Bogo City Annual Fiesta 2015

Bogo City Annual Fiesta 2015

The City of Bogo will once again celebrate its Fiesta comes May 27, 2015 in honor of our miraculous patron San Vicente Ferrer.

This year’s fiesta celebration is “Celebrating Resilience: Bogohanons Moving Forward” as we are all moving forward no matter what after the devastation brought by super typhoon Yolanda.

The lined-up activities are as follows:

March to May 15, 2015		VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT
April 5, 2015      Sunday		Launching of Fiesta Activities: “SEARCH FOR GINOONG BOGO 2015”	Bogo Skating Rink
April 11 & 12, 2015      Saturday & Sunday		SUGBOGO PINTOS FESTIVAL WORKSHOP	Bogo Sports Complex
May 17, 2015      Sunday	8:00am	GARBOSA – Alagad Paanyag and Bingo Sosyal	Bogo Public Plaza
May 18, 2015      Monday	8:00pm	OPENING SALVO :      Government Employees Night (National, Provincial  and City Employees)	Bogo Skating Rink`
May 19, 2015      Tuesday	8:00pm	Youth Night / Disco	Bogo Skating Rink
May 20, 2015      Wednesday	8:00pm	Inter-Clan Dance Contest (ABC Night)	Bogo Sports Complex
May 21, 2015      Thursday	8:00pm	Religious / Cultural (Parish Night)	Bogo Skating Rink
May 22, 2015      Friday	4:00pm	DepEd Night	Bogo Skating Rink
May 23, 2015      Saturday	8:00am	BANKARERA and DRAGON BOAT RACE	Bogo Skating Rink
	6:00PM	Mayor’s Night:  MUSIC FESTIVAL	Bogo Skating Rink
May 24 2015      Sunday	5:0am	DUATHLON:  Bogo Mountain Bikers (BMB)	New Bogo City Hall
	1:00pm	AGRI TRADE FAIR Opening (The Trade Fair will continue up to May 27, 2015)	Bogo Public Plaza
	600pm	GAISANO VARIETY SHOW	Bogo Sports Complex
	7:00pm	SUGBO GLOW FUN RUN and PAINT FESTIVAL INVASION	Bogo Skating Rink
May 25, 2015      Monday	8:00am	AGRI TRADE FAIR (Daily from 8am to 5pm until May 7, 2015)	Bogo Public Plaza
	8:00pm	BRS NIGHT : Bogo Got Talent	Bogo Skating Rink
May 26, 2015     Tuesday	4:00pm	PINTOS FESTIVAL STREET DANCING CAROUSEL
	8:00pm	SUGBOGO FESTIVAL SHOWDOWN BALIK BOGO NIGHT	Bogo
May 27, 2015      Wednesday	10:00am	Photo Exhibit	Bogo Skating Rink
	8:00pm	SBBA NIGHT:  Search for Little Prince and Princess for 2015	Bogo Skating Rink
May 28, 2015      Thursday	8:00pm	LGBT Night:  Search for GARBOSA Mother and Child	Bogo Skating Rink

Some of these activities will be held for the first time in Bogo during fiestas, like the participation of LGBT community or the Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders. They will be having their night on May 28, 2015 featuring the Search for Garbosa Mother and Child. The said activity will be lead by GARBOSA or the GAys ARound BOgo Solid Association which will also lead another activity earlier on May 17 called Alagad Paanyag and Bingo Sosyal.

The showdown of talents among the Government Employees in Bogo  both local (City and Province) and National will also be held for the first time. This will feature a Musical Presentations in groups, but I think this will exclude the teachers and educators since they will have their usual Teachers Night, DepEd night or Educators Night on May 2, 2015.  The students of CBSAA or the City of Bogo Science and Arts Academy will also show their talents on the educators night. CBSAA is a school founded by Honorable Mayor Celestino “Junie” Martinez Jr. for those children who have great potentials in Science and Arts.

Another first is the Inter-Clan Dance Contest which will be featured by the ABC Night on May 20. This is a showdown among original native Bogohanon Clans. This activities encourages Bogohanons who are now living in other places especially outside the Philippines to come home during fiesta.

Though the Bankarera is held annually, the addition of the DRAGON BOAT RACE on May 23 will be the first. As I’ve heard, the teams who will compete in this Dragon Boat Race are same teams who competes in National and International Competitions, if true, this will bring more tourist to Bogo.

Our generations are now healthy conscious that’s why Fun Runs, marathons and the likes are being held almost everywhere from time to time, but I think it’s the first time that Bogo Fiesta will feature Duathlon Sugbo Glow Fun Run and Paint Festival Invasion.

If things will push through as planned this will be the first time also that Bogo will held a mini-Woodstock style Band Showdown, this will be more entertaining to the young and music-inclined people. In recent developments regarding this, 5 or 6 bands are currently showing interest to join the showdown.

Well, in general, this coming fiesta is more fun with lots of new entertaining activities added other than the usual display of celebrities. The said activities, its scheduled time and date and venue is still subject to change at the discretion of the Fiesta Committee, the event organizers or the parties involved in response to certain circumstances that may arise.

RELIGIOUS ATIVITIES

We have also lined-up some religious activities for the fiesta Celebration:

Novena Mass will start also on May 18, 2015 until May 26, 2015 at 5:00pm.

May 17, 2015 Sunday – Free baptism for older children 5years old and above.

May 21, 2015 Thursday – Mass wedding for those living together for 5 years or more. (Civilly married couple are considered living together without Holy Matrimony by the Holy Roman Catholic Church.)

May 23, 2015 Saturday – Confirmation for children 12 years old and above to be officiated by Rev. Msgr. Rey Penagunda.

May 27, 2015 Wednesday – Fiesta!

     5:00am – Holy Mass

     6:30am – Holy Mass

     8:00am – Concelebrated Mass with Most Reverend Bishop Emilio Bataclan, D.D., auxiliary bishop of Cebu – north.

     10:00am – Concelebrated Mass with His Eminence Archbishop Jose S. Palma, Archbishop of Cebu.

     2:00pm – Holy Mass and Baptism

     3:00pm – Blessing of Devotees of Saint Vincent Ferrer

     4:00pm – Concelebrated Mass with Archbishop John Forrosuelo Du, D.D., Archbishop of Palo, Leyte

For more info on the religious activities, please visit the office of the Archdiocesan Shrine of San Vicente Ferrer.