The Dinagyang Festival is a religious
and cultural
festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held
on the 3rd Sunday of January, or right after the Sinulog in
Cebu and the Ati-Atihan Festival in Kalibo, Aklan. It
is held both to honor the Santo Niño and to celebrate the arrival
on Panay of
Malay settlers and the subsequent selling of the island to them by the Aeta's
Dinagyang began after Rev. Fr. Ambrosio Galindez,
the first Filipino Rector of the Agustinian Community and Parish Priest of the
San Jose Parish introduced the devotion to Santo Niño in November 1967 after
observing the Ati-Atihan Festival in the province of Aklan. On 1968, a replica
of the original image of the Santo Niño de Cebu was brought to Iloilo
by Fr. Sulpicio Enderez of Cebu as a gift to the Parish of San Jose. The
faithful, led by members of Confradia del Santo Niño de Cebu, Iloilo Chapter,
worked to give the image a fitting reception starting at the Iloilo Airport and
parading down the streets of Iloilo.
In the beginning, the observance of the feast was
confined to the parish. The Confradia patterned the celebration on the Ati-atihan of Ibajay, Aklan,
where natives dance in the streets, their bodies covered with soot and ashes,
to simulate the Atis dancing to celebrate the sale of Panay. It was these
tribal groups who were the prototype of the present festival.
A
participant of Dinagyang Festival
In 1977, the Marcos government
ordered the various regions of the Philippines to come up with festivals or
celebrations that could boost tourism and development. The City of Iloilo readily
identified the Iloilo Ati-atihan as its project. At the same time the local
parish could no longer handle the growing challenges of the festival.
Dinagyang was voted as the best Tourism Event for
2006, 2007 and 2008 by the Association of Tourism Officers in the Philippines.
It is one of few festivals in the world to get the support of the United
Nations for the promotion of the Millennium Development Goals, and cited by
the Asian Development Bank as Best
Practice on government, private sector & NGO cooperatives
I'm lucky to be able to wear this costume, and I'm proud of the iloilo culture!
Sources : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinagyang
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