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Mapeh Panagbenga Festival

Panagbenga is an annual flower festival held in Baguio City, Philippines for the entire month of February. The name translates to "season of blooming" in the local Kankanaey language. The festival celebrates the city's history and traditions through flower-covered floats in parades and costumed street dances. Events were canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but returned in 2022 with limited private funding and events to support health measures.

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Mapeh Panagbenga Festival

Panagbenga is an annual flower festival held in Baguio City, Philippines for the entire month of February. The name translates to "season of blooming" in the local Kankanaey language. The festival celebrates the city's history and traditions through flower-covered floats in parades and costumed street dances. Events were canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but returned in 2022 with limited private funding and events to support health measures.

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PINAGBENGA FESTIVAL[mapeh]

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Panagbenga is an annual flower festival celebrated every February which takes place
in Baguio City, Philippines. The term “Panagbenga” comes from a Kankanaey term
meaning “season of blooming”. This festival reflects the history, traditions and
values of Baguio and the Cordilleras.

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Panagbenga Festival (transl. Flower Festival) is a month-long annual flower
occasion in Baguio. The term is of Kankanaey origin, meaning "season of blooming".
[1] The festival, held in February, was created as a tribute to the city's flowers
and as a way to rise from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.[2] The
festival includes floats that are covered mostly with flowers, not unlike those
used in Pasadena's Rose Parade. The festival also includes street dancing,
presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired costumes, that is inspired by the
Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the Cordilleras.

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Panagbenga Festival
Date(s)
Every 1st of February
Begins
February 1, 1995
Venue(seaech all the venue then print it and pste it to the illustration board for
design)
• Panagbenga Park
• Harrison Road
• Baguio Athletic Bowl
• Session Road
Location(s)
Baguio
Country
Philippines

Street parade at the Panagbenga Festival in 2009

A typical float at the Panagbenga Festival in 2009
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The month-long festival starts at the first day of the month of February, with
opening activities organized by the city government and the private sector. Many
activities are also celebrated throughout the month such as a landscape competition
and cultural shows but the most crowd-generating events are in the last week of the
festival which is the Street Dancing and Float Parade. After the parade, Session
Road is closed for a week for the Session Road in Bloom activity which hosts a huge
variety of stalls showcasing products locally and from other provinces.
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The festival was set in February to boost tourism as it was considered as a time of
inactivity between the busy days of Christmas season and the Holy Week and the
summer season.

In February 2020, the festival was initially postponed due to the threat of COVID-
19, it was later then canceled in March 2020.[5][6]
The festival was later cancelled again in 2021, citing the severity of the Pandemic
in the city. The funds on both cancelled events were diverted to the health
situation.
On March 6, 2022, the festival returned after the last 2 years of cancellation due
to COVID-19 pandemic, but with limited events due to the ongoing crisis, and the
events were exclusively funded by private companies and organisation donors, as
government funds was diverted towards COVID health situation.

The festival includes floats that are covered mostly with flowers, not unlike those
used in Pasadena's Rose Parade. The festival also includes street dancing,
presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired costumes, that is inspired by the
Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the Cordilleras.

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