Organizers of the 2009 Dinagyang Festival will start to sell tickets to groups or individuals who would like to avail seats at the Iloilo Freedom Grandstand on Wednesday. In a communication sent to media, Carlos Borja, in-charge of tickets for the festival, said that tickets will be sold on a first come first served basis [...]
Dinagyang 2009 Food Fair to Showcase Best Ilonggo Culinary Delights
The best of Ilonggo dishes will once again take center stage during the four-day Dinagyang Food Festival in Iloilo City. Happy Abenir, president of Iloilo Hotels Restaurants and Resorts Association (IHRRA), said the food festival, which is one of the major highlights of the Dinagyang Festival, will be held on January 22-25. Abernir said 36 [...]
Iloilo Hotels Fully Booked for Dinagyang 2009
Iloilo City’s premier tourism draw is still some three weeks away, yet all 1,300 hotel rooms here are already fully booked for the Dinagyang Festival slated on the fourth week of January. Robert Alor, Grand Hotel manager, said no room was spared in bookings for the Dinagyang weekend and reservations have been paid in advance [...]
Miss Dinagyang 2009 Bets to do Advocacy Projects
The candidates in the search for Miss Dinagyang 2009 will have to submit to the search organizers their personal advocacy project in the village where their selected ati-atihan tribe resides. Pageant director Rowena Diaz said the candidates’ advocacy may focus on the environment, health, education and tourism potentials of the selected village in the city [...]
Grand Musical Production to Cap Dinagyang 2009
A visual and auditory spectacle will be held during the awarding ceremony for the winners of the Dinagyang Festival on January 25 at the Iloilo Sports Complex. The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp.’s (PAGCOR) grand production, “Wanders,” is a unique musical production that mixes the elements of theater, concert, circus and dance. It top bills [...]
Ms. Dinagyang 2009 To Wear ‘Newspaper Gowns’
Next year’s Iloilo Miss Dinagyang will “go green” as 13 beauties will don gowns made from newspapers. This was revealed by pageant director Rowena Diaz, in line with Ms. Dinagyang’s thrust to promote the environment, a component in choosing 2009′s beauty queen. The search for Ms. Dinagyang is one of the awaited highlights of the [...]
