Manila Bulletin

Cavite City to stage annual ‘Regada’ water festival

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CAVITE CITY, Cavite – Tourists, visitors and guests will be treated to a wet “mardi gras” event in the annual and elaborate “Regada” Water Festival starting Thursday, June 22 until Friday at the public square here.

Remy Ordoñez of the Cavite City Tourism Office said that the festival moniker “regada” is derived from the Spanish word “regar” which means "to water" or "to sprinkle."

Since 1996, she said Cavite City’s party-loving people have successful­ly combined their love for water and celebratio­ns by staging the water festival every third week of June.

“It is a week-long festivity full of culture and plain old fun with the central theme on water,” Ordoñez said.

She said the event has drawn numerous participan­ts over the years “not only because of its festive mood, but also of the ecological implicatio­n and spiritual bonding that we have experience­d during the affair.”

City officials led by Mayor Bernardo Paredes, Vice Mayor Denver Chua and Tourism Council chairperso­n Dr. Ramil Badajos, are expected to open the festival with the cheerful “chavacano” greeting “Viva Regada!” as the city is largely influenced by the Spanish culture and language.

Various activities include “Kulya at Tubig” painting competitio­n; “Debuho sa Buho,” “Disenyo sa Logo” (logo design) and the festival spectacle and crow-drawing “only wet” street dance or the “Basayawan sa Kalye.”

Ordoñez said the street dance routines will be performed by the students from the city’s public and private schools.

The “Pakulo sa Paulan” or a rainfall of gimmicks is spiced up by the dance contest, physical fitness and Zumba sessions, bands in a merry-mix of “Palaro-Paagaw-Patugtog-Pasayaw atbp” along the kilometer-long staging area on P. Burgos Avenue. (PNA)

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