DAGUPAN CITY, March 19 (PNA) — The 2015 Bangus Festival will reel off April 16 to May 1 this year, which will be made just as simple as possible, compared to other past celebrations that were usually held for a month or over.
This was bared by Mayor Belen Fernandez who said that in this year’s Bangus Festival, only the big events that were the certified crowd drawers in past festivities will be held as part of the celebration.
These include the Festivals of the North that will gather all the festivals’ street dancing champions from Central Luzon up to the north for them to showcase their talents in one big competition that will award as much as P200,000 to the winners.
There will also be the ‘Gilon-gilon’ street dancing to be participated in by groups from all parts of the city whose champion dancers will represent the city in the bigger Festivals of the North.
Barangay (Village) Lucao in Dagupan was last year’s ‘Gilon-gilon’ champion and also the champion of the Festivals of the North.
Fernandez said another crowd drawer is the Bangusan Street Party set again along the more than three-kilometer stretch of the Jose R. De Venecia Expressway Extension that is expected to be mobbed again by thousands of Dagupenos and their visitors.
In the Bangusan Street Party, up to 4,000 kilos of milkfish will be grilled in 800 connected grills, each grill of which is allotted five kilos of milkfish.
City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina said the 4,000 kilos of bangus will all come from the city’s fishponds to give the Dagupenos and their visitors a taste of the real Dagupan bangus.
Other activities include the international cookfest using the local milkfish, sports events and the Pista’y Dayat set on May 1 at Tondaligan beach in Bonuan. (PNA)