(Panagbenga Festival 2013)
Panagbenga Festival or in english, Blooming Flowers Festival is a whole month annual flower festival done in Baguio City, the summer capital of the Philippines. The term Panagbenga came from Malayo-Poleynesian origin, meaning "season of blooming".
The festival was created as a tribute to the city's flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon Earthquake. The festival includes floats that are covered mostly with flowers not unlike those used in Pasadena's Rose Parade. Soon, the festival comes up with street dancing, presented clad with flower-inspired costumes inspired by the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the Cordillera Region.
Panagbenga's Schedule 2015:
February 1, 2015
- Opening Ceremonies and Street Dancing Parade Competition
(Drum and Lyre Dance Competition – Elementary Division)
Locations: Panagbenga Park, Session Road, Harrison Road, Baguio Athletic Bowl - Opening Concert
Location: To Be Announced - Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
February 2 – 14, 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
February 15, 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park - Handong ng Panagbenga sa Pamilya Baguio
Location: Melvin Jones - Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
Location: Melvin Jones - Panagbenga 2015 Kite-Flying Challenge
Location: Melvin Jones - Panagbenga Variety Show
Location: Melvin Jones - Fireworks Display
Location: Melvin Jones
February 16 – 18, 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park
February 19, 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park - Chinese Spring Festival
Location: City-wide
February 19 – 22, 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park - PMA Grand Alumni Home Coming
Location: Philippine Military Academy, Loakan Road
February 23 – 27, 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park - Floral Arrangement Competition and School-based Landscaping Competitiong (Judging)
Location: Elementary and Highschools in Baguio City
February 28, 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park - Grand Street Dancing Parade
Locations: Panagbenga Park, Session Road, Harrison Road, Athletic Bowl - Sponsors’and Exhibitors’ Day
Location: Athletic Bowl
March 1 , 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park - Grand Float Parade
Locations: DILG, Session Road, Harrison Road, Athletic Bowl - Sponsors’and Exhibitors’ Day
Location: Athletic Bowl - Session Road in Bloom
Location: Session Road
March 2 – 6, 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park - Session Road in Bloom
Location: Session Road
March 7, 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park - Session Road in Bloom
Location: Session Road - Pony Boys’ Day
Location: Athletic Bowl
March 8, 2015
- Baguio Blooms Exhibition and Exposition
Location: Lake Drive, Burnham Park - Session Road in Bloom
Location: Session Road - Panagbenga Closing Ceremonies and Grand Fireworks Display
Locations: Athletic Bowl and various areas in Baguio’s (Central Business District) CBD