Lubi-Lubi Festival is a Tribute to the Coconut Tree

LUBI-LUBI FESTIVAL

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Every October, Glan showcases the Lubi-Lubi Festival. There is more to the costumes, choreography, and musicality in this yearly competition. The colors and faces of Lubi-Lubi Festival every 8th of October reflect Glan’s industry and tradition altogether. Almost 90 percent of the town’s total land area is planted with coconuts; town folks have both the old and new ways to make a living out of it, from the tree’s roots to its leaves; beverages to handicrafts to manufactured products. Street-dancing groups compete in musicality, choreography, and costume using indigenous materials from the coconut.

Lubi-Lubi Festival reflects an old tradition of Glan, the province’s oldest town. Each competing group showcases a particularly old religious belief of the people about the coconut tree; animistic beliefs are brought to life in choreography by rituals of reverence to the tree as a source of blessings such as wind, water and rain, fire, good health, and even life. Read More: https://www.vigattintourism.com/tourism/articles/Lubi-Lubi-Festival

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Glan School of Arts and Trades wins the Lubi-Lubi Contest for the fifth consecutive year and sweeps all minor awards during the 11th Lubi-Lubi Festival street dancing showdown Friday, October 8, watched by thousands of spectators in the streets and in the stands. Glan, the oldest town in Southern andCentral Mindanao, is Sarangani’s top producer of coconut. (CocoySexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE). Read More: http://saranganiphotonews.blogspot.com/2010/10/lubi-lubi-festival-grand-slam-champion.html

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This glam took center stage as it showcased its rich culture and nature as part of the Lubi-Lubi Festival to mark its 101^st founding anniversary. Now on its 16th edition, the focus of the Festival is the street dance parade and competition with revelers dressed in colorful costumes made out of lubi (coconut).

Almost 90% of Glan’s total land area is planted with the tree making the town the top producer of coconut and derivatives in the Soccsksargen Region. Hence, the festivity is a tribute to the tree of life. Read More: https://www.choosephilippines.com/awesome-filipinos/pinoy-culture/3648/glan-sarangani-town