Binatbatan

 

Return to the origins of the event and learn about the miracle that rescued the people in December 1882. According to Damaso King, a well-known Vigan historian, the Viva Vigan Binatbatan Festival of the Arts, which runs from the final week of April to the first week of May, was originally the Feast of the Natives, which began on May 3, 1883. In 1882, an outbreak killed 934 people in a month, sparking the celebration. The outbreak began on November 12 and terminated on December 15. This occurred 30 years after a chapel in Vigan's graveyard was completed in 1852.

Binatbatan Festival traces its roots from the abel weaving industry of Vigan which has been in existence even before the Spaniards came to colonize the Philippines. It comes from the word batbat, a pair of bamboo stick used to separate cotton pods that come from a tall tree called kapas sanglay. The word "kapas" from kapas sanglay means "cotton" in Ilocano.


Binatbatan Festival street dancers wave their "batbat," some imitating the way used by abel-weavers in separating cottons as they elegantly conduct the procedure artistically to the beat of drums and lyres rolling along the old streets of Vigan's heritage city.

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