Aliwan Fiesta 2011

Welcome to Aliwan Fiesta 2011!

Aliwan Fiesta is a yearly event held in Manila, where different provinces are invited to showcase their culture/festivals through dance, street and float parade as well as to compete for the title of Aliwan Festival Queen. 

Aliwan Fiesta offers different activities like photo and costume exhibit, shoppers bazaar, pasakalye concert, Festival Queen Pageant Night, and the main highlight is the Grand Parade.

This year, the Grand Parade happened on 16 April 2011, started at 4pm from Quirino Grandstand to Aliw Theater in CCP Complex. It was my first time to be in this event and I would like to share my experience and photos.

We arrived in Quirino Grandstand few minutes before 4pm and I think we were late! There were already a lot of people waiting for the event to start and front area of the stage was already packed with so many photographers. We didn’t find any good spot to take our pictures and so we just stayed on the side part where all performers/floats will pass as they start on their parade going to CCP Complex.

Our spot was the exit of all performers/floats and was the wild spot for photographers, why? If you are staying here, you must at all times be aware of your surroundings, watch out for the performers and floats coming out, they won’t mind you so you have to move fast if you don’t want to be crushed! Another thing to watch out is the other photographers with you; you don’t want to be bumped with those big lenses and SLRs… And of course, mind your own space that you don’t pushed anyone…

So with this kind of shooting scenario, we were lucky to get a few good photos… Hehe!  It was also a very sunny afternoon; imagine the heat and staying under the sun!

But still we had fun and we were happy to be present in this year’s Aliwan Fiesta. It was another travel experience; we were able to see different festivals in one afternoon event! Aliwan Fiesta is a great event for people who can’t leave Manila, who doesn’t love traveling to provinces, but would want to experience and see different provinces’ festivals. This is also an event for photographers, to shoot colorful people, costumes and floats as well as to participate in Aliwan Fiesta’s yearly photo contest! Good luck to fellow photographers present during this event!

Aliwan Fiesta Grand Parade lasted until the evening, too bad we didn’t have the energy to finish the whole parade…

For more photos, you may visit this album Aliwan Fiesta 2011.

See you next year in the Aliwan Fiesta 2012!

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