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The Iloilo Dinagyang Festival has earned another distinction when it was proclaimed as grand winner for Best Cultural Festival (City Category) during the Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines Pearl Awards held in Boracay last October 5, 2023.
'DAGYANG SA SOCIAL MEDIA'. Spectators are encouraged to join the "Dagyang sa Social Media" by flooding TikTok. Organizers of the "Dinagyang" Festival tapped the virtual platform for the festival amid restrictions on this health pandemic.(Photo screengrab from Iloilo Dinagyang FB page) ILOILO CITY - Spectators of the Dinagyang Festival are encouraged to join the "Dagyang sa Social Media" contest by storming Tiktok with their dance movements. This as people could not invade the streets here with merry-making moves or "dagyang" due to restrictions imposed by the local government amid the pandemic. "This is the first time that we are using the platform to do the 'dagyang'. That is why it is titled 'Dagyang sa Social Media'," said Joyce Clavecillas, executive director of the Iloilo Festivals Foundation Inc. (IFFI), in an interview Thursday. IFFI manages the 2022 Dinagyang Festival. The dance challenge is open to indiv
PREVIEW. A live performance of a tribe filmed on Dec. 23, 2021 for the competition of the 2022 Digital Dinagyang Festival. A virtual opening salvo will be held on January 14 to usher in the annual festival.(Photo courtesy of Iloilo Festivals Foundation, Inc.) ILOILO CITY - This year, Dinagyang spectators can watch the "opening salvo" of the festival through live streaming on various Facebook (FB) accounts on January 14. "Everybody will still feel our opening salvo, not necessarily going down to the streets of Iloilo City Proper and cheering, but rather we will bring the drums to your homes," Gabriel Umadhay of the Iloilo City Covid team said in a press conference on Tuesday. The opening signals the start of the Dinagyang Festival with participating tribes performing in the city's downtown area giving their audience a preview of their performance during the day of the festival competition. With the restrictions being imposed in this city, currently under Alert Le
BEST TOURISM PRACTICE. Iloilo City Tourism Officer Junel Ann Divinagracia receives the Best Tourism Practice During the Pandemic Pearl Award for Digital Dinagyang 2021 given by the Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines (ATOP) on Dec. 12, 2021. The festival is a trendsetter for other festivals in terms of how it will be executed during the pandemic, Joyce Clavecillas, executive director of the Iloilo Festivals Foundation, Inc. that handled the Digital Dinagyang, said in an interview on Wednesday (Dec. 15, 2021).(Photo by Jerry Trenas FB page) ILOILO CITY - Using the virtual platform, the Dinagyang Festival, Iloilo City's famous cultural and religious celebration, will get to people's homes worldwide in 2022, the head organizer said on Wednesday. "Those who haven't visited or those who want to visit Iloilo once the situation is okay, they will see how beautiful Iloilo is because the reach of our digital festival is very wide. From streets to stream, everyone