The annual tourism event at SM City Iloilo still goes on this year. The “Fiestas in the City” spearheaded by SM City Iloilo to boost further the tourism and to showcase the products of Western Visayas. It is where you can witness the gathering of festivals of the provinces of Panay. This year’s Fiesta in the City is scheduled on May 11 to 24, 2009 and dubbed as “A gathering of people, festivals and products of Western Visayas”. In line with this is the Heritage Month Celebration of Iloilo that gives credit back to the old and magnificent past of the splendid Iloilo. The schedules of Fiestas in the City and Heritage Month Celebration are listed below.
FIESTAS IN THE CITY
May 11-24, 2009
May 11, 2PM
Opening Ceremonies featuring Leganes’ Saad Festival
May 11-15, 4PM
Various Festival Presentations
May 17, 4PM
Sagala of Festival Queens (Region VI’s reigning Festival Queens)
May 20-21, 1-5PM
Festival Cooking Shows featuring our favorite Ilonggo dishes
May 22-23, 4PM
2009 Ginang Alaska
May 11-24
Exhibits of actual gowns worn by some Iloilo’s prominent fiesta queens
Photo Exhibit of different Festivals in Region VI by the Iloilo Photographic Society
Hupa, an internationally acclaimed short film of Oscar Nava IV
Exhibit of Region VI’s popular Landmarks and Festivals
Trade Fair (selling of various Ilonggo delicacies)
Festival Props and Costumes
A showcase of props and costumes distinct to some Iloilo’s towns and municipalities
HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION
May 11-24, 2009
May 25-31
Heritage Month Exhibit of Art Deco Buildings from all over the Country
May 25
Heritage Month Opening Ceremonies featuring PANUBOK, a fashion event (embroidery of Panay and Bukidnon)
May 27
Excerpts of Daranganen
Performed by the Philippine Ballet Theater
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