{"id":2630,"date":"2016-04-23T17:13:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T09:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2021-07-02T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:49:27","slug":"expats-guide-aliwan-fiesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2016\/04\/23\/expats-guide-aliwan-fiesta\/","title":{"rendered":"Expats&#8217; Guide to the Aliwan Fiesta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <strong>Aliwan Fiesta<\/strong> sounds like one of our country\u2019s monthly celebrations. However, there are a couple of differences between Aliwan and the other festivals in the Philippines:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2634\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/collage.jpg\" alt=\"collage\" width=\"811\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/collage.jpg 811w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/collage-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/collage-768x727.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ALIWAN. It\u2019s not a festival, but it does celebrate our many festivals. Photos courtesy of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Aliwan-Fiesta-401674986642761\/\"><em>Aliwan Fiesta Facebook page<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Aliwan is not an actual festival<\/em>, or at least, not in the Filipino sense. It doesn\u2019t celebrate a patron saint, a founding of a town, or a particular product. Filipino festivals usually revolve around one of these three things, and are usually month-long affairs highlighted by a two- or three-day event where the festival kicks into high gear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Aliwan is actually a competition. <\/em>Over the years, it has brought together the country\u2019s most vibrant festivals in the form of street dancers, floats, and their most beautiful maidens to the capital to have them compete for the title of the best of the best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Aliwan is organized by a broadcasting company. <\/em>The Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC) organizes the yearly event, and they\u2019ve been at it for 16 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">At the end of the day, the Aliwan Fiesta is still about one thing: promoting Philippine culture through the many festivals it invites. At the Aliwan Fiesta, there are no losers. Everyone truly wins, because while you may not bag the top prize, your festival will be recognized by the entire country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Aliwan Fiesta happens every April. To plan your stay in Manila around the competition, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aliwanfiesta.com.ph\/aliwan2.5\/\">http:\/\/www.aliwanfiesta.com.ph\/<\/a> or follow their Facebook page (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Aliwan-Fiesta-401674986642761\/\">Aliwan Fiesta<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aliwan Fiesta sounds like one of our country\u2019s monthly celebrations. However, there are a couple of differences between Aliwan and the other festivals in the Philippines: \u00a0 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ALIWAN. It\u2019s not a festival, but it does celebrate our many festivals. Photos courtesy of Aliwan Fiesta Facebook page \u00a0 Aliwan is not an actual festival, or at least, not in the Filipino sense. It doesn\u2019t celebrate a patron saint, a founding of a town, or a particular product. Filipino festivals usually revolve around one of these three things, and are usually month-long affairs highlighted by a two- or three-day event where the festival kicks into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-and-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}