Handuraw Festival
Leon, Iloilo
The Handuraw festival is an annual dramatic cultural presentation in the Municipality of Leon, 2nd District, Province of Iloilo, Philippines that commemorates the transfer of Pueblo del Camando (old site of the municipality) to Sitio Capan (the present site of the municipality). It is a week-long event that includes food festivals, trade fairs and a showcase of local agricultural produce. It is he ...
ld every 1 September.
On December 28??"30, 2006, the city government of Dapitan, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines held its own Handuraw Festival in part as culmination of the 110th death anniversary of national hero Dr. Jose Rizal in 2006. The festival was held again on 2007 to promote Dapitan and Jose Rizal's work. Dapitan was the last stop of the touring exhibition, "Rizal-Blumentritt" of which the Czech Embassy promoted the role of Prof. Ferdinand Blumentritt in Rizal's life. The three-day festival featured a number of activities and competitions such as painting contest at the Jose Rizal Memorial State College, a school named after the national hero, Rizal look-alike contest, Mutya sa Handuraw beauty pageant, initiation of new members of Knights of Rizal, fluvial parade, float parade, street dancing, film showing of Rizal sa Dapitan story and many others.
Handuraw is the Cebuano word for "the power to imagine," "to reminisce," or "flashback." - Wikipedia
Handuraw Festival News
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Handuraw Festival 2015 Celebrated In Dapitan City
The City of Festivals is just one among many epithets of Dapitan City, mainly because it has six festivals to date. Currently, Dapitanons are celebrating its sixth annual festival, the Handuraw Festval, which began yesterday, December 28, and will culminate tomorrow, December 30, as the whole nation celebrates Rizal Day.
Handuraw, a Cebuano term which means "flashback or recommitment to memory," is one of two major festivals among the six annual events of the Shrine City of the Philippines; another of the city's moniker. It is being held annually not only to commemorate our national hero's ... -
Tribu Tibud Handuraw Festival 2011 Street Dance Tribal Competition
The tribu Tibud tibud performed in handuraw festival for the year 2011 street dance tribal Competition.
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Tribu Tumandok Handuraw Festival 2011 Street Dance Tribal Competition
This is one of the performance of tribu tumandok last September 2011, in handuraw festival street dance tribal competition.
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Tribu Dacdacanan Handuraw Festival 2011 Street Dance Tribal Competition
The Amazing performance of tribu Dacdacanan in handuraw festival for the year 2011 street dance tribal competition.
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Dapitan Stages 5th Handuraw Festival
This historic Shrine City in Southern Philippines staged its 5th Handuraw Festival on December 27-29 to usher in the celebration of 　the martyrdom of the Philippines national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal on December 30.
Rizal was exiled to Dapitan by the Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines on July 17, 1892 as a punishment for his advocacy of equal rights and respects for Filipinos whom the Spanish colonists considered and derided as lowly "indios" then. He left Dapitan for Manila on July 31, 1896 after he volunteered to serve as a doctor in Cuba, then also a Spanish colony.
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Dapitan Marks 5th Handuraw Festival
Immortalizing the beginnings and ancestry of this place, Dapitanons could not help but remember the legacies left by the national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal, during his four-year stay here as an exile over one hundred years ago.
The city government of Dapitan led by Mayor Dominador Jalosjos Jr. has launched yesterday the fifth "Handuraw" celebration with a motorcade around the major thoroughfares in the city which ended at the Punto del Desembarco de Rizal (Rizal landing site) at Barangay Sta. Cruz where a short program was also held.
In his message to the people of Dapitan, President Benig ...