Month-long Bangus Festival 2014 begins
THE month-long Bangus Festival 2014 kicks off with a cultural bang on April 1 with the three-day Fun Fiesta sa Pilipinas featuring the 2nd National Performing Arts Festival to be joined by top-performing artists from different elementary and secondary schools nationwide.
Bennylito Reyes, executive director of the Bulwagang Filipino Theater Guild Inc. (BFTGI), which is bringing the 2nd Fun Fiesta sa Pilipinas to the Bangus Festival, confirmed that 38 schools from around the country will participate in the competition set at the air-conditioned CSI Stadia in Lucao.
Others behind the Fun Fiesta sa Pilipinas are the Philippine Arts and Culture Educators Society (PACES) and the Department of Education (DepEd) with Councilor Jeslito Seen and City Schools Superintendent Gloria Torres as event chairman and co-chairman, respectively.
Under the theme “Kabataang Pilipino, Dangal ng Lahi’t Bansa Ipagdiwang…Ipagmalaki Natin Ito”, the participants will compete in folk dance, contemporary dance, drama and one-act play, chorale and song composition and interpretation.
In the afternoon of April 2, the participants garbed in their native costumes will parade along the downtown loop then return the next day to CSI Stadia for the finals of the competition.
Other events to watch out for include the Tri-Bangus Triathlon, the first to be held in Dagupan, set on April 13 featuring swimming, biking and running to be chaired by Councilor Karlos Reyna with Renato Vidal and Dr. Cicel Reyna as directors/coordinators; and the Gilon-Gilon ed Dalan Kapuso Festival, which will form part of the Bangus Festival Grand Opening on April 22.
BANGUS EVENTS
The Bangus Congress, chaired by Mayor Belen Fernandez and co-chaired by Department of Trade and Industry Provincial Director Peter Mangabat, on April 23 at Star Plaza will gather all stakeholders of the bangus industry from producers, traders, processors, exporters and consumers.
Other big events are lined up on April 25, including the Bangus Rodeo at Magsaysay Park where the heaviest, longest and most beautiful bangus will be chosen, and a competition for the fastest deboners and fastest eater of bangus, among others to be chaired by Liga ng mga Barangay President Marcelino Fernandez; Seafood Festival to be chaired by Barangay Chairman Julie Ann Perez and Pawil Pangasinan; Dumog ed Dagupan to be chaired by former Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr.
The first of its kind National Dance Convention to be chaired by Councilor Maybelyn Fernandez and co-chaired by City Schools Superintendent Gloria Torres will also spice up the Bangus Festival on April 25 to 29.
Meanwhile, 19 festival street dancing champions north of Manila will see action in the “Festivals of the North” to be held on April 27 with the champion bringing home P400,000.
The Bangus International Cuisine or Bangusine will be held at the CSI Stadia where the participants, foreign students from various colleges and universities in Pangasinan, will use bangus in cooking their native dishes, which the mayor said is one way of introducing Dagupan’s top agricultural product to the world.
The Bangusan Street Party along Jose R. De Venecia Expressway on April 30 is foreseen to attract a crowd of close to one million to be spiced up by music from up to 15 famous rock bands from Metro Manila.
City Tourism Coordinator Sharon Maramba said the final meeting of all event chairmen and coordinators was held at the City Museum last Wednesday presided over by Arts and Culture chief Zenaida Sinlao and Dr. Edwin Aguirre, executive assistant to Fernandez.
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