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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 co...

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...

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 ...

FESTIVAL MOA. Organizers of the Dinagyang Festival 2022 on Nov. 22, 2021 sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to kick off the preparation for the festival. Signatories to the MOA were (left to right) Rev. Fr. Renchie Vicente T. Senoro, OSA for the San Jose Parish Placer, Mayor Jerry P. Trenas for the Iloilo City government and Ronald Raymond L. Sebastian for the Iloilo Festivals Foundation Inc.(Photo courtesy of Arnold Almacen/City Mayor's Office) ILOILO CITY- Iloilo will continue to tap the...