By: Boy Ryan B. Zabal
Festival organizer Albert Menez vowed to bring back the old glory of Kalibo Ati-Atihan Sto. Niño Festival, the “mother of all fiestas in 2006.
“Let us not forget the religious aspect of the festival -- to honor the Sto. Niño or the Holy Infant Jesus. We have to revive this culture of devotion to the revelers and tourists participating,” said Menez, executive director of the Kalibo Ati-Atihan Management Board (KAMB).
To restore the lively night activities at the Magsaysay Park, KAMB will provide more food chains where revelers may, dine, hear and watch night bands from the cities of Iloilo and Bacolod, Meñez promised.
Magsaysay Park is where night revelers enjoy the traditional snake dancing to the beat of drums and local music. This is locally known as “sawa – sawa.”
"KAMB will also designate a common flea market along Veterans Avenue to minimize the selling of wares and “ukay-ukay” in the streets, particularly in the major streets of Regalado and Laserna where our tribes and modern groups, including tourists, are merrymaking,” Meñez pointed out.
The move to relocate the vendors around the Kalibo Pastrana Park and St. John the Baptist Cathedral is supported by participating modern and ati groups to ensure a peaceful and colorful celebration of the 2006 Ati-Atihan Festival.
"The participating tribes are proposing to KAMB to relocate the vendors outside the 200-meter zone of the Kalibo Pastrana Park. For this purpose, Veterans Avenue, is suggested to give way to revelers and ati tribes," by Rene Enriquez of Tribu Amots, a Hall of Fame tribe awardee. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
Festival organizer Albert Menez vowed to bring back the old glory of Kalibo Ati-Atihan Sto. Niño Festival, the “mother of all fiestas in 2006.
“Let us not forget the religious aspect of the festival -- to honor the Sto. Niño or the Holy Infant Jesus. We have to revive this culture of devotion to the revelers and tourists participating,” said Menez, executive director of the Kalibo Ati-Atihan Management Board (KAMB).
To restore the lively night activities at the Magsaysay Park, KAMB will provide more food chains where revelers may, dine, hear and watch night bands from the cities of Iloilo and Bacolod, Meñez promised.
Magsaysay Park is where night revelers enjoy the traditional snake dancing to the beat of drums and local music. This is locally known as “sawa – sawa.”
"KAMB will also designate a common flea market along Veterans Avenue to minimize the selling of wares and “ukay-ukay” in the streets, particularly in the major streets of Regalado and Laserna where our tribes and modern groups, including tourists, are merrymaking,” Meñez pointed out.
The move to relocate the vendors around the Kalibo Pastrana Park and St. John the Baptist Cathedral is supported by participating modern and ati groups to ensure a peaceful and colorful celebration of the 2006 Ati-Atihan Festival.
"The participating tribes are proposing to KAMB to relocate the vendors outside the 200-meter zone of the Kalibo Pastrana Park. For this purpose, Veterans Avenue, is suggested to give way to revelers and ati tribes," by Rene Enriquez of Tribu Amots, a Hall of Fame tribe awardee. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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