KINABAYO FESTIVAL Posted on 14 November 2015 at 00:57 Dapitan City, Philippines — The Oroquieta City Performing Arts Group bested the four other bets from Zamboanga Del Norte and Misamis Occidental in the Final Showdown (Category A’s Best in Costume and Best in Street Dancing), while Dapitan City’s Cawa-Cawa Dance Troupe won the Mardi Gras Queen, Best in Horse Mascot, Best in Costume and Best in Street Dancing in the City Wide Level Category during the recently held Kinabayo Festival 2015’s Street Dancing Competition. Other winners were Tribu ni San Vicente, Category B grand winner and Tribu ni Tatay, Mardi Gras Queen. The competition was held at JRMSU Sports Arena in Dapitan City. Kinabayo Festival is celebrated annually in July. It shows colorful pageantry and devotion as Dapitan City celebrates the feast day of St. James (Señor Santiago) to mark its Christianization by the Spanish Jesuits in the 1600s.