Viva Vigan Festival of Arts


Viva Vigan Binatbatan Festival of the Arts celebrated from the last week of April to the primary week of May. It was originally the Feast of the Natives that started out on May 3, 1883, in line with the writings of Damaso King, a famous Vigan historian. 

On the 3rd of May, the Feast of Apo Sto. Cristo Milagroso is observed with a mass at the Simbaan a Basiit. This is a most significant religious celebration in Vigan due to the many instances that the city was said to be saved by the Apo. Another significant festival within the Viva Vigan festival is the Karbo Festival, which was began in 2005. It’s aimed at giving importance to the people behind Vigan’s agricultural industry and their contribution. The name of the festival was taken from the words carabao, the Philippine water buffalo used for farming, and bokel or seeds. During this day, gaily painted carabaos are paraded and children show their artistic creations that make use of seeds.

Visitors are also encourage to squeeze into their six-day Viva Vigan experience the watching of the calesa parade, ramada or traditional games, comedia or stage drama, Santa Cruzan parade, abel fashion show and house decoration, singing contests and beauty pageants and other exciting events like the Amazing Heritage Race. They can also participate in religious rituals or visit exhibits, garden shows, as well as trade and food fairs.

 

This festival featured the binatbatan dance. This festival is a tribute to the Ilocanos of the Old. Binatbatan is an Ilocano dance that depicts step one in the Abel Iloko weaving process. They use  18-inch lengthy bamboo sticks. The cotton pods need to crushed with those  bamboo sticks to separate the seeds from the fluff. Binatbatan is the beating process. That is why a few different dancers keep their bamboo sticks and beat the ground of the streets to make an excellent beating sound whilst the relaxation dances. The avenue dancing honors and offers tribute to the Abel Iloko, the conventional woven material of Vigan that has sustained its economic system from the Pre-Spanish to the present. After the road dancing, a dance showdown changed into held at Plaza Burgos wherein the diverse organizations confirmed off their first-class. It changed into a opposition a few of the dancing organizations. The first-class institution took home big coins from the organizers.


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