Dinagyang at capacity: Crowds push festival venues to the brink

2026-01-25 - 21:06

ILOILO CITY — The scale of this year’s Dinagyang Festival spilled beyond tradition and into pressure-point territory, as swelling crowds packed religious rites, food fairs, and concert grounds across Iloilo City, testing crowd controls and venue capacity at the height of the weekend celebrations that ends Sunday evening (Jan. 25) with Monday set as rest