BINATBATAN FESTIVAL

 Viva Vigan Binatbatan Festival of the Arts celebrated from the last week of April to the primary week of May. It was originally the Feast of the Natives that started out on May 3, 1883, in line with the writings of Damaso King, a famous Vigan historian.  



  The Binatbatan festival originated from Vigan's abel weaving industry, which existed even before the Spanish colonized the Philippines. It comes from the word batbat, which is a bamboo stick used to separate cotton pods from a tall tree called kapas sanglay. The word "kapas" in kapas sanglay means "cotton" in Ilokano.



  The street dancers of Binatbatan happily wave their "batbat" dances. Some imitated the methods used by Abel weavers to separate cotton, while performing artistic treatments elegantly in accordance with the rhythm of the drums, and played from the city. Lyre through the historic streets of Vigan, a historical and cultural city.The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic prevented residents from celebrating this holiday as before. Even if we can't celebrate its bliss as of now because of the pandemic, what important is that we still remember and recognize this festival.


https://www.vigattintourism.com/tourism/articles/Viva-Vigan-Binatbatan-Festival-of-the-Arts-2012

http://www.ilocandiatreasures.com/2009/09/binatbatan-festival-of-paoay.html?m=1

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