Aliwan Fiesta 2008 streetdance competition sneak preview
Posted by on May 2, 2008
The Aliwan Fiesta 2008 has officially started! Yesterday, the organizer Manila Broadcasting Company has a variety program and a dance contest participated by the various schools from Metro Manila. I also had the chance to check out the floats that were being made yesterday at the Quirino Grandstand ground near the Rizal Park in Manila.
Earlier today, I found myself shooting at the Aliw Theater as early as 5:30AM! The early morning TV program of GMA Network Unang Hirit aired live segments of the show from the Aliw Theater featuring seven of the more than twenty festivals slated tom compete at the Aliwan Fiesta 2008 Grand Streetdance Parade tomorrow at 4PM.
The parade will start from Quirino Grandstand and will traverse through Roxas Boulevard until it Reaches the Aliw Theater beside the Star City and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).
The list of festivals competing for this year’s Aliwan Festival 2008 Parade are the following:
1. Pakalog Festival from Pasig
2. Pangisdaan Festival of Navotas
3. Panagbenga of Baguio City
4. Lang-ay Festival from Bontoc, Mountain Province
5. Pamulinawen Festival of Laoag City
|6. Gakit Festival of Angadanan, Isabela
7. Desposorio Festival from Hagonoy, Bulacan
8. Boling-Boling – Catanauan, Quezon
9. Peñafrancia Voyadores and Pilgrims Festival – Naga City
10. Pintaflores of San Carlos City, Negros Occidental
11. Saad Festival of Leganes, Iloilo
12 Dinagyang from Iloilo City
13. Halad Festival of Midsayap North Cotabato
14. Sinulog Festival of Cebu City
15. Sinulog sa Carmen – Carmen, Cebu
16. Alikaraw Festival of Hilongos Leyte
17 Buyogan Festival – Abuyog Leyte
18 Bakhawan – Zamboanga Sibugay
19. Shariff Kabunsuan Festival – Cotabato City
20. Meguyaya Festival from Upi, Shariff Kabunsuan
21. Kang’Gelal of Sultan Kudarat
22. Buklod Festival of Parang Maguindanao
23. Kalilintad Festival Mamasapano, Maguindanao
24. Lami Lamihan Festival from Lamitan Basilan
25. Kadayawan Festival of Davao City
The grand prize winner of the grand streetdance competition will be bringing home a whooping One Million Pesos. Aside from the very colourful and vibrant festivals, there will also be a float competition where the grand prize winner will bring home half million pesos. The third segment of the Aliwan Fiesta is the Reyna ng Aliwan 2008. It is a beauty pageant of all the festival queens where the declared winner will get away two hundred fifty thousand pesos.
Check out BYAHILO’s live coverage of the Aliwan Fiesta tomorrow! Coverage starts at approximately 2PM Manila time (GMT +8).
To all the Reyna ng Aliwan candidates, Festival streetdancers, choreographers and everyone involved in putting up this great show, Good Luck to all of you!
It is not important whether your city or town won the contest or not. What is important is that you have done your best, and you have represented your city well.
For the complete coverage of the Aliwan Fiesta, please go to the Aliwan Fiesta 2008 page
question: is it true aliwan festival will be shown at abc 5 on may 31? i just don’t know what time.
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