A grand highlight of the festival was the Kalibo Sadsad Ati-atihan street dance competition, which has been in place since 1963. This year, 34 “tribes” from Kalibo and its neighboring towns ...

ILOILO CITY—A group of performers calling themselves “Vikings” was top place in a street dancing contest, locally known as sadsad, for the 2020 Ati-Atihan Festival in the province of Aklan. The ...

About 300 people celebrate the annual Ati-Atihan festival through, music and dance while wearing costumes of their forebears. Content. Skip to Main Content Accessibility Help. Menu.

Andrew Solidum recalls attending the Aklan Association’s Ati-Atihan festivals at Harmon cliffline and watching his cousins beat the drums in the 1980s.

Despite rain from Storm Signal No. 1 due to Tropical Storm Amang (Mekkhala), local and foreign tourists watched dancers perform in the streets at the Ati-Atihan in Kalibo, Aklan on Saturday. Several ...

DRUM AND DANCE The street-dancing contest of the Kalibo Ati-Atihan Festival draws dancers from 20 Ati tribes on Saturday. Shown here is a dancer holding an image of the Santo Niño as he leads his ...

The culminating activities for Aklan's Ati-Atihan Festival and Cebu's Sinulog Festival, such as the grand parade, will be held on Sunday, January 19. According to a ''24 Oras Weekend'' report by John ...

Ati-Atihan is the Philippines’ wildest Mardi Gras-like celebration, a week-long street party in Kalibo that rages from dawn to dusk, peaking on the third Sunday in January.

The towering Ati Higante of the Municipality of Ibajay, “Toto Kalamay” conquers the streets of Kalibo during the Higante Contest and LGU Parade considered as one of the highlight events of the ...

Sunday's Ati-Atihan Festival street dance and stage performance competitions were watched by a multitude of foreign and local tourists, bigger than the past year's stagings.