Baguio City will hold the fourth run of the Ibagiw Creative City Festival this whole month of November, with the theme “Create. Integrate. Elevate.” This is the second year in a row that the festival is being celebrated amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the festival continues to showcase and give homage to local artists, artisans, and crafters who are …

The Baguio City government, in partnership with the Council for Baguio Creative City (CBCC) and the Baguio Arts and Crafts Collective, Inc. (BACCI) will stage IBAGIW 2020: the 3rd Creative City Festival from November 6 to 30, 2020 in various venues in the Summer Capital. The festival hopes to revive and rekindle the love for the Baguio that its residents …

Baguio City, Philippines — Up in the Cordilleran highlands, the different ethnic groups are typically referred to by attaching the prefix “i” (which means “people of” or “from”) to the name of the place from which they come such as the Ifugao (people of the earth, or “pugaw”), the Ibaloi (or people who live in houses, or baloi), or the collective name …