Model Ati Dinagyang warriors to receive special prize: IDFI
The Iloilo Dinagyang Foundation Inc. (IDFI) will fete the best ati warriors in the upcoming Dinagyang festival on the third week of January.
Rowena Diaz, committee chair for the Search for Model Ati Dinagyang Warrior, said the event aims to recognize the warriors for their discipline, cooperation and commitment to the tribe.
Diaz said the Ati warrior should be able to represent the tribe during the search and become model for all its members.
The tribe warriors have been very essential in the festival’s 43 years of presentation. It is high time that Ati warriors be given recognition for making the Dinagyang Festival a success, she said.
The Ati warriors must be organic members of a competing tribe in the Ati-ati competition, they must be between 15 to 24 years old, of good moral character, and possess a warrior built physique as well as good dancers.
Each tribe manager could nominate which members of the tribe will join the search, preferably someone who could perform best the group’s dance routine and choreography. He will also don their tribe costume during the talent and finals event.
The winner for the Model Ati Warrior will receive P 10,000. A special prize also awaits Ati warriors with the best Dinagyang costume and dance choreography.
Awarding ceremony is on January 16 at Robinsons Place Iloilo.*PNA
