Angono, Rizal’s ‘higantes’ fill the streets in the Art Capital of the Country for the Higantes and Arts Festival 2024, on Sunday, Nov. 24. Garbed in native costumes, the town giants, which are tall sized version of a mascot lined-up in the streets for the grand parade which is...
The Art Capital of the Country has rescheduled the town’s biggest festival, the Higantes and Arts Festival 2024 to Sunday, Nov. 24. Mayor Jeri Mae Calderon announced that the grand parade that will feature some 200 giants popularly known as the "higantes" will push through following its...
The annual Higantes Festival grand parade, scheduled on Sunday, Nov. 17, has been postponed to a later date as a precautionary measures undertaken by the municipal government in anticipation of the effects of Typhoon Pepito. In an announcement made Saturday night, the municipal government of...
Two new characters of Angono, Rizal’s "higantes" will join this year’s festival on Nov. 17. Angono, Rizal's two new "higantes" (giants) will join some 200 others in the Higantes Festival 2024 parade -(photo from Angono Municipal Government) Named as Higante Ayat and Higante Tisya, the...
The iconic "higantes" (giants) of Angono, Rizal danced along the streets to kick off this year's Higantes and Arts Festival. Some giant mascot like characters, locally known as 'higantes' (giants) of Angono, Rizal, dance along the streets to signal the start of the month-long events for the...
Hundreds of p apier-mâché giants danced on the streets of Angono on Sunday, Nov. 19, to usher in this year's iteration of the Higantes Festival. The town’s ‘giants’ swayed and danced to the beat of the drums as the giant mascots, made of aluminum body and p apier-mâché heads, passed by...
Giant versions of President Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte Carpio will join this year's Higantes Festival in Angono, Rizal. A series of activities to highlight Angono's arts, music, culture, food, sports, and religious festivities was recently unveiled by the local government as the opening...
After being paraded through the streets of Angono, Rizal, the town’s “higantes” will soon be seen in Davao City festivals. This is after Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio expressed her willingness to bring to Davao the giant papier-mâché puppets that amazed her during the Higantes Festival...
Vice President Sara Duterte on Sunday stressed the importance of art and education in developing the future of children as she joined the Rizaleños in celebrating the Higantes Festival, the first physical celebration of the festival since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the Philippines over two years...
Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio graced on Sunday, Nov. 20, the Higantes Festival 2022, the most colorful annual festival in Angono, Rizal that showcases the town’s ‘higantes’ or the local version of mascots dressed in colorful costumes. In her speech during the program, Duterte said it was...
Although the town’s ‘giants’ will again hit the streets of the Art Capital of the Philippines -- Angono, Rizal -- for the “Parada ng mga Higantes” (Parade of Giants) as part of the Higantes Festival 2021, an annual festivity in honor of the town’s patron saint, Saint Clement,...
