Ano ang Panagbenga festival ?

The Panagbenga Festival is held yearly during the month of February. The celebrations are held for over a month and peak periods are the weekends. The Panagbenga Festival showcases the many floral floats and native dances. The fragrant smells that could be presently teasing olfactory senses are probably less from the now-dried flowers from Valentine's Day than air floating all the way from Baguio City. At this time of year, the City of Pines is almost surely in flower fury over Panagbenga festival, the city's biggest festival.

Panagbenga is a kankanaey term for "a season of blooming." It is also known as the Baguio Flower Festival, a homage to the beautiful flowers the city is famous for as well as a celebration of Baguio's re-establishment. Since February 1995, it has been held to help Baguio forget the 1990 earthquake that distressed much of the city.

Panagbenga festival will have spectators enjoying a multiple floral and float parades over two days. The Baguio Flower Festival Association (BFFA) will have a street dancingparade and band exhibition. The Baguio Flower Festival Foundation (BFFF), meanwhile, will hold a parade. So where should spectators be stationed to not miss any of the float and floral parades? Session Road and Burnham Park. A search for the Mr. and Ms. Baguio Flower Festival, FM Panagbenga Pop Fiesta, Skateboard competition and Dolls of Japan exhibit were added to the BFFA calendar. The festival is supported by constituents of La Trinidad, La Union, Pangasinan, Marinduque and Masbate.

Often a Cañao is an undertaken to kick-off & celebrate the occasion. A Cañao is a dance that also is regularly performed at special occasions such as fiestas. In this two-person dance, the men hang blankets usually woven with an indigenous pattern or design-over each shoulder. The woman wraps a single similar blanket around her. The man leads her and dances in a circle with a hop-skip tempo to the beat of sticks and gongs. The dance must continue until the viewers decide to honor the dancers twice with a shout of "Ooo wag, hoy! hoy!" Once this has happened, the dancers can stop. It is an honor to be invited to join the dance, and elders and other respected members of the community are expected to join in at every occasion.

ano ang nangyayari tuwing pangbenga ?

Calendar of Traditional Events

February 01 Opening Ceremonies
Grand Opening Parade – Drum and
Lyre Band Competion

February 01 Baguio Blooms - Landscaping
- March 02 Comptetion and Exposition

February 14 Philippines Military Academy
-15 Alumni Homecoming

February 16 Handog ng Panagbenga sa
Pamilya Baguio
Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom

February 22 Street Dancing Parade

February 23 Grand Flower Float Parade

February 24 Session Road in Bloom
- March 02

March 01 Pony Boys’ Day

March 02 Closing Ceremonies and Grand
Fireworks Display

Anong balita sa panagbenga festival ngayong taon ?

ORGANIZERS of the annual “Session Road in Bloom” promised to take Baguio City residents and visitors on an unforgettable gastronomic experience in the weeklong activity.

Panagbenga Festival chairman Freddie Alquiros said food offerings from Filipino, Italian, Korean, Mille Eastern, and American are among the food offerings that will delight visitors of some 237 stalls at the Session Road in Bloom.

Festival co-chair Anthony De Leon said the SRB, which is a yearly activity organized by the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Baguio, will not be left out from the international cuisine offered because of the food products and handicrafts from Nueva Ecija, Ilocos and Marikina, Visayas and Mindanao.

De Leon added there are also products coming from the Cordilleras and Baguio City with signature woven garments, hometown favorite foods, including “One Town One Product” items from towns in the region.

He also said that plants and flowers will remain a showcase of the festival with booths composed of local plant growers selling orchids, bonsai, cacti and various ornamental plants.

Among those being sold at SRB includes lamps, woodcrafts, RTW, books, ornaments, accessories, shoes, De Leon added.

The crowd will also be entertained by some of the popular bands like Calla Lily, 6-Cycle Mind as well as local performers namely: Baguio Metamorphosis, the Edralins, among others.

Classical, jazz and orchestra music, Cordillera dance performances, fashion shows, baking demonstrations also await visitors, De Leon said.

Other highlights of the SRB activity include street performances from cosplayers, floral art installation called a Balangay and ornamental plant decorated stalls.