Enjoy the moment

 

Go back to where the festival came from, and understand the miracle that saved the residents in December 1882. Viva Vigan Binatbatan Festival of the Arts celebrated from the last week of April to the first week of May was originally the Feast of the Natives that began on May 3, 1883, according to the writings of Damaso King, a well-known Vigan historian. The festival began when an epidemic killed 934 residents in a month in 1882. The epidemic started November 12 and ended December 15. This happened 30 years after a chapel was built in 1852 in the cemetery of Vigan.

Despite the pandemic the government of Vigan kept the festival alive. Usually the highlight of the festival is that the street dancing and showdown of students in every school in vigan or ilocos sur so this leads to an idea that they will keep the festival as long as they’re following the protocol due to many cases of covid-19. Based on what I’ve seen on social media, some students or people attended this festival and they were asked to send a video of a group of people dancing the traditional street dancing and post this to any social media account that serves as they’re entries to the festival. By this the festival is still energetic not like the old times but at least the festival did not fade away or died because of the pandemic. Somehow the government manages to keep the festival alive and the people happy.

The important thing to keep a tradition alive is that even though it doesn’t feel energetic like the last tradition were held at least we manages to keep the tradition on going and not forgotten.

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