Schedule of Activities: Bangus Festival 2011

April 8

Motorcade

Opening/Mass

START of PHOTO CONTEST

Auto Electronic Show1

Home and Appliance Trade Fair

BANGUS ED CAROSA

April 9

RIVER CRUISE

Auto Electronic Show

2nd Mayor BSL Cup) Shoot Fest 1

Badminton 1

Café ed Park

Bangus Art exhibit

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panagbenga 2011

Panagbenga is a month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio, the summer capital of the Philippines.^[1] The term is of Malayo-Polynesian origin, meaning "season of blooming".^[1] The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city's flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.^[2] The festival includes floats that are decorated with flowers unlike those used in Pasadena's Rose Parade. The festival also includes street dancing, presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired costumes, that is inspired by the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the Cordillera region.^[3]
Aside from economic boosts from tourism, the festival also helped the younger generation of indigenous people to rediscover their culture's old traditions. The indigenous people was first wary with government-led tourism because of the threat that they will interfere or change their communities' rituals...

Bangus Festival