Days before the celebration of Ati-Atihan Festival 2025, the Municipality of Kalibo released the full list of activities for residents and tourists. From January 10 to 19, the province of Aklan will ...

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. Honouring Santo Niño ...

Among the revived Ati-Atihan traditions in 2023 are face-to-face street dancing, the public chanting of Viva kay Senyor Santo Niño, and the Palapak, a tradition where church volunteers massage ...

“Ati-Atihan” means “to be like Atis ... Dela Cruz said residents and visitors would not be compelled to wear face masks, unlike during the COVID-19 pandemic period.

It's the annual Ati-Atihan festival. Every January ... The colourful party, the meaning behind the dark face paint and the history behind the clan is the subject of a new micro-documentary ...

Niño Ati-Atihan festival. Amid tighter security measures, a record 30 tribes (up from 27 last year) competed in four dance categories on Saturday—eight in “Big,” six in “Small,” nine in ...

ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — Kalibo, the capital town of Aklan, welcomed back the show of colorful costumes on paint-covered street dancers and cheering residents and foreign spectators as ...