{"id":4223,"date":"2016-09-11T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2018-08-07T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T05:44:11","slug":"the-giants-of-rizal-angonos-higantes-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2016\/09\/11\/the-giants-of-rizal-angonos-higantes-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giants of Rizal: Angono\u2019s Higantes Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">When people hear about <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Angono, Rizal, what pops out of their minds is the word &#8216;art&#8217;. Angono being the home of many national artists, is widely known for their excessive visual arts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Every November,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the<strong> Higantes Festival <\/strong>is celebrated by the\u00a0people of Rizal. In this festival, they show different designs of their 14 feet tall giants dressed in <em>camisa chino<\/em> for men, and <em>kimona<\/em> for women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17515\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/09\/Higantes-Festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/09\/Higantes-Festival.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/09\/Higantes-Festival-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/09\/Higantes-Festival-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Photo courtesy of Traveloka<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Higantes Festival is done in celebration of San Clemente, and is held every November 22 and 23. First done by the people of Angono as a form of protest, these paper-mache giants now play the part of one of the most unique festivals in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Preparations for the festival start as early as September, when different schools get their drum and lyre bands practicing for the festivities in November. Other groups start practicing their routines for the parade that will take place on day 2 of Higantes Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4225\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/09\/2062500246_623338f653_o.jpg\" alt=\"2062500246_623338f653_o\" width=\"850\" height=\"568\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Photo courtesy of Paul Chua<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The parade is where these Higantes take center stage. Each barangay in Angono makes 3 to 4 of these paper-mache giants, showing off the identity of each barangay and the skill of their artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">No official schedule has been released as of today, but the Higantes Festival typically takes place on November 22 and 23. Make sure you bookmark this page for updates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Source: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/outoftownblog.com\/higantes-festival-2015-schedule-of-activities\/\"><em>Out of Town Blog<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/angonorizal.weebly.com\/higantes-festival1.html\"><em>Art Capital of the Philippines<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourism.gov.ph\/sitepages\/FestivitiesList.aspx?festivityCode=582&amp;monthCode=11\"><em>www.tourism.gov.ph<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Higantes Festival is done in celebration of San Clemente, and is held every November 22 and 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rizal","category-festival"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","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=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17512,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions\/17512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}