Saludan Festival – Remembering the Culture and History

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SALUDAN FESTIVAL

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The culture of the town of Tigbauan reflects a society with diverse influences and traditions. And to express this cultural richness, Saludan a cultural festivity was organized to showcase the town’s distinct traditional activity in a celebration of dance and music. A dialect used for the “crude method of threshing rice or catching fingerlings through nets,” Saludan is one of Iloilo’s emerging festivals.

Aside from the way of life of the people of Tigbauan, the Saludan Festival also centers on the town’s colorful history. Tigbauan was the site of the first Jesuit Boarding School for boys, the first educational center in the Philippines; Furthermore, it is the home of a regional fisheries research institution, the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC); and the town is also the place where the American Liberation Forces landed on 18 March 1945 which led to the Liberation of the islands of Panay and Romblon. These milestones are a source of pride for the people of Tigbauan.

The Saludan is held every last week of October. The four day event opens with a food festival, Trade Fair, and a Beauty pageant. The gem of the festivity is the tribe competition. Read More: http://www.exploreiloilo.com/do/info/saludan-festival-2/

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Spend a sweet, welcome to summer weekend in Tigbauan during the 2nd annual Pagdaug-Saludan Festival, March 14- 18, 2016. Both, the abundance the town’s home-grown produce and artisan food products plus the annual celebration of the historic Liberation of Panay are what initiated this free, family-oriented arts and crafts event.

Saludan, a Hiligaynon term coined from the word salud, the traditional way of gathering or accumulating a thing for its interest or value such as threshing rice using a basket or catching fingerlings through nets. Fishing and farming had been this town’s way of life.

The festival highlight is the tribe performances that illuminate the Japanese experience during the WWII era with personal stories. Symbolic of the defining event are dramatizations of some chilling reminders of its Japanese wartime existence. The presentations will draw on the commemorative experiences of spectators watching by capturing, in the audiences’ own words, their individual reflections on those Tigbauanons who have sacrificed their lives during WWII. Read More: http://mybeautifuliloilo.blogspot.com/2016/03/tigbauan-and-annual-pagdaug-saludan.html

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Tigbauan, Iloilo is holding the 3rd Pagdaug-Saludan Festival with fun-filled activities on March 13-18, 2017.

Tigbauanons have such passion for life that their daily aim is to enhance it through joyful gatherings.

The Saludan segment will showcase Tigbauans’ unique culture presented in fishing or agricultural scenes with its diversified livelihood strategy of Panalud, a Hiligaynon word coined from Salud or the traditional way of gathering or accumulating things for their interest or value such as threshing rice using a basket or catching fingerlings through nets. Read More: https://thedailyguardian.net/others/pagdaug-saludan-festival-bringing-history-life/

Photo from: http://www.tigbauan.gov.ph/