The Fiesta Filipinas event gives participants a multi-sensory experience of the featured festival for the month. In the Fiesta Filipinas event featuring the Panagbenga festival, participants were given a virtual tour of Baguio and were able to participate in a dried flower arrangement activity during the live session.
MAKATI CITY, Mar. 7 Travel plans may have been affected because of the pandemic, but this did not stop foreign travelers and overseas Filipinos from experiencing Baguio’s famous “season of bloom.
Through “Fiesta Filipinas: An Online Celebration of Philippine Festivals,” over 200 live participants and about 25,000 viewers from various parts of the world were able to experience the colors, sound, smell, taste, and feel of the in-person Panagbenga celebration through this first-of-its-kind multi-sensory event on 27 February 2021.