{"id":3861,"date":"2016-07-26T14:16:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T06:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2016-07-26T14:16:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T06:16:24","slug":"a-reminder-of-pre-colonial-times-25th-ibalong-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2016\/07\/26\/a-reminder-of-pre-colonial-times-25th-ibalong-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder of pre-colonial times: 25th Ibalong Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Festivals are a big thing with Filipinos. We celebrate them for different reasons and in different seasons. There\u2019s at least one festival a month that everyone is raring to go to. One festival stands out in August: Legazpi\u2019s <strong>25<sup>th<\/sup> Ibalong Festival.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3863\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" width=\"768\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/cover.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/cover-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AN APPROPRIATE DEPICTION. The Ibalong Festival is as colorful as it is rooted in Legazpi\u2019s history. (Cover photo grabbed from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IbalongFestival\/photos\/a.424983524207661.89536.412659775440036\/424983530874327\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ibalong Festival Official Facebook page<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Ibalong Festival has been celebrated for a quarter century, and has always been about the Ibalong epic. From the first time the Ibalong festival was first celebrated, they have always featured lessons and scenes from the epic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Now on its 25<sup>th<\/sup> year, the Ibalong Festival is as vibrant as ever. An official schedule is not out yet as of this writing, but several side events have been revealed on social media:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3864\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/image-around-albay.jpg\" alt=\"image-around-albay\" width=\"850\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/image-around-albay.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/image-around-albay-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/image-around-albay-768x205.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>LADY EAGLES VS LADY SPIKERS. One of the country\u2019s most celebrated sports rivalries is between Ateneo De Manila University and De La Salle University. They\u2019ve rekindled it anew, albeit a bit earlier than usual. (Photo grabbed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aroundalbay\/photos\/a.472018429637984.1073741829.471945396311954\/570039289835897\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Around Albay on Facebook<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3862 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/image-around-albay2.jpg\" alt=\"image-around-albay2\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>SPITFIRE GUARD VS SPITFIRE GUARD. Watch Globalport Batang Pier\u2019s Terrence Romeo go up against Rain or Shine\u2019s Paul Lee in this battle of spitfire guards. (Photo grabbed from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aroundalbay\/photos\/a.472018429637984.1073741829.471945396311954\/568784146628078\/?type=3&amp;theater\"><em>Around Albay on Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Ibalong Festival side events will happen between August 3 and August 30. Bookmark this page for updates on the festival schedule. For more information on the Ibalong Festival, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2016\/07\/03\/a-festival-of-epic-origins-and-proportions-legazpi-citys-ibalong-festival\/\">tips and guides section<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Details:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">What: Ibalong Festival 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">When: August 3-30, 2016 (Tentative)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Where: Legazpi City, Albay<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festivals are a big thing with Filipinos. We celebrate them for different reasons and in different seasons. There\u2019s at least one festival a month that everyone is raring to go to. One festival stands out in August: Legazpi\u2019s 25th Ibalong Festival. \u00a0 AN APPROPRIATE DEPICTION. The Ibalong Festival is as colorful as it is rooted in Legazpi\u2019s history. (Cover photo grabbed from Ibalong Festival Official Facebook page) \u00a0 The Ibalong Festival has been celebrated for a quarter century, and has always been about the Ibalong epic. From the first time the Ibalong festival was first celebrated, they have always featured lessons and scenes from the epic. Now on its 25th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicol","category-festival"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3865,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}