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2010 DINAGYANG FESTIVAL

This photo shot taken during 2010 Dinagyang Festival January 24,2010

16 TRIBES JOINS 2010 DINAGYANG

HAla Bira! Here are the list of the participating tribes in 2010 Dinagayang competition: Himal-us, Silak, Ilonganon, Tribu Aninipay, Paghidaet, Molave, Panagat, Pag-asa, Angola, Bantu, Atub-Atub, Panaad, Pan-ay, Bola-Bola, Salognon and Milagrosa. Dinagyang will be on January 24, 2010 where each tribe will battle for the crown.

Tribu Hamili and Himala was not able to register or did not register last November 30, deadline set by the City Tourism and Development Office (CTDO).According to Iloilo Dinagyang Foundation Inc. (IDFI) showed that these two tribes make a controversial decision after they for back out from the competition because of lack of financial assistance. performance rating is more important according to the dinagyang foundation not the budget or the financial support.

Tribu Paghidaet was declared champion during the ati competion last year. Tribu Bola-bola won the 1st place,Ilonganon second place and Tribu Silak landed 3rd place

Tribu Paghidaet recieved five of the seven special awards . The Best in Music, Best in Performance, Best in Headdress, Best in Choreography and Best in Costume. While, Tribu Atub-atub got the Best in Discipline award and Tribu Bola-Bola as Best in Street dance.

January 23 is also set for kasadyahan festival and the commitee will still planning to release the list of the final participants.

2009 Kasadyahan competition the champion the Tribu Kasag of the town of Banate. Tribu Saad of municipality of Leganes was the first placer, Tribu Madia-as of Mandurriao National High School, Tribu Bayluhay of the town of San Joaquin and Tribu Tultugan of the town of Maasin came 2nd, 3rd and 4th, respectively.

The Tribu Kasag got three of the five special awards, namely Best in Production Design, Best in Choregraphy and Best in Performance. Tribu Saad got the special award in the Best Street dancing while Tribu Bayluhay got the award for Best in Theme concept.

Dinagyang major events also includes the drum and bugle competition, Ms. Dinagyang, Luces in the Sky competition (a fireworks competition Jan 22, 2010 friday 7:00 P.M. Dinagyang F
SM City Iloilo and sponsors mardi gras parade.

DINAGYANG 2010 SCHEDULE

DINAGYANG 2010 ACTIVITIES and EVENTS

October 16, 2009
2:00 P.M. LOCAL LAUNCH Iloilo Dinagyang Festival 2010
Freedom Grandstand

December 10-15, 2009
NATIONAL LAUNCH Dinagyang Festival
Tiendiesitas, Greenhills Shopping Center and Mall of Asia

December 18, 2009 – (Friday)
2:00 P.M. PAMUKAW Iloilo Dinagyang 2010
Assembly Area: Promenade passing Iznart, J.M. Basato Freedom Grandstand

January 5, 2010
3:00 P.M. Ms. Iloilo Dinagyang 2010 Presentation of Candidates
SM City Iloilo, Event Center

January 6, 2010
3:00 P.M. Ms. Iloilo Dinagyang 2010 Fashion Show “Elegance by Alta Moda” Robinson’s Place Iloilo

January 7, 2010
4:00 P.M. Miss Dinagyang 2010 Swimsuit Competition
SM City Iloilo, Event Center

January 9, 2010
Ms. Dinagyang Festival Talent Competition
Robinson’s Place Iloilo

January 9-24, 2010
Dinagyang Tourist Assistance Center
SM City Iloilo

January 10, 2010
4:00 P.M. Miss Dinagyang 2010 Headress & Casual Wear Competition
SM City Iloilo

January 11, 2010
4:00 P.M. Ms. Dinagyang 2010 Newspaper Gown Competition & Talent Showcase
SM City Iloilo

January 12, 2010
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Ms. Dinagyang Festival Pre-Judging
Iloilo Grand Hotel

January 13-23, 2010
Dinagyang Festival Basketball Cup (tentative)
University of San Agustin Covered Gym

January 13-21, 2010
Masses
San Jose Parish Church

5:30 P.M. Turning Over Ceremony for Incoming Hermano & Hermana Mayor
San Jose Parish Church

January 13-14, 2010
Miss Dinagyang Festival Rehearsal

January 15, 2010 (Friday)
2:30 p.m. Mass for opening Salvo of Tribe Dancers
San Jose Parish Church

3:00 P.M. Opening Salvo Dinagyang Festival
Judging Area

January 16, 2010 (Saturday)
7:00 P.M. Coronation Night, MS. Iloilo Dinagyang Festival
Colegio de San Jose Auditorium

January 17, 2010 (Sunday)
8:00 AM- 12:00 NN Medical Mission
San Jose Parish Church

10:00 A.M. Dressing up Dagoy Dinagyang
SM City Iloilo, Event Center

January 18, 2010
9:00 A.M. Healing Mass
San Jose Parish Church

4:00 P.M. SM Department Store Dinagyang Show with Dingdong Dantes
SM City Iloilo

January 18-19, 2010 ( Monday & Tuesday)
Night Final Rehearsal, Dinagyang Ati Tribes 2010
Dinagyang Parade Route

January 19, 2010 (Tuesday)
10:00 AM Lunch Date for the Elders around the Barangay
San Jose Parish Church

January 20, 2010 (Wednesday)
7:00 a.m. Arrival of Pilgrim Image of Señor Santo Niño from Cebu City
Iloilo Port Terminal

4:00 P.M. Coronation of Queen Juana 2009 & Dinagyang Niño 2010
San Jose Parish Church

Night Final Rehearsal, Kasadyahan 2009
Dinagyang Parade Route

IloIlo Dinagyang Festival 2010

January 21-24, 2010 (Thursday-Sunday)
2:00 P.M.-12 MN Iloilo Hotel Resort & Restaurant Association Food Festival(IHRRA) Delgado St., Iloilo City

January 22, 2010 – (Friday)
8:00 a.m. TAMBOR TRUMPA MARTSA MUSIKA
Freedom Grandstand

10:00 A.M. GMA 7- Debate Grand Finals
SM City Iloilo, Event Center

1:00 p.m. FLUVIAL PROCESSION from Fort San Pedro Drive Inn to disembark in front of Customs House and followed by Solemn Procession to San Jose Church
San Jose Parish Church

5:30 P.M. Santo Niño mass in English to be followed by blessings of children, pregnant mothers Santo Niño images
San Jose Parish Church

6:00 PM GMA, Kapuso Night
Freedom Grandstand

7:00 P.M. Dinagyang Festival 2010 LUCES in the Sky
SM City Iloilo

January 22-23, 2010
2nd DINAGYANG AGE-GROUP SWIMFEST
Iloilo Sports Complex

January 22-24, 2010
SM Street Party & Food Festival
SM City around Mall

January 23, 2010 (Saturday)
7:00 A.M. Mass for Kasadyahan
San Jose Parish Churh

8:00 A.M. KASADYAHAN Competition
Freedom Grandstand and other stages

SPONSORS MARDI GRAS, Freedom Grandstand & other stages

6:00 P.M. ABS-CBN, KAPAMILYA NIGHT
SM City

7:00 PM LUCES IN THE SKY

7:00 PM Religious Sad-sad to Sr. Sto. Niño
San Jose Parish Church

January 24, 2010 (Sunday)

6:30 a.m Concelebrated high mass for devotees, Tribes, Gov’t. Officials, LOMAS in attendance
San Jose Parish Church

8:00 A.M. Dinagyang Street Dancing Contest Freedom Grandstand and other stages

5:00 P.M. Salvo of A Thousand Drums, Iloilo Sports Complex

7:00 P.M. Closing & Awarding with PAGCOR’s Wanders & Fireworks Iloilo Dinagyang Awarding Ceremonies Iloilo Sports Complex

January 25, 2010 (Monday)

5:30 P.M. Thanksgiving Mass with all members of 2009 Iloilo Dinagyang Festival Working Committees
San Jose Parish Church

January 26, 2010
Dinagyang Invitational TaeKwondo Competition
Robinson’s Mall Fountain Area

see you all there...

PRECIOUS MOMENTS

Precious moments collection - a collection of cute and lovable dolls with different outfit and styles you can choose.This slideshow is a collection of photos i got during their presentation in Sm city Iloilo last January 3,2010 a good way to start my new year. you can visit and check their displays at a very affordable price. they are located at SM city Mandurriao lower groundfloor left wing near the foodcourt. please do vist if you want!

POTOTAN IWAG FESTIVAL 2009

Pototan’s IWAG Festival opened last December 16 that would usually lasts until the 1st of January.

Pototan is a first class municipality northwest of Iloilo city dubbed as the “Christmas Capital of Western Visayas” because of its yearly Christmas Festival of Lights known as IWAG Festival.

During the Christmas season, the artistry of ‘Pototanons’ is exhibited through the unique and grand display of Christmas lights and decors. The town’s plaza and municipal hall is garbed into glittering and colorful lights as local craftsmanship are depicted in the style, arrangement, and designs of several lights, ornaments and displays.


Along with this sparkling and colorful custom, the focus of this event is to portray the message of Christmas, that is to celebrate the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ themed in the festival itself as the ” True Light that Enlightens the World”.

As this yearly tradition draws many people from different areas of Western Visayas particularly Iloilo, it also helps to foster the socio-cultural and economic development of Pototan.
Started in 1997, IWAG Festival is not just about the dazzling lights and displays in the town plaza, it is also a night of cultural shows, food fair and the yearly tradition of the town people to light up their own homes with beautiful Christmas lights.



An amateur video using a Sony ericson cp last December 27, 2009

ILONIANS

Iloilo is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Iloilo occupies the southeast portion of Panay Island and is bordered by Antique to the west and Capiz and the Jintotolo Channel to the north. Just off Iloilo's southeast coast is the island of Guimaras, once part of Iloilo but now a province in its own right. Across the Panay Gulf and Guimaras Strait is Negros Occidental. Iloilo's capital is Iloilo City. Iloilo is the capital province in Region VI.

People and culture

People from Iloilo are called Ilonggos. There are two local languages spoken in the province: Hiligaynon sometimes called Ilonggo, and Kinaray-a. Hiligaynon and variants of it are spoken in Iloilo city and a few towns of the province.
Spanish architecture can be seen in old buildings in downtown Iloilo. Chinese Merchants and Indonesians were trading with the Ilonggos long before the Spaniards came. The ruling Spanish government encouraged these foreign merchants to trade in Iloilo but they were not given privileges like ownership of land. The Mestizo a class eventually was born from the intermarriages of the locals and Chinese merchants, Spanish with the local Melayu people. They later emerged as the ruling class of the Ilonggos (see Principalía).
The town fiesta is one of the most important events for Ilonggos. Almost every town (municipality) in Iloilo has a fiesta and festival celebrated annually

Hiligaynon (or "Ilonggo") is an Austronesian language spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines. Hiligaynon is concentrated in the provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental. It is also spoken in the other provinces of the Panay Island group, such as Capiz, Antique, Aklan, Guimaras, and many parts of Mindanao like Koronadal City, South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat. (It is spoken as a second language by Karay-a in Antique, Aklanon and Malaynon in Aklan, Cebuano in Siquijor, and Capiznon in Capiz.). There are approximately 7,000,000 people in and outside the Philippines who are native speakers of Hiligaynon, and an additional 4,000,000 who are capable of speaking it with a substantial degree of proficiency.
The language is referred to as "Ilonggo" in Negros Occidental and in Iloilo. More precisely, "Ilonggo" is an ethnoliguistic group referring to the people living in Panay and the culture associated with the people speaking Hiligaynon. The boundaries of the dialect called Ilonggo and that called Hiligaynon are unclear. The disagreement of where what name is correct extends to Philippine language specialists and native laymen.
[edit] Geography
The Province of Iloilo is the largest marshland in Western Visayas after the Sanderbans. The province is divided into two distinct geographic regions; the highlands of the Madia-as on the western border and the lowland plains which account for a larger portion of the province. Small islands east of its northernmost tip also dot the Visayan Sea - of these, Pan de Azucar and Sicogon are well-known.
[edit] Political
Iloilo is subdivided into 42 municipalities, 1 component city, and 1 highly urbanized city
[edit] Cities

Iloilo City aerial view
Iloilo City
Passi City
Iloilo City is independent from the Province of Iloilo, but remains the Provincial Capital of the Province.
[edit] Municipalities
Ajuy
Alimodian
Anilao
Badiangan
Balasan
Banate
Barotac Nuevo
Barotac Viejo
Batad
Bingawan
Cabatuan
Calinog
Carles
Concepcion
Dingle
Dueñas
Dumangas
Estancia
Guimbal
Igbaras
Janiuay
Lambunao (known for Tinagong Dagat)
Leganes
Lemery
Leon
Maasin
Miagao
Mina
New Lucena
Oton
Pavia
Pototan
San Dionisio
San Enrique
San Joaquin
San Miguel
San Rafael
Santa Barbara
Sara
Tigbauan
Tubungan
Zarraga