The Local Government Unit of Kalibo headed by Mayor Juris B. Sucro in its effort and aspiration to revive the Tourism Industry in the Capital Town of the Province of Aklan is currently harnessing all its efforts to promote the Mother of All Philippine Festivals - the “Kalibo Sto. Niño Ati-atihan Festival” celebrated every third Sunday of January, in honor of the Sr. Sto. Niño de Kalibo.
Click here for the schedule of 2024 Kalibo Señor Sto. Niño Ati-atihan Festival 2024.
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Ati-Atihan 2024
Viva Señor Santo Niño
Kalibo - Aklan Philippines
January 20-21, 2024
The Ati-Atihan festival is a Philippine festival held annually in January in honor of the Santo Niño (Holy Child or Infant Jesus) in several towns of the province of Aklan, Panay Island. The biggest celebration is held during the third Sunday of January in the town of Kalibo, the province's capital. The name Ati-Atihan means "to imitate the Ati people".
The festival consists of religious processions and street-parades, showcasing themed floats, dancing groups wearing colorful costumes, marching bands, and people sporting face and body paints. The street parade is known as Sadsad, which is also what the locals call their way of dancing where the foot is momentarily dragged along the ground in tune to the beat played by the marching bands. It has inspired other Philippine Festivals such as Dinagyang of Iloilo and Sinulog of Cebu, thus, it is known as the "Mother of All Philippine Festivals."
*History
The original celebration was known as the Fiesta de Santo Niño, which dates back to at least the 17th century. It was part of the Catholic "fiesta system" employed by the Spanish colonial government to reinforce the reducciones policy that aimed to resettle natives on planned settlements built around a local church. In the 1950s, the festival, along with similar fiestas around the country celebrating the Santo Niño (like the Sinulog) increasingly began to resemble the Brazilian Carnival and the New Orleans Mardi Gras, incorporating music, street dancing, and body painting. By the 1960s, the festival became even more commercialized as the Philippine Department of Tourism heavily promoted local festivals to national prominence. The festival now included elaborate exotic costumes (inspired by tribal attire from Papua New Guinea, Africa, and India). It culminated in 1972, when the festival's name was officially changed to Ati-Atihan.
*Celebrations in other places
Other towns in Aklan that celebrate the Ati-Atihan festival are Ibajay, Malinao, Makato, Batan, Altavas, and Malay (Boracay Island). Several nearby towns of Antique and Capiz also hold the Ati-Atihan festival.
Other festivals held in the region with similar themes include the Dinagyang of Iloilo, the Halaran of Capiz, and the Binirayan of Antique.
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